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In one of the biggest individual donations to the relief efforts aimed at people in the industry impacted by the coronavirus-related production shutdowns, top TV producer Greg Berlanti has committed $1 million dollars to the cause. He revealed his gesture in a letter to the staffs of Greg Berlanti Productions’ 17…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Village Roadshow Pictures has acquired rights to adapt the upcoming Emma Brodie novel Songs In Ursa Major into a feature film. The author will write the script and Berlanti Productions’ Sarah Schechter and Greg Berlanti will produce. The book will be published in summer 2021 by…

It’s been a subdued broadcast pilot season, one overshadowed by the slew of high-profile launches of new streaming services, shrouded in uncertainty over a potential writers strike and hit by fears related to the growing coronavirus outbreak. Amid the somewhat bleak overall picture, punctuated by another year-to-year…

Following Berlanti Productions’ big slate expansion over the past several years to become the most prolific producer in television, the company founded by Greg Berlanti is also expanding its top executive suite. Sarah Schechter, who has served as President of Berlanti Productions for the past six years, overseeing…

The CW has not shied away from picking up projects originally developed at other networks — Fox or siblings CBS and Showtime — a move that has resulted in such signature CW series as Riverdale, Supergirl, Black Lightning, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and the underrated Ringer. The CW is doing it again this year with pilot…

HBO Max Head of Original Content Sarah Aubrey revealed to the TCA press corps some details about Greg Berlanti’s upcoming Green Lantern series for the soon-to-launch streaming service. “It’s going to span several decades on focus on two stories about Green Lanterns on Earth” as well as one in space “going into the…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Berlanti, the prolific producer behind Riverdale, The Flash, Supergirl and mny other shows, has inked a deal to adapt the New York Times best-selling young-adult novel The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue for HBO Max. Deadline can reveal that Berlanti Productions’ adaptation of Mackenzi Lee’s…

The CW has put in development Kung Fu, a reimagining with a female lead of the 1970s David Carradine-starring TV series. The hourlong project hails from the Blindspot team of writer-executive producer Christina M. Kim, creator-executive producer Martin Gero, executive producers Greg Berlanti & Sarah Schechter and…

Television super-producer Greg Berlanti’s ever-expanding screen interpretation of the DC Comics Universe is going cosmic with two new series for the HBO Max streaming platform: Strange Adventures and a Green Lantern-inspired show. "Both of these original DC properties we'll be creating for HBO Max will be unlike…

EXCLUSIVE: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the key creative force behind Warner Bros. TV's growing Archie comics-based TV universe (Riverdale, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Katy Keene), has lined up two high-profile new drama series projects, both in the gothic horror genre. HBO Max has ordered a pilot and an additional…

HBO Max has ordered Equal, a four-part docuseries chronicling landmark events and the forgotten heroes of the LGBTQ+ movement, from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions, Jim Parsons and That’s Wonderful Productions, Scout Productions, Jon Jashni (Lost in Space) and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. Equal marks the…

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation has named writer/director/producer Greg Berlanti and actor/director/producer Jennifer Aniston as the final two honorees for its 4thAnnual Patron of the Artists Awards, to be held on Thursday, November 7, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Berlanti will…