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‘Siren’ Canceled By Freeform After 3 Seasons
EXCLUSIVE: Freeform’s Siren has come to an end as the network has opted not to pick up a fourth season of the mermaid drama. The news comes more than two months after the May 28 Season 3 finale.
The cancellation marks a reversal of fortune for Siren, which made a splashy debut in 2018. It was a breakout hit in Season…
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‘Mimic’: TV Series Reboot Of Sci-Fi Thriller Movie In Works At Miramax TV With Paul WS Anderson Directing
EXCLUSIVE: Miramax Television is rebooting cult 1997 horror sci-fi thriller movie Mimic as a TV series. Paul WS Anderson is set to direct the potential pilot and executive produce the series with his longtime producing partner Jeremy Bolt.
Jim Danger Gray (Orange Is the New Black) will write the adaptation, executive…
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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: Kim Raver, Camilla Luddington & Kevin McKidd Close New Deals To Continue On ABC Drama
EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy‘s main cast will remain intact heading into Season 17. Kim Raver, Camilla Luddington and Kevin McKidd, whose contracts were all up at the end of last season, have signed new multi-year contracts to continue on the long-running medical drama, I have learned. I hear the pacts are for three…
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‘Connecting’: Parvesh Cheena Joins NBC’s Coronavirus-Era Comedy Series From Martin Gero & Brendan Gall
EXCLUSIVE: Outsourced alum Parvesh Cheena is returning to the NBC fold as a series regular in the network’s comedy series Connecting, from Blindspot creator/exec producer Martin Gero, his frequent collaborator Brendan Gall and Universal Television.
Written and executive produced by Gero and Gall, Connecting, which has…
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Damon Wayans Jr. To Star In Action Comedy In Works At Peacock From ‘Happy Endings’ Trio As Part Of Re-Upped CBS TV Studios Deal For His Two Shakes Entertainment
EXCLUSIVE: Former Happy Endings star Damon Wayans Jr. is reuniting with the cult series’ creator David Caspe and former writers Matthew and Daniel Libman for a half-hour bounty hunter action comedy, which has received a script-to-series commitment at NBCU’s streaming platform Peacock.
The project, starring and…
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Dania Ramirez Joins ‘Sweet Tooth’ As Netflix Series Eyes Production Start In New Zealand
EXCLUSIVE: Dania Ramirez (Tell Me a Story, Devious Maids) is set to co-star in Sweet Tooth, Netflix’s new drama series based on the DC Vertigo comic, which hails from Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey's Team Downey, Jim Mickle, Beth Schwartz and Warner Bros. TV.
Ramirez is part of the series’ core series regular…
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Promotes Richard Flood & Anthony Hill To Series Regulars, ‘Station 19’ Ups Stefania Spampinato
ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and spinoff Station 19 have been building an unified, seamless universe under executive producer/showrunner Krista Vernoff. Now the two Thursday dramas are making their cast promotions in unison, with one recurring player who started on the mothership series becoming a full-time cast member on the…
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ABC Nabs ‘The Women’ Drama From Jennifer Johnson, Glenn Porter, Mark Pellington & Kapital With Penalty
EXCLUSIVE: ABC has bought for development The Women, a thriller drama from writers Jennifer Johnson and Glenn Porter, producer Mark Pellington and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment.
The project, which had been written on spec by Johnson and Porter, has received a script commitment plus penalty from the network…
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Mob Drama Series From Brian Grazer, Terence Winter & Nicholas Pileggi In the Works At Showtime
EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing an hourlong drama from Brian Grazer, Terence Winter and Nicholas Pileggi. It will be produced by Showtime and Imagine Television Studios.
Written by Boardwalk Empire creator Winter, the untitled series is inspired by Pileggi's in-depth chronology of organized crime in America — which…
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‘Connecting’: Otmara Marrero To Star In NBC’s Coronavirus-Era Comedy Series From Martin Gero & Brendan Gall
EXCLUSIVE: Otmara Marrero (StartUp) has been set as a lead in the NBC comedy series Connecting, from Blindspot creator/exec producer Martin Gero, his frequent collaborator Brendan Gall and Universal Television.
Written and executive produced by Gero and Gall, Connecting, which last month received an eight-episode strai…
Family Drama ‘Chicano’ From Natalie Chaidez, Eva Longoria & Forest Whitaker In The Works At ABC
ABC has put in development family drama Chicano, inspired by Richard Vasquez's novel, from Queen of the South showrunner Natalie Chaidez, Eva Longoria and Forest Whitaker.
20th Century Fox Television is the studio on the project, which is being produced in association with Longoria and Ben Spector's UnbeliEVAble…
‘Rodham’ Alt History Drama Series About Hillary Clinton In Works At Hulu From Sarah Treem, Warren Littlefield & Fox 21
Hulu is developing Rodham, a provocative take on one of the most famous female American politicians of the past two decades, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The drama series, based on the book by Curtis Sittenfeld, comes from The Affair co-creator Sarah Treem, Fox 21 Television Studios and studio-based the Littlefield…
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