EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is developing What Remains, a thriller drama based on Wendy Walker’s 2023 novel, with Kerry Washington set to star and executive produce. Chris Luccy is writing and McG directing the adaptation, from 20th Television and Kapital Entertainment. In What Remains, after taking the life of a disturbed man in the line of duty, […]

EXCLUSIVE: Indie studio Media Res (The Morning Show, Pachinko) has promoted Christina Malach to President of Scripted Series. Reporting to CEO and founder Michael Ellenberg, she will oversee the studio’s current and upcoming slate. Malach replaces Lindsey Springer who is stepping down after six years as President of Scripted. She will continue to produce with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Verve Partner and veteran television agent Chris Noriega has been appointed Head of Television Literary. He replaces Felicia Prinz who left the agency to become a manager and Partner at Range Media Partners. Noriega will oversee Verve’s Television Literary team, working across premium scripted television and franchise IP. He joined Verve in 2011, representing […]

EXCLUSIVE: Felicia Prinz has left Verve where she had been for 13 years, most recently as Partner and Head of the Television Literary Department. She is going to Range where she will be a Partner and a manger in the film/TV division. Prinz is joining another recent hire, Nishika Kumble, who was named SVP of […]

Jimmy Kimmel returned to his ABC late-night show Monday after a week in New York where he attended the Disney upfront presentation, delivering his annual roast. Among other topics, he discussed the NBA playoffs and addressed a conspiracy theory circulating about the Eastern Conference semifinal between the Pistons and the Cavaliers, in which the Pistons […]

ABC’s The Rookie continues to defy its age, posting a year-to-year viewership bump with its Season 8 finale. The action-packed May 4 closer, which delivered an epic Chenford proposal years in the making followed by a shocking twist, delivered 9.25 million total viewers in Nielsen National Live+7 Day Big Data Plus Panel program ratings across […]

EXCLUSIVE: FX has picked up to series its last outstanding pilot, Very Young Frankenstein, a comedy based on Mel Brooks’ 1974 cult classic 20th Century Studios film Young Frankenstein. The series for FX and Hulu comes from the What We Do In the Shadows trio of Stefani Robinson, Taika Waititi and Garrett Basch, who executive […]

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV is developing American Comfort (working title), a soul food restaurant comedy from black-ish creator Kenya Barris, Oprah Winfrey and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Deadline has learned. Oscar and Emmy nominee Danielle Brooks is set to star and executive produce in the project, inspired by the life story of restaurateur Melba Wilson, which […]