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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…

The Royals’ Loyals officially are without a show. After unsuccessfully shopping the series that was canceled by E! last month, Lionsgate TV tweeted today that the Elizabeth Hurley drama has been dethroned for good. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Loyals?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" rel="nofollow"…

Common, who starred in installments of Lionsgate’s John Wick and Now You See Me film franchises, is expanding his relationship with the company, signing an overall television deal to develop and produce new TV series via his Freedom Road Productions. "We're thrilled to have the talented multi-hyphenate Common join our…

E! has opted not to renew its first and only remaining original scripted series, The Royals, for a fifth season. I hear the series’ leading producing studio, Lionsgate TV, has been shopping the soapy drama starring Elizabeth Hurley and has been in talks with sister cable network Pop, a co-venture between Lionsgate and…

Sex and the City alumna Jenny Bicks has signed an overall deal with Lionsgate TV. Under the pact, she will develop and produce original television series for the studio. Bicks served as executive producer on HBO’s signature comedy Sex and the City and executive producer/showrunner on the Showtime dark comedy seriesThe…