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True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and one of the hit HBO anthology series’ original stars Matthew McConaughey are reuniting for Redeemer, a drama series headlined by the Oscar winner, which has landed a script-to-series commitment at FX. In conjunction to the sale, Pizzolatto has signed an overall production deal…

Season 3 of True Detective was well received, and star Mahershala Ali scored an Emmy nomination for his role as Wayne Hays, a state police detective from Northwest Arkansas. But what are the chances of Season 4? HBO president of programming Casey Bloys provided a (slight) update at the TCA press tour on Wednesday. "I…

When Mahershala Ali approached Nic Pizzolatto about headlining the third season of his HBO crime anthology series True Detective, it was seemingly a no-brainer. “I thought right away that I’d be really really lucky to have an artist of his caliber driving this thing,” said Pizzolatto during his stop at Deadline’s The…

Ben Affleck will direct and is attached to star in Ghost Army for Universal Pictures. The film has a script by True Detective‘s Nic Pizzolato, based on the Rick Beyer & Elizabeth Sayles book The Ghost Army of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived the Enemy with Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, and Other Audaci…

Hailed as a trailblazer, film and TV producer Steve Golin, who died late Sunday night after a battle with cancer, helped start the careers of a slew of writers and directors through the two companies he launched, Anonymous Content and Propaganda Films. One of them was Nic Pizzolatto. He was a novelist who had just…

After a three-and-a-half year hiatus, Nic Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series True Detective returned for a third season last month. The new installment, headlined by Mahershala Ali, is five weeks into its eight-episode run, and the network is very happy with it. “Creatively, ratings-wise, it did everything that we…

The first look of the third season of True Detective is giving off some major season one vibes with its haunting and enigamatic imagery. In a trailer for the third installment of the anthology that played before the season finale of Sharp Objects, HBO seems like they are trading one unsettling story for another. Your…

HBO has officially greenlighted a third season of Nic Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series True Detective. The pickup was considered a formality after the network earlier this summer closed a deal with Oscar winner Mahershala Ali to star in the new installment, with the green light contingent on locking in a director. J…

HBO is pairing up two of the marquee names on its talent roster, with veteran David Milch possibly joining True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto for a potential third season of the crime drama franchise. The two have been talking, though I hear a potential partnership is still in its embryonic stages. Pizzolatto is a…

HBO is developing a Perry Mason drama series to star Robert Downey Jr. as the unorthodox investigator/defense attorney and be written by True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto. The project eyes short-run installments in the vein of True Detective, whose seasons have consisted of 8 episodes each. The drama is eyed as an…

HBO is keeping Nic Pizzolatto in the fold with a third consecutive overall deal that would keep the True Detective creator at the pay cable network through 2018. The pact would cover possible new installments of the thriller drama franchise as well as new projects. More than three months after the second season of True…

In television and everywhere else, it’s a cliché extraordinaire to say what a difference a year can make. However, in the case of the Nic Pizzolatto-created anthology this season, it is also very true. On March 9, 2014, True Detective ended its first season coming off widespread acclaim, a pretty packed Big 4 schedule…