Nobody gets with the program like Greg Berlanti, the super-producer of television who currently has a record 18 active shows across the dial—the record before Berlanti broke it several times had been 10 shows (a mark reached by both Aaron Spelling and Jerry Bruckheimer), which makes the latest achievement by Berlanti P…

If ever there was an expedient excuse to cite the proverb "the more things change the more they stay the same," the broadcast networks’ 2019-2020 fall schedule is such an occasion now that the annual hoopla of the upfronts are over. Gotham is gone on Fox, but Gotham City is swinging back to the small screen with the…

Media buyers gathered at New York to hear The CW president Mark Pedowitz talk up his new fall schedule at the network’s upfronts presentation Thursday. The CW’s lineup for the 2019-20 fall season including 12 hours of original scripted programming – a lap ahead of Fox's seven. The CW is making a lot of changes to its…

The CW is making a lot of changes for next season, with only four of the 12 time slots on the fall schedule featuring the same occupants they did last fall. The fall 2019 lineup includes two intriguing DC superhero team-ups: a superheroine Sunday with Supergirl and Batwoman and The Flash and Arrow together for the…

EXCLUSIVE: When the first output deal between Netflix and the CW parents CBS and Warner Bros was announced in 2011, it was hailed as groundbreaking and, with its $1 billion windfall, a lifeline that might have helped save the then money-losing upstart network. The pact, re-upped by both sides in 2016 with some…

Last May, uber-producer Greg Berlanti and his Berlanti Productions set a new record for most series on the air at the same time with 14 live-action scripted shows. The number went up to 15 a couple of months later  — all dramas and 10 of them on broadcast. At last year’s upfront, Berlanti Prods., which is under a block…

The CW has released a mysterious 20-second teaser trailer for Batwoman, featuring a new look at Ruby Rose in the title role and the first look at the show’s logo. Batwoman made her debut in this season’s Arrow-verse crossover event titled “Elseworlds.” As Deadline reported earlier today, The CW has picked up Batwoman…

IP rules the CW’s new series orders. The network has picked up to series Batwoman, starring Ruby Rose; Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene, headlined by Lucy Hale; and Nancy Drew, toplined by Kennedy McMann. Batwoman, featuring a lesbian superhero, and Katy Keene come from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Prods. and Warner Bros. TV…

This morning’s INTV conference in Jerusalem, Israel kicked off with a discussion with Greg Berlanti, who chatted with WME Partner, Scripted TV Development Marc Korman about his ascent from his childhood in Rye, NY as a puppeteer and head of the AV Club to having 15 TV series on the air at the same time through his…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline caught up with Greg Berlanti at the INTV conference in Jerusalem, Israel, who provided some insight into the timeline of the upcoming Batwoman pilot, written by Caroline Dries and directed by Marcos Siega. Berlanti was one of the keynote speakers here at INTV, speaking on two sessions today, the…

Elizabeth Anweis (9-1-1) has been cast opposite Ruby Rose in Batwoman, the CW's groundbreaking drama pilot from Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television. Written by Caroline Dries and directed by Marcos Siega, Batwoman marks the first gay lead character of a live-action superhero series. Armed…

Dougray Scott has been tapped as the male lead in Batwoman, playing Batwoman’s father opposite Ruby Rose in the CW's drama pilot from Greg Berlanti's Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television. In addition, Marcos Siega has come on board to direct and executive produce. He takes over for David Nutter, who has…