USA Network has added a raft of series regulars to its UCP and Amblin Television drama Brave New World including When They See Us' Kylie Bunbury and Killjoys' Hannah John-Kamen. The series, which is based on the Aldous Huxley novel, has also added Origin's Sen Mitsuji, The Originals' Joseph Morgan and Killing Eve's Nin…

EXCLUSIVE: And the winner of UCP’s first-ever Flip the Script: A Monologue Contest is…..Blessing Oluwole. With the win, Oluwole walks away with a $25,000 talent-holding deal. UCP’s Flip the Script was held in partnership with casting director Tracy "Twinkie" Byrd. The contest was established to identify and develop…

EXCLUSIVE: Another classic sitcom is eying a return with its original star. UCP is developing Punky Brewster, a sequel to the 1984 NBC sitcom, with Soleil Moon Frye set to reprise her role as the titular character that became a pop culture icon of the 1980s. The original multi-camera series, created by David W…

Downton Abbey alumna Jessica Brown Findlay is set as the female lead opposite Alden Ehrenreich and Harry Lloyd in Brave New World, a series adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel, from UCP and Amblin Television. Originally developed at Syfy and given a straight-to-series pickup at USA Network in February, the big-scope…

EXCLUSIVE: Manager/producer Brian Sher has signed a first-look deal with UCP and Wilshire Studios to develop both scripted and unscripted programming. Sher has set his first project under the pact, a scripted comedy Public Figures at UCP from How To Make It in America creator Ian Edelman starring rapper/actor Lil Yacht…

EXCLUSIVE: Harry Lloyd (Game Of Thrones) has been cast as a lead opposite Alden Ehrenreich in Brave New World, an adaptation of the Aldous Huxley novel which received a straight-to-series order at USA Network, from UCP and Amblin Television. Written by David Wiener, Grant Morrison and Brian Taylor based on Huxley's…

Talent seeking the attention of scripted shows, linear and streaming platforms has a new UCP competition to consider. Flip the Script: A Monologue Contest seeks to discover new on-air talent and create unique opportunities within scripted platforms across NBCUniversal networks (USA, SYFY and Bravo) and for linear and…

On the heels of their first collaboration to get a series order, Umbrella Academy at Netflix, Universal Cable Productions and Dark Horse Entertainment have renewed their first-look agreement to continue developing and producing scripted programming from the publisher's comic book library, as well as new original…

Universal Cable Productions has inked an overall development deal with John Carpenter. Under the new pact, the Halloween director will executive produce scripted programming with UCP for the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment portfolio, external networks and streaming services, along with his producing partner Sandy…

UPDATED with UCP lifting requirement that applicants know someone at the studio, adds link for submission release form: Do you have an amazing idea for the next big TV show? We know you do, and now you have someone who will listen. Universal Cable Productions has set its first pitch fest on April 28 for storytellers…

Since NBC Universal’s TV studio Universal Media Studios spun off Universal Cable Prods in 2008, the mothership studio had been developing and producing pilots and series for NBC and occasionally for other broadcast networks, while UCP had been supplying affiliated USA Network and Syfy and, starting last year, other…

In the split of cable oversight between NBCUniversal mavens Bonnie Hammer and Lauren Zalaznick, NBCU’s longtime cable business affairs head Beth Roberts is going with Hammer with expanded responsibilities at Universal Cable Prods. Roberts has been named to the newly created position of COO of the cable studio as well…