FX Productions signed Atlanta creator Donald Glover to an exclusive overall television production deal. Glover will develop television series for FX Networks and other networks and streaming services, in addition to continuing to executive produce, write, direct and star in Atlanta. FX also announced that Atlanta will not return for a second season until 2018 […]
Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy) has teamed with comic book publisher IDW Entertainment to develop The Devil, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on the novel The Devil: Britain’s Most Feared Underworld Taxman, by Graham Johnson, the drama is being eyed as a limited series, although no network has been attached.
CNN fired back at Donald Trump yesterday after the president-elect, in his first press conference in six months, refused to answer questions from CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta. “Your organization is terrible…you are fake news!” charged Trump, following the news net’s report that intelligence officials briefed Trump about having compromising information about him. […]
Fox is reviving game show Love Connection, with Andy Cohen (Watch What Happens Live) taking over where Chuck Woolery left off as host. Mike Fleiss (The Bachelor) is exec producer. “I was a huge fan of the original Love Connection,” said Cohen, “and hosting the new version allows me to do one of the things […]
Marc Cherry is headed home to ABC. The network issued a pilot pickup to a drama from the Desperate Housewives creator to be toplined by Reba McEntire. Written by Cherry, the untitled project centers on Ruby Adair (McEntire), the sheriff of colorful small town Oxblood, KY, who finds her red state outlook challenged when an […]
Nashville’s season premiere on CMT was the most watched original cable program of the night and ranks as the most-watched original telecast in CMT history. It delivered more than 3.1 million fans across two networks on CMT and Nick at Nite (more than 2 million to CMT alone) in Live +3 numbers, for a 1.34 […]
While the first episode of CBS’s Superior Donuts, starring Judd Hirsch as a 1960s radical, touches on racial profiling and gun control, the comedy “isn’t going to be an issue of the week show,” said exec producer Garrett Donovan at the TCA winter press tour. “We will talk about issues as it comes up organically.” […]
“It’s really happening,” announced Showtime president David Nevins at TCA. The long-gestating reboot of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks will premiere May 21 at 9p with a two-hour premiere; episodes 3 and 4 will be available on Showtime’s digital platform immediately after. So what’s the show like? “It will be 18 unforgettable hours,” promised Nevins.
Among the highlights of the 74th Golden Globes Awards ceremony on NBC last night were a cold-open with host Jimmy Fallon in an A-list, dancing-on-cars-while-waiting-to-hit-the-red-carpet bit (thanks, La La Land), that included Fallon twirling with Justin Timberlake. Fallon found himself winging it in the first few live seconds, Teleprompter-less. “This is a great way to […]
Among the highlights of the 74th Golden Globes Awards ceremony on NBC last night were a cold-open with host Jimmy Fallon in an A-list, dancing-on-cars-while-waiting-to-hit-the-red-carpet bit (thanks, La La Land), that included Fallon twirling with Justin Timberlake. Fallon found himself winging it in the first few live seconds, Teleprompter-less. “This is a great way to […]