CBS News drew an average audience of more than 13 million viewers for the South Carolina presidential debate, against showing strong interest in the Democratic primary, according to early numbers from Nielsen. The figures were fast national numbers from Nielsen and subject to revision later on Wednesday, but they…

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. producer duo Marisa Vitali and Claire McClanahan are launching production company Emergent Pictures and have signed Heidi Greensmith (Winter) to direct their first feature film, Carbon. Emergent's McClanahan wrote the script as her feature film debut and will produce the drama under the Emergent…

EXCLUSIVE: James Purefoy (The Following, Sex Education), Edward Hogg (Taboo, Harlots), Jessye Romeo (Curfew, In the Long Run), Ramon Tikaram (Brassic, The Victim) and Harriet Slater (Faunutland and the Lost Magic) are set as series regulars opposite Jack Bannon for the upcoming second season of Epix’s DC origin story P…

Amazon Studios has hopped on board with Macro Television Studios to partner with Ava DuVernay's Array Filmworks to develop a TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s 1987 sci-fi novel Dawn. Victoria Mahoney (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Lovecraft Country) has been set as creator and will adapt and direct the…

In his ever-so-subtle way, American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy revealed some new castings for the upcoming 10th season of the FX anthology series Wednesday on instagram. In a moody, cloud-shrouded video set to the song "Dead of Night" by Orville Peck, Murphy announced Macaulay Culkin is among the new cast…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off his nine-season run on Suits, Rick Hoffman is returning to the world of corporate intrigue with a recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of Billions, Showtime's Wall Street drama series starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. Season 5 is in production in New York and will premiere May…

Cohen Media Group has taken North American rights to Vadim Perelman's Persian Lessons following its well-received bow at the Berlin International Film Festival this week. The releaser is planning a late 2020 berth for the movie, which stars Nahuel Pérez Biscayart in the story of  a Belgian Jew who claims to be Persian…

It’s not as if Universal and Blumhouse anticipated the opening of its gaslight thriller The Invisible Man to coincide with the guilty verdict handed down this week to movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in his sexual misconduct trial. But the Leigh Whannell directed and written feature arrives in cinemas at a moment when the…

EXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials and The Eddy writer Jack Thorne has teamed up with Legendary Global on a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Thorne will write and exec produce a "relevant" retelling of the book, which was first published in 1859, for the studio, which was established…

ABC has given a pilot green light to Valley Trash, a single-camera LA private school comedy headlined and produced by former My Name Is Earl star Jason Lee, from Speechless writer-producer Niki Schwartz-Wright and Fresh off the Boat creator/executive producer Nahnatchka Khan. Valley Trash, produced by Universal TV…