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Embattled tech giant Facebook is the focus of a scripted drama series titled Doomsday Machine. Claire Foy, coming off her second Emmy win for playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, is set to star as Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg in the project, from Anonymous Content (Spotlight, Mr. Robot) and wiip (Mare of Easttown…

EXCLUSIVE: Epix is developing Brother From Another, a true crime docuseries about the 2015 murder of Florida physician Teresa Sievers, from Served Like a Girl director Lysa Heslov, George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse TV and wiip. Lysa Heslov directs and executive produces the docuseries, which recounts the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip (Mare of Easttown) has optioned the rights to Gary M. Pomerantz’s bestselling nonfiction book Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and The Making of Atlanta to adapt for television. In Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, Pomerantz traces five…

Wiip, the independent studio behind HBO sensation Mare of Easttown, is partnering with director-producer Todd McFarlane to develop Sam and Twitch, a drama series based on characters from his acclaimed Spawn comic franchise. The project will specifically center on detectives Sam Burke and "Twitch" Williams, the two…

CAA has sold a majority stake in Wiip, the producer behind HBO's Mare of Easttown and Apple's Dickinson, to Korean company JTBC Studios. It marks the first sale of an agency-backed studio after CAA and the other agencies agreed to end their standoff with the WGA and sell a majority interest in their content…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off their collaboration on the HBO limited series Mare of Easttown, Julianne Nicholson and Wiip have reteamed for a new series project. The independent studio has optioned the rights to author Laura Zigman's bestselling novel Separation Anxiety, to develop as a premium TV series headlined by…

EXCLUSIVE: Former ABC chief Paul Lee's independent studio wiip is developing a TV series exploring the teenage years of Agatha Christie, the iconic British crime writer behind genre-defining characters including Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Wiip has enlisted UK writers Rebecca Pollock and Kas Graham, who penned Ruth…

The Summer I Turned Pretty, the YA novel series from Jenny Han, the author behind To All The Boys I Loved Before, is being turned into a television series for Amazon. The streamer has ordered an eight-part series based on the book. Han wrote the pilot and will showrun with Haven showrunner and The Flash exec producer…

EXCLUSIVE: George Orwell’s iconic dystopian story 1984 is to become a television series after former ABC chief Paul Lee’s independent studio wiip optioned the rights to Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s 2013 stage show of the same name. There have been a number of attempts to adapt 1984 for a contemporary screen…

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Rierson has left independent TV studio wiip, where he was Head of Business & Operations, to join another indie, Miramax. Rierson has been named EVP Global Television Business and Legal Affairs for Miramax, which has been ramping up its TV production operating under new Head of Worldwide Television Marc…

EXCLUSIVE: Fulwell 73 has secured the rights to turn Helen Cresswell's young adult novel Moondial into an ambitious time travel drama after the book inspired a popular BBC series of the same name in 1988. The James Corden-backed company will team with Matt Lopez, who wrote Nicolas Cage starrer The Sorcerer's Apprentice…

Adults, Emma Jane Unsworth's follow-up novel to Animals, is set to be adapted for television after Playground and wiip partnered to option the screen rights. The Howards End and Wolf Hall producer, run by Colin Callender, and the Dickinson studio, run by Paul Lee, are to adapt the series with Unsworth, Callender, Lee…