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Sarah Paulson is set to star and exec produce the HBO Max scripted adaptation of its docuseries The Way Down: God, Greed, and the Cult of Gwen Shamblin. Deadline broke the news in April that the streamer was adapting its documentary about the cult-like figure, who died last year, as a scripted series. Paulson will…

EXCLUSIVE: The Act creator Michelle Dean is to adapt a dark story about a cold case murder and its connection to the LAPD. Deadline understands that Endeavor Content and Anonymous Content have acquired the rights to Matthew McGough's book The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation in a competitive situation and will…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin Partners has set Michelle Dean to pen Stolen Time, its biopic telling the incredible true story of wrongfully convicted death row inmate Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs. Juliet Blake is producing; she is Head of Television at TED and previously produced The Hundred-Foot Journey with Amblin. Amblin Partners'…

Hulu’s limited series The Act is truly a horror show in many ways, the story of an obsessive mother suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy, taking her daughter through hell as she makes up all sorts of illnesses and maladies. It is all based on the true and startling story of Dee Dee Blanchard, played by Patricia…

Hulu has given a series order to The Act, a character-based seasonal true-crime anthology series from writers Nick Antosca (Channel Zero) and Michelle Dean and Universal Cable Productions, Deadline has learned. Written by Dean and Antosca, The Act, which has been in development at Hulu since last year, is a seasonal…

Hulu has put in development The Act, a character-based true-crime anthology series from writers Nick Antosca (Channel Zero) and Michelle Dean. Each season of the anthology series will center on one particular case, with the first installment based on Dean's 2016 Buzzfeed article "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be…

In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, literary management company Writ Large has acquired film and TV rights to Michelle Dean’s Buzzfeed article about a Missouri murder case that grabbed national attention. The article “She Would Have Been the Perfect Mom For Someone That Was Actually Sick,” examined the…