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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Television has acquired the rights to The Forbidden Game trilogy of horror YA novels by LJ Smith for Greg Berlanti’s studio-based Berlanti Productions to adapt as TV series. Smith is the author of The Vampire Diaries novels, which were turned by WBTV into a hit TV series that aired for eight…

EXCLUSIVE: Epix is exploring the story of Charles Manson and his followers in a docuseries from An Inconvenient Truth producer Lesley Chilcott, Berlanti Productions, Rogue Atlas Productions and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. The MGM-owned broadcaster has ordered six-part series Helter Skelter, a comprehensive…

Following Berlanti Productions’ big slate expansion over the past several years to become the most prolific producer in television, the company founded by Greg Berlanti is also expanding its top executive suite. Sarah Schechter, who has served as President of Berlanti Productions for the past six years, overseeing…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Berlanti, the prolific producer behind Riverdale, The Flash, Supergirl and mny other shows, has inked a deal to adapt the New York Times best-selling young-adult novel The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue for HBO Max. Deadline can reveal that Berlanti Productions’ adaptation of Mackenzi Lee’s…

Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Chain of Command, a one-hour drama from writer April Fitzsimmons (Doom Patrol, Valor), Jamie Lee Curtis, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros TV where Berlanti Prods is under a deal. Written by Fitzsimmons from a story by Fitzsimmons and Curtis, Chain of Command revolves around…

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…

Berlanti Productions is beefing up its senior executive ranks with the hire of  Erika Kennair and Jonathan Gabay as SVPs of development. Kennair, most recently VP comedy development at ABC, and Gabay, most recently SVP comedy development and programming at Fox, fill an SVP development vacancy at Berlanti Prods. left…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Berlanti is set to receive the Television Showman of the Year honor at the 56th annual ICG Publicists Guild Awards next month. The question is: When will he have time to enjoy the award? This is the guy whose Greg Berlanti Productions has a cape-splitting 15 series on the air at the moment and at least…

Producer Jason Blum, Berlanti Productions executive producer Sarah Schechter, director Guillermo del Toro, director/producer Jake Kasdan, and director Don Mancini will receive special awards from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films at the 44th annual Saturn Awards, it was announced today. The event…

It’s been eight years since Deadline launched its annual Overachievers Pilot Season/Upfronts lists to acknowledge the writers, producers and directors who excel during the broadcast development season, landing multiple pilots in January and multiple series in May. When we started the list back in 2010, there was no…

Karyn Smith-Forge has joined Greg Berlanti’s Greg Berlanti Productions as SVP of production. Additionally, the company has promoted Jimmy Gibbons to Director of Production. Smith-Forge will oversee all Berlanti Prods TV series in production, working closely with the showrunners of each series to hire directors and…