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History is doubling down on Presidential programming with two new miniseries centered on Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Lincoln (working title) and Theodore Roosevelt (working title) are both exec produced by Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, while Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way Productions…

NBC has wrapped up its new series orders, picking up single-camera choir comedy Perfect Harmony, starring and executive produced by Bradley Whitford, from 20th Century Fox TV; multi-camera multi-generational family comedy Indebted (fka Uninsured), co-starring Fran Drescher, from Sony TV; and drama Lincoln, headlined…

EXCLUSIVE: The Brave alum Tate Ellington is returning to NBC as a series regular opposite Russell Hornsby and Arielle Kebbel in Lincoln, a drama pilot based on Jeffery Deaver's bestselling The Bone Collector book series. Written by VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli and directed by Seth Gordon, Lincoln follows Lincoln Rhyme…

EXCLUSIVE: Ramses Jimenez (Fear the Walking Dead), Life Sentence alumna Brooke Lyons and Roslyn Ruff (Divorce) are set as series regulars opposite Russell Hornsby, Michael Imperioli and Arielle Kebbel in NBC's Lincoln (formerly known as The Bone Collector), the drama pilot based on the bestselling book series by…

Halston Sage (The Orville) has booked a series regular role opposite Tom Payne, Michael Sheen and Bellamy Young in Fox’s drama pilot Prodigal Son, from Chris Fedak, Sam Sklaver, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros TV. Written by Feder and Sklaver and directed by Lee Toland Krieger, Prodigal Son is described as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Midnight, Texas star is Arielle Kebbel is returning to NBC as the female lead opposite Russell Hornsby in Lincoln, a drama pilot based on Jeffery Deaver’s bestselling The Bone Collector book series. Hornsby and Kebbel take on the roles played by Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in the 1999 movie T…

The Sopranos alum Michael Imperioli is set as a lead opposite Russell Hornsby in NBC's Lincoln (formerly known as The Bone Collector), the drama pilot based on the bestselling book series by Jeffery Deaver that was adapted into the 1999 movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. Written by VJ Boyd and Mark…

EXCLUSIVE: Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give) has been tapped as the title character in NBC’s Lincoln (fka The Bone Collector), a drama pilot based on the bestselling book series by Jeffery Deaver that adapted into the 1999 movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. For Hornsby, the casting is in second…

Prolific film and TV helmer Seth Gordon has been tapped to direct and executive produce NBC’s Lincoln (fka The Bone Collector), a drama pilot based on the bestselling book series by Jeffery Deaver that adapted into the 1999 movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The project hails from writers VJ Boyd and…

NBC has handed a pilot order to Lincoln (fka The Bone Collector), a drama based on the bestselling book series by Jeffery Deaver which had been previously adapted into the 1999 movie of the same name starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The project hails from writers VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli (S.W.A.T.)…

It’s always risky to spoof a spoof, but third-time SNL host Jim Carrey scored last night with a series of fake ads mocking Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey’s ads for Lincoln, which are themselves riffs on his True Detective character. As the first one says, you don’t do a Lincoln ad after you win an Oscar. Maybe you…

Looks like there is another Presidential movie in DreamWorks' future. The Lincoln studio announced today that it has picked up the rights to The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. Out on November 5 from Simon & Schuster, the book about the bitter rivalry between…