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EXCLUSIVE: The traveling event Together Live is in the works for the small screen. UCP is adapting the event as a television series, with founders Jennifer Rudolph Walsh and Glennon Doyle set to executive produce. According to the official description, Together Live is a traveling event that brings diverse…

EXCLUSIVE: Cherie Johnson, who played the Cherie Johnson character in the original Punky Brewster comedy series, is returning to reprise the role in the sequel. The project, headlined by original star Soleil Moon Frye reprising her title role as Punky, has a pilot order at Peacock, NBCU’s upcoming streaming platform…

EXCLUSIVE: Kyle Patrick Alvarez (The Stanford Prison Experiment) is set to direct and executive produce the second season of Amazon’s psychological thriller drama series Homecoming, from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail. Additionally, Stephan James, who received a Golden Globe nomination for his portrayal of Walter Cruz…

UCP is developing Bad Girls, an anthology series based on Ann Shen’s book Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World, with writer Liz Hannah (The Post) and Echo Lake Entertainment. Ry Russo-Young (The Sun Is Also A Star) is set to direct the pilot and executive produce. UCP is currently…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, UCP has optioned the rights to Jesse Barron’s 2017 Esquire true crime article The Girl From Plainville for TV series development. The Girl From Plainville is considered the definitive account of the events that led Michelle Carter, a young woman from a small town in…

“First do no harm.” Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater are set to star in Dr. Death, a limited drama series from UCP based on the Wondery podcast about a sinister doctor who treats his Hippocratic Oath about the same way he treats his patients. With the high-caliber talent on board, UCP is shopping the…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran television executive Scott Nemes has been hired as EVP Development and Current Programming at UCP, where he will oversee all programming for the NBCUniversal-owned studio. His new role reunites him with Dawn Olmstead, President, UCP and Wilshire Studios, to whom he reports, and with whom he worked…

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…