When Apple TV+ launched its flagship series The Morning Showstarring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carell, it didn’t exactly knock critics off its feet with a 61% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Compare that to the first season of HBO’s Big Little Lies, another Witherspoon-produced zeitgeist series about…
Loosely based on Brian Stelter's nonfiction book Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV, The Morning Show proved a big hit for the newly launched Apple TV +, with a stellar cast including Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon and Steve Carell. In its first season, the show jumped straight in at the…
During a panel titled “Showrunner Superpanel: where do we go from here” at the virtual edition of the BANFF World Media Festival, a roster of some of the top shows on television talked about their journeys to Hollywood. Steven Canals (Pose), Tanya Saracho (Vida),Anna Winger (Unorthodox), Liz Tigelaar (Little Fires Eve…
Kerry Ehrin, executive producer and showrunner of Apple’s flagship original series The Morning Show, has signed a multi-year overall deal extension with the company. Under the new pact, Ehrin will develop TV projects exclusively for Apple TV+. The Bates Motel alumna was the first writer with whom Apple signed an…
Apple is closing its first overall deal. In a competitive situation, the streaming service has landed Bates Motel co-creator/co-showrunner Kerry Ehrin. Under the exclusive multi-year pact, which is expected to begin as soon as Ehrin’s current overall deal at Universal TV ends later this spring, she will be…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Bates Motelseries finale.
Tonight, A&E’s Bates Motel wrapped up its five-season run with the episode “The Cord,” and when you think about it that’s quite a feat considering how others have tried and failed to expand the universe of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960…
As Bates Motel is wrapping its five-season run on A&E, the series’ executive producer Kerry Ehrin and star Freddie Highmore have reteamed for a new drama project. NBC has put in development Long Distance, from the Bates Motel duo, veteran producer and network executive Danielle Gelber and Universal TV.
Written by…
Bates Motel star Freddie Highmore is making his writing debut, teaming with A&E drama’s co-creator/executive producer Kerry Ehrin for a romantic comedy series project. The untitled half-hour, which the two conceived while attending the Critics Choice Awards together for Bates Motel (this is them attending the event in…
EXCLUSIVE: Bates Motel executive producer/co-showrunner Kerry Ehrin is re-teaming with Jason Katims for an hourlong project, which has been set up at NBC. Written by Ehrin, the untitled project tells the darkly comedic story of two unlikely female partners in the Boston PD — one a fortysomething single mom with a ton…
CBS has bought a terrorist drama from Bates Motel executive producer Kerry Ehrin, series’ writer Nikki Toscano and Universal TV. Meanwhile, former CSI: NY showrunner Pam Veasey is reuniting with series producer Bruckheimer TV for a cop drama based on Jonathan Kellerman’s Alex Delaware series of books that has gone to F…
Just two weeks ago, TV networks’ infatuation with period Westerns seemed to have waned. Of the slew of such projects put in development by the broadcast networks last season, only one, NBC’s The Frontier, had been picked up to pilot, and it didn’t make the cut to series. At the same time, TNT passed on its own period…
