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First it was Hallmark Channel cutting Lori Loughlin loose earlier today after her indicted involvement in the elite college admissions fraud scheme. Now it seems inevitable that Netflix will not be inviting the actor known around the world as Aunt Becky back for the fifth and final season of Fuller House. "She's…

Writer/producer Melissa Carter has signed a multi-year overall deal with Warner Horizon Television. Under the pact, Carter will develop new scripted programming for cable and streaming services at the studio, a division of Warner Bros. TV. The overall deal extends Carter’s long-standing relationship with WHTV. She…

Actress-producer Ashley Tisdale has signed a two-year exclusive development deal with Warner Horizon Television for her Blondie Girl Productions. Under the two-year pact, Blondie Girl will develop scripted dramas and comedies, as well as unscripted programming and digital projects for the Warner Bros. division…

Warner Bros. Television Group has promoted Leigh London Redman to SVP, Scripted Programming, at Warner Horizon Television. She succeeds Shelley Zimmerman, who exited WHTV at the beginning of the month to head scripted series at DreamWorks Animation’s Awesomeness TV. Additionally, WHTV has added a member to its…

Warner Horizon Television has elevated veteran unscripted programming exec Brooke Karzen to the newly created position of EVP Alternative Programming and Development. The move was announced today by Warner Bros Unscripted and Alternative Television President Mike Darnell, to whom Karzen reports. In her new role…

Warner Bros TV‘s head of development Susan Rovner is further expanding her turf, also taking over development for the studio’s cable division Warner Horizon TV.  Rovner and top WBTV business executive Brett Paul have been named co-presidents of Warner Horizon Scripted Television. They succeed Warner Horizon EVP Craig…

Bravo has put in development a dramedy project from Warner Horizon and Dan Lin’s Warner Bros-based Lin Pictures. Written by Jill Gordon, the untitled project centers on an eccentric New England family that decides to take justice into its own hands when its matriarch is murdered. When the murderer is freed on a…

Adam Shankman is venturing into cable. The director/producer/choreographer and his sister, producer Jennifer Gibgot, have closed a two-year first look deal with Warner Horizon Television for their Offspring Entertainment banner. Under the pact, the duo will develop and executive produce scripted cable projects for the…

TBS is expanding its relationship with late-night host Conan O’Brien to primetime. The cable network has ordered a half-hour comedy pilot from O’Brien’s Warner Bros TV-based production company Conaco. WBTV’s cable division Warner Horizon Television will produce. The multi-camera sitcom, written by Ben Wexler (Still Sta…

A&E Passes On 'Big Mike', Leans Toward Picking Up 'Longmire' To Series The pickup had been pending for a while and…

Mike Fleiss, the creator and executive producer of The Bachelor franchise, is joining the CW’s new series H8R. He will team with creators Lisa Gregorisch-Dempsey and Jeremy Spiegel, along with host Mario Lopez, as executive producers on the one-hour reality show. It pairs well-known personalities with real people who…

TNT gave viewers their first glimpse of its newly greenlighted series Dallas on Monday night during the season premieres of The Closer and Rizzoli & Isles. The Warner Horizon Television-produced project — which got the go-ahead late last week with a 10-episode order for a summer 2012 premiere — is from executive…