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EXCLUSIVE: Gemstone Studios’ inaugural Rising Storytellers Search has identified the four finalists who will compete for a chance to sign a deal with Sony Pictures Television and win additional prizes. "Never did we imagine we'd get the response or the depth or the quality of our 1700+ submissions in this first-ever…

Sony Pictures Television plans to create a U.S. television series based on Lux Vide’s Italian drama Doc – Nelle Tue Mani as part of a deal that also hands it the rights to sell the original show internationally. The Doctor House-meets-The Good Doctor series stars Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love) as Andrea Fanti, a…

Sony Pictures Television has acquired global distribution rights to the documentary Who You Gonna Call? chronicling the life of Grammy-winner Ray Parker Jr., who penned the smash hit song “Ghostbusters”. Directed by award-winning filmmaker Fran Strine (Hired Gun), the documentary follows Parker's struggles growing up…

Sony Pictures Television has announced plans to host a Virtual October Formats Fest to showcase its offerings following the disruption to Mipcom caused by coronavirus. Sony is the latest studio to launch its own formats festival after ITV Studios held a similar event for international buyers last week. The Sony…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has put in development Unsportsmanlike Conduct, a limited series based on Walter Byers’ book Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Exploiting College Athletes. The project hails from Cobra Kai co-executive producers Joe Piarulli and Luan Thomas, series creators/exec producers/showrunners Josh…

Dr. Oz is returning for a new season today — and he’ll be back for at least two more. Fox Station Group has renewed The Dr. Oz Show for Season 13 and 14, which will take the Daytime Emmy-winning talker into 2023. Dr. Oz has been on the front lines during the COVID-19 outbreak, producing 55 original shows during the…

EXCLUSIVE: Over the past few years, Marisol Nichols has been juggling the demands of being an actor on series including Riverdale with a side gig as an undercover agent in the fight against sex trafficking. The latter is now being turned into a television series after Sony Pictures Television optioned rights to her…

Sony Pictures Television is launching a YouTube channel with magician Jason Latimer that will fuse illusions with science. The channel is called Impossible Science. In his first series of original videos, Impossible Science: At Home, Latimer aims to inspire curiosity through experiments and lessons, some featuring…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC's rebooted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was one of the last nonscripted shows to finish production before the COVID-19 production shutdown in March. Host Jimmy Kimmel and the production team shot eight episodes of the game show the weekend of March 14 without an audience to get in under the wire. Who Wa…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is expanding its relationship with Hank Steinberg in a big way. The studio has signed a big five-year overall deal with the creator of the praised — and timely — Sony TV legal drama series For Life, which has been renewed for a second season by ABC. Under the pact, Steinberg will…

International drama series Leonardo, starring Aidan Turner as Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci, has wrapped after being one of the first major productions to resume during the Covid-19 crisis. The high-end drama re-started on June 15 after a three-month hiatus. Today we can reveal drone footage, set to the show’s…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC gameshow The $100,000 Pyramid is returning to the studio in the last week of August. The Michael Strahan-hosted series shoots in New York and it is thought that it is one of the first major non-scripted entertainment shows to return to the studio in New York, where Strahan films Good Morning America. It…