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Delia Ephron & Debra Martin Chase Team For Showtime Comedy About 1990s Game Show Models
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Showtime is developing 36-24-36, a half-hour comedy executive produced by author/screenwriter/playwright Delia Ephron (You’ve Got Mail) and producer Debra Martin Chase (Sparkle). Written by Ephron, 36-24-36, whose title refers to what had been considered “ideal” female model measurements, is about the first black TV model to be featured on a major game show in 1990. Celebrity and glamour collide with sexual harassment, racism, misogyny, homophobia, bulimia and job… »
J.K. Rowling, Daniel Battsek & Other Brits Write Open Letter Opposing Cultural Boycott Of Israel
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In a letter published today in the UK’s The Guardian, artists across Great Britain including Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, Dame Hilary Mantel (Wolf Hall) and Simon Schama are rallying in support of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue versus cultural boycotts in a new group known as the Culture for Coexistence. The letter comes in response to a letter the newspaper published in February by 700 artists calling for the cultural boycott of Israel. That letter last winter, which… »
CBS Developing ‘Jet Set’ Drama From Jon Turteltaub
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CBS has put in development Jet Set, a drama from National Treasure helmer Jon Turteltaub and CBS TV Studios. Turteltaub is executive producing through his Junction Entertainment banner. J.P. Lavin and Chad Damiani are co-writing and executive producing. In Jet Set, a young, rich socialite partners with a blue-collar FBI agent to pose as the new “it” couple to investigate and apprehend suspects who have hidden behind wealth and influence to escape other charges. The last… »
ITV To Mount ‘The Sound Of Music Live!’ UK Christmas Special
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This Christmas, Britain will be alive with The Sound Of Music Live! Following in the footsteps of the unrelated 2013 NBC special that was produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, ITV will present a new dramatization of the world's most popular musical. The network is billing the two-and-a-half-hour musical drama as the “must see” event of the year. It’s the first time a project like this has been attempted for UK television. The NBC version was a mid-week ratings hit in… »
Fox Buys Private Police Force Drama From Len Wiseman & ‘Poi’ Producer
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Fox is developing a drama from writer David Slack, most recently co-executive producer on CBS’ Person Of Interest, and Sleepy Hollow co-creator/executive producer Len Wiseman. Inspired by the July New York Times Magazine article, “Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans” by David Amsden (read it here), the show explores what happens when an enigmatic tech billionaire makes a deal with a bankrupt, dying city to provide a privately owned-and-operated police force. Slack… »
Priyanka Chopra Signs With Wme
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Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra, who has emerged as a breakout of the fall broadcast season as the lead of new ABC drama Quantico, has signed with Wme. She was with CAA. Based largely on her appeal, terror thriller Quantico launched well in the ratings. It already has received a full-season order by ABC with a pickup of seven additional episodes. The series marked the U.S. TV debut for Chopra, who has starred in dozens of Bollywood… »
Esquire’s ‘Back to the Future’ Marathon Bears Record Ratings
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Esquire Network bagged its best primetime and total day with a Back To The Future marathon on Wednesday to mark the date to which Marty McFly and Doc Brown time traveled in the original movie. Esquire aired all three Back To The Future films throughout the day and night. The stunt clocked its best numbers in primetime, logging 591K total viewers and 334K demo viewers in primetime, with 172K of them being in its target men 18-49 demo. The 7:30 Pm airing of the first… »
Comcast Wants “Offensive” $20B Racial Discrimination Suit Tossed, Again
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On, then off and now on again, the massive discrimination lawsuit from the Byron Allen-founded Entertainment Studios Network and the National Association of African-American Owned Media is "ludicrous slander," Comcast says, and should again be dismissed. "Rather than addressing the concerns raised by this Court and alleging facts to support their claim of race discrimination and demand for twenty billion dollars in damages, Plaintiffs continue to peddle the offensive and… »
Marvel’s ‘Agent Carter’ Casts Kurtwood Smith; Mario Lopez Joins ‘Grease: Live’
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Kurtwood Smith has joined the Season 2 cast of ABC’s action-drama series Marvel's Agent Carter. Smith will play Vernon Masters, a veteran of the War Department with a keen understanding of how to work the system. Hayley Atwell stars as Agent Peggy Carter, the unstoppable secret agent for the Strategic Scientific Reserve. Dedicated to the fight against new atomic-age threats in the wake of World War II, Peggy now must journey from New York City to Los Angeles for her most… »
‘Shameless’ Season 6 Teaser: Maybe Avoid The Cemetery Today
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Prepare for another long, cold, extremely difficult-to-watch winter in Chicago as Showtime’s Shameless is coming back. And to prove it, we have the teaser for last Season 6. Picking up a few months after the end of Season 5, the new episodes find the Gallaghers wrestling with many changes, surprised as anyone at how life is turning out for them. But the question remains: As they come into their own and find out who they are, is it really possible that the Gallaghers could… »
Paley Center To Honor ‘TV’s Funniest Animated Stars’ In Fox Special
