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EXCLUSIVE: WME talent agent Arielle Mesirow has joined Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi's CBS Studios-based production company, PatMa Productions, as Vice President, Comedy. In her new role, Mesirow will shepherd development of projects that fit PatMa's strategy for producing premium comedy content. As part of PatMa's…

EXCLUSIVE: Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions’ has optioned podcast Cold from KSL to develop into a TV series that tackles the issue of domestic abuse. Cold chronicles the tragic circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a young Mormon wife and mother of two, Susan Powell. Using actual case…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has assembled an all-star, all-female creative team for Cold Shoulder, a cop drama from two former broadcast network toppers-turned-producers, Nina Tassler and Gail Berman, Little Women producer Denise Di Novi, Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante and former CSI: New York showrunner Pam Veasey. Written…

CBS has taken an ownership stake in and struck a first-look deal with PatMa Productions, the production company set up by former CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler and Heathers and Batman Returns producer Denise Di Novi. The indie has set its first project through the deal – an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates'…

Barbara Hall’s CBS drama series Madam Secretary features a female Secretary of State. Now the veteran creator has set her sights on a new drama project for CBS about a woman in a position of power, Ms. Mayor. The project, which has received a put pilot commitment at the broadcast network, hails from former CBS chairman…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive bidding situation, former CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler and producer Denise Di Novi have acquired rights to the critically-acclaimed, non-fiction book Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel. The duo will adapt and produce the project as a limited series under their…

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret French Isaac has been named president of Denise Di Novi Pictures. Isaac previously worked at Johnny Depp's Infinitu Nihil Productions as its Executive VP of Film and Television during Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean The Rum Diary, Mortdecai and Dark Shadows runs. She also previously worked at…

Picture this: Your marriage has crumbled, you’re barely coping, and your spouse already is happily engaged — meaning a stranger will be helping to raise your child. You’re jealous and pissed. Not a recipe for shiny happiness. Here is the first trailer for Unforgettable, a thriller from producer and rookie director Deni…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has acquired the screen rights to From The Dust Returned, a Ray Bradbury collection of short stories that focuses on a mortal boy named Timothy who is adopted into a family of benevolent ghouls. Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan are producing. The book is set up with a series of vignettes, told to…