Nellie's insightful analysis and thorough coverage of TV deals, pilot season, markets and executives makes her one of the most respected journalists covering the television business today. Before joining Deadline in 2010, Nellie worked for 10 years at The Hollywood Reporter where she covered TV for the trade's online and print editions. Before that, she worked as a journalist covering television and radio for Investor’s Business Daily. Nellie’s interest in the television industry extends back to her homeland of Bulgaria, where she first became a journalist and then a producer, writer and director for Bulgarian National Television.
Stephen Colbert opened the Thursday episode of CBS’ The Late Show with a salute to the re-merger of the network’s parent, CBS Corp. and Viacom, which was competed Wednesday afternoon.
“Do you feel this excitement, do you feel the electricity; it’s like this room was soaked with gasoline, there is magic in the air…
Prolific producer and former top film and top executive Leonard Goildberg, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 85, never slowed down. At the time of his death, he was still working as executive producer on the hit CBS cop family dramaBlue Bloods starring Tom Selleck.
Blue Bloods originated more than a decade ago…
The cast of Blue Bloods, where Leonard Goldberg was an executive producer for one of television’s top-rated shows, has begun sharing their grief online after hearing of his death today at age 85.
Tom Selleck, who plays Frank Reagan, the New York Police Commissioner, and patriarch of the Reagan clan, a…
When Viacom and CBS rejoined the last time, following Viacom’s 1999 acquisition of CBS, the reunion brought together two TV studios, the Viacom-owned Paramount Network Television, a major supplier to all networks with a deep library, and CBS’ smaller CBS Productions, the in-house production arm of the CBS network.
By…
EXCLUSIVE:NBC has given a script commitment with penalty to Fallback, a one-hour sci-fi thriller crime drama from Blindspot creator Martin Gero, his frequent collaborator Brendan Gall (Blindspot) and Warner Bros TV, where Gero and his Quinn's House production company are under an overall deal.
Written by Gero and…
ABC has given a put pilot commitment with penalty toISB (working title), a one-hour drama from Kevin Costner and his Territory Pictures Entertainment, Aaron Helbing (The Flash, Spartacus: War of the Damned), A+E Studios and 20th Century Fox TV.
Written and executive produced by Costner and Helbing, ISB follows the…
Two high-profile new streaming platforms, Apple TV+ and Disney+, launched last month, just as awards season was starting to gear up. Following the Gotham Awards and AFI Awards earlier this week, which both feature TV categories, today the WGA Awards unveiled their TV nominees.
The list included the first major…
EXCLUSIVE: Peacock, NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming platform, is developing hourlong musical drama Olympic Boulevard, I have learned. The project hails from writer Paula Yoo (The Perfectionists, Supergirl), producer Neil Meron and choreographer Kyle Hanagami.
Penned by Yoo, Olympic Boulevard is about a disgraced…
In one of MRC’s biggest IP acquisitions to date, the independent film and television studio has secured film, television, live stage and related ancillary rights to, Eloise, the beloved series of children's books written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight.
MRC will work closely with UK-based HandMade…
Amid the ongoing impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, which often evoke Watergate, HBO has greenlighted The White House Plumbers, a five-part limited series starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux, which revisits one of the biggest political scandals in American history. The project hails from Ve…
EXCLUSIVE:Zachary Quinto’s production company Before the Door Pictures is ramping up operations, signing first-look deals with AMC for scripted projects and with Spoke Studios, the production arm of Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse Entertainment, for unscripted fare.
Additionally, Before the Door Pictures has hired Steve…
EXCLUSIVE:Parker Young (Imposters, Suburgatory) is set as the co-lead opposite Adhir Kalyan in The United States of Al,CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot from The Big Bang Theory co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre, fellow Big Bang executive producers David Goetsch and Maria Ferrari, TV personality and scholar of…
