Flexible episode orders, the spectre of studios' own streaming services, the opportunity to party with 50 Cent and an In N Out Burger-fueled riot dominated the chatter among international buyers at this week's LA Screenings. While buying traditional network series may have become slightly more complicated for the…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of Cobra Kai‘s Season 3 renewal by YouTube, creators/executive producers Jon Hurwitz, Josh Heald and Hayden Schlossberg have signed a three-year overall deal with the studio behind the hit series, Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, the trio will develop comedy, drama and unscripted TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime collaborators, Homeland co-creators/executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, have partnered and set up shop at Sony Pictures Television Studios with a rich four-year overall deal, leaving their longtime studio home at 20th Century Fox TV where Gordon has been for a quarter century, and…

EXCLUSIVE: One day after finding its Alex Rider, Sony Pictures Television has rounded out the full cast for its adaptation of the teen superspy drama. Game of Thrones star Brenock O'Connor and Stephen Dillane are starring alongside Doctor Who's Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo, Broadchurch's Andrew Buchan and Line of Duty's Vicky Mc…

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…

(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…