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EXCLUSIVE: Veteran showrunner Neal Baer (Designated Survivor, Law & Order: SVU) has signed with Echo Lake Entertainment. His first project with the management, production and finance company is timely thriller drama The Edit. Co-written by Baer, who is a medical doctor, and Ricardo Perez Gonzalez (Designated…

After being resurrected from its cancellation at ABC, Designated Survivor has officially packed its briefcase and is moving seasons 1 and 2 to Netflix from its home at Hulu. The move comes after it was announced the political drama would get a third season at the streaming giant. The news is ahead of the release of…

After very lengthy negotiations, Entertainment One has closed a deal with Netflix for a 10-episode Season 3 order to Designated Survivor, which will become a global Netflix original. The Kiefer Sutherland-starring series will have a new showrunner, Law & Order: SVU alum Neal Baer, who had been tapped for the job last…

Fox has opted not to go forward with The Beast, its medical drama pilot from former ER executive producer Neal Baer. The Beast was the last of six Fox drama pilots to get a pickup in mid-February, putting extra pressure on the project, a single-lead medical procedural. It was subsequently rolled for casting reasons…

Fox has pushed The Beast, its medical drama pilot from former ER executive producer Neal Baer, for casting reasons. The Beast was the last of six Fox drama pilots to get a pickup, adding additional pressure on the project, a single-lead medical procedural. Studio 20th Century Fox TV will look to cast the pilot in the…

Fox has given a pilot order to The Beast, a medical drama from former ER executive producer and practicing pediatrician Neal Baer. Launching a medical drama is a priority for Fox this season, and this is the second pilot in the genre ordered by the network, joining The Resident. Both hail from 20th TV. Written by Law…

Fox has put in development a legal drama from producer Neal Baer and up-and-coming writer Robert Specland. 20th Century Fox TV, where Baer has a pod deal, is the studio. Written by Specland based on an idea he developed with Baer, the untitled Verdict project is set in the San Francisco Bay Area. It centers on two…

Emmy-nominated creator-writer-producer Neal Baer (ER, Law & Order: SVU, Under the Dome) and his Baer Bones Productions have signed a pod deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Under the pact, Baer will exclusively develop television programming for both network and cable. The deal is effective immediately. Jessica…

The CW has put in development a drama from Under The Dome showrunner Neal Baer and the series' co-executive producer Alexandra McNally. Written by McNally, the project is based on the recently published novel The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips. When a young woman gets a data entry job at a mysterious…

Veteran drama showrunner Neal Baer has signed with UTA. There he will be represented by a team led by UTA co-founder and board member Peter Benedek. This is a major change for Baer who had been with Paradigm’s Debbee Klein for 17 years. Over that time, he rose to executive producer on NBC medical drama ER and did a…

After going for more high-concept/genre fare yesterday with pilot orders to a Tales From The Darkside reboot, Tom Kapinos’ ghost drama Dead People and Julie Plec’s Cordon, the CW has added action-adventure mystery drama project Cheerleader Death Squad to its slate of 2015 pilots. The network has given a pilot green…

With Ebola fears gripping the nation, the importance of public health officials is rising fast. Under The Dome showrunner Neal Baer and the series’ consulting producer Dan Truly will tackle the subject with a drama project at CBS. Co-written by Baer and Truly, the untitled drama centers on LA's female Director of…