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At today's Showtime TCA panels, Ilene Chaiken, co-creator of the 2004-2009 television series The L Word and one of the executive producers of that show's new Showtime incarnation The L Word: Generation Q, refused to go back into the past when Deadline asked her to comment on Empire, where she formerly served as…

New York City was a beacon of love as it played host to WorldPride, one of the biggest celebrations of Pride month which celebrates members of the LGTBQIA+ community. June is marked as Pride month considering it was the month when there was an uprising between members of the gay community and the police at the…

Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to an hourlong female-centric Texas Rangers drama from writer Matt Cook, former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken and 20th Century Fox TV. Written by Cook, the untitled Female Texas Ranger project centers on Lauren Crawford Flynn, one of only two females in the legendary…

EXCLUSIVE: In one of the first major bidding situations this broadcast buying season, ABC has landed hourlong drama The Ambassador from former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken, Eva Longoria and Ben Spector’s UnbelieEVAble Entertainment, 3 Arts Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV. The project has received a big put…

Fox has picked up to series two drama pilots, post apocalyptic saga The Passage and legal procedural Proven Innocent, and two comedy ones — both multi-camera — The Cool Kids, set at a retirement home, and Lil Rel Howery starrer Rel. They will join the Last Man Standing revival. Of the rest, I hear single-camera comedy…

James Tupper (Big Little Lies) has been tapped as a male lead opposite Katie Holmes in Fox's FBI drama pilot from former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love. Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya) also has been cast in a series regular role in the project, produced by 20th Century Fox TV. Written by…

Christian Camargo (Penny Dreadful) has been cast as one of the two male lead opposite Katie Holmes in Fox's FBI drama pilot from former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love. Holmes also is set to executive produce the project from 20th Century Fox TV and 3 Arts. Written by Chaiken and Love, the…

Pretty Little Liars alum Ian Harding and Jose Pablo Cantillo (Taken) are set as series regulars opposite Katie Holmes in Fox's FBI drama pilot from former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love, 20th Century Fox TV and 3 Arts. Written by Chaiken and Love, the untitled drama (fka Mrs. Otis Regrets)…

Desperate Housewives alum Mark Moses is set as a series regular opposite Katie Holmes in Fox's FBI drama pilot from former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love, 20th Century Fox TV and 3 Arts. Written by Chaiken and Love, the untitled drama (fka Mrs. Otis Regrets) centers on FBI Special Agent…

The L Word alumna Rose Rollins has booked a key series regular role opposite Katie Holmes in Fox's FBI drama pilot from former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love, 20th Century Fox TV and 3 Arts. Written by Chaiken and Love, the untitled drama (fka Mrs. Otis Regrets) centers on FBI Special Agent…

In her first series-regular role since Dawson’s Creek, Katie Holmes has been tapped as the lead of Fox’s FBI drama pilot from former Empire showrunner Ilene Chaiken and Melissa Scrivner Love. Holmes also is set to executive produce the project from 20th Century Fox TV and 3 Arts. Written by Chaiken and Love, the…

Fox has ordered two more pilots — a drama from Empire executive producer/showrunner Ilene Chaiken, Rosewood writer-producer Melissa Scrivner Love and Scandal co-executive producer Judy Smith, and Daddy Issues, a single-camera comedy from actress-writer Erin Foster, who is set to star, and New Girl creator Liz Meriwethe…