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EXCLUSIVE: Screenwriter, executive producer and showrunner Monica Macer is getting into business with MGM Television with a multi-year, exclusive, overall deal. Under the pact, Macer will create, develop and produce original scripted programming for the television studio. Macer began her TV writing…

UPDATED, 11:26 AM: New courtroom show We the People with Judge Lauren Lake in 95% of U.S. broadcast syndication markets for a fall launch, Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios said today. The outlets include multiple CBS and Fox O&Os, along with Nexstar, Tegna, Weigel and Sinclair and other station groups. The daily…

EXCLUSIVE: CNBC, which has long aired daily Shark Tank episodes in primetime, has greenlit a new variation on the entrepreneurial mainstay called Business Hunters. The new series, which focuses on everyday people deciding to take a risk and buy business as a departure from their 9-to-5 job, is from the same duo behind…

EXCLUSIVE: Major League Soccer (MLS) is one of the fastest growing sports leagues in the U.S. and it's now getting its own reality TV treatment. Mark Burnett and MGM Television have teamed up with the booming soccer league and its newest expansion team Charlotte FC for reality competition series Welcome To The Team…

Cirque Du Soleil is opening its doors to the cameras as it prepares to get back on the Las Vegas stage. John Lewis: Good Trouble and The Way I See It director Dawn Porter has teamed up with MGM Television to produce a feature documentary about the live entertainment group. The doc will pull back the curtain to tell…

EXCLUSIVE: A month ago, Clarice was poised to move from CBS to Paramount+ with the promise of a long run for a premium version of the Silence of the Lambs sequel. Now, prospects for the series appear bleak as negotiations between the ViacomCBS streamer and co-producer MGM have reached a stalemate, I have…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM Television is cementing its move into premium factual programming with a new partnership with Imax documentary producer and distributor K2 Studios. The Hollywood studio will co-produce eight premium documentary TV series with K2, which specializes in producing nature, wildlife, science and adventure…

MGM Television is expanding its international unscripted division with the hire of The Bible showrunner Richard Bedser. Bedser joins the company, based out of London, as EVP of Factual Series, Documentaries and Specials, reporting to MGM's President of Unscripted & Alternative Television and Orion Television, Barry…

MGM Television, headed by Worldwide Chairman Mark Burnett, is making a push in scripted programming across all platforms and bolstering its development team with three key executive hires. Bradley Gardner has been named SVP of Orion Television, focusing on comedy and drama; Christopher Goble has been tapped as VP…

MGM Television has struck a first-look deal with British management and production company 42, the business behind the latest adaptation of Watership Down and Channel 4 and Netflix drama Traitors. The two companies have inked the multi-year production deal to identify and co-develop scripted series for the U.S…

MGM Television is planting a flag in the UK as it looks to ramp up production of non-scripted projects and has hired former Channel 4 exec Dom Bird to oversee the expansion. Bird, who was responsible for commissioning some of Channel 4's biggest unscripted hits in recent years including recent hits including…

MGM Television is expanding its footprint in the Middle Kingdom, inking a deal with China Star Omnimedia to co-produce and co-develop local language alternative programming for the Chinese market. As part of the deal, China Star Omnimedia will distribute formats in China with MGM overseeing distribution for the rest…