Primetime Pilot Panic News

EXCLUSIVE: When NBC in late February renewed all three Chicago series for next season, the flagship Chicago Fire was picked up for…

The Lil Rel Howery-starring comedy Rel will not get a second season at Fox. The network has canceled the comedy series from Jerrod Carmichael, Mike Scully and 20th Century Fox TV, after one season.

Of the other two Fox freshman comedy series, Last Man Standing is fully expected to be renewed while The Cool Kids is…

Fox has opted not to renew its sophomore drama series The Gifted for a third season. The family adventure series, set in Marvel's X-Men universe, comes from 20th Century Fox TV, which now is part of Disney.

I hear that there have been no real conversations but there is a chance for The Gifted to find a new home within…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox TV is developing Gerald’s World, an animated comedy from DJ, producer and actor Dillon Francis and writer Spencer Porter (Family Guy, We Bare Bears), with McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision attached to produced.

Co-created by Francis and Porter, Gerald’s World is based on fan favorite…

EXCLUSIVE: David Thewlis (Wonder Woman, Harry Potter films) has been tapped as the lead of Barkskins, National Geographic's scripted drama series based on the 2016 bestselling novel of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx. The series hails from Elwood Reid and Fox 21 TV Studios.

Created by Reid, Barkskins…

American Gods actor Pablo Schreiber has been tapped as the lead in Halo, Showtime’s anticipated series based on the Xbox video game franchise.

Schreiber will play Master Chief, Earth’s most advanced warrior in the 26th century and the only hope of salvation for a civilization pushed to the brink of destruction by the C…

Alison Pill (The Newsroom), Harry Treadaway (Penny Dreadful) and Isa Briones (American Crime Story: Versace) are set as series regulars opposite Patrick Stewart in CBS All Access' upcoming Star Trek series that will explore the next chapter of Jean-Luc Picard.

The new untitled Star Trek series, produced by CBS TV…

It’s April, and Deadline is launching its annual Pilot Panic feature, where we track buzz on the broadcast pilots as they go through production and testing. We are late out of the gate this year, but that’s understandable as it’s been an extraordinary time of upheaval in the business, with 13,000 writers on Friday told…

EXCLUSIVE: Alden Ehrenreich, who played the title character in Solo: A Star Wars Story, is set to lead the cast of Brave New World, a series adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel, <span style="font-family:-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue'…

John Cusack is set to star opposite Sasha Lane and Rainn Wilson in Utopia, Amazon's straight-to-series adaptation of the British drama, written by Gone Girl author and screenwriter Gillian Flynn.

Utopia follows a group of young adults who meet online that are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization…

EXCLUSIVE: The Horror of Dolores Roach is headed to the small screen. In a competitive situation, Blumhouse Television has acquired the rights to Gimlet Pictures’ hit horror podcast The Horror Of Dolores Roach to develop as a scripted TV series.

Written and directed by Aaron Mark, The Horror of Dolores Roach is a…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon is developing a drama series based on The Last Mrs. Parrish, Liv Constantine’s bestselling debut novel, with Cathy Schulman’s Welle Entertainment and Jeff Gaspin’s Gaspin Media producing. Jessica Mecklenburg (The Twilight Zone, Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, Stranger Things) will pen the…