‘Einstein’ Detective Series In The Works Again At CBS From Andy Breckman, Randy Zisk & Intrigue

Ghosts is one of the most popular shows of the past year, and its stars are gaining tons of followers!

EXCLUSIVE: Van Helsing is turning crime fighter in a new series in development at CBS.

EXCLUSIVE: Science fiction mystery comic book Mindset could be heading to the small screen.

The New Kids on the Block are making headlines again!

Selome Hailu Jeffrey Wright has joined the cast of Paramount+ With Showtime‘s upcoming political thriller series “The Agency.” As exclusively reported by Variety, the series is led by Michael Fassbender as Martian, a covert CIA agent. George Clooney serves as executive producer. Wright will play Henry, the CIA’s director of operations overseeing non-official cover agents, and a mentor to Martian.

EXCLUSIVE: Sky, Warner Music Entertainment and Screen Scotland are collaborating on a feature doc profiling the unique legacy of Scottish funk sensation Average White Band, with Warner taking North American distribution.

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Netflix has optioned the YA novel Happy Place by Emily Henry for Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyorican. Plans to adapt the novel as a series are underway and I understand producers and streaming executives are currently meeting with writers.

K.J. Yossman Another screen project about Iran’s Royal Family is in the works. “Queen Cleopatra” director Tina Gharavi is set to co-direct a new drama series titled “The Shah, The Spy, The Madman” alongside series creator Shahriar William Raee.

Eddie Murphy says he’s already recorded the first act of Shrek 5, which DreamWorks Animation hasn’t even announced yet, and that there’s also a Donkey spinoff movie that’s bound to happen.

EXCLUSIVE: Comic book Proof is being turned into a TV series at Fox.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Making further inroads into markets in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond, Studiocanal, one of Europe’s top production-distribution-international sales powerhouses, has clinched further sales on premium daily drama “The Vow” (“La Promesa”), closing Poland and two Baltic States, as well as France. Produced by Spain’s Bambú Producciones (“Velvet,” “Cable Girls”), a Studiocanal company, Studiocanal and national Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, “The Vow” has been acquired by Polish pubcaster TVP Poland, state-backed network ERR Estonia and state-owned LTV Latvia. In additional new sales, Dubai TV has closed rights to MENA territories.

Copa América, which kicks off later today with Argentina taking on Canada, is set to be the subject of a docuseries.

Channel 4 has picked up the detective series starring Breaking Bad’s Laura Fraser about a neurodivergent self-taught criminologist.

With “Bad Boys: Ride or Die” doing incredibly well at the box office, it would appear the Will Smith backlash has officially died. He can still lead a profitable movie and attract millions of fans.

EXCLUSIVE: Israeli romcom drama series The Baker and the Beauty is being remade for France’s TF1, with French singer-songwriter Amir Haddad playing the lead in his debut TV role.

Gordon Cox Theater Editor Live theater always reflects the moment in which it’s presented, but this season, Broadway charged head-on into the politics of today with unusual force: A play that directly addressed antisemitism, Israel and Gaza opened barely two months after the events of Oct. 7; climate protestors interrupted a 140-year-old drama about the threat of environmental calamity, and an onstage chronicle of Vladimir Putin’s rise to power opened even as the Russian invasion of Ukraine rolled into its third year.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios are looking to continue telling Blue Beetle stories via an animated series currently in development, sources close to production tell Deadline. Miguel Puga (The Casagrandes) has been working on the project since early this year and will serve as the project’s showrunner and director with Cristian Martinez (Women of the Movement, Good Trouble) set as writer.

EXCLUSIVE: When the Night Comes Falling, written by Howard Blum, tells the inside story of the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. It is now being developed as a scripted series.

Game Of Thrones spinoff series, Ten Thousand Ships, is in the works at HBO according to George R.R. Martin.Per The Hollywood Reporter, Ten Thousand Ships was ordered alongside several other Game Of Thrones prequel series – one of which turned out to be House Of The Dragon. In April, Ten Thousand Ships writer Brian Helgeland told InVerse that the series hadn’t officially been picked up at HBO.Helgeland said: “I think they felt the period of my show was too far removed from the pillars of the original.

George R.R. Martin has a Game of Thrones update.