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EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing St. Marks, a medical drama from David Marshall Grant (A Million Little Things), Megan King Kelly (Teenage Bounty Hunters), Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions and CBS Studios. Kelly penned the teleplay from a story she co-wrote with Grant. In St. Marks, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Alison Ra Choi, who was previously SVP, Business Affairs at CBS, has joined Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi's PatMa Productions. Choi has been named Chief of Content Strategy and Business Operations at the company, which is part-owned by and has a first-look deal with CBS. She joined the company, which was…

EXCLUSIVE: WME talent agent Arielle Mesirow has joined Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi's CBS Studios-based production company, PatMa Productions, as Vice President, Comedy. In her new role, Mesirow will shepherd development of projects that fit PatMa's strategy for producing premium comedy content. As part of PatMa's…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, CBS has given a script commitment with penalty to How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings, a single-camera comedy inspired by TikTok star Sarah Cooper’s book. The project hails from Cooper, Cindy Chupack (Sex and the City), Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi's PatMa…

EXCLUSIVE: Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s PatMa Productions’ has optioned podcast Cold from KSL to develop into a TV series that tackles the issue of domestic abuse. Cold chronicles the tragic circumstances surrounding the disappearance of a young Mormon wife and mother of two, Susan Powell. Using actual case…

Grey’s Anatomy alum Patrick Dempsey is returning to broadcast television as the star and executive producer of Ways & Means (fka The Whip), a Washington D.C. drama that has been picked up to pilot by CBS. The project comes from former SEAL Team showrunner Ed Redlich, Republican political consultant Mike Murphy, Nina…

CBS has put in development Never Tell, a drama based on the book of the same title by Selena Montgomery (nom de plume for Stacey Abrams), from writer Talicia Raggs (NCIS: New Orleans) Abrams and Nina Tassler and Denise Di Novi’s Pat Ma Productions, in which CBS has an ownership stake and PatMa has a first-look deal…

CBS has taken an ownership stake in and struck a first-look deal with PatMa Productions, the production company set up by former CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler and Heathers and Batman Returns producer Denise Di Novi. The indie has set its first project through the deal – an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates'…

Denise Di Novi and Nina Tassler’s PatMa Productions has tapped former Showtime programming executive Joan Boorstein as President of the multiplatform independent production company. "We're very lucky to have such a seasoned and talented executive join our team," said Tassler and Di Novi. "There's no substitute for…

What if Alaska is home of a big Jewish settlement and the fledgling state of Israel was destroyed? That is the setup of a TV series project based on Michael Chabon’s acclaimed 2007 alternative history book Yiddish Policemen’s Union. CBS TV Studios, Nina Tassler and Denise DiNovi’s PatMa Productions and Keshet Studios…

Television industry veteran Nina Tassler talked about failure and reinvention and her forthcoming project from PatMa Productions that illustrates the sort of female-centric storytelling she and co-founder Denise Di Novi plan to support with their newly formed production company. Tassler is developing War Torn: Stories…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive bidding situation, former CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler and producer Denise Di Novi have acquired rights to the critically-acclaimed, non-fiction book Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel. The duo will adapt and produce the project as a limited series under their…