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EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Yu and Hilda Martin have joined the cast of the upcoming NBC drama pilot from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs formerly known as Murder by the Book. Starring Retta, the story will follow a big-city Instafamous book reviewer who takes a page from the murder-mystery books she reviews and…

EXCLUSIVE: Another Good Girls alum has joined NBC’s Jenna Bans/Bill Krebs (fka Murder By The Book) drama pilot. Michael Weaver has been tapped to direct the pilot from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans under her Universal Television-based production banner Minnesota Logging Company. Good Girls executive…

EXCLUSIVE: Tituss Burgess, Tommy Dewey and Siobhan Williams have been cast in NBC‘s upcoming drama pilot from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans and executive producer Bill Krebs. The pilot, which was previously titled Murder By the Book, stars Retta as Hazel, a big city Instafamous book reviewer who…

NBC has ordered a pilot for the drama series Murder by the Book from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans under her Universal Television-based production banner Minnesota Logging Company. Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs will pen the script with Bans. Starring Retta, the story will follow big city…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Girls creator Jenna Bans has sold two more hourlong projects to NBC this development season. The network has handed a put pilot commitment to Grosse Pointe Garden Society from Bans and her frequent collaborator and former Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs, and a script commitment to…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Girls star Retta and the series’ creator/executive producer/co-showrunner Jenna Bans and executive producer/co-showrunner Bill Krebs are re-teaming for Murder By the Book, a new NBC hourlong crime drama, which has received a put pilot commitment by NBC. The project comes from Universal Television, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Heather Mitchell (Scandal), Good Girls creator Jenna Bans and her Minnesota Logging Co. have come on board a one-hour drama in the works at Fox based on Joshilyn Jackson's bestselling suspense novel Never Have I Ever. The project, from Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson's Appian Way and Universal…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the surprise cancellation of Good Girls, NBC is back in business with Good Girls creator/executive producer Jenna Bans on another dark, thriller dramedy about female friends from Universal Television. NBC is developing Redrum, written, directed and executive produced by Nzingha Stewart based on…

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is circling an anthology series project from Good Girls creator/executive producer/co-showrunner Jenna Bans and her frequent collaborator, the series’ executive producer/co-showrunner Bill Krebs. The streamer is considering a development deal for the project, produced by Universal Television, where…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Peacock has landed for development What She Said, an hourlong series from Erika Green Swafford (New Amsterdam) and Good Girls creator Jenna Bans. The project hails from Universal Television and BuzzFeed Studios and stems from Green Swafford and Bans’ overall deals and BuzzFeed’s…

Buzzfeed is making an expanded push into television, signing a first-look deal with Universal TV, in which the studio will produce scripted content based on stories and original reporting published by the tech-powered media company. The two entities have set their first project under the pact, with Jenna Bans…

EXCLUSIVE: Casey Kyber has left 20th Century Fox TV, where she served as VP of drama development, to join Jenna Bans’ production banner, Minnesota Logging Company, as Head of Television. The hire is part of a ramp-up of Minnesota Logging Co. into a full-fledged pod under the new overall deal Good Girls…