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During her career so far, Gail Berman has reinvented herself a number of times, from a wunderkind theater producer straight out of college to a TV producer and an executive running TV production companies like Buffy the Vampire Slayer maker Sandollar TV, a Big 4 broadcast network with Fox, and a movie studio with…

Fox has put in development Mr. Black, a single-camera half-hour comedy based on the praised Australian series, from original series’ creator Adam Zwar and producer CJZ, Gail Berman and Fox Entertainment-owned SideCar. Created by Zwar and CJZ based on the Network Ten series, it follows the acid-tongued Mr. Black, a man…

Fox Entertainment's content development accelerator SideCar, launched in February and headed by Gail Berman, has set its executive team. The group includes some of Berman’s colleagues from her Fox-based The Jackal Group as well as auspices including The Walking Dead‘s Valhalla Entertainment and Fox’s Animation…

A professional organizing consultant and best-selling author, Marie Kondo has always abided by a specific vision of the world, and how life might best be lived. Becoming a household name and global influencer with the publication of her 2011 book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up—which sold more than 8 million…

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…