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EXCLUSIVE: Less than a week after Empire co-creator Danny Strong and longtime director and executive producer Sanaa Hamri reunited on a Taraji P. Henson-led spinoff of the hip hop drama, the duo is back together again for a dramedy on being young, Arab and female in today's America. Penned by Dina Shihabi and Rolla…

The end of Empire may be just have been a stepping stone to a whole lot of Cookie. Development of a spinoff of the Danny Strong and Lee Daniels created series' iconic matriarch is the first order of business in a new first look deal that Taraji P. Henson has signed with 20th Century Fox TV. To that end, the Golden…

EXCLUSIVE: Frequent collaborators James Roday Rodriguez (A Million Little Things) and Todd Harthan (The Resident) have partnered on Good Serial, a darkly twisted, genre mashing comedy project , which has been set up at 20th Century Fox TV where The Resident showrunner Harthan is under an overall deal. Written by Roday…

EXCLUSIVE: Modern Family star Ty Burrell is staying in business with the studio and network behind the beloved family comedy, 20th Century Fox Television and ABC. Burrell has launched Desert Whale Productions, which has entered a 2-year first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV. He has brought in Erica Schechter as…

Hamilton director Thomas Kail and film/TV producer Jennifer Todd have teamed to form a new television company with a multi-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Under the pact, which began in February, the duo are developing for all platforms under Kail’s Old 320 Sycamore Pictures banner. The agreement covers…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox TV is developing an adaptation of Michael Arceneaux's memoir I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyonce with Jerrod Carmichael, Lee Daniels and Marc Velez. Deadline understands that the project is set to hit the cable and streaming market as a…

Mixed-ish showrunner Karin Gist has re-upped her overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV. As part of the new pact, she has launched a production banner, The Gist Of It, with Claire Brown as her EVP of Production and Development, and will create and supervise/develop new projects with the studio, part of Disney…

20th Century Fox Television has appointed Apple TV+ executive Michelle Mendelovitz as SVP and head of Drama Development. The position had been vacant since Chloe Dan stepped down in July after two years in the top drama post. Mendelovitz will lead the label's drama team, reporting to EVP of Development, Comedy and…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Speechless star Minnie Driver has extended the pod deal for her Huge Fan Productions banner at 20th Century Fox TV, the studio behind the ABC comedy series. She has set up her first project under the new deal — a dramedy series based on the Texas Monthly article “A Tree is Known by Its Fruit,” which…

Pose co-creator Steven Canals has signed an an overall deal with 20th Century Fox TV, a label of Disney Television Studios. “Steven is the embodiment of the original voice we’re always looking for at this studio and like so many others I was captivated by his groundbreaking and award-winning series Pose,” said Carolyn…

Veteran CBS executive Dan Kupetz has joined 20th Century Fox TV as EVP, Business Affairs and Operations, succeeding Howard Kurtzman who recently announced he’ll be retiring in June. Kupetz begins his new role in March, reporting into Carolyn Cassidy, president of 20th Century Fox Television, part of Disney TV Studios…

Howard Kurtzman, President of Business Operations for 20th Century Fox Television and head of business and legal affairs for over two decades, will step down in June. Carolyn Cassidy, 20th TV’s President of Creative Affairs who has been partnered with Kurtzman, will be named President of 20th Century Fox TV at that…