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Netflix has set an April 4 premiere date and unveiled the first trailer for psychological thriller series Ripley, starring Andrew Scott as Patricia Highsmith’s title character. The series adaptation, from The Night Of’s Steve Zaillian, was orginally set at Showtime but moved to the streamer ahead of Showtime’s integration into Paramount+.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large When NBC recently resurrected its long-dormant “Deal or No Deal,” it came with a new format: “Deal or No Deal Island.” The game show was originally a “shiny floor” in-studio contest where players had to guess how much money was inside a large briefcase. The updated iteration takes things outdoors, raising the stakes by adding interpersonal dynamics, physical challenges and survival to the mix. At producer Endemol Shine North America, they call adding a fresh spin to existing IP the “ESNA twist.” And it’s become a hallmark for CEO Sharon Levy, who took over the shingle — part of Banijay Americas — a little more than a year ago.

EXCLUSIVE: DJ Nurre, one of Endemol Shine North America’s top unscripted executives, has left the company after six years.

Andrew Scott stars as the infamous Tom Ripley in Netflix’s new limited series “Ripley,” which premieres on April 4. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling novels, the series begins when a wealthy man hires Ripley to travel to Italy and convince his vagabond son to return home. In accepting the job, this marks “the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder,” per the release.

Andrew Scott plays grifter Tom Ripley in the new Netflix limited series Ripley, which is set to premiere on April 4. The new trailer, which you can view in the video above, shows the extent that Ripley will go through to get the job done.

Marta Balaga Imagine “Deal or No Deal” set on an exotic island, with its 13 participants facing extreme challenges, testing their limits and literally crawling through mud. Except you don’t have to – it’s already here. “What if the Banker had a private island and decided to put his contestants through an extreme game to find one winner? The craziness of the idea is, I think, what we and NBC rallied around,” says Sharon Levy, CEO at Endemol Shine North America.

Valerie Wu Intern Andrew Scott is Tom Ripley in the first trailer for Netflix’s coming psychological thriller series “Ripley,” which debuted its first teaser Monday morning. The Patricia Highsmith adaptation was originally set up at Showtime, but was acquired by Netflix in a sale between the companies. Directed and written by Steven Zaillian, who most recently penned Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” the series follows Scott’s Ripley, described as “a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York.” The plot follows his relationship with a wealthy man traveling in Italy with a troubled relationship with his son.

CBS has ordered a U.S. version of The Summit, an adventure reality competition series.

EXCLUSIVE: Andrée A. Michaud’s novel ‘Boundary’ is being developed as a thriller series.

Marta Balaga Banijay has launched a global accelerator program aimed at supporting female creators developing promising unscripted formats. The company has also commissioned a first-ever study on women in the non-fiction space. Named Banijay Launch, the competitive program was unveiled at Mipcom by Sharon Levy, Endemol Shine North America CCO and James Townley, Banijay’s CCO of development.

Banijay has forged a “global accelerator program” to encourage more women to get into unscripted formats.

Fox continues to cook up competition amongst pint-sized chefs.

BreAnna Bell “MasterChef Junior” has been renewed for a ninth season, Fox announced on Thursday. This time, with new judge Tilly Ramsay joining her father, Gordon Ramsay.

Fox is getting in early to build another season of Lego Masters.

Fox is cooking up more MasterChef.

ABC is working to bring back Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to the network after the format’s brief dalliance with HGTV.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter ABC is developing a new version of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin, best known as the co-founders of the lifestyle brand The Home Edit, will serve as hosts of the new version of the show should it move forward. The show currently has the same title as the original, but that is a working title at this time. As with the original show, each episode will see the hosts meet a family that needs a new home or major renovations to their current home. The hosts will then work with a team of builders, designers, and contractors to reshape the house to the family’s needs.

NBC is leaning into more unscripted for midseason.

Endemol Shine North America is making some changes at the top.

Fox is bringing back its competition format Lego Masters for a fourth season.

EXCLUSIVE: Sylvester Stallone, Bear Grylls and Endemol Shine North America have established a production partnership with plans to create high-adrenaline series.

Selome Hailu “Masterchef” has been renewed for a thirteenth season at Fox. Chef and executive producer Gordon Ramsay, chef Aarón Sánchez and restaurateur Joe Bastianich all return to judge the cooking competition series. The news comes ahead of the finale of Season 12, which airs Wednesday and features the return of former judge Christina Tosi, chef and owner of Milk Bar. According to Fox, “Masterchef” currently reaches an average of 4.7 million people in multi-platform viewering. The series is produced by Endemol Shine North America and One Potato Two Potato, and is based on a format created by Franc Roddam. Along with Ramsay, Elisabeth Murdoch, Danny Schrader, Pat Llewellyn, Ben Adler, Sharon Levy and DJ Nurre serve as executive producers.

Lego Masters: Celebrity Holiday Bricktacular December 19, 20 and 21. Will Arnett hosts and Leslie Jordan, Robin Thicke, Cheryl Hines and Finesse Mitchell make guest appearances and compete for their favorite charities.

Sharon Osbourne was just 18 when she first met Ozzy. It was 51 years ago and she was then called Sharon Levy. Working as a receptionist for her famous dad Don Arden, a music executive who had recently signed Ozzy's band Black Sabbath, she said she was shocked when the heavy metal rocker first came into her father's office.

The Regency-style dating series formerly known as Pride & Prejudice: An Experiment in Romance has jumped from streaming to linear.

EXCLUSIVE: The story of Aarón Sánchez, one of the judges of Fox’s MasterChef and MasterChef Junior, is set for the small screen after Endemol Shine North America optioned his memoir.

Endemol Shine North America has promoted Sharon Levy to Chief Content Officer.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterEndemol Shine North America has named Sharon Levy its chief content officer, elevating the exec from her prior role as president of unscripted and scripted television for the Banijay-owned studio.Levy first joined Endemol Shine North America in 2017, reshaping its programming team to work more closely with Banijay’s global production companies and created a development slate to include scripted and unscripted projects from co-owned labels worldwide.