Emmy winner Patricia Heaton is eying a return to television with a multi-camera comedy that has received a script-to-series commitment at Fox. Heaton is set to star in and executive produce the untitled project, which is produced by Fox Entertainment and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The project reunites Heaton [...]

Apple Studios has secured the rights to Donald Spivey’s non-fiction book, If You Were Only White: The Life of Leroy ‘Satchel’ Paige, for drama development with an eye toward a series order. The high-profile Negro League Baseball project comes from Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Mandalay’s Peter Guber, and Oscar [...]

CBS has found a new showrunner for its comedy The Neighborhood. Meg DeLoatch (Netflix’s Family Reunion) will take the reins of the series from creator Jim Reynolds, who exited at the end of the 2020-21 season, the show’s third, amid reports of complaints about his leadership of the [...]

In a preemptive bid, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment has landed the rights to I Don’t Forgive You, the upcoming debut novel of former police reporter Aggie Blum Thompson. The book will be adapted into a TV series for cable/streaming, which Kaplan will executive produce with Mandalay’s Peter Guber, a [...]

SHOWTIME has released the upcoming premiere episodes of its hit drama series THE CHI, currently in its fourth season, and new comedy series FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS for free online sampling, on streaming platforms and on demand. The season three premiere of comedy series BLACK MONDAY will also be available [...]

ABC has released the first teaser trailers for its fall drama series Queens and comedy reboot The Wonder Years, as well as midseason drama limited series Women of the Movement and midseason comedies Abbott Elementary and Maggie. You can watch all below. READ MORE

Fox’s last pilot of the season is getting the green light. The network on Monday has handed out a straight-to-series order for comedy Pivoting, starring Eliza Coupe (Happy Endings), Ginnifer Goodwin (Once Upon a Time) and Maggie Q (Nikita). Sources say the order is for 10 episodes. The half-hour, [...]

Fox has picked up to series Pivoting, its half-hour single-camera comedy pilot headlined by Eliza Coupe, Ginnifer Goodwin and Maggie Q. The project, written and executive produced by Liz Astrof, hails from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Warner Bros TV and Fox Entertainment. READ MORE

Starz has picked up to series horror comedy pilot Shining Vale, starring Courteney Cox, Greg Kinnear and Mira Sorvino. The project, from Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof and Divorce creator Sharon Horgan, has received an eight-episode order. Lionsgate has joined Warner Bros. Television to co-produce the series [...]

Starz has ordered the horror comedy “Shining Vail” starring Greg Kinnear and Courteney Cox. “Shining Vale” also stars Mira Sorvino, Merrin Dungey, Gus Birney and Dylan Gage. The eight-episode series is from Jeff Astrof and Sharon Horgan. “Shining Vale” is a horror comedy about a dysfunctional family that [...]