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EXCLUSIVE: Al Madrigal is expanding his relationship with CBS Studios. The multi-hyphenate writer, producer and actor has signed a multi-year overall deal with the Studio to develop new series for broadcast, cable and streaming services. Madrigal is currently co-writing, producing, and starring in Guerrillas, a CBS…

The Good Fight and Evil creators Robert and Michelle King are staying at their longtime studio home, CBS Studios. But this was not a straight-forward overall deal renewal. The big new five-year pact, said to be in the high eight figures with a potential to cross the nine-figure mark in success, came after months of…

EXCLUSIVE: Annabel Abbs' period cookery novel Miss Eliza's English Kitchen is set for a television adaptation after CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures optioned the rights. The two companies struck a deal for the screen rights to the book, which is being published by William Morrow and Simon & Schuster UK. It is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Devon Greggory, showrunner and writer of Paramount+’s newly greenlit series revival of The Game, has signed a multi-year overall deal with CBS Studios, the studio behind the half-hour dramedy. Under the pact, via his production shingle The Inphiniti Company, Greggory will write, direct and produce content…

Kiefer Sutherland will play a private spy in his latest TV series. The 24 and Designated Survivor star is to lead and exec produce an untitled espionage drama that has been ordered by Paramount+ and comes from John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, who directed the pilot of NBC's This Is Us. It is Sutherland's latest…

EXCLUSIVE: As the coronavirus infections surge in and around Toronto once again, Star Trek Discovery has hit the pause button on production. Months into shooting its fourth season, the Sonequa Martin-Green-led series has shuttered for the next two weeks due to a contact that was a little too close for comfort for CBS S…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Chris Kula, a co-executive producer on Star Trek: Lower Decks, has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios, the studio behind the Paramount+ animated series. Star Trek: Lower Decks landed an early renewal for a 10-episode third season earlier this month, before the animated series returns…

EXCLUSIVE: Limitless and The Code creator Craig Sweeny has signed a new three-year overall deal with CBS Studios. Under the pact, Sweeny will continue to develop new projects and work on existing series for the studio. Sweeny has been at CBS Studios for most of his career – he landed his first staff writer job on the…

EXCLUSIVE: XG Productions, the company behind Fox's reboot of America's Most Wanted, has struck a first-look deal with CBS Studios and has set its first project – a TV adaptation of its Audible original series Call Me God in the works at Paramount+. The company, which was set up by former FBI agents, Jim and Tim…

CBS Studios has struck an overall deal with iconic racial justice, anti-violence, gender equity advocate and ‘me too’ founder Tarana Burke and storyteller and her producing partner Mervyn Marcano. As part of the agreement, the duo will partner with CBS Studios to develop scripted, unscripted and documentary content…

More than two years after CBS Studios was sued over the current MacGyver series, the company has hit back, claiming that the case “suffers from fatal, incurable deficiencies.” Back in December 2018, Hanzer Holdings and Arlita Inc. filed a lawsuit claiming that CBS’ update of the drama series entitled them to payments…

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Plestis knows a thing or two about Korean formats after finding success with The Masked Singer and I Can See Your Voice. He now has found his latest Asian format, but this one is a little different – it's scripted. The founder of Smart Dog Media and ex-NBC alternative chief has struck a deal with CBS S…