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Tony-winning actress Patina Miller is set to star opposite Omar Epps in Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Starz/Lionsgate’s upcoming Power prequel series created by Courtney A. Kemp. Miller will play Raquel Thomas. To the streets, "Raq" Thomas is cold, hard and fierce — a successful and deadly woman taking names in a…

ABC has given a pilot order to Home Economics, a single-camera family comedy from writers Michael Colton and John Aboud (Penguins Of Madagascar), Lionsgate TV and Eric and Kim Tannenbaum’s studio-based Tannenbaum Company. Written by Colton and Aboud, Home Economics is about three adult siblings: one in the 1 percent…

Florida Girls creator and star Laura Chinn is expanding her relationship with Lionsgate, the producer behind her praised Pop TV comedy series. Chinn has signed an overall television deal with the studio to to develop and produce scripted original series. She will continue her work on Florida Girls, from Lionsgate, 3…

In the spirit of the blockbuster hit Crazy Rich Asians, HBO Max has ordered The Ho’s (working title) from Lionsgate TV. The new docuseries will shed a bling-worthy light on the opulence and over-the-top lives of the real-life, multi-generational  Ho family, who have built a multi-million dollar empire. The new series…

Showtime has passed on proceeding with its television series prequel to The Kingkiller Chronicle, the bestselling Patrick Rothfuss book franchise produced by Lionsgate, with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing. The project, which landed at Showtime in October 2017 in a competitive situation with multiple bidders…

EXCLUSIVE: Arliss Howard (Moneyball), Desmond Harrington (Dexter), Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Ness Bautista (Sense8) are set as series regulars for season 2 of Spectrum Originals' anthology series Manhunt, from Lionsgate Television. They join previously announced Jack Huston, Cameron Britton, Carla…

Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick is set to star in and executive produce Love Life, a 10-episode half-hour romantic comedy anthology series from Lionsgate TV and Paul Feig’s Feigco Entertainment, for WarnerMedia’s forthcoming streaming service. The series greenlight was announced today during Lionsgate’s analyst call…

Amid Lionsgate’s continuing expansion of its unscripted programming business, the company has promoted Starz executive Alice Dickens-Koblin to Senior Vice President, Head of Unscripted Programming, for Lionsgate and Starz. In her newly-expanded role, Dickens-Koblin, who joined Starz earlier this year, will head up the…

Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to Sunny D, a single-camera comedy inspired by Dane Baptiste’s BBC series of the same name. It hails from Saladin K. Patterson (The Last O.G.); In Living Color creator Keenen Ivory Wayans; Eric and Kim Tannenbaum's The Tannenbaum Company (Two and a Half Men); and Lionsgate…

Love & Hip Hop creator, media mogul and entrepreneur Mona Scott-Young has signed an overall deal with Lionsgate TV to develop and produce unscripted series for the company's alternative television business under her Monami Productions banner. She will also have the opportunity to develop projects across Lionsgate's…

Ann Curry has signed on to M.D. Live (working title) as anchor and executive producer of the 10-episode series just given a green light by Turner. Co-produced by Turner and Lionsgate TV, M.D. Live (wt) taps into the world of medical crowdsourcing, seeking solutions worldwide for people with medical mysteries and…

TNT has ordered 10 episodes of M.D. Live (working title), billed as the first live, non-fiction series that taps into the worldwide phenomenon of medical crowdsourcing, from Lionsgate Television, B17 Entertainment and Motiv8 Media. It’s slated to premiere in 2019. The two-hour weekly multi-platform series will feature…