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EXCLUSIVE: Production on CBS’ Young Sheldon was shut down for today, I have learned. I hear the decision was made this morning after a COVID-19 test result for a production team member came back positive. Young Sheldon, from Chuck Lorre Prods. and Warner Bros TV, started production on its fourth season  September 22…

Netflix has picked up freshman CBS series Evil and The Unicorn. In an unusual deal, CBS TV Studios, which produces both series, has licensed their first seasons to Netflix in advance of the shows’ upcoming second seasons on CBS. Evil and The Unicorn will make their Netflix debut on October 1. The agreement is for one…

Diary of a Future President creator Ilana Peña is expanding her relationship with CBS TV Studios, signing an overall deal with the studio behind the series. Peña also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of the series, which has been renewed for a second season on Disney+. The series was inspired by Peña’s…

Most of the remaining CBS TV Studios series sidelined by the coronavirus pandemic have received a green light to return to production. The list includes CBS stalwart Blue Bloods, which is heading into Season 11, and SEAL Team, which will start filming its fourth season, as well as the CW’s Charmed and Nancy Drew. Also…

EXCLUSIVE: The CW has put in development GG (Goodgame) a gaming industry drama series that merges the worlds of gaming and Hollywood, from producers Kim Moses (Ghost Whisperer, Reckless) and J Moses (Grand Theft Auto), TV executive/producer Debbie Liebling (PEN15), writer-producer Daisy Gardner (Silicon Valley, The Gol…

EXCLUSIVE: Martin Lawrence and Snoop Dogg are teaming up to star in Game, a political drama set in Washington, D.C. The duo co-wrote the story for the project, which reunites Bad Boys star Lawrence with the feature franchise’s producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Game, which will be taken to the marketplace shortly, is…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Happy Endings star Damon Wayans Jr. is reuniting with the cult series’ creator David Caspe and former writers Matthew and Daniel Libman for a half-hour bounty hunter action comedy, which has received a script-to-series commitment at NBCU’s streaming platform Peacock. The project, starring and…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer Kenneth Lin has closed an overall deal with CBS Television Studios. Under the pact, Lin was co-executive producer on the third season of Star Trek: Discovery, with a premiere date TBD on CBS All Access, and also will serve as co-EP on the upcoming CBS drama series Clarice, a sequel series to Silence o…

A month ago, several TV studios, including Disney TV Studios, Warner Bros. TV and Universal TV, started to pay actors on broadcast pilots, which could not be produced because of the coronavirus pandemic. CBS TV Studios in the past couple of weeks also initiated compensation for most of the series regulars on the…

EXCLUSIVE: NCIS co-star Wilmer Valderrama has renewed his first-look deal with CBS TV Studios, the studio behind the popular CBS drama series. Valderrama stars as Special Agent Nick Torres on NCIS, which was just renewed for an 18th season. He has been on the show since Season 14, with the first-look producing pact…

A scripted series centered around Tiger King‘s Joe Exotic with Nicolas Cage attached to star and executive produce is in the works, Deadline has confirmed. The project hails from American Vandal showrunner Dan Lagana, Paul Young (Key & Peele), Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios. The eight-episode limited…

EXCLUSIVE: The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t' With Her Mind, the buzzy sci-fi novel, is set to be adapted for television after Secret Hideout nabbed the rights in a competitive situation. Deadline understands that Alex Kurtzman's company, which is behind the Star Trek franchise and has an overall deal at CBS Television…