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Company veteran John Villacorta has been upped to SVP Talent & Casting at ABC Entertainment. In the new gig, he will manage the casting process for ABC and provide casting strategy and services to the Direct-to-Consumer and International segment, working with the Disney+ team across all scripted and unscripted…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Tuesday finale of Jeopardy! The Greatest Of All Time ABC’s Jeopardy! The Greatest Of All Time tournament came to an end Tuesday, with Ken Jennings winning the title. During a Final Jeopardy! category titled Shakespeare’s Tragedies at the end of Match 4, Jennings was…

Wrestling and law enforcement in paradise are a mismatch at first glance. But upon closer examination, both seek to triumph over evil-doers and bring order to chaos. Thus, it’s only fitting that Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown and CBS’s crime drama Hawaii Five-0 share the individual show demo wars honors for Friday…

What is, “a primetime TV hit years in the making?” Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time tournament, featuring the three highest-earning Jeopardy! contestants, Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhauer, has dominated ratings this week. With the trio taking primetime by storm, it might not be the last time we see…

EXCLUSIVE: This is a shocker: Justin Chambers, an original Grey’s Anatomy cast member and a fan favorite, is leaving the hit medical drama, now in its 16th season on ABC. He was last seen in Grey’s Anatomy 350th episode, which aired November 14, and I hear that was likely his last episode on the show for the…

ABC has started negotiations with the The Conners team about a third season of the hit comedy. “We are deep in conversations with the cast and the producers,” ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke told Deadline during TCA. Because of the show’s origins — a spinoff of the Roseanne revival — The Conners cast does not…

ABC just opted to go without a traditional host at the Oscars for a second straight year but it would consider employing a host for the 2020 Primetime Emmys as the Disney-owned network is targeting double-digit ratings growth for the TV awards show. ABC, whose turn it is to host the Emmys, announced earlier today that…

ABC is looking to anthologize Revenge as it develops a Latinx reboot of the hit drama series. The Disney-owned network has been developing a follow-up to the 2011 series, which starred Emily VanCamp and Madeleine Stowe. The reboot hails from the original series' creator/executive producer Mike Kelley, writer-producer…

For Bachelor Nation fans hoping for a nice, wrapped-in-a-bow The Bachelor finale after the shocking endings of the last two installments, The Bachelorette: Hannah and The Bachelor: Colton, that’s not in the cards. The current Peter Weber-fronted installment of The Bachelor too will have a surprise ending, host Chris Ha…

ABC is ramping up its efforts to move its development process off-cycle and has rebranded it a "second cycle." ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke told Deadline that it is currently budgeted for around 16 comedy and drama pilots but that this total would include pilots orders picked up outside of the traditional…

The Baker and the Beauty, ABC’s new hourlong romantic comedy that pulls inspiration from such popular rom-coms as Notting Hill, Roman Holiday and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, had its panel at the TCA winter press tour today. Based on the hit Israeli format, the series centers on Daniel Garcia (Victor Rasuk), who is…

ABC is leaning into live and event programming and building on existing franchises as it looks to bring some "swagger" back to broadcast television. The broadcaster revealed a slew of new shows this morning at the TCA winter press tour including The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart, a new installment in the network's…