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EXCLUSIVE: Verve has signed A. Zell Williams, a playwright and writer whose credits include Law & Order: SVU, American Soul and Next, for representation in all areas. Williams has a long history of writing both nationally and internationally in theater. Williams received the Terrence McNally Award, from the late…

The 16th season of ABC’s The Bachelorette ended Tuesday with Tayshia finding love… or something close to it. The second part of the reality dating competition’s finale delivered a 1.2 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.24 million viewers, matching Monday’s part one and topping the night in the demo. ABC won the…

As 2020 winds down and the holidays near, the TV landscape is filled with season finales, fall finales and lots of reruns — but there’s still The Bachelorette! The ABC reality dating competition aired the first of two parts for its Season 16 finale delivering a 1.2 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 4.93 million…

Filthy Rich and NeXt are both ending after one season on Fox, Deadline has confirmed. The network will not renew either series for a second season, though both shows will see out their current runs. Low ratings — both shows are averaging a 0.5/3 in the adults 18-49 demo — and uncertainty are behind the cancellation of…

Game 4 of the NBA Finals on ABC dominated Tuesday night in the primetime ratings, delivering a 1.9 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.27 million viewers — both numbers rising from Sunday’s Game 3. Last night saw the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Miami Heat to take a 3-1 series lead and can clinch the title…

John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, who directed the pilot episode of NBC's This Is Us, have inked a broadcast first-look deal with Fox Entertainment. The pair, who run Zaftig Films with production partner Charlie Gogolak, previously had an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. This comes as John Slattery A.I…

Fox is moving John Slattery-fronted thriller NeXt to Tuesday nights in a minor shuffle of its fall schedule. The network will launch the drama, which was held over from last broadcast season, on Tuesday October 6 at 9 pm. It takes the slot previously designated from Filthy Rich, which was also held over, after the…

Amid a coronavirus pandemic, which ground filming to a halt, decimated broadcast pilot season and canceled the traditional May upfronts, Fox unveiled its fall 2020 schedule at the exact time it would’ve done it without the pandemic. It includes the network TV debut of Spectrum Originals’ L.A.’s Finest starring…

Fox is expected to have at least two new drama series on the fall schedule, Filthy Rich and NeXt, along with a full slate of animated comedies, while ABC is considering holding multi-camera comedy series United We Fall for fall. It is part of an effort by the broadcast networks to stockpile original content for next…

In what is a first for Hollywood in the ever expanding global health crisis, a member of the production team for Fox’s upcoming neXt has tested positive for the ever expanding coronavirus. “We have been notified by the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) that a crew member on neXt, which concluded production in…

One of the inspirations for Manny Coto’s Fox series NeXt came from his son’s Alexa: The device, out of the blue, began talking at 3AM one night. “He claimed it happened a couple of times, but we never got down to the mystery. These things have a mind of their own even though we have five of them in the house because…

Carmen Cusack (Sorry for Your Loss) has been cast as a series regular opposite Jane Levy in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, NBC’s musical dramedy pilot from Jake in Progress creator Austin Winsberg, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, Paul Feig, Universal Music Group and Lionsgate TV. Written by Winsberg and directed by Richard…