Fox Television Group is creating a power cable series supplier by combining prolific units Fox 21 and Fox Television Studios into one entity named Fox 21 Television Studios that will have a portfolio of 20 cable series and pilots — 10 coming from each side. It will be headed by Fox 21 president Bert Salke who has been…

After focusing primarily on cable for the past five years, Jeff Eastin is broadening his development horizons to tackle both cable and broadcast projects. The White Collar and Graceland creator has signed a joined overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television and Fox Television Studios. Under the pact, Eastin will…

Two decades ago, Jim Sheridan took on his most personal project, teaming with his then-teenage daughters Naomi and Kirsten to write a movie based on their family’s experience as struggling Irish immigrants living in a shabby Hell’s Kitchen apartment building occupied by artists and junkies. That movie became the 2002 I…

IFC today announced a third season renewal of Marc Maron's critically acclaimed original comedy series, Maron, produced by Fox Television Studios. Production begins this fall with 13 all-new half-hour episodes. Building on the success of the first two seasons, Maron will return to IFC in spring 2015 with Marc…

On the heels of Blumhouse’ first longform project, Ryan Murphy’s HBO movie The Normal Heart, winning a Best TV Movie Emmy, Jason Blum’s production company is returning to the longform arena with another New York period piece based on a true story — miniseries Son of Sam. Blumhouse Prods. will develop the six-hour mini…

Matt Nix‘s new deal is for both broadcast and cable. Nix, who had an overall deal in place with Fox Television Studios, primarily for cable, since 2008, is creator and executive producer of USA's hit series Burn Notice, which ran for seven seasons on USA; creator of the network's upcoming drama, Complications; and…

Fox Television Studios has inked a first-look deal with veteran TV and film producer Elizabeth Guber Stephen, who will develop and produce cable projects through her Gables Media banner. Under the deal, Stephen and FtvS have set two projects. One is hourlong USA drama series Timeline, from best-selling author Jennifer…

Fox TV Studios president David Madden has signed a new long-term contract with 20th Century Fox Television to remain at the helm of the boutique cable production company for at least four more years. Madden, a respected veteran TV executive and producer, was elevated to the top FtvS post in 2010 after a stint…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street, a series project at Fox TV Studios is taking an inside look into the Wall Street culture of greed and excess — this time from the vantage point of its newest recruits. FtvS has optioned journalist Kevin Roose‘s bestselling nonfiction book Yo…

By this time, USA Network series White Collar would normally be deeply in preproduction, getting ready to start filming in March. But not this year. It’s already mid-February, and there is still no decision on the future of the buddy crime drama whose most recent fifth season ended two weeks ago. I hear there has been…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of its first homegrown drama series Banshee, Cinemax is high on another drama project about a protagonist straddling the worlds of crime and law enforcement. Titled Blanco, the project is formally still in development awaiting a green light, but it already is exploring casting. Written…

It’s “totally ridiculous and stupid” to suggest Fox News Channel will lose access to Republican primary debates in 2016 if Fox TV Studios produces NBC’s proposed Hillary Clinton miniseries, said the GOP’s Reince Priebus today. "The big question for me is what company is putting it on the air, who's doing the work. I'm…