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Environmental artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, known as Christo, passed away of natural causes on May 31, 2020, at his home in New York City. He was 84. Christo’s death was announced by his office on Facebook. Along with his late wife and lifelong collaborator Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, who died in 2009…

EXCLUSIVE: Amblin has set Blaise Hemingway to adapt the John Connolly novel The Gates, and brought on Michael De Luca to produce the potential franchise through his Michael De Luca Productions banner. The Gates is the first of a middle grade science fiction novel trilogy that Amblin acquired last fall. The first…

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks Studios has acquired the John Connolly trilogy of novels for middle-school readers as a possible new franchise. The three books are The Gates, The Infernals and The Creeps which follows young protagonist Samuel Johnson and his loyal dog (a Dachshund) Boswell as they battle the forces of darkness…

NBC’s single-camera comedy The Gates has recast two regular roles following Wednesday’s table read. Ally McBeal alum Greg Germann and Ben & Kate co-star Echo Kellum are joining the pilot, replacing Aasif Mandvi and Justin Chon, respectively. Germann was cast as a regular, while Kellum is a guest star. Based on the…

Party Down alum Ken Marino and The Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi round out the cast of the NBC comedy pilot The Gates. Based on the British series, The Gates is an adult ensemble comedy set at the front gates of an elementary school drop-off and revolves around the parents, school staff and 15-minute social…

Christina Kirk has joined the cast of the NBC comedy pilot The Gates. The project, written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith and to be directed by Marc Buckland, received an early pilot green light last month. Based on the British series, The Gates is an adult ensemble comedy set at the front gates of an elementary…

EXCLUSIVE: Episodes co-star Kathleen Rose Perkins is set as the lead in the NBC comedy pilot The Gates. Also cast in the project, from 20th Century Fox TV and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, are Diana Maria Riva, Josh Grisetti (Knights Of Prosperity) and Justin Chon. The Gates, written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Gol…

EXCLUSIVE: Sought-after pilot director Marc Buckland has been tapped to helm The Gates, NBC‘s recently picked up single-camera comedy pilot from writers Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith, Kapital Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV. The project, which was given an early green light, is based on the British series of…

‘Twas the night before Premiere Week, when all through the broadcast nets, not much was stirring besides football. An NFL overrun on CBS and Week 2 of NBC’s Sunday Night Football easily dominated a night filled with reruns and the season finale of ABC’s The Gates. SNF‘s telecast of “Manning Bowl II” between Peyton…

Last night’s season premiere of Sunday Night Football logged the best ratings ever for the NBC sports franchise. The Cowboys/Redskins face-off posted a 16.6 overnight rating/26 share, the best overnight for any Week 1 primetime NFL game in 13 years. On Thursday, NBC’s coverage of the NFL’s kick-off game landed the…

Fox’s comedy repeats, led by back-to-back Family Guy episodes (2.2/6) at 9 PM, won another slow Sunday. ABC’s original drama Scoundrels (0.7/2), was up a tenth from last week’s low, edging Fox’s original Sons of Tucson (0.6/2) and NBC’s Dateline (0.6/2), which ranked as the lowest-rated programs of the night. ABC’s…

We might have seen the last episode of Scoundrels on Sunday after ABC’s original scripted drama sunk to a 0.6 rating/2 rating in adults 18-49 at 9 PM last night, down 14% from last week. That was an all-time low for the show and matched the 0.6 18-49 rating fellow ABC drama Happy Town pulled before being yanked from…