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The Goonies-inspired drama that was previously set up at Fox has moved to Disney+. The streamer is now redeveloping the project, which the broadcast network passed on in May. Untitled Film Re-Enactment Project, which is now known as Our Time, comes from The Bold Type creator Sarah Watson and the Gail Berman-run…

Fox has given a pilot order to an untitled drama about students remaking the 1985 movie The Goonies. The project comes from The Bold Type creator Sarah Watson and the Gail Berman-run SideCar, with the involvement of the film’s director-producer Richard Donner, production company, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin, and studio…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox Entertainment has made direct deals with The Bold Type creator Sarah Watson and Gang Related exec producer Scott Rosenbaum as it steps up its talent push. This comes after the company unveiled a premium blind script deal with Girlfriends, The Game and Being Mary Jane creator Mara Brock Akil earlier…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Watson, creator of Freeform’s fashion mag dramedy series The Bold Type, has inked with Verve. The series, which is based on the life of Hearst chief content officer and former Cosmopolitan magazine editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, was renewed for a fourth season back in May, with Wendy Straker Hauser as…

SAG-AFTRA has labeled Sarah Watson as "Hypocrite of the Week" in its ongoing strike against the Bartle Bogle Hegarty ad agency. Watson, BBH's chief strategy officer and New York chairman, also serves on the steering committee of Time's Up Advertising, a movement to fight sexual harassment in the advertising…

In a very competitive situation, CBS has landed a medical drama project from the Parenthood duo of Jason Katims and Sarah Watson. The project, from Universal TV and Katims' studio-based True Jack Prods, is set at a high-tech Silicon Valley hospital with a cutting-edge approach to medicine. Watson will write the script…

A decade after Ally McBeal ended its run, another hourlong comedy about a quirky single female attorney is coming to Fox. In a competitive situation with three networks bidding, Fox has landed an untitled project from the Parenthood duo of Jason Katims & Sarah Watson and Universal Television. The project is an edgy…

EXCLUSIVE: Parenthood Co-Executive Producer Sarah Watson has signed a two-year overall deal with Universal Television, the studio behind the NBC dramedy. This marks the first overall pact for Watson, who has been on Parenthood since day one, rising through the ranks from producer to co-executive producer. Keeping…