Black Sails co-creator Jon Steinberg and his producing partner Dan Shotz have signed a three-year overall deal with Fox 21 Television Studios to develop and run series for the studio. Steinberg and Shotz were most recently executive producers on the Apple streaming series, See. Prior to that, Steinberg executive…

After a competitive bidding, Fox 21 Television Studios and Warren Littlefield’s The Littlefield Company have optioned Beth Macy’s new book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, about America’s opioid crisis, to develop for television. Littlefield and Macy will serve as executive…

In a competitive situation, Fox 21 Television Studios has optioned the rights to video game Vampyr to develop as a series with McG’s Wonderland Sound & Vision and DJ2 Entertainment. Set in 1918 London, Vampyr revolves around a morally righteous doctor who mysteriously turns into a vampire and is now torn between his…

Lee Daniels Entertainment has optioned Sam Greenlee’s spy novel The Spook Who Sat By The Door to develop as a series based on the book and the 1970s cult classic blakxpoitation film of the same name, with Fox 21 Television Studios. A search is out for a writer. Based on the book, the potential series looks at the…

Writer-producer Joseph C. Wilson has signed an overall deal with Fox 21 Television Studios. Under the pact, he’ll serve as a co-executive producer on the second season of Showtime's drama series The Chi, produced by Fox 21. "We are thrilled to have the talented Joe Wilson's exclusive services at Fox 21, and excited…

Fox 21 Television Studios has elevated veteran production executive Nissa Diederich to EVP Production. In her expanded role, Diederich will assume oversight of all production matters on the company's series, ranging from American Crime Story, Homeland, Queen of the South, Genius and The Chi, to the upcoming Pose, Mayan…

Film producer Ileen Maisel (The Golden Compass) has signed a first-look deal with Fox 21 Television Studios. Under the pact, Maisel will develop TV projects through her Amber Television banner, starting with a TV series adaptation of Anna Day’s dystopian YA novel The Fandom. The Fandom was published in January by…

Sons of Anarchy and spinoff Mayans MC creator Kurt Sutter has become the first A-list showrunner on 20th Century Fox TV/Fox 21/FX Prods.’ roster to re-up with the studios, which are awaiting a move to Disney as part of the pending acquisition of key Fox assets, including 20th TV and FX Networks. Sutter has signed a…

Veteran Lionsgate TV development executive Andy Richley has been named SVP Programming and Development at Fox 21 Television Studios. He will develop series for cable channels and streaming services, reporting to Fox 21 TV Studios president Bert Salke. Richley moves to Fox 21 TV Studios following a 12-year stint in…

Former Supernatural executive producer Adam Glass has signed an overall deal with Fox 21 Television Studios. Under the two-year pact, he has joined the studio’s new Showtime drama series The Chi as co-executive producer, working alongside creator/executive producer Lena Waithe and exec producer/showrunner Elwood…

Veteran writer-producer and new Queen of the South showrunner Natalie Chaidez has signed a two-year overall deal at Fox 21 Television Studios, co-producer of the USA Network series. Chaidez was named showrunner of Queen of the South when it was renewed for a second season in September, taking over for Scott Rosenbaum…

A judge has reopened the murder case that was the initial subject of “Serial,” the phenomenally popular podcast optioned by Fox 21 Television Studios and writer-producer-directors Christopher Miller and Phil Lord to be developed as a cable series. Co-created by This American Life‘s Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder, the…