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Amazon has put in development a series based on James Patterson’s Alex Cross novels for television. The crime, mystery, and thriller New York Times bestselling novels focus on Metropolitan Police Department detective and father Alex Cross as he faces threats to his family and the city of Washington, D.C. The book…

EXCLUSIVE: Marcy Ross, who launched Skydance Television and has built the TV division of David Ellison's film production and financing company into a bustling indie studio, is exiting her post as Skydance TV president after six and a half years. She is transitioning to producing with an overall deal at Skydance…

Prolific writer-producer David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight, Da Vinci’s Demons) is expanding his relationship with Skydance Television, signing a multi-year overall deal with the studio. Under the pact, Goyer will create, develop and produce original scripted series via his Phantom Four production banner headed by Keith…

Grace and Frankie is set to end after its seventh and now final season – but not before amassing the most episode of any Netflix original series. The digital platform has handed the Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin comedy a 16-episode run for its final season, taking the total number to 94. This comes ahead of the Season 6…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer Olivia Purnell (Y) has signed an exclusive multi-year overall production deal with Skydance Television to create, develop and produce original scripted series for the studio. Purnell currently has multiple projects in development with Skydance that will be announced in the coming months. "We fell in…

EXCLUSIVE: Altered Carbon executive producer Alison Schapker is expanding her relationship with Skydance Television, the studio behind the Netflix sci-fi drama series, signing an exclusive, multi-year overall production deal. Schapker joined Altered Carbon as executive producer and co-showrunner for Season 2 alongside…

Hit Broadway musical Oklahoma! is coming to television for the first time after Jack Ryan producer Skydance Television partnered with The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and music firm Concord. The Blind Side's John Lee Hancock and This Is Us' Bekah Brunstetter are writing the present-day adaptation. The series…

EXCLUSIVE: Lewaa Nasserdeen (Daredevil) has entered into an exclusive multi-year overall production deal with Skydance Television, under which the multi-hyphenate actor-writer-producer will create, develop and produce original scripted series for the studio. Under the pact, he already is working on multiple projects…

Jack Reacher may be headed to television. Lee Child, whose Jack Reacher book series was turned into a pair of Paramount movies starring Tom Cruise, said today that there is a deal in place to turn the novels into a TV series. According to Child, there will be no more movies with Cruise and he also won’t star in the…

Former Netflix executive Carol Turner has joined Skydance Television as EVP Television Physical Production. Starting immediately, she will oversee all physical production for comedies, dramas, limited series and miniseries for the TV studio including production finance and post-production. Turner is replacing Jake…

Skydance Television announced a a multi-year overall agreement today with writer-producers Patrick Massett and John Zinman (Friday Night Lights, The Blacklist, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider). The studio currently has several projects in development with the pair, including the first-ever live action television series for Swo…

Skydance Television has sealed a multi-year first-look deal with Sam Raimi and his television producing partner Debbie Liebling. The studio has multiple projects in development with Raimi, which will be announced in the coming months. "Over Sam's prolific, decades-long career, he has proven time and again his capacity…