EXCLUSIVE: Grey’s Anatomy icon Patrick Dempsey and in-demand Italian actor Alessandro Borghi, star of Netflix’s Suburra, are to lead cast in hot new financial-world thriller series Devils for The Young Pope and Gomorrah backer Sky Italia and Medici: Masters Of Florence producer Lux Vide. Based on the best-selling…

Grey’s Anatomy alum Patrick Dempsey, Ben Schnetzer, Damon Wayans Jr and Virginia Madsen are set to topline The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair, the 10-part event series produced by MGM Television, Eagle Pictures and Barbary Films. Based on the bestselling European novel by Joël Dicker, the series is slated to air…

EXCLUSIVE: Britt Robertson, star of the new Netflix series Girlboss, and Jamie Blackley have signed on for the Janusz Kaminski-directed thriller The Postcard Killings. The two will co-star opposite Patrick Dempsey in the pic, adapted from James Patterson and Liza Marklund’s bestseller. Dakota Fanning was attached to…

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Dempsey has signed on as the lead in Good Films’ The Postcard Killings, directed by Janusz Kaminski from a script by Andrew Stern. Production is scheduled to begin in February. Good Universe is handling international sales on the project, which it will present at AFM this week. Based on James…

Banshee co-creator executive producer Jonathan Tropper and executive producer/director Greg Yaitanes are partnering with Grey’s Anatomy alum Patrick Dempsey for a new crime thriller drama project at Cinemax. Micronesian Blues, written by Tropper and to be directed by Yaitanes, is based on the true story of Los Angeles…

Universal has delivered another trailer for upcoming threequel, Bridget Jones’s Baby. The domestic and UK due date has been set as September 16 on the Renée Zellweger-starrer. Sharon Maguire, who helmed the 2001 franchise starter Bridget Jones’s Diary, directs the latest installment. The story is set after Bridget has…

Our beloved Bridget is back – and pregnant. Just one little glitch. There’s a little confusion as who’s the dad. Renee Zellweger dropped the first trailer for Bridget Jones’s Baby during a visit today to The Ellen DeGeneres Show. The third installment of the franchise sees Zellweger reprising her role as the…

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Dempsey is in final negotiations to join the cast of Bridget Jones’s Baby for British production powerhouse Working Title co-chiefs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The much-anticipated third installment of the franchise sees Renee Zellweger reprising her role as the mishap-prone British publishing…

Donald Trump, Emmys, Shonda Rhimes’ acting and even Mr. Potato Head were some of the vast topics canvassed at ABC’s TGIT panel, aka the Shondaland session, this afternoon at TCA. After some of the blasé panels that the press corps had to sit through last week, TGIT came as tall glass of cold water here at the Beverly…

When McDreamy died last season in a car crash on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, it just drove some fans crazy. Today at TCA’s TGIT panel, Shonda Rhimes expounded on the reasoning behind Dr. Derek Shepherd’s death. “The decision to have the character die the way that he did wasn’t a difficult one in the show,” Rhimes said…

The Q&A section of ABC’s executive session kicked off with a question about last season’s decision to kill off Patrick Dempsey’s character McDreamy on Grey’s Anatomy, which came as a shocker, dividing Grey’s fans. “It was great, wasn’t it?” ABC Entertainment Group president Paul Lee started his answer with, eliciting…

For the first time since Patrick Dempsey’s surprise exit from Grey’s Anatomy last week, his onscreen wife, Ellen Pompeo (Meredith), is speaking out. In a Twitter post titled “Happy Monday,” she says she is “excited to tell the story of how Meredith goes on in the face of what feels like the impossible.” Apparently the…