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EXCLUSIVE: Jason Winer (The Big Leap) has been tapped to direct Disney+’s upcoming The Santa Clause limited series starring Tim Allen. The Modern Family alum will also executive produce through his Small Dog Picture Co. the series, which comes from Last Man Standing creator Jack Burditt. In the Disney+ series, Scott…

On Saturday, a number of key creatives behind The Big Leap appeared for a virtual ATX panel, teasing the first season of their ballet-themed dramedy, which was just picked up to series in April. Actress Teri Polo described the show as “this happy, good, hopeful thing”—an underdog story representing the kind of…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is developing a half-hour dramedy in the world of technology and dating, based on a New Yorker short story from Kate Folk. The author is writing the series with Catastrophe co-creator Sharon Horgan with Modern Family's Jason Winer exec producing. The streamer has put Out There into development from 20th…

Prolific TV director-producer Jason Winer is set to direct the Fox pilot The Big Leap, a ballet-themed hourlong comedy-drama inspired by the UK reality series Big Ballet, from The Passage writer/executive producer Liz Heldens and producer Sue Naegle. The project is a co-production between 20th Century Fox Television…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has given a script commitment plus penalty to FLOUIS, a mother-son multi-camera comedy from up-and-coming duo of actor-writer Brendan Scannell (Bonding) and writer Amy Reed (Diary of a Female President); Modern Family executive producer Jeff Richman; Jason Winer’s Small Dog Picture Company; and 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Actresses and best friends Cheryl Hines and Rachael Harris are set to headline and executive produce Barracudas, a single-camera comedy from Telenovela creators Christine Pietrosh and Jessica Goldstein, director-producer Jason Winer (Single Parents), 20th Century Fox TV and Winer's studio-based Small Dog…

Prolific TV director and producer Jason Winer has re-upped his overall deal at his longtime studios home, 20th Century Fox TV, where he has been for a decade and a half. I hear the new pact is for three years and is valued in the eight figures, among the biggest for a director/producer. Under the new agreement, Winer…

ABC has greenlighted Woman Up, a single camera comedy from Life in Pieces star Zoe Lister-Jones, Single Parents co-creator Liz Meriwether and Jason Winer (Life in Pieces, Single Parents). Life In Pieces and Single Parents producer 20th Century Fox TV, where Lister-Jones, Meriwether and Winer are under overall deals…

NBC has given a pilot order to an untitled single-camera comedy (fka All Together Now) starring Bradley Whitford in his return to the network where he starred on Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The comedy hails from frequent collaborators Lesley Wake Webster (Speechless) and Jason Winer …

NBC has given a put pilot commitment to All Together Now, a single-camera comedy from frequent collaborators Lesley Wake Webster (Speechless) and Jason Winer (Single Parents); Bradley Whitford (The Handmaid’s Tale), who potentially could star; and 20th Century Fox TV, where Winer’s Small Dog Picture Company is…

ABC has given a put pilot commitment to Woman Up, a single camera comedy from Life in Pieces star Zoe Lister-Jones, New Girl creator Liz Meriwether, Jason Winer (Life in Pieces, Singe Parents). Life In Pieces producer 20th Century Fox TV, where Lister-Jones, Meriwether and Winer are under an overall deals, is the…

In a competitive situation, ABC has landed Family Friendly, a single-camera comedy from Telenovela creators Christine Pietrosh and Jessica Goldstein, director-producer Jason Winer (Single Parents, Life In Pieces), 20th Century Fox TV and Winer’s studio-based Small Dog Picture Company. Written by Pietrosh and…