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Nick Pepper will be stepping down as Head of Television for The Mark Gordon Company on May 31, the company has announced. Source said he is headed to Legendary for a top TV post, possibly president of Television and Digital. Reps for Legendary declined comment. The amicable departure from MGC follows the announcement e…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mark Gordon Company has set up two more drama projects at ABC through the company’s overall deal at ABC Studios — a character-driven procedural written by Tom Donaghy, creator of the ABC drama The Whole Truth, and a project penned by feature scribe Dean Georgaris (Paycheck). Both are executive produced…

UPDATED: The Mark Gordon Co. has set up an untitled drama project at ABC with writers Kathryn Price and Nichole Millard (Fallen). While the project was originally announced as being half-hour — a throwback to the old days of half-hour drama series like Dragnet, The Rifleman and Have Gun, Will Travel — turns out it is…

Via its overall deal with Mark Gordon Company, ABC Studios has made a joint venture pact with Sonar Entertainment for Fix It Men. ABC Studios will work with Sonar to set up and produce the action-suspense series created by John Glenn (Hatfields & McCoys, Eagle Eye) about a scientist and a Special Forces soldier from…

The Mark Gordon Co. and writers-producers Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts (ABC’s Revenge) have sold two hourlong projects, including one to ABC based on an original idea by actor Josh Duhamel. Both hail from ABC Studios, where the Mark Gordon Co. and Berg & Harberts have deals. The untitled ABC project takes place…

After setting up six projects at ABC, the ABC Studios-based Mark Gordon Co. is venturing out with a drama sale at CBS and a comedy one at NBC, both produced by ABC Studios. The CBS project, Darkness Falls, brings together the key auspices behind long-running procedural Criminal Minds — CBS, which airs it; the Mark…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mark Gordon Co. has sold its sixth project this development season — half-hour comedy Dirty Girls, which has been set up at ABC through ABC, where the the company has an overall deal. Moe Jelline (You Again) will write the project, which is based on the Gillian Telling book Dirty Girls: The Naked Truth A…

BREAKING: Belle Pictures and the Mark Gordon Company have set a film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Memphis at Warner Bros-based Alcon Entertainment. Mark Gordon and Molly Smith will produce with Alcon’s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. Smith has a four-year first-look deal with…

The Mark Gordon Company has sold two more hourlong projects to ABC: Sex Diaries, inspired by New York magazine's popular weekly feature, and Pros & Cons. Both are executive produced by Gordon and Nicholas Pepper and produced by ABC Studios, where the Mark Gordon Co. has a rich production deal. Sex Diaries…