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EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is developing a teen comedy drama about Black teenagers in L.A. from Real Husbands of Hollywood creator Chris Spencer and Grown-ish writer Chad Sanders. How To Survive Inglewood is created and written by by the pair, who will exec produce alongside Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary of Revelations…

UCP is adding another true crime series to its slate with Candy (working title) a limited event series based on the true story of Texas killer Candy Montgomery and her victim, Betty Gore, starring and executive produced by The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss, from The Act co-creator Nick Antosca and writer Robin Ve…

EXCLUSIVE: Leigh Whannell's 2018 Blumhouse sci-fi thriller feature Upgrade is getting a TV series followup. The series is co-created and executive produced by Whannell and Tim Walsh (Treadstone) who serves as showrunner. Whannell, coming off writing and directing Blumhouse’s The Invisible Man, is set to direct…

In a competitive situation, UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios, and Nick Antosca (The Act, Channel Zero) have won the rights to Jan Broberg's true-crime stranger-than-fiction story, for development as a limited series. The untitled Jan Broberg project follows the bizarre true story of the Broberg family…

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock's reboot of Battlestar Galactica has found its world builder. Michael Lesslie, who was the lead writer and showrunner of AMC's spy drama The Little Drummer Girl and penned scripts for Macbeth and Assassin’s Creed, will create, write and executive produce the series. The new Battlestar Galactica…

Robert Moor, host of the hit Wondery podcast Joe Exotic: Tiger King, chatted with Andy Cohen Monday morning on Cohen’s show Andy Cohen Live on his SiriusXM channel, Radio Andy. Moor talked about the upcoming limited series based on the Joe Exotic podcast that is in development at UCP, starring and executive produced…

The Ice Cream Man is coming to Quibi — but it’s not the kind of ice cream man that serves Bomb Pops and soft serve. As previously reported, Universal Content Productions (UCP) was developing a series based on Image Comics’ popular horror-fantasy series created by W. Maxwell Prince. Now, the series has found a home at…

Julia Roberts is reuniting with Mr Robot creator Sam Esmail on another podcast adaptation as she is attached to star, alongside Sean Penn, Armie Hammer and Joel Edgerton, in a remake of Slate's Watergate audio series Slow Burn. Roberts, who worked with Esmail on Amazon's Homecoming, will play Martha Mitchell, wife of…

UCP is developing dark comedy series The Resort from Andy Siara, writer of Sundance breakout Palm Springs, and Sam Esmail’s Esmail Corp, which is under a deal with UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios. Anonymous Content is producing. The series will be shopped to premium and streaming platforms. The…

Screenwriter Gary Dauberman, who penned It: Chapter Two and Annabelle Comes Home, the two highest-grossing horror movies in North America in 2019, has signed a first-look deal with UCP, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios. Under the deal, Dauberman will write and produce scripted projects for all platforms via…

Syfy is delving into the world of Peter Pan with a limited series from Brian McCauley Johnson and Universal Content Productions. The NBCU-owned cable network is developing The League of Pan, which will follow the adventures of the iconic fairytale about a group of misfit children who refused to grow up. The series…

After adapting four podcasts into high-profile TV series, Homecoming, Dirty John and the upcoming Dr. Death and Joe Exotic, UCP is getting into the podcasting business itself with the launch of UCP Audio. The podcast network is set to launch in 2020 with The End Up, a scripted podcast starring LaKeith Stanfield (Atlant…