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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…

EXCLUSIVE: In early 2018, CBS TV Studios brought in veteran comedy animation executive-turned-producer Katie Krentz with an overall deal to build an animation pipeline at the studio. Two years and three animated series orders later, CBS TV Studios has renewed its overall deal with Krentz and her 219 Productions. As…

Production assistants working for showrunners and producers under term deals at CBS TV Studios got some bad news this morning in the form of an email informing them that their weekly hours are being cut retroactively from 52 to 40 a week. That email spurred a flurry of activity, with assistants sharing their plight on…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 will be coming to an end. The popular action crime drama series will wrap its 10-year, 240-episode run with a two-hour series finale on Friday, April 3. Developed by Peter M. Lenkov, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci as a reimagining of Leonard Freeman's classic series and shawrun by Lenkov…

In 2009, CBS Television Studios made a bet on an up-and-coming TV writer, Jennie Snyder Urman, who had staffed on a couple of shows. The bet paid off for both sides, with Urman becoming one of the most prolific showrunners on the studio roster, generating multiple series, the award-winning Jane the Virgin, the ongoing…

Long-time CBS Television Studios business affairs executive Allison Brightman has been promoted to EVP and head of Business Affairs and Operations. She replaces Dan Kupetz following his surprising recent move to Disney where he will lead business affairs for 20th Century Fox TV. Brightman will have dual report to…

Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are no longer proceeding with development of Ghost Ship, a TV series about the 2016 fire that broke out in a former warehouse that had been converted into an artist collective, claiming the lives of 36 people. The project was announced last Tuesday as part of a development slate the…

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay‘s twenty-year journey to the screen may finally be coming to an end. A limited series adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel novel has been set up at Showtime through CBS Television Studios with a big production commitment. It will be written and executive…

EXCLUSIVE: What was supposed to be a celebration of Carol’s Second Act‘s series order led to some behind-the-scenes tension and the departure of two female writers from the CBS comedy. Carol’s Second Act executive producer David Hunt spent the post-staffing, pre-production dinner at the actors’ table, sitting…

EXCLUSIVE: A ’90s pop culture staple is eyeing a comeback. An hourlong Clueless TV series, based on the hit 1995 feature, is in the works at CBS TV Studios. I hear the project, a new, dramatic take on the high school comedy centered on the Dionne character played by Stacey Dash in the movie and the 1996 series…