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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the season 3 finale of Lethal Weapon. Earlier this month at TCA, Lethal Weapon creator/executive producer Matt Miller said that the season 3 finale ends with “a little bit of a cliffhanger”. He wasn’t kidding. In fact, it was more of a huge cliffhanger that informs…

“So far it’s been an absolutely charmed first two weeks,'” Lethal Weapon developer/executive producer/showrunner Matt Miller told Deadline Thursday night about shooting the upcoming third season of Fox’s Lethal Weapon. In an interview with Deadline during the Fox TCA party, he gave more details about new co-star Seann…

Jeff Astrof, who wrote, with Matt Miller, NBC’s upcoming mockumentary Trial & Error, said he came up with the idea about five years ago in the early days of the super-hot murder-docu genre, when watching the documentary The Staircase, about a novelist tried for murder after his wife was found dead at the bottom of the…

One of the most daunting tasks for the executive producers of Fox’s new Lethal Weapon series, based on the famed ’80s/’90s film franchise, is getting TV viewers to forget the iconic performances of Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, who respectively played buddy cops Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh. The new series dives…

We’re in the midst of another broadcast pilot season. With 80+ pilots ordered out of hundreds of scripts, landing a pilot pickup is not easy.  Here is Deadline's annual Overachievers of Pilot Season list showcasing the select few individuals and production companies that beat the odds, and then some. Kevin Williamson…

NBC continues to hand out pilot orders to its comedy projects with big commitments. Among the latest pickups were an untitled royal-family comedy written by Charlie Grandy and executive produced by Amy Poehler (fka Dumb Prince), which had a production commitment, and The Trail, a documentary-style procedural…

Forever creator Matt Miller took to Twitter again, revealing more behind-the-scenes details about the canceled ABC supernatural drama. Back in September, Miller pondered what would have been had a Season 2 been a reality. His latest tweets reveal some interesting facts about the series and characters in conversations…

After rebooting Rush Hour as a series last year, Warner Bros TV is doing the same with another blockbuster buddy action movie franchise about mismatched cops. A Lethal Weapon hourlong series based on the films that starred Mel Gibson and Danny Glover has landed at Fox with a put pilot commitment. It will be written by…

Forever creator Matt Miller took to Twitter to answer fans’ questions about what would have been had there been a second go-round for the canceled ABC supernatural drama, and what would have become of Henry and Jo. As you’ll recall the final episode wrapped with immortal doctor Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd) finally…

NBC is taking The Trail, giving a put pilot commitment to a single-camera comedy from comedy veteran Jeff Astrof and Forever creator Matt Miller. Written/executive produced by the duo, the half-hour, whose title is a scrambled version of Trial, is a documentary-style procedural comedy. It follows the arrest and trial…

2ND UPDATE, 1: 40 PM: Teamsters Local 399 is signing up members for picket duty in preparation for a possible strike against producers of TV commercials, the latest step in a looming showdown that could drive many commercial productions out of Los Angeles and the state. Local 399 Secretary-Treasurer Steve Dayan — who…

CBS has given the green light to Good Session, a single-camera comedy from John Hamburg (Meet The Parents franchise) and former Chuck executive producer Matt Miller. The project, from Warner Bros TV, where Miller is under a deal, revolves around a happy couple that goes to a therapist to help them decide if they…