EXCLUSIVE: Prolific TV director Larry Teng is expanding his relationship with CBS Television Studios. Teng, who helmed the Nancy Drew pilot for the CW and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire, has closed an overall deal with the studio behind the series. Under the pact, Teng will remain…

EXCLUSIVE: Picture It Productions has set a first-look deal with CBS Television Studios. The two-year pact comes as Picture It previously developed projects with CBS TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Productions including a Josh Reims military medical drama last fall. Atlanta-based Picture It Prods. is topped by its…

“These kids today…” Anyone who hasn’t heard those words delivered with a sigh or a grumble at some point just hasn’t been listening. But ABC has — and the network is doing something about it. Today it announced a greenlight for a new version of the classic format Kids Say the Darndest Things, hosted by Tiffany…

Nicollette Sheridan’s reign as Alexis Carrington has come to an end. She is exiting The CW’s Dynasty as the fashionably scheming character. The role might be recast, but it’s still to be determined. “Nicollette Sheridan will be leaving DYNASTY in order to focus on some personal family responsibilities,” said CBS Televi…

CBS plans to establish a television and film production facility outside Toronto, with the production capacity to support large-scale production. The media company said it signed a long-term lease on a 260,000 square-foot space located in the city of Mississauga, 18 miles from downtown Toronto, where it plans to…

Even as CBS Television Studios has inked a new two-year deal with NCIS: New Orleans consulting producer Brad Kern, the studio has hired outside counsel to review a previous internal investigation into allegations against Kern of harassment and a hostile work environment, Deadline has confirmed. “The 2016 allegations…

David Lavin, CBS Television Studios’ SVP Business Affairs who also worked at its predecessor Paramount Pictures Television and Viacom Productions, died Wednesday of leukemia. He was 57. A veteran TV business affairs negotiator, Lavin worked at CBS TV Stuidos (and its predecessor Paramount Pictures Television) since…

UPDATED: Pauley Perrette took to Twitter to respond to CBS’ statement on her tweets suggesting that she was the victim of “multiple physical assaults” which may have led to her departure. “I want to thank my studio and network CBS They have always been so good to me and always had my back,” she tweeted (see…

Writer-producer Nina Pedrad has signed a two-year overall deal with CBS Television Studios. Under the pact, Pedrad will serve as a co-executive producer on the second season of CBS All Access series No Activity, executive produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, in addition to developing new projects. CBS All Access…

EXCLUSIVE: Watergate seemingly is the hottest topic in television these days, and CBS Television Studios is getting in on the action. The studio is developing a series based on Thomas Mallon's novel Watergate after optioning the rights. CBS Television Studios has picked up the rights to Mallon's book in association…

CBS has put in development a hybrid father-son comedy from former 30 Rock writer-producer Colleen McGuinness, 3 Arts Entertainment and CBS Television Studios. Written by McGuinness, the untitled project (aka The Great Divide) centers on a married man with kids who was adopted as a baby and finally reconnects with his…

Former Bull executive producer/showrunner Mark Goffman has set up two drama projects — one at CBS based on the work of Supersize Me documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlcok; and an adaptation of  Rob Reid’s AI-themed novel and podcast After On at the CW. Both projects hail from CBS TV Studios where Goffman is under an…