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EXCLUSIVE: When most of the dust settled on the Covid-impacted 2020 broadcast pilot season, indie Lionsgate TV ended up with three new series orders — for Home Economics, which got off to a promising start at ABC, This Country at Fox and Ghosts at CBS —  on par with the major, vertically integrated studios and making…

EXCLUSIVE: Top series producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum have renewed their overall television deal with Lionsgate to continue to develop and produce scripted programming for the independent studio through their The Tannenbaum Company banner. Since the duo set up shop at Lionsgate three years ago, the Tannenbaum Co…

Starz is going Casual in South Asia. The global streamer’s Lionsgate Play is partnering with Lionsgate Television on its first Indian original series, a remake of LGTV’s comedy that ran 2015-18 on Hulu. The news comes after launched its direct-to-consumer OTT app Lionsgate Play in the country last year. Casual will…

Hightown creator Rebecca Cutter is expanding her relationship with Lionsgate Television, signing a multi-year overall deal with the studio behind the praised Starz series. Under the pact, Cutter will develop and produce premium scripted series for Lionsgate's television slate across broadcast, cable and streaming…

HBO Max has handed out its first renewal, ordering a second season of Love Life, its popular romantic comedy anthology series, starring and executive produced by Anna Kendrick, from Lionsgate Television. Season two will remain set in New York City but will focus on a new character's journey – one which explores what…

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…