Notorious executive producer Jennifer Cecil has signed a two-year overall deal with Sony TV, the studio behind the ABC drama series. Under the pact, she will continue working on Notorious and develop new projects. Cecil wrote last year’s dramedy pilot Mix for ABC through Warner Bros TV-based Le Train Train. She…

Wendy Davis made national headlines in 2013 for filibustering anti-abortion legislation in the Texas Senate. Now the former Democratic state senator is poised for more national attention as the inspiration for a dramedy series in development at NBC. Written by Jennifer Cecil, the untitled project centers on a female…

In its first development season, Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s Le Train Train production company set up several high-profile half-hour projects and landed a series order for NBC’s romantic comedy A to Z. Now the Warner Bros. TV-based banner is signaling an expansion to hourlong projects with its first sale of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Private Practice co-executive producers Jennifer Cecil and Barbie Kligman have been promoted to executive producers/co-head writers on the ABC medical drama. The duo will run the writers room, working with Private Practice creator/executive producer Shonda Rhimes who will continue as showrunner, a role she…