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Legendary Television has appointed Netflix’s original series executive Jennifer Breslow as EVP, Television & Digital Media. She will report to Chris Albrecht, Head of Legendary Television. As Director of Content for International Original Series at Netflix, a position Breslow held since 2016, she worked on a variety…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s sci-fi drama Debris, starring Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele, from Almost Human creator J.H. Wyman, has landed its first international sales. Legendary Television, which co-produces the series with Frequency Films and Universal Television, has sold exclusive distribution rights to French network TF1…

A year after Legendary brought in Chris Albrecht to launch Legendary Global, the former Starz CEO is taking over the company’s entire TV operation. Legendary is consolidating its international (Legendary Global) and domestic TV businesses under Albrecht, who has been named Head of Legendary Television. Nick Pepper…

Does your life need more King Kong-like monsters and Lara Croft? Well, Netflix and Legendary Television have got you covered. The streaming giant is teaming with the TV studio to expand the Skull Island and Tomb Raider universes with two new anime series. Skull Island will be a new chapter in Legendary's Monsterverse…

Writer-producer Francesca Sloane (Atlanta, Fargo) has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios and set her first project, a series based on the works of Anaïs Nin. Under the pact, Sloane will create content to premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. As part of…

Legendary Television is getting into business with dj2 Entertainment, signing a multi-year, first-look deal with the Dmitri M. Johnson-founded production company that specializes in adapting video games for film and television. Under the pact, Legendary and dj2 are in development on projects with writers and directors…

After two straight-to series orders on the comedy side to Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s Mayor half-hour starring Ted Danson and Dwayne Johnson and Nahnatchka Khan’s Young Rock, as well as a pilot order to Night School, NBC has given its first drama greenlight this cycle, handing a pilot pickup to Debris. The sci-fi…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Television has optioned Grass Kings, the Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel series published by Boom! Studios and created by writer Matt Kindt (Mind Mgmt) and artist Tyler Jenkins (Peter Panzerfaust), for series development. Grant Wheeler & Ben Freiburger are attached to adapt the rural mystery…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Amazon Studios has landed Paper Girls, a drama based on Brian K. Vaughan’s best-selling graphic novel. The project, which has received a series commitment, hails from Legendary Television and Plan B (12 Years A Slave, Moonlight). Toy Story 4 co-writer Stephany Folsom will pen the…

Amazon has set an August 30 premiere for its Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne-fronted fantasy drama Carnival Row. The SVOD service has also posted the first, short teaser for the series, which comes from Rene Echevarria, Travis Beacham and Legendary Television. The eight-part series is set in a Victorian fantasy…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Television is prepping Simply Halston, a limited series starring and executive produced by Ewan McGregor about the meteoric rise and fall of the first American celebrity fashion designer. Written by Sharr White (The Affair) and to be directed by Dan Minahan (American Crime Story), Simply Halston…

Michael Grindon is leaving as head of Worldwide Television Distribution for Legendary’s TV division after four years. He announced his departure in an email to his colleagues today. His last day is this Friday. Grindon, an industry veteran who had spent 15 years as head of Sony Pictures Television International, was…