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EXCLUSIVE: Eli Kirschner, who was most recently SVP, Scripted Development at Peacock, has joined Sam Esmail's Esmail Corp as Head of Television. Kirschner, who has been at NBCUniversal for a decade in a variety of roles, will work to grow the Homecoming and Mr. Robot producer's slate of streaming and cable series. He…

EXCLUSIVE: With his upcoming Blade pic finding a director and his Apple Studios pic Swan Song setting a release date, Mahershala Ali doesn’t shows signs of slowing down. He now has found another exciting role to add to his dance card, as sources tell Deadline that the Oscar winner is set to join Julia Roberts in the Ne…

Sam Esmail is teeing up his next development. The Mr. Robot creator has teamed up with Luce and The Cloverfield Paradox director Julius Onah to develop a series based on the premise of an American monarchy. The American Throne, which will be written and directed by Nigerian American filmmaker Onah, is set in a…

True-crime love story The Resort, from Palm Springs writer Andy Siara and Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, has been ordered at Peacock. The streamer has handed the series from UCP an eight-part order. It first emerged in February 2020 that the pair were developing the scripted project at the Universal Studio Group…

Newcomer Candace Grace has been tapped as the lead in Sam Esmail’s ABC drama pilot Acts of Crime. Also joining as series regulars are Molly Price (Feud: Bette & Joan), Peter Mark Kendall (Broadway’s Six Degrees of Separation) and newcomer Josiah Cross. The project hails from Mr. Robot creator Esmail, UCP, a division…

ABC is moving forward with Sam Esmail's procedural Acts of Crime, handing the project a pilot pick-up. It marks the latest move in the network's second cycle development plan for the 2020/21 season and marks the Mr. Robot creator's first foray into broadcast television. Deadline understands that the pilot, which comes…

ABC is getting in the Sam Esmail business in a major way. The network has bought two dramas from the Mr. Robot creator and Homecoming EP – Acts of Crime, which has landed a production commitment; and Untitled CDC Project, which has received a put pilot commitment. Both projects hail from UCP, where Esmail is under a…

EXCLUSIVE: UCP is developing the procedural drama series So Others May Live with writer-producer Stephen Meinen and Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp on board to produce. Written by Meinen, So Others May Live is set in the world of the U.S. Coast Guard. The pilot follows a search-and-rescue helicopter crew dealing with the…

EXCLUSIVE: After another vigorous bidding battle for a star-cast package, Netflix prevailed and won world rights for Julia Roberts starring with Denzel Washington and Mr Robot‘s Sam Esmail directing Leave The World Behind, a feature adaptation of an upcoming novel by Rumaan Alam. I heard that it came down to Netflix…

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock's reboot of Battlestar Galactica has found its world builder. Michael Lesslie, who was the lead writer and showrunner of AMC's spy drama The Little Drummer Girl and penned scripts for Macbeth and Assassin’s Creed, will create, write and executive produce the series. The new Battlestar Galactica…

Julia Roberts is reuniting with Mr Robot creator Sam Esmail on another podcast adaptation as she is attached to star, alongside Sean Penn, Armie Hammer and Joel Edgerton, in a remake of Slate's Watergate audio series Slow Burn. Roberts, who worked with Esmail on Amazon's Homecoming, will play Martha Mitchell, wife of…

UCP is developing dark comedy series The Resort from Andy Siara, writer of Sundance breakout Palm Springs, and Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp, which is under a deal with UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios. Anonymous Content is producing. The series will be shopped to premium and streaming platforms. The…