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EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television has begun accepting applications for its sixth annual Diverse Directors Program, which is part of SPT's overall strategy to identify and engage emerging talent from a wide range of backgrounds. Up to 15 semi-finalists will be selected from as many as 300 participate in the Diverse…

Sony-backed British producer Eleventh Hour Films is adapting Ayisha Malik's The Casual Vacancy-esque novel This Green and Pleasant Land for television. The company has optioned the novel, which was published this week by Bonnier Zaffre, with a view for a small-screen remake. The book follows the story of the only…

GSN’s hit game show America Says is heading into syndication. Sony Pictures Television, co-owner of GSN, has partnered with the network to launch the game show in syndication nationwide this fall. Fox, Sinclair, CBS, Cox Media, Tegna, Nexstar, Mission, Gray and Lockwood station groups have agreed to carry the show…

Fox Networks Group has picked up the UK rights to Gabrielle Union and Jessica Alba action drama L.A.'s Finest. The UK broadcaster has struck a deal with Sony Pictures Television for the 13-episode series. The series, which is based in Jerry Bruckheimer's Bad Boys universe, will launch in the UK in May. This comes…

Sony Pictures Television has struck a co-development and co-production deal with The Boy with the Topknot producer Nisha Parti. The Hollywood studio has inked a three year deal to work with Parti to produce scripted dramas for network, cable and streaming platforms. The projects will be co-produced between the two…

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…