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The case of Magnum P.I. has closed on CBS, leaving the creative minds and the cast of the reboot series feeling bittersweet about its cancellation. Amid a slew of cancellations and renewals heading into next week’s upfront presentation, CBS revealed that it will not renew Magnum P.I., starring Jay Hernandez, for a…

MacGyver star Lucas Till says in a new interview that the toxic on-set environment created by former executive producer Peter M. Lenkov drove the actor to the “breaking point,” and that the first year on the show left Till feeling “suicidal.” In a new Vanity Fair report, Till says he was subjected to bullying, verbal…

CBS Television Studios has parted ways with one of the top showrunners on its roster, Peter Lenkov. He has been fired from the two series he developed, executive produced and showran, CBS’ MacGyver and Magnum P.I. His overall deal with the studio also has been terminated. We hear the decision came this week, following…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about tonight’s series finale of Hawaii Five-0. After 10 seasons, CBS says farewell to the reboot of Hawaii Five-0… or more appropriately, “Aloha”, which is the title of the final hurrah of the reimagining of the Leonard Freeman classic series. In the series finale, it…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 will be coming to an end. The popular action crime drama series will wrap its 10-year, 240-episode run with a two-hour series finale on Friday, April 3. Developed by Peter M. Lenkov, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci as a reimagining of Leonard Freeman's classic series and shawrun by Lenkov…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development Truth & Justice, a crime drama from one of its top drama showrunners, Peter Lenkov (Hawaii Five-O, MacGyver, Magnum P.I.), The Oath creator Joe Halpin and The Dirt author Neil Strauss. The project hails from Dan Lin’s Rideback and CBS TV Studios, where Lenkov and his 101st Street…

CBS has put in development dramas Wet House and The Terminal, from the Secrets & Lies team of creator/executive producer Barbie Kligman and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. For cop drama Wet House, on which Kapital is the co-studio alongside CBS TV Studios, Kligman is partnering with the Rizzoli & Isles duo of…

There had been bad blood between Justin Sundquist and Jeff Cadiente before they landed plum stunt coordinating assignments within weeks of each other on two CBS reboots from executive producer Peter Lenkov, the network's most prolific writer-producer. All three men had been involved in a lawsuit stemming from a 2016 ac…

CBS has put in development cop drama Ranger, inspired by James Patterson’s recently released best-selling novel Texas Ranger. The project hails from American Sniper writer Jason Hall, Shooter co-executive producers TJ Brady and Rasheed Newson, Peter Lenkov’s 101st Street Entertainment, James Patterson Entertainment…

SPOILER ALERT: The following article contains details about the pilot episodes of Magnum P.I. and Manifest If you were at San Diego Comic-Con in July, you might have been treated to an advance screening of the pilots for CBS’ reboot of Magnum P.I. and NBC’s Manifest. Both series premiere on Sept. 24 and one is an…

The Media Action Network for Asian Americans is condemning CBS' upcoming reboot of Magnum P.I. for featuring too few Asian/Pacific Islanders and is calling on the show's executive producer, Peter Lenkov, to be replaced. Lenkov, who is CBS' most prolific writer-producer, also is the EP on Hawaii Five-0, another reboot…

Magnum P.I. executive producer Peter Lenkov has reversed course on whether the CBS reboot has a Latinx writer, tweeting this afternoon that the series does have one, an alum of the CBS Writers Mentoring Program. The previous afternoon at TCA, when asked whether there were any Latinx writers on the series, Lenkov said…