In a competitive situation, Fox has landed an hourlong anthology series from 1980s music star Huey Lewis, Hart of Dixie creator Leila Gerstein and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The project, a co-production of Fox Entertainment and Kapital Entertainment, has received a script-to-series commitment. READ MORE
The Monday night comedies mark the first pickups for the broadcast network. CBS is beginning to put its 2021-22 slate together. The broadcast network has handed out early renewals for its Monday comedies, handing out a third season for Chuck Lorre's Bob Hearts Abishola and a fourth season to Cedric the Entertainer's The Neighborhood. [...]
Thruline Entertainment has put into development Abby Jimenez’s bestselling novel The Happy Ever After Playlist to be adapted as a feature by writer Marisa Coughlan and two-time Primetime Emmy winner director Gail Mancuso.The Happy Ever After Playlist is a romantic comedy with a strong music element, tonally along the lines of The Truth About Cats [...]
Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and Merrin Dungey are set as leads opposite Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear in Shining Vale, Starz’s horror-comedy pilot from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof. The half-hour show hails from Warner Bros. Television and Lionsgate in association with Astrof’s Other Shoe Productions, Horgan and Clelia [...]
Taran Killam is returning to broadcast.The Single Parents and Saturday Night Live alum has been tapped as the male lead in CBS comedy pilot Welcome to Georgia.The comedy explores what happens when Penelope's (New Girl's Hannah Simone) career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband's, they call on Penelope's young single mom, [...]
Marissa Jo Cerar, creator, executive producer and showrunner of Women Of the Movement, has signed an overall deal with Kapital Entertainment, the studio behind the upcoming ABC limited series about Mamie Till Mobley, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South. Under [...]
Marissa Jo Cerar (writer, 13 Reasons Why) has reportedly signed a multiyear deal with Kapitol Entertainment, according to Deadline. Kapital Entertainment is helping bring ABC’s new limited series Women of The Movement to life. The series follows Mamie Till Mobley (Adrienne Warren, Blue Bloods) whose bereaved by the killing of her son. Mobley spends the [...]
NBC has ordered a new sitcom for its 2021-2022 season called “American Auto” which follows the lives of several high-ranking executives at a struggling Detroit car company. American Auto will star former Saturday Night Love actress Ana Gasteyer, who will play Katherine Hastings, the CEO of fictional Detroit-based automaker Payne Motors. The cast will [...]
A new batch of comedies and dramas will compete with holdovers from last season as broadcast networks attempt a return to the traditional development model while also contending with the challenges of a pandemic. Pilot Season 2021 could easily be described as Pilot Season 2020+. After being wiped out by the pandemic, 21 of [...]
Deadline reported on Friday that singer Luke James has been promoted to series regular on The Chi for season 4 of the Showtime series. James starred as the reoccurring character Trig on season 3 of the show. Trig is Jake’s (Michael V. Epps) estranged older brother returns to town with his girlfriend Imani (Jasmine Davis), [...]