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After nearly a decade as head of scripted television for MGM, Steve Stark is leaving the studio’s executive ranks. The news comes a year after MGM's Worldwide Television Group, run by Chairman Mark Burnett, last extended Stark with a new contract in conjunction with him being named President of a new label, MGM/UA…

EXCLUSIVE: A hot TV package is hitting the premium marketplace. Oscar winner Barbra Streisand is set to executive produce Lioness, a drama series about the life of Golda Meir headlined by Emmy-nominated Unorthodox star Shira Haas, from MGM/UA Television in association with Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi PatMa…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM/UA Television and Israel’s Tadmor Entertainment are developing a scripted television series based on the lives of judo world champions Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki. The two companies have acquired the life rights to the duo and are working with the International Judo Federation to develop the series…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM/UA Television has acquired the rights to Rebecca Carroll's upcoming memoir Surviving the White Gaze in a competitive situation ahead of its release. Simon & Schuster is set to publish the book on February 2, 2021. Carroll is set to adapt her memoir as a limited series and serve as an executive producer…

MGM/UA Television is developing limited series Dial M For Murder, based on the 1952 play of the same name by Frederick Knott, which was adapted into the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock movie. Oscar winner Alicia Vikander is executive producing through her Vikarious Film banner with an eye to potentially star in the series…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, MGM/UA Television has acquired the rights to author Ivy Pochoda's new thriller novel These Women for series adaptation. Emmy-winning The Handmaid’s Tale creator Bruce Miller will develop and produce the project as part of White Oak’s overall deal with MGM/UA. Miller will oversee…

Veteran MGM executive Andrew Mittman is continuing his relationship with the company, signing an exclusive MGM/UA Television production and first-look MGM film deal as head of newly launched prodco 1.21. Joining Mittman at 1.21 is MGM/UA Television alum Kai Dolbashian as the company’s Director of Development. "I've…