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Netflix has set the premiere date and unveiled the first images for its sci-fi family drama Raising Dion. The SVOD service will launch the series starring Jason Ritter, Michael B. Jordan, Alisha Wainwright and Ja'Siah Young on October 4. It comes after it handed the hourlong drama a straight-to-series order last…

Former Kevin (Probably) Saves The World star Jason Ritter has been cast in a key role in Netflix’s straight-to-series hourlong sci-fi family drama Raising Dion, based on commercial and music video director Dennis Liu's short film about an African-American single mother who discovers her young son has multiple…

HBO Films will premiere The Tale, Jennifer Fox's powerful narrative memoir about her own reckoning with childhood sexual abuse, on May 26th, and Fox joined castmembers Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn and Common for a moving panel after Sunday night’s AwardsLine screening of the film at LA’s…

ABC has canceled Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, its freshman dramedy starring Jason Ritter. The series got off to a slow start in the network’s challenging Tuesday 10 PM slot, which has claimed a slew of short-lived drama series. Formerly known as The Gospel of Kevin, the show from creators Michele Fazekas and Tara…

We're almost through the first week of the 2017-2018 television season with premieres of new and not-so-new shows popping every night. Some series including CBS newbies Young Sheldon and SEAL Team and Fox's The Orville have had strong starts, and then there is NBC's returning heavyweight This Is Us, which bopped up to…

MPI Media Group has acquired multi-territory rights to writer-director Marianna Palka’s Bitch, the dark dramedy that premiered this year in the Midnight section at the Sundance Film Festival. MPI will now handle international territory sales in Cannes and release the pic domestically later this year under its Dark Sky…

Parenthood alum Jason Ritter has been cast as the lead  in ABC’s The Gospel of Kevin, an hourlong drama pilot from veteran showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters and ABC Studios. Written/executive produced by Fazekas and Butters and directed by Paul McGuigan, The Gospel of Kevin is a light one hour about Kevin…

From writer/director Marianna Palka and Company X—the production banner of Elijah Wood, alongside Josh Waller, Daniel Noah, and Lisa Whalen—Bitch is a film shaking up Sundance’s Midnight audiences like none other. Marking Palka’s return to the festival following 2008’s Good Dick—featuring an earlier collaboration with…

Deadline is holding its Sundance Film Festival portrait and video studio at the Applegate Reel Food Café on Main Street in Park City, opening its doors to this year’s most riveting and groundbreaking filmmakers. Talent stopping by the Deadline Studio on Day 1 included Kristen Stewart (Come Swim), Aubrey Plaza (The Litt…

EXCLUSIVE: MarVista Entertainment and SpectreVision have set indie genre-blending drama Bitch, starring Hart Of Dixie‘s Jaime King and Jason Ritter (Parenthood), as the first film under their four-picture financing and co-production deal. Written, directed, and co-starring Marianna Palka (Good Dick), Bitch, which…

Parenthood alum Jason Ritter has been cast in a recurring role on Amazon's upcoming original drama series Goliath, from executive producer David E. Kelley. Ritter will play wry, but savvy FBI Special Agent Joe Farley. Goliath stars Billy Bob Thornton, William Hurt, Olivia Thirlby and Maria Bello in the ultimate David…

Ensemble drama About Alex, from first-time helmer Jesse Zwick, has been picked up for North America by Screen Media Films. Aubrey Plaza, Max Greenfield, Nate Parker, Max Minghella, Jason Ritter, Maggie Grace, and Jane Levy star in the pic about a group of twentysomething pals who reunite one weekend after one of them…