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The unscripted TV business has never been as glamorous as the movie business or the premium scripted world, but the past 12 months of the pandemic have highlighted how important the sector is to the entertainment world. Shows like The Voice, The Masked Singer and The Bachelor franchise have propped up the broadcast…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Jonathan Smith, a co-exec producer of Cobra Kai, is sticking with Sony Pictures Television. The writer and producer has signed overall deal with the studio to develop and produce scripted projects. Smith started out on season one of the Karate Kid-inspired drama when it was initially ordered by…

Amazon has taken the UK and Ireland rights to Aidan Turner series, Leonardo, following a deal with Sony Pictures Television. The series on Italian master Leonardo da Vinci will premiere on April 16. Produced by Italy’s Lux Vide and Rai Fiction alongside Man In The High Castle outfit Big Light Productions, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is developing Invisible Women, a female-driven dark comedy based on Jeanne Ray’s novel Calling Invisible Women, with veteran screenwriter and showrunner Randi Mayem Singer (Mrs. Doubtfire) set to pen the pilot. In Invisible Women, a woman "of a certain age" wakes up one day to find…

EXCLUSIVE: Dayna Lynne North, a former writer and executive producer on HBO's Emmy-nominated series, Insecure, has inked a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television under her recently formed company, Loud Sis Productions. Under the terms, North will create, develop, write, produce and supervise comedies and…

Ravi Ahuja, who left Disney at the end of last year, has been named Chairman of Global Television Studios at Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment Corporate Development. Ahuja will lead the company's domestic and international productions business, its gameshow franchises and the studio's Indian…

The Kings of Queens stars Kevin James, Leah Remini, Victor Williams, Patton Oswalt and Nicole Sullivan are reuniting virtually for a charity table read of the long-running CBS sitcom. Hosted by Sony Pictures Television, the studio behind The King of Queens, the special charity event will honor series star Jerry Stiller…

Norman Lear is getting into business with IMDb TV. He has set two projects in development at the Amazon-owned free streaming service including the Laverne Cox-George Wallace comedy Clean Slate, which previously was in development at Peacock. The streamer is working with Lear's Act III Productions and Sony Pictures Tele…

Holly Madison's bestselling memoir, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny, is in the works for the small screen. Sony Pictures Television has optioned the tell-all book for development as a limited series with Samara Weaving (Hollywood) set to star as Madison…

EXCLUSIVE: George Tillman, Jr. and Robert Teitel’s State Street Pictures has signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, Tillman, Jr. and Robert Teitel will develop new projects for the studio, working with State Street’s Jay Marcus who has been promoted to Head of Film & Television and…

Sony Pictures Television has signed an exclusive first-look deal with Nigerian media company EbonyLife Media to develop scripted TV series. The two-year agreement is aimed at identifying projects for a global audience that are rooted in EbonyLife’s mission to showcase a pioneering and progressive Africa. Sony and…

Sony Pictures Television’s boutique production outfit Gemstone Studios along with creative agency Ideas United has selected Jenny Schuster’s dramedy Dirty Thirties as the winner of its inaugural Rising Storytellers Search, which seeks emerging voices and female-centric stories. With this win, Schuster gets a pretty…