In a possible glimpse at the Fox Network’s strategy for finding alternatives as its sister studio, 20th Century Fox TV, is moving to Disney, Fox Entertainment has launched SideCar, a "Content Development Accelerator," headed by veteran executive and producer Gail Berman. The Fox Entertainment-owned SideCar keeps…

CBS has given a pilot green light to To Whom It May Concern, a hybrid comedy from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group, and CBS TV Studios. Written by Mike Metz, To Whom It May Concern centers on Evan who sets out with his group of 20-something friends to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an…

Producers Guild of America co-presidents Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher opened the Guild's "Produced By: New York" conference with a chat that covered the shifting role of pitching and selling product today—a role that seems to be changing faster than the time it takes to log into Netflix. While much of the hour-long…

Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group has sold two comedies to CBS – multi-cam The Folks with former Scandal star Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street producing, and hybrid To Whom It May Concern. CBS Television Studios is the studio for both projects. Written by Frank Pines, The Folks centers on what happens when a momma's boy…

Gail Berman and Lucy Fisher have been elected presidents of the 8,500-member Producers Guild of America – the first time two women have held the trade group’s co-equal presidencies. They ran unopposed and succeed Gary Lucchesi and Lori McCreary, who held the posts since 2014. Berman, whose executive producer TV…

The Rose, the 1979 Fox film that scored four Oscar nominations including Best Actress Bette Midler, is eyeing Broadway. Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group said today it will produce a Broadway stage musical adaptation. Glen Ballard is already set to compose the music for the project. Berman and Joe Earley will produce…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has has won an auction and has optioned from The Jackal Group the rights to Terry McMillan’s bestseller I Almost Forgot About You, which the studio will mount a star vehicle for Oscar-winning Fences star Viola Davis, with Girls Trip helmer Malcolm D. Lee directing. The Jackal Group's Gail…

ABC is developing Man Of the House, a multi-camera hybrid family comedy from Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group, ABC Studios and Scandal star Kerry Washington's studio-based Simpson Street. Created and written by Baby Daddy co-executive producer Frank Pines inspired by his real life, Man Of the House centers on a teenage…

Fox is doubling its efforts to launch a live multi-camera comedy series last season by buying a second such project. The network has given a script commitment to The Great Unknowns, from comedy writer-producer Adam Barr and the Jackal Group, Gail Berman’s joint venture with Fox Networks Group. Written by Barr, The Grea…

It’s barely been 24 hours since Zack Van Amburg and Jamie Erlicht exited their posts as presidents of Sony Pictures Television to head programming for Apple, and the town already is buzzing with names of potential candidates to replace them. Because Van Amburg and Erlicht’s departure happened pretty quickly, there…

EXCLUSIVE: The Jackal Group has acquired the feature film rights to Terry McMillan’s bestselling novel I Almost Forgot About You, which like her other books — Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back — has gotten critical kudos. Gail Berman and Joe Earley will produce the project through their Jackal Group…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has acquired rights to Live Fast Die Hot by bestselling author Jenny Mollen. Anne Hathaway has come attached to star in a film based on the author’s experiences, and Gail Berman will produce with Hathaway. Mollen, whose book was published by Doubleday in June, will be executive producer. Mollen…