The Mel Robbins Show is sprinting toward a fall launch. Sony Pictures Television’s new one-hour syndicated talk show hosted by motivational speaker, life strategist and author Robbins has been picked up by Nexstar Media Group. Combined with Tribune, which teamed with SPT to launch the program, The Mel Robbins Show has…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony has found its Alex Rider – Mrs Wilson star Otto Farrant has been chosen to front the small-screen reboot of the teen superspy.

Farrant, who played Nigel Wilson in the Ruth Wilson-fronted PBS Masterpiece and BBC drama, will play the eponymous character in the series, which is being produced by Sony Pictu…

Viacom-owned British broadcaster Channel 5 has picked up the UK rights to Sony Pictures Television's Crackle drama The Oath.

The network will launch the 50 Cent-exec produced drama on its digital service My5 as part of a strategy of bolstering the VOD platform with first-run exclusives.

The Oath, which has been…

Known for being an incubator for original stories, multi-platform entertainment company Wattpad is expanding its reach with a new partnership with Sony Pictures Television to develop and co-produce original programming for television. The collaboration gives Sony a first-look at the up-and-coming stories from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Future Man co-creators/executive producers Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir have closed a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, the studio behind Hulu’s adventure comedy series starring Josh Hutcherson .

Under the pact, the pair will develop new series projects for the studio as well as continue …

Stan & Ollie and Wild Rose producer Fable Pictures is turning the story of Joan and Jackie Collins into a six-part television series. This comes after the Sony-backed production company secured the rights to the sisters' life stories.

Playwright Penelope Skinner, who wrote the Romola Garai and Greta Gerwig-fronted play…

(UPDATED 5:51 PM with Sony TV statement) EXCLUSIVE: A little over a month after Days of Our Lives was renewed for a record 55th season by NBC, the producers behind the long running and Emmy winning daytime soap today have squared up against Sony Pictures Television in a distribution legal dust-up that could see tens…

Fox is developing an adaptation of graphic novel Talent with Justified showrunner Graham Yost.

The broadcast network has partnered with Boom! Studios, the comic book publisher behind the graphic novel, Neil Moritz and his Original Films firm and Sony Pictures Television to develop it as a one-hour drama. Fox has…

Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has hired Sky exec Holly Comiskey as Country Manager for the UK and Ireland.

The Hollywood studio has appointed Comiskey to run its television and home entertainment distribution in the UK as well as overseeing management of SPT's networks.

She joins after seven years with the pay-TV gian…

UPDATED with semifinalists, 10:15 AM: Sony Pictures Television has announced the 15 semifinalists in its 2018 Diverse Directors Program. The shortlisted folks for fifth annual initiative are Amir Farhang, Charissa Sanjarernsuithikul, Darien Sills-Evans, James Sims, Jeannette Godoy, Kim Nguyen, Leena Pendharkar, Lynda…

Das Boot director Andreas Prochaska has signed on to helm the television adaptation of Alex Rider for Sony.

The director, who was behind the camera for the Sky drama that was recently picked up by Hulu, will direct and exec produce the first four episodes of the teen superspy drama.

The show is heading to the small scr…

The Matrix and CSI star Laurence Fishburne is to star in and exec produce Sony's anthology UFO drama series Rendlesham.

The series, which is a co-production between Sony Pictures Television and Eleventh Hour Films, the UK indie that the Hollywood studio owns a stake in, is an eight-part drama is inspired by a…