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EXCLUSIVE: Chris King, executive at Sony Pictures Television-based Osprey Productions, has been named VP Drama Development for the studio. He takes over for Christina Jokanovich, who has moved to SPT’s TriStar Television label as VP Development in the first hire for Kathryn Busby since being named head of TriStar TV…

Sony television executive Kathryn Busby has been named EVP of TriStar Television. She will lead the TV label, reporting to Chris Parnell and Jason Clodfelter, co-presidents of Sony Pictures Television Studios. Busby fills a void left by the October departure of TriStar head Hannah Minghella to become head of film of…

As J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot yesterday announced the hire of TriStar head Hannah Minghella as head of film, TriStar EVP Nicole Brown was named as her replacement at the Sony label, supervising TriStar’s film development and production activities. However, for the past nine months of her 14-year Sony tenure, Minghella had…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar Television is developing Alpha Girls, a Silicon Valley drama series based on Julian Guthrie’s praised new book, Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime. The rights deal, orchestrated by producer Cathy Schulman, is said to be TriStar…

Sony Pictures Entertainment said Thursday that TriStar Pictures Hannah Minghella will expand her role and assume oversight of TriStar Television. The move comes 10 months after the sudden death of Suzanne Patmore Gibbs, who had been the head of TriStar TV. Minghella and Patmore Gibbs had worked closely during their…

YouTube has finalized a deal for 10-episode series order to On Becoming A God In Central Florida, a 1990s-set one-hour dark comedy series, starring and executive produced by Kirsten Dunst. The series, set to premiere on YouTube Premium in 2019, hails from George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures and…

TriStar Television was relaunched by Sony Pictures TV two and a half years ago with Suzanne Patmore Gibbs at the helm and a focus on “prestige-oriented, character-driven serialized projects,” largely based on source material. The company announced its arrival with its first pilot, period newsroom drama Good Girls Revol…

Six months after Hillary Clinton lost the presidency, her road to missing the White House is being eyed as a TV limited series. TriStar Television has optioned Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign, the book by Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes that traces the missteps that led to her crushing defeat at the…

ABC has given a pilot order to Model Woman, a soapy period drama set in the fashion world. The project, from Sony TV’s TriStar Television, is a fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey's book, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty, the recently published biography of the outspoken and…

Sony feature executives-turned-producers and Los Angeles natives Amy Pascal and Elizabeth Cantillon have teamed to produce a TV series project about 1960s and 1970s L.A. based on the books by Eve Babitz. The four books — Eve's Hollywood, Slow Days, Fast Company, Sex And Rage, and LA Woman — have been optioned…

Amazon Studios, which yesterday launched its fall 2015 pilot season with six primetime projects made available for streaming, has ordered two more hourlong pilots, I have learned. The long-gestating The Last Tycoon, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's final unfinished novel, has received a cast-contingent pilot order…

Originally aired as a five-part event series, Collision was a big hit for ITV in 2009. Created by Anthony Horowitz (Foyle’s War), a U.S. version is now being developed by London-based Eleventh Hour Films for NBC in partnership with TriStar Television. Horowitz will also showrun the American take, partnering with Carol…