Erica Oyama Inks Overall Deal With Universal Television

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJustin Simien has signed an overall deal with Paramount Television Studios.Under the deal, Simien and his Culture Machine banner will develop premium television series for the studio for broadcast, cable, and streaming platforms.

EXCLUSIVE: Dear White People creator Justin Simien is getting into business with Paramount Television Studios. The multi-hyphenate director, writer and producer has signed a three-year overall deal with the studio. Under the pact, he’ll develop premium television series aimed at various platforms via his Culture Machine production company.

Christina Ham, who was recently a supervising producer on HBO’s Westworld, has struck an overall deal with UCP.

Sierra Teller Ornelas is staying with Universal Television. The co-creator, executive producer and writer of Peacock’s Rutherford Falls has extended her overall deal with the studio behind the series. Under the new pact, Ornelas will continue to develop new projects for UTV, a division of Universal Studio Group, to live on various platforms.

Gordon Ramsay has cooked up a major deal with Fox Entertainment that will see the celebrity chef and broadcaster launch a new production company and sign a major overall deal.

” “Happy Endings,” “Scrubs” and “Girlfriends.” “When we mapped out our strategy and ideal partners for Onyx Collective, Prentice Penny was at the top of the vision board,” Tara Duncan, president of Freeform and Onyx Collective, said in a statement Monday. “Prentice has a depth of experience telling wildly entertaining, culturally specific stories.

Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny has struck a high-end, multi-year overall deal with Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective.

Angelique Jackson Peabody and Golden Globe winner Prentice Penny has signed a new eight-figure, multi-year overall deal with Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective.Under the new deal, Penny will produce, write and direct new projects through his A Penny for Your Thoughts Entertainment banner across Disney platforms, including Hulu, which is the primary home for Onyx Collective titles.“I could not be more excited to partner with Onyx Collective for the next phase of my career,” Penny

Along with five “Star Trek” shows, including “Star Trek: Discovery” and “Star Trek: Picard,” Secret Hideout has also produced shows like “The Comey Rule” and the upcoming “The Man Who Fell to Earth” for Showtime.

Alex Kurtzman, the top producer on CBS Studios’ roster and architect of the studio’s Star Trek universe, has closed a massive new nine-figure overall deal there for his Secret Hideout banner. No financial terms are being disclosed but I hear the pact is in the $150 million range, putting Kurtzman in the very top tier of television writer-producers.

EXCLUSIVE: Black-ish co-executive producer Robb Chavis has signed an overall deal with CBS Studios. Under the pact, he will develop new half-hour series for the studio.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Arika Lisanne Mittman (Paradise Lost) has signed an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Multi-hyphenate Marja-Lewis Ryan, showrunner, executive producer, director and writer on The L Word: Generation Q, is expanding her relationship with Showtime. Ryan has signed an overall deal under which she will develop television projects exclusively for the premium television network.

EXCLUSIVE: Al Madrigal is expanding his relationship with CBS Studios. The multi-hyphenate writer, producer and actor has signed a multi-year overall deal with the Studio to develop new series for broadcast, cable and streaming services.

Universal Filmed Entertainment Group continues its spree of licensing deals in multiple windows. The latest one is a multi-year, theatrical output pact with Starz for the Post Pay-One window.

Famed music producer Rick Rubin has signed a deal with Endeavor Content to further bring his Shangri La recording studio into film and TV.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-director-producer Nick Stoller and producing partner Conor Welch have renewed the overall deal with Sony Pictures Television for their Stoller Global Solutions company.

Rick Rubin has got some stories and he’s going to start telling them in film and TV.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “Better Call Saul” and “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan will stay at Sony Pictures Television for another four years, signing an extension to his existing overall deal.Gilligan has been with Sony TV for more than 15 years.

Vince Gilligan has signed a new four-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, the studio said Monday.Sony Pictures TV has been the “Breaking Bad” creator’s home for the last 15 years, producing now just the iconic AMC series, but also its spinoff “Better Call Saul” and its sequel movie “El Camino: ,” which launched on Netflix.“Recently I was talking to my excellent agents (at ICM Partners,) and they reminded me my current deal was at its end.