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EXCLUSIVE: Israeli duo Amit Cohen and Ron Leshem, who created psychological thriller The Gordin Cell, which was remade by NBC as Allegiance, have struck a long-term development deal with Red Arrow Studios International. The pair are set to launch a new scripted drama label, backed by the content arm of the German…

Thumbing their mouses at the already crowded field of last minute Broadway season Tony contenders, the producers of Nerds, a new musical about the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have announced plans to open during the final week of eligibility for this year’s nominations. Producers Carl Levin (Rock Of…

January always brings bad news for Broadway’s faltering shows, as the tourist crowds recede and ticket sales plummet from their holiday highs. Allegiance, which recounted the experience of actor George Takei as a young man whose Japanese-American family was removed to internment camps when the U.S. entered World War…

Broadway’s autumn roller-coaster ride continues apace, with ticket sales rebounding at the box office as theatergoers continue to express their preferences for hits over misses. The 17 percent spike for Week 24 over the previous stand was powered by $1.77 million in sales at the Nederlander Organization’s Richard…

George Takei, who would grow up to play Lt. Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek, was five years old in 1942 when his family and some 120,000 other Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast were forcibly relocated to internment camps in California and more distant places. His memory of those years of humiliation, deprivation…

Every so often dire predictions, like the weather forecast, prove correct, and that’s the story of Week 23 of the 2015-2016 Broadway season. Producers feared the triple whammy of the World Series, a Saturday Hallowe’en and the NYC Marathon on Sunday would strike fear in the hearts of the theater-bound, and they were…

There was good news, bad news and no news on Week 21 of the 2015-16 Broadway season, which saw a modest drop over the big Columbus Day weekend haul from the prior stand. On the plus side, 12 of 31 shows were at or near capacity, with houses filled to 90 percent or better. That included increases for newcomers…

Casting is complete for George Takei’s musical Allegiance, inspired by his experience as a Los Angeles-born boy whose family was imprisoned, along with 120,000 other Japanese-Americans, in internment camps after the U.S. entered World War II in December 1941. After three years, first in Arkansas and later in Northern…

Five weeks into its new Thursday lineup, NBC is making an inevitable scheduling change on the night where The Blacklist had been left to hold down the fort with no support from newbie dramas at 8 PM or 10 PM. Both The Slap at 8 PM and Allegiance at 10 have been floundering and already had hit the dreaded 0.7 adults…

Is it too late to get The Blacklist back to Monday and pretend the Thursday experiment never happened? After a solid opening on the night last week with the conclusion of the post-Super Bowl episode, the FBI drama (1.7 in adults 18-49) tumbled -26% in Week 2 to a series low in Live+Same Day while its main competitor…

UPDATE, 1:58 PM: The Blacklist did go up a tenth to a 2.4 among adults 18-49 in the Live+Same Day ratings, within a tenth of its fall finale and its Monday L+SD average without a lead-in from The Voice (both at 2.5). ABC’s Scandal also climbed up a tenth to a 3.2, indicating that there were viewers who watched both…

Debuting on February 5 at 10 PM after The Blacklist, NBC’s Allegiance brings the Russians back as America's enemy in a post-9/11 world. The series stars Hope Davis as a dormant Russian spy and mother of three and Scott Cohen as her businessman husband. With a blast from the past, the duo are forced to turn their…