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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…

NBC’s The Heroes Reborn Comic-Con panel kicked off with a look at the lead-up web clip to the series, Dark Matter, as well as a trailer for the follow-up to the original series which ran from 2006-10. Greg Grunberg led the panel, and as many already know, he’s reprising his role as Matt Parkman. Other familiar faces…

Since Bruce Rosenblum took over Legendary Television in 2013, he had been looking to appoint a president of scripted television. He has now brought in veteran TV lit agent Lauren Heller Whitney in that role. The company’s current top scripted executive, EVP Peter Johnson, has extended his contract through 2017 and…

Legendary Television and Digital Media has signed a first look agreement with Warren Littlefield and his production shingle, The Littlefield Company, to develop content for TV and digital/emerging platforms. Former NBC Entertainment president Littlefield has been producing since leaving the network in 2000. He landed…

EXCLUSIVE: The Get Lifted Film Company are going double legend – really. The production company of multi-Grammy winner John Legend and partners Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius has signed an overall deal with Legendary Television. No word on specific projects between the Bruce Rosenblum-run LTV and Digital Media and Get…

It’s been over a decade since comedy movie mogul Judd Apatow has created a TV series, Fox’s Undeclared. Now he has, and his return vehicle, a relationship comedy starring Paul Rust (I Love You, Beth Cooper) and Community’s Gillian Jacobs, is getting a big two-season straight-to-series pickup from Netflix. The…