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On Call, the half-hour cop drama from Dick Wolf for IMDb TV has found its leader. Hand of God creator Ben Watkins is to serve as showrunner and exec producer with Elliot Wolf, who exec produced Parker Posey-fronted scripted podcast series Hunted, joining as EP. It comes after Deadline revealed last month that the…

EXCLUSIVE: Wolf Entertainment has promoted Anastasia Puglisi to SVP, a role that will include her getting supervising producer credits on all scripted series in the Wolf portfolio. The move was announced by Wolf chief operating officer Peter Jankowski. Wolf’s scripted series, which are produced with Universal…

EXECUTIVE: Fired Law & Order: Organized Crime co-executive producer Craig Gore and Universal Television have made a deal behind closed doors Over a year after Chicago P.D. alum Gore was unceremoniously cut loose from his perch at Dick Wolf's latest spinoff over racially charged social media posts in the days following…

UPDATED with CW schedule: It's going to feel a lot like 2005 on the Big 4 this fall, and Saturday nights are alright for programming for the CW. The former is a flashback from the George W. Bush era, when NCIS, CSI and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit all held dominant spots in the primetime lineups. And CBS and NBC…

After almost 45 years in the business, Dick Wolf has nothing to prove. He has television’s longest-running primetime live-action series with Law & Order: SVU. He is behind more successful broadcast drama franchises than anyone with Law & Order, Chicago and FBI. Yet, he has found another gear with a slew of new series…

"At this point, let's call ABC what it really is, Disney-," Jimmy Kimmel quipped in a scathing roast of all thing small screen Wednesday during Disney's Virtual Upfront. "Isn't there something to be said for dying with dignity," the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host added. "Somehow when everyone's stuck in their houses with…

NBC has ordered yet another Dick Wolf series, this time in the reality TV genre. The network has greenlit LA Fire and Rescue, a docuseries from the producers of Wolf’s Chicago Fire, that takes a deep dive into the stories of the firefighters in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, who put their lives on the line…

NBCUniversal is going big to prove that cable still has a future in a streaming world. The company has unveiled 33 new originals, a number of which have previously been announced and revealed by Deadline, as part of a mega order book across Bravo, E!, Oxygen, Syfy and USA Network. A new spinoff of Below Deck, as reveal…

EXCLUSIVE: Dick Wolf is continuing to grow his television empire. The creator of the Law & Order and Chicago franchises is moving into half-hour drama with his latest series set at Amazon's IMDb TV. Deadline understands that the free streaming service has ordered On Call. The show follows a pair of police officers on…

Dick Wolf is spearheading another extension of his venerable Law & Order franchise, and this time he has partnered with one of the key auspices behind another hugely successful procedural drama franchise from the last two decades, CSI‘s Carol Mendelsohn. NBC has given a straight-to-series order to Law & Order: For the…

SPOILER ALERT: This report contains details about last week’s episode of Law &Order: Organized Crime Law & Order: Organized Crime is something new for Dick Wolf and that’s saying a lot for its creator and executive producer who’s been reinventing the crime procedural for over 30 years. The latest iteration of the Law…

EXCLUSIVE: Verve talent agency is bolstering its roster with a number of high-level executive producers and directors from Dick Wolf’s camp, including Arthur Forney, Fred Berner, Reza Tabrizi, Jim McKay, Michael Pressman, as well as consultant Connie Rice. The additions follow Verve’s acquisition of Paul Alan Smith’s…