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EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has given a script-to-series order to Anon Pls, a one-hour drama based on DeuxMoi’s upcoming debut novel, from Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros Television. HBO Max and WBTV had secured pre-emptively the rights to the book for WBTV-based Berlanti Productions to develop into a drama series. 2022 HB…

EXCLUSIVE: David Madden is leaving Berlanti Productions after more than two years as President, shepherding the company’s television operation. I hear his departure at the end of next month is amicable and comes at the end of his contract. A search is underway for his replacement. Berlanti Prods. will continue to work…

Shameless alumna Shanola Hampton has been tapped as the lead of NBC pilot Found. Hampton also will serve as producer on the one-hour missing-persons drama, written by Nkechi Okoro Carroll, which hails from Berlanti Productions, Carroll's Rock My Soul Productions and Warner Bros. TV, where Greg Berlanti and Carroll are…

EXCLUSIVE: Berlanti Productions, run by Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, has promoted Eliza Weiss to Creative Executive. Weiss, who is currently working on such Berlanti Productions shows as Doom Patrol, Kung Fu and Stargirl, is a homegrown talent, having started at the company as Berlanti’s executive assistant. "We…

The Girls on the Bus‘ long journey to the small screen has come to a successful conclusion with a straight-to-series order at HBO Max. The drama series adaptation of Amy Chozick's best-selling book Chasing Hillary, from Julie Plec, Chozick, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV, originally landed at Netflix with a s…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime CW and WB communications executive Suzanne Gomez has joined Berlanti Productions and Berlanti-Schechter Films in the newly created role of Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Talent Relations. Gomez will oversee all marketing, communications and talent relations for the Warner Bros-based television…

NBC has handed a pilot order to Found, a one-hour missing-persons drama from the All American team of showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and executive producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter. The project hails from Berlanti Productions, Carroll’s Rock My Soul Productions and Warner Bros. TV, where Berlanti and…

EXCLUSIVE: Dannah Shinder, SVP of Television at Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman's Brownstone Productions, has joined Berlanti Productions as EVP, Television. The hire of Shinder follows the recent promotion of SVP Television Jonathan Gabay to EVP Television at Berlanti Prods., run by partners Greg Berlanti and Sarah…

EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Gabay has been promoted to EVP Television at Berlanti Productions. Gabay, who joined the company in 2019 as SVP Development, most recently shepherded All American: Homecoming, the All American spinoff that emerged as one of the strongest CW pilots this season and landed a series order last week. He…

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind hit serial killer drama You is getting the band back together – this time for Peacock. Sera Gamble has teamed up with Berlanti Productions and Alloy Entertainment to adapt You author Caroline Kepnes' book Providence for the NBCU streamer. The project, which is currently in development, will…

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…