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Lisa Kudrow To Headline Amazon Comedy Pilot ‘Good People’ From Lee Daniels & Whitney Cummings

Friends alumna Lisa Kudrow is set to star in and executive produce Good People, Amazon’s half-hour comedy pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Whitney Cummings, Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios. Written by Daniels and Cummings, Good People revolves around three generations…

By Denise Petski
May 20, 2019 3:30 pm
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Upfronts 2019: An Englishman In New York On The Long, Strange Trip To The Network Parade

"I don’t take coffee, I take tea, my dear," Sting sang back in 1987. I, however, at this point will take any source of caffeine there is to power through my first upfronts. It's been a wild ride, or a long, strange trip, as the CW president Mark Pedowitz put it. As an international TV reporter, I've long covered the…

By Peter White
May 17, 2019 2:28 pm
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Upfronts 2019: The Overachievers List

As we close the book on the 2019 broadcast pilot season, largely overshadowed by the WGA-ATA standoff, here is Deadline's annual honor roll of those who excelled at the 2019 upfronts. The list includes writers/producers/pods who scored at least one new series at the upfronts and have multiple scripted shows. Berlanti…

By Nellie Andreeva
May 17, 2019 10:58 am
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Syfy’s ‘Vagrant Queen’: Adriyan Rae To Star In Live-Action Space Tale

EXCLUSIVE: Syfy has given a series order to Vagrant Queen, a live-action adaptation of the star-spanning Vault Comics series that will be produced by Blue Ice Pictures and by an all-female team of writers and directors featuring Jem Garrard as creator and showrunner. Lance Samuels, President of Blue Ice Pictures of…

By Geoff Boucher
May 17, 2019 10:00 am
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‘High Fidelity’: Da’Vine Joy Randolph & David Holmes Join Series Reboot On Hulu

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (On Becoming a God in Central Florida) and David Holmes (The Hill) are set as series regulars opposite Zoë Kravitz and Jake Lacy in High Fidelity, a reimagining of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel and the 2000 feature starring John Cusack, with a female point of view. The series, which recently moved from…

By Denise Petski
May 17, 2019 9:00 am
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Amazon Studios Picks Up Lauren Oliver’s YA Drama ‘Panic’ To Series

Amazon Studios has picked up to series YA drama pilot Panic, from writer Lauren Oliver based on her best-selling book and producers Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum. Ramping up a YA slate was one of the first major programming initiatives of Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke after she joined the company last year. The…

By Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski
May 16, 2019 2:00 pm
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2019-20 Primetime TV Grid: ‘Blue Bloods’ Escapes ‘WWE SmackDown’, CW’s Female Superhero Sunday, ‘This Is Us’ Vs. Departing ‘Empire’ + No ‘Big Bang Theory’

If ever there was an expedient excuse to cite the proverb "the more things change the more they stay the same," the broadcast networks’ 2019-2020 fall schedule is such an occasion now that the annual hoopla of the upfronts are over. Gotham is gone on Fox, but Gotham City is swinging back to the small screen with the…

By Dominic Patten, Patrick Hipes
May 16, 2019 1:22 pm
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‘Nancy Drew’: Riley Smith Co-Stars In New CW Series

Riley Smith is returning to the CW with a lead role opposite Kennedy McMann in the network’s new drama series Nancy Drew, from CBS TV Studios and Fake Empire. Smith had been quietly cast as a series regular in the pilot in second position to his Fox drama series Proven Innocent. He became officially available when Fox…

By Nellie Andreeva
May 16, 2019 7:22 am
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‘Glamorous’ Eyes Retooling For Series Pickup Consideration At the CW

Three of the four CW pilots that stood out this pilot season, Batwoman, Katy Keene, Nancy Drew and Glamorous, were picked up to series last week. The fourth, Glamorous, the only original concept and only comedy in the bunch, remains in contention. “We are still looking at Glamorous,” the CW President Mark Pedowitz…

By Nellie Andreeva
May 16, 2019 6:11 am
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'Glamorous' Eyes Retooling For Series Pickup

Deadline’s CBS & CBS All Access Upfronts Presentation Live Blog

Last year, Murphy Brown was the most anticipated new series on CBS' schedule, Leslie Moonves was still CEO of CBS Corp, his wife Julie Chen was still Den Mom of The Talk, and the network's late-night star Stephen Colbert was celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Mueller investigation. Last year, CBS also had The…

By Lisa de Moraes
May 15, 2019 1:00 pm
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‘Criminal Minds’ Final Season To Air On Series’ Original Night In Midseason

For the first time since 2004, CBS today unveiled a fall schedule that did not feature Criminal Minds. The veteran crime drama, which has been renewed for a 10-episode 15th and final season, had aired on Wednesdays for its entire run to date — at 9 PM for the first 12 seasons, and at 10 PM for the last two. The…

By Nellie Andreeva
May 15, 2019 9:32 am
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‘Murphy Brown’: CBS Still Open To Classic Reboots Despite Cancellation Of Candice Bergen Comedy

CBS is still open to rebooting classic shows despite the cancellation of Murphy Brown after one season. The Candice Bergen-fronted series made headlines as the second wave of revival fever hit new heights last year, with the Emmy winning show returning to CBS in September almost 20 years after the original run of the D…