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EXCLUSIVE: A pandemic read has led to a series order at Netflix. The streamer has greenlighted The Night Agent, a political conspiracy thriller series created by Shawn Ryan based on author Matthew Quirk’s 2019 New York Times bestseller. Seth Gordon is set to direct the first episode of the series, which comes from…

Lords of Dogtown is headed to television. IMDb TV, Amazon's free, ad-supported streaming service, is developing a TV series adaptation of the 2005 Sony movie. The project hails from Shawn Ryan’s MiddKid Productions and Sony Pictures TV where the company is based, with the movie’s director Catherine Hardwick executive…

Shawn Ryan is adapting for television the 2020 novel The Night Agent by Matthew Quirk. The Shield creator revealed the project last night as part of a series of tweets about some the favorite books he read in 2020. He listed The Night Agent in the category of “Books I read, Decided To Adapt For Television And May Have…

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has put in development La Bravura, a one-hour psychological thriller dramedy from veteran comedy showrunner Tad Quill (A Moody Christmas), S.W.A.T. co-creator Shawn Ryan and his MiddKid Productions, and Sony Pictures Television. La Bravura, which I hear landed at Showtime in a competitive…

S.W.A.T. original cast member Stephanie Sigman has confirmed her departure from the CBS series, with the show’s exec producer and writer Shawn Ryan subsequently tweeting his well wishes to the actress. Speculation about Sigman’s exit was prompted with this week’s Season 3 Oct. 2 premiere, when the actress’ Capt…

UPDATED with Nagy’s response and Ryan’s update: The WGA election debate has kicked off with a fiery exchange among a trio of prominent writers — top showrunner and former WGA Negotiating Committee member Shawn Ryan, Chernobyl creator and former Negotiating Committee member Craig Mazin and Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nag…

Writer-producer David Schulner is hoping that the hard lesson he learned from his mentor, veteran showrunner Shawn Ryan, during the 2007-2008 writers' strike will inspire his fellow scribes to stand with the WGA in its ongoing battle with Hollywood's talent agencies. That struggle is now completing its third week…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about the series finale of Timeless. NBC’s Timeless has had quite a journey. The time-traveling series has always been on the bubble and after one season, it was canceled. The news was met with an outcry from the show’s diehard fans — who are affectionately referred to as…

There was only a sliver of hope, but it’s now official: Sony Pictures TV’s attempts to find a new network home for Timeless following the time-travel drama’s cancellation by NBC have ended without a deal. Series’ co-creator/executive producer Shawn Ryan gave fans the update on Twitter, thanking them for their…

Back on television more than 42 years after the debut of the original series, CBS' November 2-premiering S.W.A.T. reboot is exactly the type of testosterone-juiced police procedural the revival-friendly network proliferates throughout its primetime lineup. As all those billboards, bus posters and ads have made clear, S…

CBS' S.W.A.T. has the same name, theme music and even title font as the 1970s cop drama on which it and the 2003 movie are based, but cast and executive producers promise that similarities to the original end there. “I call it S.W.A.T. 2017 … we're taking on the Trump years," star Shemar Moore told TV critics at <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/tca/" id="auto-tag_tca"…

"I got a call from NBC and they said we made a mistake and we're picking up the show," Timeless executive producer Eric Kripke told the Comic-Con crowd today of how he found out May 13 that his time-travel series was not cancelled after all. Receiving huge applause from a packed Room 6BCF at the San Diego Convention…