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Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Homer and Bart Simpson and Donald Duck are among 40 classic animated characters to be honored in TV’s Funniest Animated Stars: A Paley Center For Media Special. The two-hour special will air Monday, December 7 at 8 Pm on Fox. The special will include a countdown of animated stars featuring exclusive interviews with the creators who conceived the characters and the actors who brought them to life. Talent interviewed during the special include… »
Jimmy Kimmel Books Hillary Clinton For November 5
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Democratic Presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, who’s having a tough day today at the latest round of Benghazi Committee hearings, has booked to be a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on November 5. It will be Clinton’s first appearance on Kimmel’s show since announcing her latest bid for the White House. It’s also the closest she can get to appearing on Kimmel’s show right before Donald Trump hosts NBC’s Saturday Night Live, since Kimmel does not do a Friday original… »
Marlo Thomas Recalls Mike Nichols, Edgar Bergen With Diane Sawyer & Candice Bergen
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Marlo Thomas, who’s headlining Joe Dipietro’s off-Broadway comedy of indiscretions Clever Little Lies, saw several different circles of her life intersect over lunch at La Grenouille, one of the last surviving outposts of formal French dining in Manhattan. Representing the human rights sector were two Glorias, writer and editor Steinem and lawyer Allred. Journalist Diane Sawyer and fake journalist Murphy Brown, aka Candice Bergen, came, along with Thomas’ friends from… »
Cerina Vincent & Joe Nieves Join Disney Channel’s ‘Stuck In The Middle’
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Cerina Vincent and Joe Nieves are joining Jenna Ortega as series regulars in Disney Channel’s upcoming single camera family comedy series Stuck In The Middle. It’s told from the point-of-view of the middle child, Harley (Ortega), whose overlooked status proves to be both a blessing and a curse as she maneuvers her way through the everyday antics that come with being part of a big family. Vincent and Nieves will play the mother/father roles, respectively. Vincent, repped… »
‘Ash Vs. Evil Dead’ Review: Bruce Campbell-Led Series A Bloody Good Time
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It has become a constant complaint in some circles that reliance on big-screen and small-screen reboots and revivals is strangling originality. Well, trick and treat — Ash vs. Evil Dead is going to partially kill that idea. Debuting on Halloween, the Starz series based on the Evil Dead movie franchise is, as my video review above says, a blood-drenched relentless romp of horror that makes for a very fun ride on a Saturday night. With his trademark chainsaw, the jaw that… »
Now With DirecTV, At&T Has Mixed Q3 But Raises Earnings Forecast
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At&T shares are up about 2% in post market trading as investors sort through its Q3 numbers and try to figure out what they mean for the company’s prospects in phone and media. It generated $3.08 billion in net income, down 3.4% vs the period last year, on revenues of $39.09 billion, up 18.6%. The revenue number fell slightly short of the consensus forecast of $40.42 billion. But if you take out one-time expenses, including those tied to the DirecTV acquisition, then… »
Amazon Shares Jump After Q3 Earnings Beat Estimates
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Update with after-hours stock price: Amazon today reported third-quarter earnings that smoked Wall Street estimates, with a 23% year-over-year rise in net sales to $25.4 billion, leading the stock to jump 8-plus points in late-afternoon trading and soar more than 10% after hours. If the pattern holds tomorrow, then Amazon shares will pass the previous all time high set in July of $580.57 and trade well above $600. The e-tailer reported net income of $79M in the quarter… »
Nikki M. James Joins ‘BrainDead’; ‘The Last Ship’ Casts 2
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Nikki M. James (The Book Of Mormon) has joined the cast of BrainDead, CBS' upcoming summer series from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King. The comic-thriller, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Laurel (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), a young, fresh-faced Hill staffer whose first job in Washington, D.C. leads her to discover two things: The government has stopped working, and alien spawn have come to Earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of congressmen and… »
Romeo & Juliet Drama From Shondaland & ‘Scandal’s Heather Mitchell Set At ABC
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Shonda Rhimes is getting behind another series project from a key writer-producer on one of her shows. In a competitive situation, ABC has nabbed Still Star-Crossed, a Romeo and Juliet sequel drama from Scandal co-executive producer Heather Mitchell. Written by Mitchell, Still Star-Crossed is based on the book by Melinda Taub. Set in 16th century Verona after the events in William Shakespeare’s tragedy, it follows the conflict between the Capulets and the Montagues in the… »
‘The Interview’ Team Reunites For TV Comedy, Which Lands At Fox As Put Pilot
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Dan Sterling, who wrote the The Interview, is reteaming with the controversial film’s directors Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg for another comedy project with political elements, this time in TV. The trio has sold the half-hour Citizen Floyd to Fox with a put pilot commitment. 20th Century Fox Television, where Sterling is under an overall deal, is the studio. Written/executive produced by Sterling, Citizen Floyd (a take on Citizen Kane?) is described as workplace comedy… »
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