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Quibi continues its content spree with a new series from The Killing creator Veena Sud. She is set to create, write, direct and executive produce The Stranger, a shortform thriller from Fox 21 Television Studios. The logline: An unassuming young rideshare driver is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious…

Bridesmaids director and Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig and The Killing and Seven Seconds creator Veena Sud are the latest high-profile talents to be added to the Quibi development slate. Feig and Sud both revealed they were working with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form digital service in separate…

To follow up her acclaimed Netflix limited series Seven Seconds, which brought Regina King her fourth Emmy nomination, Veena Sud decided to wade into darkness once more with Toronto-premiering drama The Lie, placing a magnifying glass on a parent's worst fears. Starring Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard and The Kissing Bo…

Regina King can do no wrong. A favorite of the Television Academy with back-to-back-to-back Emmy nominations for John Ridley's American Crime—an anthology series in which she played a different character every season—the actress is back in the running this year with Veena Sud's Netflix drama Seven Seconds. But there…

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…

When I started writing TV in 2002, I was mentored by a good man and later hired by a great woman, neither of whom viewed this woman of color as a charity case but as a writer, plain and simple. I was wildly lucky. Fellow writers coming up at the same time were not as fortunate. In just one example, a friend of a…

A pair of panels highlighting some of Hollywood’s top female TV showrunners is getting underway soon at Twitter headquarters in Santa Monica, presented and moderated by The Post co-screenwriter Liz Hannah. Deadline will be following along with the live stream of the event, which is scheduled to include the likes of Amy…

Netflix is not moving forward with a second season of crime drama Seven Seconds, created and executive produced by The Killing‘s Veena Sud. With the cancellation, Seven Seconds is expected to be submitted in the category of Limited Series-Drama for Emmy consideration. "We loved working with Veena Sud, Regina King and…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse is in production in Toronto on the family drama Between the Earth and Sky, written and directed by The Killing creator Veena Sud.  The pic reunites Sud with former Killing stars Mireille Enos and Peter Sarsgaard, who star in the movie with Joey King. The logline is being kept under wraps, with Betw…

EXCLUSIVE: Game of Silence co-star David Lyons and newly minted Death Wish bad guy Beau Knapp have been set as co-stars of Seven Seconds, the 10-episode Netflix crime drama from The Killing creator Veena Sud and Fox 21 TV Studios. The Accountant helmer Gavin O'Connor attached to direct. In the series, written by Sud…

Netflix is finalizing negotiations with Fox 21 TV Studios for Seven Seconds, a 10-episode drama series that reflects the current racial tensions in America. The project hails from The Killing creator Veena Sud, with Gavin O’Connor, helmer of last weekend’s No. 1 movie The Accountant, attached to direct. In Seven Second…