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EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart's Laugh Out Loud is coming to TV. Bounce has ordered 10 episodes of the original comedy series for premiere Monday, May 6. The program will air at 9 PM ET every Monday night through the summer. The series is a co-production between Bounce and Lionsgate Television. Hosted by comedian Jasmin “Jazzy&#8221…

Lionsgate Television has signed a multiyear deal with Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, the veteran producers whose credits include Two and a Half Men, The Odd Couple reboot and most recently TBS’ The Last O.G. The pair via their production banner Tannenbaum Company had been based at CBS TV Studios for the past eight…

Lionsgate TV has picked up global distribution rights to Modern Times Group's comedy Swedish Dicks, the first original series to come from the Scandinavian media conglom's subscription-based VOD platform Viaplay.   Peter Stormare (American Gods, Fargo) and Swedish stand-up comedian Johan Glans star in the series, with…

The 83-year-old matriarch of the self-described "First Family of Surfing" says her life story and those of her family aren't ending up in any proposed $20 million television project that Jennifer Lawrence is executive producing unless who owns what is determined by the courts or some money changes hands. Claiming that…

When eccentric Dutch billionaire entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp unveiled his plan to put together a group that would be trained and sent on a one-way trip to Mars to establish the first human colony, it was hailed as a concept for the ultimate reality series. That has now become a reality. In a competitive situation, Lionsg…

Lionsgate TV has  put in development a drama series based on Nick Bilton's bestselling book Hatching Twitter: A True Story Of Money, Power, Friendship, And Betrayal, with former executive and now Lionsgate-based producer Allison Shearmur attached to executive produce. Bilton, a columnist and reporter for the New York T…

American Psycho is headed to television. FX has put in development an American Psycho drama series that takes place decades after the events in the 2000 movie starring Christian Bale and the novel on which the film was based. Lionsgate TV, whose sibling Lionsgate Films was behind the American Psycho feature, and FX…

Kevin Beggs is staying put at Lionsgate with a new long-term agreement and a title bump from president to chairman of the Lionsgate Television Group, the company announced today at Lionsgate's annual shareholders meeting in Toronto. The move is a recognition of the growth Lionsgate’s TV business has experienced over…

Hulu has given 10-episode series order to Deadbeat, a subversive half-hour comedy from co-creators Cody Heller and Brett Konner (Wilfred), Lionsgate TV and Brad Pitt‘s Plan B Entertainment. Deadbeat, the first co-production between Hulu and Lionsgate, will debut next year. It centers on a hapless but gifted male…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is partnering with Munich-based producer and distributor of event series Tandem Communications, a Studiocanal company, with a co-venture agreement to develop and produce one-hour drama series. The first series in development under the pact is crime drama Sex, Lies And Handwriting. The project…

NBC has bought Pariah, a drama project from Lionsgate Television and Kelsey Grammer’s Grammnet Prods. Written by Kevin Fox (The Negotiator, Law & Order: SVU), the police procedural features characters inspired by the economic theory 'Freakonomics' made popular by authors/economists Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner. In Pa…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Prods., which made its first foray into television with the ABC midseaosn drama The River, is putting down TV roots with its first television deal, a first-look pact with Lionsgate TV. Under the deal, Blumhouse will develop and produce series projects for both broadcast and cable. The…