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Amid strong ratings, CBS has ordered a second season of its hit summer action-adventure series Blood & Treasure, from CBS TV Studios and Propagate. The series, which premiered May 21, is currently the No. 1 new summer scripted series with 5.71 million viewers. It has improved its time period by +17% over the same time…

EXCLUSIVE: After a lengthy search, Matt Barr (Valor) has been tapped as the male lead opposite Sofia Pernas in Blood & Treasure, CBS' hourlong serialized action-adventure series set to premiere in summer 2019. Written by Matthew Federman & Stephen Scaia, Blood & Treasure, which hails from CBS Television Studios…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Barr, the male lead of the CW/CBS TV Studios military drama Valor, has been tapped as a star of another the CW/CBS TV Studios project, drama pilot Skinny Dip, from writers Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner and Keshet Studios. Written by Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner based on the novel by Carl Hiaasen…

Christina Ochoa (Animal Kingdom) is set as the female lead opposite Matt Barr in Valor, the CW's serialized military drama/conspiracy thriller pilot written by writer-musician Kyle Jarrow and directed by Michael Robin. In Valor, the boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base…

Glenn Fleshler (True Detective) has booked a series regular role on HBO’s Barry, a half-hour comedy pilot starring, directed and co-written by Bill Hader. It centers on an ex-Marine (Hader) who works as a low-rent hitman in the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life, he begrudgingly travels to Los Angeles to…

Matt Barr (Parkland) has booked a lead role in in TNT's Untitled Miami Project executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Written by Masters Of Sex creator/executive producer Michelle Ashford, the serialized character drama is set in the wild and unpredictable world of the Florida drug trade in the…

EXCLUSIVE:  Brenton Thwaites and Matt Barr have signed with WME in all areas. Thwaites, best known as Stu Henderson on Home And Away in his native Australia, stars as male lead Dean McMullen in Lifetime’s upcoming Blue Lagoon TV movie, which is slated to premiere in June. Most recently seen in the CW's Hellcats and…