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EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Mendelsohn has been promoted to executive vice president, production of Revelations Entertainment, overseeing the studio’s production slate of factual TV, scripted TV, documentary and feature film projects. Prior to her current role, Mendelsohn served as SVP Production & Finance. Her background is in…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Revelations Entertainment and award-winning producer and former Lakeshore Entertainment president Gary Lucchesi are teaming for a joint venture to develop more than 25 new projects to be produced under the Lori McCreary-Morgan Freeman production umbrella. The news comes in the wake…

EXCLUSIVE: The United States Diplomacy Center at the U.S. Department of State, CBS Television Studios and Revelations Entertainment today announced the donation of sets and prop material from the CBS Television Studios show Madam Secretary, created by Barbara Hall, to the nation's first-ever museum and educational…

EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment has optioned Arthur T. Burton’s book Black, Red & Deadly for a TV series that they’ll develop about 19th century Arkansas slave-turned U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. Revelations will work on the project with Malcolm Spellman, Ben Watkins, Josef Sawyer…

Over three seasons of National Geographic's docuseries The Story of God, the filmmaking team and host Morgan Freeman have traveled widely, exploring faith traditions around the world. But there's some parts of the globe they generally avoid—anywhere with arctic temperatures. "I’m allergic to it," the Oscar-winning…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the season 5 finale of Madam Secretary. Based on the events leading up to the season finale of CBS’ Madam Secretary, it seems like this episode would be, for the most part, smooth sailing for Tea Leoni’s Elizabeth McCord. It seems like the climate migration treaty is…

In a lively 75-minute panel discussion about inclusion and women’s progress at the Producers Guild of America’s Produced By New York conference, Jessica Chastain said that while men need to own their part of the injustice, “We need to put ourselves forward.” Offering the caveat that her comments “might be…

Morgan Freeman stopped by the TCA summer press tour to talk about his upcoming six-part docuseries The Story of Us, premiering in the fall on the National Geographic Channel. The series follows Freeman’s global journey to uncover the fundamental forces that keep our societies together, while revealing the common…

Veteran TV development executive Beth Miyares, most recently SVP Drama Development and Production at Fox Broadcasting, has joined Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment as EVP Scripted Television. This is a newly created position at the CBS TV Studios-based company behind the CBS/CBS Studios…

"You can only ask me questions that require a 'yes' or 'no' answer," Morgan Freeman says, his iconic voice deadpan, giving nothing away. Then he busts out laughing. Freeman is at the AwardsLine offices to discuss The Story of God—the six-episode docuseries he hosts on Nat Geo, examining the notion of an afterlife, the…

Perhaps there really is too much TV, at least for selective actors who don’t want to get tied to 20-plus-episode shows per season. "Actors are getting to the point where they’re starting to say, ‘If you want me, shrink the order,’ " said The Good Wife producer Michelle King during a showrunners’ panel at Produced By…

"If our business relies on female producers like Tracey and Lori to fill this gap” in the representation of women on screen “then we're not doing enough" said Ian Bryce (Transformers, Spider-Man). "As an economic model,” he added, “there's a hole in that business right now and I think studios, which is where I work…