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“We have high goals for this one….we're feeling very, very bullish,” Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-chairman Rob Friedman told analysts this morning as execs talked up the financial opportunities for the recently announced epic film from veterans of the studio’s hit Hunger Games franchise. Indeed, CEO Jon…

American Odyssey, NBC’s new political conspiracy drama starring Anna Friel, debuts April 5, right after A.D. The Bible Continues. But as I say in my video review above, this conspiracy drama is very different fare for an Easter Sunday evening. It’s an ambitious effort from NBC that in its best moments feels like those…

EXCLUSIVE: Two crew members working on NBC’s drama Odyssey have been attacked and hospitalized while filming in Morocco, Deadline has learned. A first assistant director and make-up artist were leaving a restaurant late at night near their apartment in Marrakech Plaza when a group of youths attempted to rob them. When…

With the ad time for the Super Bowl sold out at $4.5 million for a 30-second pod, NBC has allocated the last remaining minutes of commercial time during the game, picking five of its shows to promote in a big way to the largest TV audience possible. Along with flagship programs, The Voice and The Blacklist, getting…

Peter Horton, Kay Foster and Adam Armus, executive producers of NBC's new drama series Odyssey, want to make sure audiences know the difference between this show and Mission Impossible, Homeland, 24 and other dramas that have tread on similar dangerous turf. At today's TCA, the EPs joined actors Peter Facinelli, Anna…

NBC’s Must See TV Thursday comedy block is officially gone. NBC has set its midseason schedule, which will feature three drama series on Thursday going head-to-head with ABC’s all-drama Shondaland lineup, which has been dominating the night this fall. The block will be anchored by The Blacklist, which, as previously…

Peter Facinelli (Nurse Jackie) is set to star opposite Anna Friel and Jake Robinson in NBC drama pilot Odyssey, co-written and directed by Peter Horton through Universal TV. A global conspiracy thriller, Odyssey centers on three families whose lives are torn apart when a stranded female soldier (Friel), a…

Carlos Valdes, currently on Broadway in Once, is the latest addition to the CW pilot The Flash, based on the DC comic. The project, from Warner Bros TV and Berlanti Productions, is an origin story about Barry Allen, aka The Flash (Grant Gustin), a Central City assistant police forensics investigator who arrives in…

Kara Killmer has been cast as a series regular in the NBC pilot Tin Man, a futuristic thriller drama from feature writer Ehren Kruger. Set in the near future, it centers on robot Adam Sentry (Patrick Heusinger), accused of the first-degree murder of his creator, Charles Vale, and the female public defender forced to…

Robert Wisdom (Nashville) is set to co-star opposite Paul Giamatti in Hoke, FX’s darkly comedic drama pilot based on Charles Willeford’s series of novels. Written by Scott Frank, who will direct and showrun the pilot, Hoke is a story of mid-life crisis and murder that features the hardboiled and possibly insane…

NBC continues to open its doors to suppliers outside of the traditional Hollywood studio system. The network has given an off-cycle pilot order to Odyssey, a global conspiracy thriller drama from ProSiebenSat.1’s Red Arrow Entertainment Group. Produced by the group’s London-based Red Arrow Entertainment, LA-based…