Boots Riley Inks Overall Deal With Media Res

Joe Otterson TV ReporterIndustrial Media has entered into an overall deal with House of NonFiction, Alex Stapleton’s new unscripted production company.Stapleton is an Emmy-winning filmmaker who is currently directing two projects for HBO. She recently completed the docu-series “Pride” for FX, which chronicles the American LGBTQ+ civil rights movement.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Gentefied” co-creator, co-showrunner, director and executive producer Linda Yvette Chávez has inked a multi-year overall deal with 20th Television to create her own dramas and comedies, as well as supervise other writers for all platforms.“Linda is a tour de force writer with a spectacular voice and her series ‘Gentefied’is as hilarious as it is powerful,” Karey Burke, president of 20th Television, said in a statement announcing the pact.

Gentefied‘s Linda Yvette Chávez has signed a multi-year overall deal with 20th Television. She will create her own as well as supervise other writers’ dramas and comedies for all platforms.

Lena Waithe has signed a big exclusive overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group. The studio landed the producer, actor and Emmy-winning writer and her Hillman Grad Productions in a very competitive situation.

Stephen Colbert knows Hollywood talent agents are always looking for the next big thing.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “House of Cards” and “The Americans” writer Melissa James Gibson has signed a two-year overall deal with Endeavor Content, the studio behind Hulu’s “Nine Perfect Strangers,” Netflix’s “The Lost Daughter” and Michael Bay’s “Ambulance” for Universal Pictures.The Canadian showrunner, playwright and producer remarked that she is “thrilled for this opportunity to continue working closely with Endeavor Content.”“I’m a big fan of the projects the studio champions and look forward

Anatomy of a Scandal co-creator Melissa James Gibson is continuing her relationship with Endeavor Content with a two-year overall deal.

EXCLUSIVE:  The 1917 Oscar winning studio New Republic Pictures has signed a development financing deal for movies and TV with LA-based Providence Film Group.

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Aniobi is preparing for life after Insecure.

Andy Cohen has made a big announcement today!

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLila Byock has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Signature, Variety has learned exclusively.Byock spent five years on the editorial staff of The New Yorker magazine.

EXCLUSIVE: Magilla Entertainment, the company behind TLC’s Long Island Medium and Discovery’s Moonshiners, is teaming up with Prisoner of Love producer Two Fifteen West Entertainment.

We have seen some absurd products be released from brands such as Moschino's hot dog dress and Balenciaga's £2,890 high vis jacket. Well, we think we might have found a new product that could top these as vegan unisex shoe brand Koi Footwear have just launched two ranges of boots that feature baby doll limbs on them.The black leather, lace-up boots have the name of GOO GOO GA GA with one pair featuring baby doll arms and the second are adorned with baby doll legs.

Super Soap Week kicked off with a bang on Emmerdale. Viewers saw Manpreet Sharma (played by Rebecca Sarker) and Charles Anderson (Kevin Mathurin) fall from a 60ft bridge into perilous waters, closely followed by Victoria Sugden (Isabel Hodgins) and David Metcalfe (Matthew Wolfenden).

EXCLUSIVE:  Chicago P.D. writer/executive producer Gwen Sigan has been promoted to showrunner. She is taking the reins of the long-running NBC series as part of an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, which produces the cop drama.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer Raamla Mohamed is staying in business with ABC Signature with a multi-year extension of her overall deal. The extension comes on the heels of Mohamed’s legal drama Reasonable Doubt getting a series order by Onyx Collective to stream on Hulu. Mohamed signed her first overall with the Studio, a part of Disney Television Studios, in 2018, and has been in the Disney family since 2009.