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EXCLUSIVE: Prolific producer-director-writer Seth Gordon and his Exhibit A banner have signed a rich new three-year overall deal at Sony Pictures Television where Gordon has been based for the past eight years. Under the new pact, Gordon and his producing partner Julia Gunn will continue to develop and produce new…

Prolific film and TV helmer Seth Gordon has been tapped to direct and executive produce NBC’s Lincoln (fka The Bone Collector), a drama pilot based on the bestselling book series by Jeffery Deaver that adapted into the 1999 movie starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. The project hails from writers VJ Boyd and…

EXCLUSIVE; Tom Brady, a co-exec producer on AMC's forthcoming horror drama NOS4A2, rather than the football player, has scored his latest feature film project. I hear that he is writing Tulia, the film based on book Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town and directed by Seth Gordon. The film tells…

Prolific director-producer Seth Gordon has brought in Julia Gunn to run his Exhibit A Film company, which recently renewed its overall deal at Sony Pictures TV where Gordon has been based for the past seven years. Gunn moves to Exhibit A from Jamie Vanderbilt's Mythology Entertainment where she ran the TV division…

Seth Gordon has been tapped to direct and executive produce Dan the Weatherman, Fox’s single-camera comedy from The Life & Times Of Tim creator Steve Dildarian and Tomorrow Studios. Fox sibling 20th Century Fox TV is the studio. Written by Dildarian, Dan the Weatherman centers on the eponymous character. After getting…

The Seth Gordon-produced documentary True Conviction, which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, is being adapted for television. CBS is developing drama True Conviction based on the well-received documentary, from Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s Tribeca Productions, The Goldbergs executive producer Gordon…

EXCLUSIVE: Middleton Media Group has set Baywatch helmer Seth Gordon to direct Life in Rewind, a fact based drama about a man who overcame a debilitating case of OCD brought on by a childhood trauma. The book by Terry Weible Murphy is being adapted by Academy Nicholl Fellowship winner Stephanie Shannon, who is…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema has acquired Boston College Fix, a pitch about the true story of the Boston College point-shaving scandal, where infamous mob figures infiltrated its basketball team to fix games during the late 1970s. Chief among the mobsters were the guys played by Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta in Goodfella…

ABC has given a script commitment plus penalty to a single-camera comedy from The Comedians co-creator/executive producer Ben Wexler and Seth Gordon & Mary Rohlich’s Exhibit A. Sony TV, where Exhibit A has a deal, is the studio. Written by Wexler, the untitled project centers on a recently-widowed 60-something guy who…

Netflix has given a formal series green light to Atypical (formerly known as Antarctica), a coming-of-age comedy series from The Goldbergs writer/co-executive producer Robia Rashid and director/executive producer Seth Gordon. Jennifer Jason Leigh (Hateful Eight), Keir Gilchrist (It’s Kind Of A Funny Story) and Michael…

Actor-writer Josh Gad (Angry Birds) is set to star and co-write, Josh Schwartz is attached to co-write and showrun and Seth Gordon is expected to direct Toy Wars, a limited drama series in development at Amazon, which follows the real-life battle between American toy giants Hasbro, the company behind GI Joe…

In a competitive situation, Manhunt, a half-hour series project from Happy Endings creator David Caspe, Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon, Black List writer Jordan Cahan (My Best Friend’s Girl) and Life In Pieces executive producer Aaron Kaplan, has landed at Showtime for development. I hear the pitch, from Sony TV…