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EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has put into development Rhona Who Lives by the River, an animated musical series from Suburgatory creator Emily Kapnek, with Jumanji and Avengers star Karen Gillan attached to voice the titular character and executive produce. Four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman will create and oversee music on…

ABC has given a pilot order to an untitled single-camera comedy written by Splitting Up Together creator/executive producer Emily Kapnek and to be directed by Splitting Up Together director/executive producer Dean Holland. Like ABC has done with several of its hot comedy scripts this year, including Home Economics,…

In ABC’s new sitcom Splitting Up Together, we see that age-old story of the on-again, off-again couple, but this time they’re already married and divorcing. Taken from an original Danish show, Lena (Jenna Fischer) and Martin (Oliver Hudson) have been married for 12 years, but after a period of dysfunction, they decide…

ABC has given pilot orders to single-camera comedies Splitting Up Together, from Suburgatory and Selfie creator Emily Kapnek, Ellen DeGeneres' A Very Good Prods. and Warner Bros TV; and Charlie Foxtrot, from writer Sam Sklaver (Blunt Talk), Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and ABC Studios. Both projects had put…

EXCLUSIVE: Splitting Up Together, a single-camera comedy from Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Prods. and Warner Bros TV, has landed at ABC with a put pilot commitment. The project will be written by Emily Kapnek, reuniting with ABC where she created comedy series Suburgatory and Selfie, also produced by WBTV, where…

Suburgatory and Selfie creator Emily Kapnek has lined up her next series project, teaming with Elizabeth Banks’ Brownstone Prods. for Front Man, a single-camera comedy, which has landed at Fox with a pilot production commitment. The project hails from Warner Bros. TV where Kapnek’s Piece of Pie Prods. and Banks and…

UPDATE: Comedies Selfie and Manhattan Love Story, both recently cancelled by ABC, have a new home on Hulu. Selfie creator and executive producer Emily Kapnek tweeted last night that the un-aired episodes of the cancelled ABC freshman comedy will be available online beginning today. Kapnek, who also created the network…

Actors from ABC's canceled comedy Suburgatory could turn up on ABC’s newest comedy Selfie, said Emily Kapnek, creator and EP of both, at today’s TCA panels. "I'm absolutely in love with those actors.  If there's an opportunity to bring them in organically, I would love to," said Kapnek. She appeared on today's panel…

Awkward creator Lauren Iungerich is back on pilot duty with a pickup at ABC for her comedy Damaged Goods, which had a pilot production commitment. It is one of two pilot orders to single-camera comedies from female creators at ABC this morning, along with the My Fair Lady-esque Selfie, by Suburgatory creator Emily Kapn…

The ABC  comedy series’ creator has been hit with a breach-of-contract and fraud suit by her former manager. In a suit filed today in LA Superior Court (read it here), The Gotham Group‘s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein claims that Emily Kapnek stopped paying commissions after the Suburgatory creator signed a two-year overall…

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA. At today's final TCA panel on the ABC single-camera comedy Suburgatory — the story of a bright urban teenager (Jane Levy) whose single Dad (Jeremy Sisto) moves her to the "white-picket-fence nightmare" of the suburbs — show creator and executive producer Emi…

Minnie Driver is returning to series television as star of CBS’ drama pilot Hail Mary. The project, created by Jeff Wadlow and executive produced by Ilene Chaiken, is a buddy P.I. show set in Atlanta that focuses on a suburban single mom (Driver) who teams up with a streetwise hustler to solve crimes.  In…