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HBO Max has hired Netflix’s Pia Chaozon Barlow as SVP Program Marketing. She returns to the now-WarnerMedia fold after serving as HBO’s Director of Advertising & Promotions until 2014. In that job, she launched campaigns for such high-profile series as Girls, Silicon Valley, Boardwalk Empire and The Newsroom. She had…

NBC has given pilot green light to two comedies, multi-camera Jefferies, starring Jim Jefferies, from the stand-up comedian, writer-producer Suzanne Martin and Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner's Hazy Mills;  and single-camera American Auto, from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment…

EXCLUSIVE: GLOW‘s Betty Gilpin has been tapped to play conservative media pundit Ann Coulter in Impeachment: American Crime Story, Ryan Murphy’s upcoming FX limited series about the Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex scandal. The third season of American Crime Story will be based on Jeffrey Toobin's book A Vast Conspirac…

CBS has given a pilot order to B Positive, a multi-camera comedy from Mom co-executive producer Marco Pennette, series creator Chuck Lorre, and Warner Bros. TV, where Lorre is under a deal. B Positive is the second pilot order at CBS for Lorre this cycle, joining multi-cam The United States Of Al, with his fellow Big B…

ABC has given a pilot order to My Village, a multi-camera comedy from The New Adventures of Old Christine creator Kari Lizer, Sony Pictures TV and ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Lizer, My Village revolves around an empty-nester mom who wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best…

Update with Sen. Hawley response He said it with a smile, but he said it: Rep. Adam Schiff opened Day 3 of the Trump Impeachment Trial with a reminder-slash-warning for senators to keep their seats or go to jail. Sounding a bit like a parent who doesn’t really believe his own threat of a summer-long grounding, Schiff…

Spectrum Originals is making its first tentative move into docuseries ahead of the launch of Manhunt: Deadly Games and is eyeing its first Asian-American series. Charter Communications' original content division is prepping the launch of the Lionsgate-produced drama, which tells the story of the wrongly-accused…

EXCLUSIVE: Critical Content’s head of scripted Ray Ricord has joined Gemstone Studios, Sony Pictures TV’s boutique production unit, as SVP Development. Ricord fills the role recently vacated by Kathryn Busby who was named EVP and head of another Sony TV division, TriStar Television. Based at SPT's headquarters in…

The gang at Riverdale is back to school after its hiatus, returning steady Wednesday compared with its fall finale. The CW drama scored a 0.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 820,000 viewers. At NBC, the Chicago-verse was in full swing to top broadcast primetime in both metrics, though all were down a tenth…

Fox has given its first drama greenlight this cycle, handing a pilot order to The Cleaning Lady, based on the Argentinian series, from The 100 writer Miranda Kwok, Stargirl EP Melissa Carter, Shay Mitchell's Amore & Vita Productions and Warner Bros. Television. The pilot is a co-pro between Warner Bros. TV and Fox…

EXCLUSIVE: Actress Caroline Arapoglou, known for her roles on series such as Netflix’s Stranger Things and Fox’s The Resident, has signed with Abrams Artists Agency. Arapoglou recently made her feature film debut alongside Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne and Salma Hayek in Paramount Pictures' comedy Like A Boss. She’ll…

Univision may be selling itself to Liberty Global and a smaller rival called Hemisphere Media, a struggling Spanish-language broadcaster in Miami that bills itself as "the only publicly traded pure-play U.S. media company targeting the high growth U.S. Hispanic and Latin American markets." The news, reported first by…