AT&T Audience Network’s drama series Ice has brought in veteran Ed Bernero as executive producer and showrunner for Season 2. He is expected to bring a steady hand to the Entertainment One-produced series, which hit some bumps during the filming of its first season. Antoine Fuqua directed the opening episode of Ice,…

EXCLUSIVE: ITV Studios America is making a move into the scripted arena, optioning Brian Panowich's debut novel Bull Mountain to adapt as a series. Former Criminal Minds showrunner Ed Bernero is attached to pen the pilot script and showrun if it goes to series. Bull Mountain is described as a multi-generational saga…

UPDATED: Veteran TV writer-producer Ed Bernero has left NBC’s fall drama State Of Affairs about two months after boarding the new series as executive producer/showrunner.  Trauma creator Dario Scardapane is rumored as a replacement. State Of Affairs, originally conceived by Alexi Hawley, had been shepherded at the…

Katherine Heigl's appearance at Summer TV Press Tour 2014, to discuss her return to series TV, was as dramatic as you'd expect. The hall was packed with media to hear Heigl talk about her new NBC series State of Affairs, in which she plays a CIA analyst who presents the U.S. President’s daily briefing on security…

Veteran TV producer Ed Bernero, whose credits include CBS’ Criminal Minds and its spinoff Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior as well as last summer’s Crossing Lines for NBC, has been tapped as showrunner for NBC’s midseason spy drama State Of Affairs. We hear the deal closed a couple weeks ago and Bernero will be a part…

Former Criminal Minds showrunner Ed Bernero has signed with CAA. Bernero also co-created with John Wells NBC’s Third Watch, which was inspired by his experiences as a police officer with the Chicago Police Department. Bernero, who was with UTA, continues to be with attorney is Tom Hoberman. Also signing with CAA is…

In one of the last big drama deals this buying season, Fox has handed a put pilot commitment to The Punisher, a series based on the Marvel comic from Ed Bernero and ABC Studios. This is one of two high-profile sales for former Criminal Minds showrunner Ed Bernero. He also has high-concept Western spec The Eye set up…

EXCLUSIVE: Potential great news for Criminal Minds fans: Co-star A.J. Cook is in talks to return to the CBS crime drama next season as a regular, and she may be joined by Paget Brewster. Meanwhile, executive producer Ed Bernero, who has run the series since the start, is leaving, with another Criminal Minds veteran…

Ed Bernero will be pulling double Criminal Minds duties this fall. The executive producer & showrunner of the original CBS series will also serve as showrunner on the upcoming Criminal Minds spinoff for the offshoot’s original 13-episode midseason order. Chris Mundy, originally tapped to run the spinoff, is exiting…