Peter White

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Peter, who joined Deadline in 2017, is a respected veteran TV journalist who previously worked at UK-based Broadcast, where after starting there in 2013 rose to News Editor responsible for putting together the weekly magazine as well as breaking daily news. Before that he was deputy editor of Television Business International magazine. He covers the television industry from Deadline's Los Angeles bureau.

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‘Guess Who?’: Unscripted Adaptation Of Board Game In The Works At NBC From Endemol Shine & eOne

EXCLUSIVE: Is your television series based on a classic board game? NBC’s unscripted adaptation of Guess Who? is. Deadline understands that the adaptation, which comes from Endemol Shine North America and Hasbro’s eOne, has landed at the broadcast network and is in the early stages of development. The project has been…

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Hiro Murai & Nate Matteson’s Super Frog Hires 42’s Claudia Shin As VP, Film & TV

EXCLUSIVE: Super Frog, the production company set up by Atlanta director and exec producer Hiro Murai and his producing partner Nate Matteson, has hired 42's Claudia Shin. Shin joins the company as Vice President of Film & Television and has been tasked with shepherding its slate of small and big screen projects. She…

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‘Masquerade Ball’ Dating Format Being Piloted At Fox With ZnakTV

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is getting the ball rolling on its own dating format aspirations. The network is piloting Masquerade Ball, a non-scripted entertainment format from Natalka Znak's ZnakTV and Fox Alternative Entertainment. The one-hour dating competition gives singles the opportunity to escape their regular lives and…

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Benjamin Lorr’s ‘The Secret Life of Groceries’ Book Being Adapted As TV Docuseries By Truly Original

EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket, Benjamin Lorr's non-fiction book about the complex grocery industry, is set to be turned into a TV docuseries. The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Ink Master producer Truly Original has optioned the book, which was published last…

‘Ginny & Georgia’ Renewed For Season 2 At Netflix After Season 1 Watched By 52M Subscribers

Ginny & Georgia, the YA drama starring Brianne Howey and Antonia Gentry, has been renewed at Netflix for a second season. The show has been a strong performer since it launched on February, regularly appearing in its top ten most-watched series. Netflix revealed that the first season was watched by 52M subscribers in…

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Glass Entertainment Group Teams With Wondery For Podcast Slate, Expands Audio Division

EXCLUSIVE: Glass Entertainment Group, the production company behind CNN series Lincoln: Divided We Stand, is ramping up its podcast activity. The company has partnered with Amazon-owned podcast company Wondery on a slate of shows and has promoted a pair of executives to oversee its growing audio division. Through the…

Scout Productions Looks To Take ‘Queer Eye’ & ‘Legendary’ Flavor To New Worlds

Scout Productions, the company behind Netflix's Queer Eye and HBO Max's Legendary, is looking to take the "secret sauce" of those two unscripted shows in to new worlds that have yet to have had their moment on television. Co-founder David Collins and President Eric Korsh told Deadline that during the pandemic they…

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Reality Week: Banijay’s U.S. Units See “Development Renaissance” During Covid, Endemol Shine Eyes Remake Of UK Format ‘Starstruck’ & 51 Minds Talks ‘Below Deck’

Cris Abrego was named as boss of MasterChef and Big Brother producer Banijay in the U.S. and Latin six months into the Covid-19 pandemic. Abrego oversees a group of production companies that produced the aforementioned Fox food format and long-running CBS series during the pandemic as well as a reboot of Wipeout for…

Reality Week: ‘Holey Moley’ Producer Eureka Productions Plots New Non-Scripted Worlds To Build Following Australian Pandemic Production Boom

Eureka Productions has been on a roll recently, picking up orders for series such as a Magic Mike competition series at HBO Max and an adaptation of 1980s videogame Frogger at Peacock. But the unexpected boom for the business, which produces Holey Moley for ABC, has been having a sizeable production division in…

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Reality Week: Sony Eyes Unscripted Adaptations Of Feature Films & Plots Reboot Of ‘The Newlywed Game’ & Global Versions Of ‘Murder House Flip’

Feature films could be the next big untapped market for unscripted reboots. HBO Max is making a reality competition series inspired by Magic Mike and now Sony is looking at its movie library. Holly Jacobs, EVP, Alternative and Syndication Programming for Sony Pictures Television, told Deadline that it is about to take…

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Reality Week: Industrial Media Team Talk ‘90 Day Fiancé’, ‘Selena + Chef’ & Premium Doc Boom

Matt Sharp, who runs 90 Day Fiancé producer Sharp Entertainment and was the man behind Doomsday Preppers, called his Industrial Media bosses in February 2020 to warn them that Covid-19 might become a problem in the United States. His preparedness – this is a man who profiled more than one family preparing for a global…

Artist David Choe To Host Interview Show On FX With Hiro Murai To EP

FX is painting The Choe Show. The network is to launch an interview show hosted by artist David Choe. All five episodes of the show will launch on Friday June 25 at 10pm and be available on Hulu the next day. The series will see Choe paint a portrait—literally and figuratively—of his guests. From the walls of his…

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