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EXCLUSIVE: Fox has put in development Every Other Weekend, a half-hour single-camera comedy from Adrienne Carter (Everybody Hates Chris), Will Packer Media and Fox Entertainment’s Sidecar Content Accelerator. Written by Carter, Every Other Weekend follows four single moms who try to reclaim their fun, sexy selves two…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has put in development a single-camera workplace comedy from writer-comedian Scott Eckert, Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg and their Counterbalance Entertainment, Stun and Sony Pictures TV, where Counterbalance is based. Written by Eckert, the Untitled Scott Eckert…

Hawaii Five-0 has climbed off the mat and upset reigning Friday night ratings champ WWE Smackdown.  The long-running crimestopper show held its 0.7 demo rating for adults 18-49, while drawing 7.32 million in total audience, up slightly from the week before. That also boosted its trailing shows, as Magnum P.I. and Blue…

Pivoting, a half-hour single-camera comedy from writer Liz Astrof, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Warner Bros TV, has landed at Fox in a script-plus-penalty development deal that includes one additional backup script. Written by Astrof, Pivoting is a comedy about tragedy, set in a small, middle-class town in…

The blast radius from the chaos of last night's Thursday Night Football grows as the NFL on Friday fined the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns and suspended a trio of players for a fight on the field in closing seconds of the Browns’ 21-7 victory. On the other hand, the ratings were a total touchdown for the…

EXCLUISVE: Julie Anne Robinson has set up five projects —  three dramas — through her CannyLads production company. They include hourlong Snap at Fox, from Whiskey Cavalier creator David Hemingson; Love And… at NBC, from Greek creator Sean Smith; and The Bunker at NBC, from graphic novelist and writer Joshua Hale Fialk…

Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Sometimes I Lie, a limited series starring and executive produced by Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar. The project, based on former BBC journalist Alice Feeney's debut novel, hails from Oscar-nominated writer Robin Swicord (The Curious Case of Benj…

Christmas is coming early! Fox is giving the gift of The Masked Singer two nights in a row for a holiday-themed event ahead of its December 18 season finale. The reality singing competition with judges Nicole Scherzinger, Robin Thicke, Ken Jeong and Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg and host Nick Cannon will air on December 10…

The Simpsons took the opportunity to poke fun at Disney’s long-awaited new streaming service Disney+ just hours before it launched. As the Fox animation’s opening titles sweep past a billboard outside Springfield Elementary School, the advertisement often features a gag relating to a character in the show. Sunday…

EXCLUSIVE: Just in time for today’s Veterans Day, Fox has closed a deal for a script commitment plus penalty to Stateside, about a military veteran who returns to his job as a state trooper. The project, inspired by a true story, comes from The Enemy Within writer-producer Tony Camerino, an 18-year veteran of the Air…

Fox’s two-hour WWE Friday Night SmackDown once again pinned the demo wars competition, racking up an 0.8 to hold steady from last week and scoring a 2.62 million audience for its segment. The victory continues Fox’s post-World Series reign atop the demo wars. CBS was nipping at its heels, though, just a tick back in…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Familyship, a one-hour dramedy written by Jon Harmon Feldman. It hails from Feldman and Jennifer Gwartz’s Random Hill Productions and was sold before Gwartz’s recent appointment as EVP Development, Comedy and Drama at 20th Century Fox TV. This marks the…