Black Sails co-creator Jon Steinberg and his producing partner Dan Shotz have signed a three-year overall deal with Fox 21 Television Studios to develop and run series for the studio. Steinberg and Shotz were most recently executive producers on the Apple streaming series, See. Prior to that, Steinberg executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Silverman and Howard Owens’ Propagate is joining forces with blackpills (Bonding), the Paris-based production studio specializing in premium, short-form scripted content aimed at millennials, to develop and distribute YA content. In addition to a distribution partnership, the companies will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Real-life married couple Mauricio Ochmann (El Chema) and Aislinn Derbez (Win It All, Easy), both of whom predominately work in the Spanish language film and television business, have set with Sony Pictures International on the feature Chief Executive Dad, which will be produced under their A Toda Madre…

UPDATE: Anna Sorokin, who faked being an heiress and scammed hotels, friends and others out of huge amounts of money and services, told the New York Times in an interview that she’s not sorry. "I'd be lying to you and to everyone else and to myself if I said I was sorry for anything," Sorokin told The New York Times…

Netflix has closed a first-look deal with The Umbrella Academy producers Dark Horse Entertainment. Under the pact, Dark Horse will give Netflix a first look at its IP for both film and TV and has started exploring future projects. Dark Horse Entertainment's Mike Richardson, Keith Goldberg and Paul Schwake signed on to…

A documentary on the life and career of rapper Lil Peep, who died of an accidental overdose at age 21 just as his career was taking off, has had its worldwide rights acquired by content studio Gunpowder & Sky. Sebastian Jones and Ramez Silyan's SXSW music documentary Everybody’s Everything details the genre-bending…

CBS and CBS Sports Network will televise 20 Big East Conference men's regular-season basketball games per year through the 2024-25 season in a new sublicense deal with Fox Sports. The pact includes at least two appearances for each of the 10 Big East schools. CBS Sports will broadcast up to four games per season with…

StoryBots, the Emmy-winning children’s media brand created by Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, has been acquired by Netflix. The overall deal terms were not disclosed, but the announcement indicated plans to significantly expand the brand and build on the characters in the educational content. Ask The StoryBots is a…

Bob’s Burgers executive producers Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux have signed a three-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, the studio behind Fox’s hit animated series. Under the pact, the duo will continue to work on Bob’s Burgers, which has been renewed for a 10th season, as well as their animated series in…

EXCLUSIVE: Manager/producer Brian Sher has signed a first-look deal with UCP and Wilshire Studios to develop both scripted and unscripted programming. Sher has set his first project under the pact, a scripted comedy Public Figures at UCP from How To Make It in America creator Ian Edelman starring rapper/actor Lil Yacht…

Toggling between the Apple TV series Home Before Dark, a Netflix project on the trapped Thai boys real life drama of 2018, the In the Heights movie and more, Jon M. Chu has found a small screen home. The Crazy Rich Asians director has signed a four-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Joining recent…

Vice Media has raised $250 million in debt from a collection of investors that includes George Soros, Fortress Investment Group, 23 Capital and Monroe Capital, money that will be used to bolster the media company. The <a…