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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Diablo Cody (Juno) has boarded Jenny Mollen’s City of Likes as executive producer of the series adaptation, which is in development with Sony Pictures TV and The Nacelle Company. Announced in 2021, the project falls under Nacelle’s first look comedy deal with Sony TV. The book will be released…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Robinson’s The Nemesis Saga novel series is getting the small screen treatment. Project Nemesis, the first book in Robinson’s series, is being developed for television by Sony TV and Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film (The Boys), with John Wick helmer Chad Stahelski set to direct and executive produce. Pr…

Actress Briana Thomas is suing Sony Pictures Television and CBS Studios, the producers of long-running soap The Young and the Restless, alleging harassment on the set from its showrunner, Anthony “Tony” Morina. Thomas appeared on the show in a background role as a barista in 2018 and 2019. Legal papers filed Thursday…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Union-founded I'll Have Another Productions has picked up the rights to The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, the debut novel from broadcast journalist Anissa Gray. The book is being developed into a series under I'll Have Another’s first-look production deal with Sony Pictures…

EXCLUSIVE: YouTube’s flagship scripted series Cobra Kai will be moving to a new streaming platform for its upcoming third season. The Google-owned online video service is in the process of releasing Season 3 of the popular show to producing studio Sony Pictures TV amid a retreat from premium original scripted…

(UPDATED with statement from Sony) A year after being suddenly cut loose from The Blacklist over alleged harassment of a crew member, the NBC series’ long-time director and executive producer Michael Watkins is aiming to give Sony TV, producers Woodbridge Productions and others a legal black eye. The move comes in a…

Apple, which helped revolutionize the digital distribution of music with iTunes, is a relatively late entrant into the digital video-on-demand space. But its foray had been a long time in the making. "There has always been a fascination at the company with movie and TV content," says Tim Bajarin, president of…

ABC has put in development legal drama Illusion of Justice based on Jerome F. Buting’s book, from Primary Wave Entertainment and Sony TV. Written by ER alum David Zabel, Illusion of Justice is a fictional show reflecting the life of Jerry Buting, one of the lawyers for Steven Avery, who was profiled in the Netflix…

After years of will-they-or-won’t-they speculation, Apple is announcing its arrival in the original programming space in a big way with the hire of outgoing Sony Pictures Television presidents Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg to oversee all aspects of worldwide video programming for the tech giant. The duo will…

It’s been more than a week since WGN America officially canceled its acclaimed drama Underground after two seasons as the cable network is changing its programming direction in preparation for its parent Tribune’s acquisition by Sinclair. Underground hails from Sony Pictures TV, which probably has more saved shows…

Making History creator Julius Sharpe has signed an overall deal at Sony TV. Under the two-year pact, he will develop new series projects. Sharpe is moving to the indie studio after a lengthy stint at 20th Century Fox Television where he most recently was under an overall deal. There, Sharpe created and executive…

While on my way to the Cannes Film Festival (where I still am as I write this), I stopped off in New York City to get the temperature on a number of Tony-nominated Broadway shows and also to shoot a couple of episodes of The Actor’s Side — including this one with the ever-talented and versatile Isabella Rossellini…