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Broadcast Nets Bet On IP, Proven Showrunners & Big Stars In New Series Orders Amid Derailed Pilot Season
The 2020 pilot season has remained unfinished business, with pilots ordered but not filmed. And yet, under most extraordinary circumstances, amid a global pandemic that has upended the lives of millions and thrown most industries, including Hollywood, into chaos, it was almost business as usual in the month of May…
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‘For Life’ & ‘The Baker and the Beauty’ Remain On the Bubble As ABC Makes Renewal & Cancellation Decisions
ABC today made the bulk of their renewal decisions, picking up 13 more current series, eight of them scripted, for next season and canceling five, including scripted entries Emergence, Bless This Mess, Single Parents and Schooled. That left midseason freshmen For Life and The Baker and the Beauty, whose fate is yet to…
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Ginnifer Goodwin To Star In Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Pivoting’
EXCLUSIVE: Ginnifer Goodwin (Why Women Kill, Once Upon a Time) is set as a co-lead opposite Eliza Coupe in Fox's comedy pilot Pivoting, from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV.
Written by Astrof and to be directed by Tristram Shapeero, Pivoting follows three women — Amy (Coupe)…
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‘The Bold And The Beautiful’ Renewed Through 2022 By CBS
EXCLUSIVE: CBS has handed a two-year renewal to venerable daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful through the 2021-2022 broadcast season.
Now in its 33rd year, the afternoon series routinely wins its time period and averages over 3.2 million viewers every day. Picked up for Seasons 34 and 35, The Bold and the Beautifu…
Ruby Rose Exits the CW’s ‘Batwoman’, DC Series To Recast Iconic Lead Role For Season 2
This is a shocker: Ruby Rose, the star of the CW’s freshman drama series Batwoman, is leaving the Warner Bros. TV/Berlanti Prods. drama after one season. The series, which already has been renewed for a second season, will continue with the title role getting recast.
"I have made the very difficult decision to not…
CBS Boss On Fate Of Remaining Pilots, Decision Not To Go Forward With ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ & ‘Fun’
CBS has been the most proactive among the Big 3 networks in making decisions on pilots coming off a 2020 pilot season decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. It has made calls on five projects, picking up three to series, The Equalizer reboot starring Queen Latifah, Silence of the Lambs sequel Clarice starring Rebecca…
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‘Last Summer’: Olivia Holt Set As Lead In Recasting, Jessica Biel-Produced Freeform Series Gets New Title
EXCLUSIVE: Former Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger star Olivia Holt is returning to Freeform as a lead in Cruel Summer, the network’s upcoming thriller drama series, which was previously titled Last Summer.
In the series, from Bert V. Royal, Jessica Biel and eOne, Holt will play one of the two lead characters, Kate, the…
‘Percy Jackson’ Series In The Works At Disney+
Disney+ is developing a Percy Jackson series adaptation. Book series author Rick Riordan made the announcement Thursday on Twitter alongside his wife Becky. It comes after months of speculation and a week after Becky Riordan initiated a #DisneyAdaptPercyJackson fan Twitter campaign, hinting at the adaptation.
Rick…
‘The Lost Boys’: The CW Boss On “Passion” Project’s Fate After New Pilot Was Rolled
The CW on Tuesday made decisions on its four remaining traditional pilots, picking up two, Kung Fu and The Republic of Sarah, to series, and rolling the other two, The Lost Boys and Maverick.
The decision added yet another chapter in the long journey to the screen for Rob Thomas' The Lost Boys reboot. The Lost Boys…
The CW 2020-21 Schedule: New Season Launching In January, ‘Supernatural’ Conclusion & Acquisitions In Fall
The CW today became the first U.S. network to set a "return to normal" date when fresh seasons of new and returning series will get on the air. On what would’ve been the day of its upfront presentation in New York, the network announced that it will launch its 2020-21 season in January, while airing a lineup of…
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‘The Purge’ & ‘Treadstone’ Canceled By USA Network Amid Programming Strategy Shift
EXCLUSIVE: USA Network has opted not to proceed with new seasons of its high-profile drama series The Purge and Treadstone. Both were based on popular Universal movie franchises, The Purge and Bourne, respectively. The Purge was canceled after two seasons and Treadstone after one.
Both dramas were expensive while not…
‘Kung Fu’ Reboot & ‘The Republic Of Sarah’ Get CW Series Orders For 2020-21 Season
The CW has given straight-to-series orders to dramas Kung Fu, starring Olivia Liang, and The Republic Of Sarah, headlined by Stella Baker. The reboot of the 1970s David Carradine-starring TV series and the small town drama join Superman & Lois and Walker, which already received series orders in January. Emerging from…
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