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EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put drama Never Tell back in development with a new writer, Madam Secretary creator Barbara Hall. Based on the book by Selena Montgomery (nom de plume for Stacey Abrams), the project is from Abrams; Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi's PatMa Productions; and CBS Studios, where the company is based. It o…

EXCLUSIVE: As Madam Secretary is wrapping up its sixth and final season, series creator Barbara Hall has lined up her next projects. CBS has put in development Clues, a drama based on the Israeli series from Hall and Madam Secretary executive producer David Grae; Keshet Studios; CBS Television Studios, where Hall and…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the season 5 finale of Madam Secretary. Based on the events leading up to the season finale of CBS’ Madam Secretary, it seems like this episode would be, for the most part, smooth sailing for Tea Leoni’s Elizabeth McCord. It seems like the climate migration treaty is…

Barbara Hall’s CBS drama series Madam Secretary features a female Secretary of State. Now the veteran creator has set her sights on a new drama project for CBS about a woman in a position of power, Ms. Mayor. The project, which has received a put pilot commitment at the broadcast network, hails from former CBS chairman…

Tapping into every Democrat's dream, Michelle King, creator of The Good Fight, said her show is currently working on an episode about the impeachment of the president. Sadly for Dems, the president in the show is fictional. "We're doing an impeachment episode right now," she said during the “Penning Pennsylvania…

CBS has put in development drama series Family Business from a duo of CBS veterans. The project hails from one of the most prolific CBS drama creators, Barbara Hall, and long-time CBS executive Glenn Geller, who exited his post as the network’s entertainment president in May to segue to a producing deal with CBS TV…

Barbara Hall, creator/executive producer of Madam Secretary, has signed a new two-year overall deal with the studio behind the sophomore CBS drama series, CBS Television Studios. Under the pact, she will continue as executive producer/showrunner on Madam Secretary while also developing new projects for the studio. Mada…

“I think I would love for it not to be a thing when there are a bunch of women showrunners somewhere,” Power creator Courtney Kemp Agboh told an appreciative crowd at Tuesday night’s creative keynote panel launching the New York Television Festival. “It…does…not…have…to…be…pointed out all the time,” she added, pausing…

During a loose, hour-long session at the PGA’s Produced By NY conference, TV’s top showrunners, sardonically prodded by moderator Mark Gordon, held onto spoilers and indicated, that, alas, the only way to learn how to be a show runner is to become a show runner.  Unlike this morning’s Produced By panel “The Ms. Factor&#8221…

CBS‘ new drama series Madam Secretary, in which Tea Leoni plays the Secretary of State, came about because of Hillary Clinton and Benghazi, exec producer Lori McCreary told TV critics today at TCA Summer TV Press Tour 2014. McCreary said she and Morgan Freeman had lunch with CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler…

In their first stab at development since creating The Good Wife, Robert and Michelle King have set up Girls With Guns, a drama project at Showtime that will be produced by the companies behind The Good Wife, CBS TV Studios and Scott Free Prods. It was one of the projects in the works at Scott Free when one of the…