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As Hollywood attempts to move the needle more and more on the gauge of diversity and inclusion, Veena Sud is doing her part to make sure that she is doing her part to not only put more stories from marginalized communities on the screen, but to make those narratives resonate with all audiences. As the showrunner of…

Time is in many ways of the essence with The Killing creator Veena Sud's Seven Seconds. Launching on February 23, the Netflix anthology series starts with the accidental killing of a black teen by a white Jersey City cop and turns to the ugly places with a bigoted wall of blue cover-up, family fallout, our clearly…

Broad Green Pictures said that Veena Sud, who created the AMC crime series The Killing, has signed on to write a remake of We Monsters, the Sebastian Ko film that played at the Toronto Film Festival last year. In We Monsters, a husband and wife struggle with their consciences after they try to conceal a terrible crime…

Sean David Gerard Whitesell, a noted television writer and producer who also acted during his career, died in Los Angeles on December 28 following a battle with Glioblastoma Multiforme. He was 52. The fifth of 6 brothers, among them WME co-CEO Patrick Whitesell, Sean was born in Iowa Falls, Iowa in 1963. He attended…

StudioCanal and Red Production Company are joining forces with producer Spencer Millman, The Inbetweeners star Simon Bird and actor-writer Jonny Sweet to launch Guilty Party, a new film and TV production company. The new banner will operate under the creative supervision of RED exec producer and founder Nicola…

Veena Sud told regulators this morning that her experience with The Killing illustrates how an open Internet promotes media diversity. The AMC series almost didn’t make it to a third season until Netflix offered to help finance. “We were resurrected” and went on to tell “some of our best stories” including ones…

WME has signed The Killing‘s Joel Kinnaman, the agency said in a wide announcement. The Stockholm-bred thesp crossed over stateside as the street-tough Detective Holder on AMC’s cop show and starred in MGM and Sony’s RoboCop reboot earlier this year. The Killing was revived for a fourth season on Netflix this month…

The Killing is the show that won’t die. Netflix picked up the mystery drama in November after original network AMC cancelled it … twice. Now Season 4 will air on the streaming service beginning August 1, with Netflix going all in on a series with which it already has a worldwide streaming deal for the first three…

StudioCanal and its parent Canal Plus Group are partnering with key Scandinavian talent to produce TV series for the international market. Together, they have created SAM Productions which is named after its three principals: Søren Sveistrup, Adam Price, and Meta Louise Foldager. Each of the three comes with…

Netflix has set August 1 for the premiere of the six-episode final installment of The Killing, and A&E has slotted Monday, June 2 (10 PM) for the third-season premiere of Longmire. The Killing stars Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman will return for the final chapter of the series, which was cancelled by AMC in 2012, <a href="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/longmire__140424174704.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…

UPDATE, 5:48 AM: Cancelled series Low Winter Sun and The Killing were responsible for the writedown, CEO Josh Sapan told analysts in a conference call. “We were not happy with the performance of Low Winter Sun,” he says. PREVIOUS, 4:25 AM: It will be interesting to see whether investors consider the pay TV networks…

Gregg Henry has been promoted to a regular for the fourth and final season of The Killing on Netflix. He will reprise his role as Detective Carl Reddick, which he originated as a recurring last season, appearing in 10 of the 12 episodes from Season 3 on AMC. Henry, repped by Domain, also recurred on ABC’s Scandal and…