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Sony-backed Eleventh Hour Films has signed up The Crown star Lesley Manville to lead the cast of its PBS/BritBox crime series Magpie Murders, while The Full Monty helmer Peter Cattaneo has been set as the director. Oscar and BAFTA-nominated Manville will star as Susan Ryeland, an editor who is given an unfinished…

EXCLUSIVE: For Life star Joy Bryant is expanding her relationship with Sony Pictures TV, the studio behind the praised ABC legal drama. Bryant has teamed with writer/producer Samantha Taylor Pickett (Good Girls, Tales From The Loop) to launch a production company, Hot Sauce, which will be based at Sony TV with a…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television have cast the new group of teenagers (and a couple of adults) at the center of the I Know What You Did Last Summer series reboot. Madison Iseman (Jumanji: The Next Level), Brianne Tju (Light as a Feather), Ezekiel Goodman, Ashley Moore (Popstar: Never Stop Never St…

Sony Pictures Television is the latest TV studio to extend the holiday production hiatus of its Los Angeles-based series amid an unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections and Covid-19 deaths in LA County. Production on the studio’s ABC comedy series The Goldbergs and Netflix’s Atypical, which was scheduled to…

EXCLUSIVE: One Life, the memoir from World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe, is set to be adapted as a scripted television series after Sony Pictures Television optioned the rights. Rapinoe, who is widely considered one of the best soccer players of her generation, helped the U.S. Women’s National Team to win the World Cup in…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Sony Pictures Television has optioned Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey's bestselling book Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, for development as a drama series. A search for a writer is underway. The book, published by Ecco/HarperCollins in July, is described as a…

Former ESPN star Jemele Hill is moving into scripted television and has teamed with Gabrielle Union to develop a half-hour comedy series about Black women with financial independence. New Money, which is based on a story from Hill and The Undefeated journalist Kelley Carter, who run Lodge Freeway Media, is in…

HBO has given a series order to The Last of Us, the adaptation of the PlayStation video game, from Chernobyl creator Craig Mazin, game creator Neil Druckmann and Game of Thrones exec producer Carolyn Strauss. The series is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television in association with PlayStation Productions, Word…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films is gearing up to start shooting the second season of Anthony Horowitz's spy thriller Alex Rider from the start of next year. Sony is yet to officially confirm Season 2, but Deadline understands that the drama is slated to begin a 22-week shoot from January…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one: British model and Queen & Slim actress Jodie Turner-Smith is to play Anne Boleyn in a convention-defying Channel 5 drama made by the Sony-backed Stan & Ollie producer Fable Pictures. Deadline can reveal that the ViacomCBS-owned broadcaster has commissioned a three-part series that will…

People (the TV Show!) is eying an expansion. Sony Pictures Television has partnered with Meredith Corp for the nationwide distribution of the new daily half-hour newsmagazine program inspired by the People brand, which features a combination of celebrity, entertainment and human-interest stories. Following Meredith…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has inked a two-year, first-look deal with The Nacelle Company to develop scripted comedy. The Nacelle Company is behind such projects such as Netflix's Down to Earth with Zac Efron, The Movies That Made Us, BET+’s All the Way Black as well as Disney +'s Behind the Attraction. The…