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NBCUniversal's Spanish-language broadcaster Telemundo has ordered a slew of new scripted and unscripted series for both its linear network and TPlus brand on Peacock. The company unveiled its 2022/23 line-up ahead of its Upfront event on Monday. These include new projects from Wilmer Valderrama and Lawrence Bender. On…

Shot last fall, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Two Distant Strangers embraces elements of genre storytelling to accentuate the horrors of police violence in America, and the systemic racism that continues to feed it. Directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, from a script by Free, the Oscar-contending…

EXCLUSIVE: Exile Content has teamed with Pulp Fiction producer Lawrence Bender to acquire the rights to Azam Ahmed's New York Times article, “He Was One of Mexico's Deadliest Assassins. Then He Turned on His Cartel”. Exile and Bender are currently developing the story into a film or series with Ahmed and Caitlin Roper…

Jonathan Majors has been set to star in The Harder They Fall for Netflix. Jeymes Samuel, who in the music game goes by the name The Bullits and who collaborated on The Great Gatsby soundtrack with Jay-Z, will make his feature directorial debut. Majors will star as outlaw Nat Love, who discovers that the man who killed…

Fox has put in development Through My Eyes, a horror/thriller drama written/executive produced by former Fringe showrunner Joel Wyman and executive produced by Lawrence Bender and Kevin Brown of Bender Brown Prods. The project, from Fox 21 TV Studios, is based on the 2013 Russian series of the same name (original…

EXCLUSIVE: Tracy Falco, former EVP Production at Universal Pictures, is joining producer Lawrence Bender in a first-look deal with Len Blavatnik’s AI Film. The deal will see Falco boost the creative ranks of the deep-pocketed banner. Owned by billionaire — and newly-minted Britain’s richest man —  Blavatnik's Access In…

With filming on the upcoming eight-episode Starz drama series Flesh And Bone completed, the pay cable network has decided to air the project as a limited series. The format switch will require no script changes, reshoots or additional footage, with the eight episodes airing as originally written and the current finale…

EXCLUSIVE: Starz is fast-tracking its ballet drama project, now titled Flesh And Bone. No formal green light yet, but the show, from executive producers Lawrence Bender, Kevin Brown and John Melfi and creator/exec producer Moira Walley-Beckett (Breaking Bad), has been actively casting, locking in four accomplished…

Starz has put in development a drama project from feature producer Lawrence Bender (Inglourious Basterds) and Breaking Bad co-executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett. Written by Walley-Beckett, the untitled project is described as a dark and gritty series that unflinchingly explores the dysfunctional underbelly of the…

EXCLUSIVE: For her first project under the overall deal Nurse Jackie co-creator Lix Brixius signed with Universal Television in April, she has teamed with Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Universal TV-based Hazy Mills and Lawrence Bender and Kevin Brown’s Bender Brown Prods. for a drama project that has landed at <a href="http://www.deadline.com/tag/nbc/"…

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Lawrence Bender (Inglorious Basterds) and Kevin Brown (Roswell) have signed a development deal with Universal Cable Prods. for their Bender Brown banner. Under the pact, the duo will shepherd projects for cable as well as broadcast for UCP, which has evolved from a production arm of USA Network…