Amazon’s TV series based on the 1992 film A League of Their Own won’t necessarily have the same characters who hit a home run in the 1992 film. Saying they still were in discussions with the creators,  Amazon TV Co-Head Vernon Sanders added “I would say..there be a group of new characters but some nods to the…

While new Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke has stressed multiple times that the streaming company will not be in the volume business, it certainly did not look that way at her TCA debut for Amazon today where she announced no less than four new series orders, one of them for two seasons. The new shows come from the…

Former veteran NBC executive Vernon Sanders has joined Amazon Studios as Co-Head of Television. He will work alongside Co-Head of Television, Albert Cheng, overseeing the creative and production units of the television operation for Amazon Prime Video, with both reporting to Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon…

NBC has given a pilot order to another drama, The Enemy Within, from Gotham executive producer Ken Woodruff, NBC executive-turned-producer Vernon Sanders and Universal TV. Written and executive produced by Woodruff, The Enemy Within is a character-driven investigative thriller set in the world of counterintelligence…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran NBC executive Vernon Sanders is exiting his post as EVP Current Programming at the network and is leaving the executive ranks to become a producer. He has signed an exclusive overall producing deal with NBC sibling Universal Television. At the studio, run by president Pearlena Igbokwe, the…

After weeks of speculation that dominated party conversations during the upfronts in New York, NBC today confirmed that head of comedy development Tal Rabinowitz is leaving the network. NBC will revert to combined drama and comedy development and current departments. Head of drama development Pearlena Igbokwe is being…