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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is finalizing deals for Criminal, a TV adaptation of Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’ bestselling crime comic book series, sources tell Deadline. Details are scarce, but the project — written by Brubaker, who serves as executive producer and showrunner — is described as…

Game of Thrones star Kit Harington and The Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar are among the cast of the second season of Netflix's police interrogation drama Criminal. The second season of the English-language version of the drama – there are French, Spanish and German versions – also includes Catastrophe co-creator and…

Netflix has set the premiere date for its police interrogation drama Criminal. The series, which stars For Life's Nicholas Pinnock, Doctor Who's David Tennant and Agent Carter's Hayley Atwell, will launch on September 20. The SVOD service has also unveiled the first images for the format bending series. Criminal…

Nicholas Pinnock, star of ABC's forthcoming legal drama For Life, Doctor Who's David Tennant and Agent Carter's Hayley Atwell are to star in Netflix's police interrogation drama Criminal. The format bending series consists of 12 episodes of 45 minutes with three episodes each set across four countries – France, Spain…

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: Superheroes tend to get most of the attention in the comic book industry (maybe it’s all those bright red capes), but for 13 years now writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips have been the prolific vanguards of noir storytelling while producing a truly killer stack of bestselling crime comics…

Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer, co-creators of hit podcast Criminal, are set to turn the true crime audio series and its spin-off This Is Love, into scripted series as they look to take advantage of the podcast "explosion". The pair, who run and own Criminal Productions, told Deadline that they are also looking to…

Netflix is heading to the police interrogation room with format bending procedural Criminal. The SVOD service has commissioned the 12-part series from Killing Eve writer George Kay and Wrong Mans producer She's Out Of My League director Jim Field Smith. The show, which consists of episodes of 45 minutes, is set across…

“Better late than never” has been the mantra of the broadcast buying season for the past few years, with pitches starting to come in later and later every summer. The trend is hitting new heights this season, raising the panic levels at studios and networks. While the lack of major sales is not that alarming given the…

Criminal, a drama from the Blindspot team of creator/executive producer Martin Gero, executive producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter and co-executive producer Brendan Gall, has landed at ABC with a put pilot commitment. Blindspot producer Warner Bros. TV, where Berlanti Prods. is based, is the studio. In Criminal…

FINAL UPDATE, Monday, 1:28 PM: Disney’s The Jungle Book was king of the box office this weekend, having pulled in a final $103.2M, according to the studio and is poised to continue its reign next weekend. The movie debuted to the No. 2 all-time highest April opener and also only the second PG-rated Disney release…

UPDATED, 12:51 PM: Matinee numbers are rolling in and The Jungle Book is on track right now to gross around $25M today (that includes the impressive $4.2M it brought in last night) for a high $70M three-day gross. The well-reviewed PG-rated adventure film from Disney should pick up steam as the weekend progresses with…

You have to accept a rather incredible premise in order to fully enjoy the entertaining, if very violent, new crime thriller Criminal. If you can get around the idea that a dead person’s brain DNA can be transferred into a living person, thereby essentially putting thoughts and information into someone else’s head…