EXCLUSIVE: Cobra Kai creators, executive producers and showrunners Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald have signed a big new four-year overall deal with the studio behind the hit Karate Kid sequel series, Sony Pictures Television.
When the trio signed their first overall deal with Sony Pictures TV in early…
EXCLUSIVE: John Weiser, President, First-Run Television at Sony Pictures Television, is leaving the studio after more than 30 years.
Deadline understands that Weiser, who has been responsible for successfully negotiating multiple cycles of Seinfeld syndicated sales in the U.S. among a plethora of deals, will exit in…
Mike Richards is out as executive producer of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.
Sony Pictures Television just told staff. See the full note below.
It comes after a turbulent few weeks for the long-running syndicated program, which saw Richards, who joined Jeopardy! as exec producer in 2020, ousted as host after one day…
EXCLUSIVE: After acquiring both television and feature rights, Sony Pictures Television has put in development One Last Last Heist, a half-hour comedy based on Darrin Rose’s comedic short film of the same name, with Rose set to write and executive produce. Two-time Emmy winner Mike Royce (Everybody Loves Raymond, One…
Ryan Reynolds has thrown his support behind LeVar Burton’s ongoing campaign to host Jeopardy!, following EP Mike Richards’ exit from the podium.
The actor said as much—albeit in oblique fashion—in a post published to Twitter on Friday. In it, he shared how he relates to Burton’s experience, given the time he himself…
Netflix's Cobra Kai is ready to break out of the dojo and take center stage at the All Valley Tournament — just as its characters have done before — except this time, former mortal enemies Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) will kiai for the same team.
"In Season 2, Johnny and Daniel…
EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director-producer Nick Stoller and producing partner Conor Welch have renewed the overall deal with Sony Pictures Television for their Stoller Global Solutions company.
Under the new pact, Stoller has teamed with recent Oscar winner Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) on Sweetness. Fennell wrote…
When the dust settled on the Emmy nominations announcement Tuesday morning, Sony Pictures Television Studios found themselves with nominations in three top series categories, an expected 10th Outstanding Reality/Structured Reality Series nomination for ABC veteran Shark Tank, and surprise nominations for Netflix’s Cobr…
EXCLUSIVE: One of the longest ongoing creative partnerships between a showrunner and a studio is set to continue. Vince Gilligan, creator of the blockbuster Breaking Bad franchise, which has spawned two hit series and a movie, has re-upped his overall deal with Breaking Bad producer Sony Pictures Television.
Gilligan…
EXCLUSIVE:Sony Pictures Television has acquired Faust, the superhero horror comic book from writer David Quinn and artist Tim Vigil, to develop as an animated series. Godkiller writer Matteo Pizzolo will write the adaptation under his first-look deal with SPT.
Released by Quinn and Vigil’s Rebel Studios in 1987, Faust…
EXCLUSIVE: Coming off an eight-season run on The Blacklist, series star Megan Boone is staying in business with the studio behind the long-running NBC drama series. Boone has launched a production company, Weird Sister, signing a first-look deal with Sony Pictures Television.
Under the pact, Boone will develop and…
