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Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Prolific director-producer Randall Einhorn has signed with CAA for representation.Known for his work on The Office, Parks & Recreation, Modern Family, Fargo and Shameless, Einhorn has directed numerous pilots, seven of which have gone to series, including the critically-acclaimed Wilfred, The Muppets for ABC, The Mick, Me, Myself & I, Lodge 49 and The Kids Are Alright.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorDisney+ has locked in an October 30 premiere date for the launch of Season 2 of its flagship series The Mandalorian. The streaming service revealed the news Wednesday on social media.Shooting had already wrapped on the second season before the coronavirus-related production shutdown in mid-March and work is already underway on Season 3.This is the day.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Stephanie Koenig (Swedish Dicks) is set as a lead opposite Julie Bowen in The Big Bad Wolfes (fka Raised by Wolves and Please Hold for Frankie Wolfe), CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten and exec produced by Kohan and Mutchnick, The Big Bad Wolfes centers on Frankie

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Daniel Gillies, known for his role in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, has signed with Buchwald for representation.Gillies joined the CW’s The Vampire Diaries in the second season as Elijah Mikaelson, then went on to reprise the role in all five seasons of spinoff The Originals.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNickelodeon has promoted Ramsey Naito to President of Animation. The move elevates Naito from her former position as EVP of Animation Production and Development for the Nickelodeon Group.In her new role, Naito oversees the network’s animation content across all formats and platforms — linear, digital, TV movies, theatrical motion pictures and SVOD.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorABC has set 9/11 Remembered: The Day We Came Together, an hour-long dedication special filmed on May 15, 2014, marking President Barack Obama’s opening of the 9/11 Memorial Museum at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Saturday Night Live cast member Ego Nwodim has signed with CAA for representation.Nwodim joined the venerable late-night sketch show SNL as a featured cast member in 2018 and is now heading into her third season. She can also be seen in the Hulu series Shrill, IFC’s Brockmire, and the upcoming feature, The Broken Hearts Gallery.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: ABC has put in development Big Wishes, a half-hour single camera comedy from Full Frontal with Samantha Bee co-head writer Kristen Bartlett, director James Griffiths and his Fee-Fi-Fo Films, 2 Dope Queens co-creator Phoebe Robinson and ABC Signature, where Griffiths is under a deal.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten by Bartlett and directed by Griffiths, in Big Wishes, plenty of charities make wishes come true for

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThere will be no third season for AMC’s supernatural horror series NOSA42, Deadline has confirmed. Showrunner and executive producer Jami O’Brien shared the news Monday on Twitter.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThere will be no third season for AMC’s supernatural horror series NOSA42, Deadline has confirmed. Showrunner and executive producer Jami O’Brien shared the news today on Twitter.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe 2020 Miss USA competition is heading to A+E Networks’ cable channel FYI, the Miss Universe organization said today. Both the 2020 Miss USA competition and 2020 Miss Teen USA will take place at Elvis Presley’s Graceland mansion in Memphis, TN, in November, under COVID-19 guidelines in the coronavirus era.The 2020 Miss USA competition will air live on FYI on Monday, November 9 at 8 PM EST.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rachel Brosnahan has brought in former Will Packer Media executive Paige Simpson as Head of Development at her Scrap Paper Pictures.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Siena Agudong, the 16-year-old star of Disney Channel’s Upside-Down Magic and Netflix’s No Good Nick, has signed with The Gersh Agency for representation.Agudong can currently be seen in the lead role of Reina in Disney Channel movie Upside-Down Magic, based on the bestselling fantasy fiction children’s books of the same name.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorMariah Carey is teaming with Apple on a Christmas special set for premiere later this year on Apple TV+.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorStarz has given a series order to a third series from the Power universe, from Courtney Kemp and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. Power Book IV: Force will focus on Power’s Tommy Egan, with Joseph Sikora set to reprise his role.Robert Munic will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series, with the order coming ahead of the September 6 premiere of Power Book II: Ghost, starring Michael Rainey Jr., Naturi Naughton, Mary J.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix is offering some movies and series free to stream, no subscription required.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorGus Birney (The Mist) and Dylan Gage (PEN15) are set as series regulars opposite Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear in Shining Vale, Starz’s horror-comedy pilot from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof. The half-hour show hails from Warner Bros.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Live+3 numbers are in and Paramount Network’s juggernaut drama series Yellowstone has broken more ratings records. Sunday’s 9 PM season 3 finale drew 7.6 million total viewers in L+3, up from 5.2M in Live+same day.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix has cast Jenny Slate’s replacement as Missy on its animated series Big Mouth, Deadline has confirmed.The series’ co-creator, executive producer and star Nick Kroll said in June that the show would recast the voice role of Missy, a biracial character on the Netflix animated series, with a black actress.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorHBO is developing drama series Sphere based on Michael Crichton’s novel of the same name, from Westworld executive producer/writer Denise Thé, Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan’s Kilter Films (Westworld), Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey and Warner Bros.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorGood Bones is returning for a sixth season on HGTV. The network has ordered 14 one-hour episodes of the home makeover series starring mother/daughter duo Mina Starsiak Hawk and Karen E Laine for premiere in summer 2021.The renewal comes on the heels of solid ratings for the series in the key P25-54 and W25-54 demos in its Tuesday 9-10 pm timeslot.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorJharrel Jerome (When They See Us), Marc Bamuthi Joseph (We Shall Not Be Moved), Janet Mock (Pose), jazz pianist/composer Jason Moran, Wendell Pierce (Jack Ryan), Mj Rodriguez (Pose, Hollywood), Kendrick Sampson (Insecure), Yara Shahidi (Black-ish, Grown-ish) and Michelle Wilson (Sweat) have joined the cast of Between the World and Me, HBO’s adaptation of the stage show based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ New York Times bestseller.They join previously announced cast

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorSchitt’s Creek alums Tim Rozon and Sarah Levy, along with Adam Korson (Seed), Maurice Dean Wint (The Kid Detective), Savannah Basley (Wynonna Earp) and Tennille Read (Workin’ Moms) are set as series regulars in The Surrealtor, Syfy’s upcoming drama series from Blue Ice Pictures.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix has set the full cast for Social Distance, its upcoming quarantine anthology series from Orange is the New Black creator Jenji Kohan.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorAfter Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers  watched his team dismantle the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA playoffs Tuesday night, he got emotional in talking to reporters. The topic wasn’t the 43-point victory but the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Wisconsin, the GOP and the state of racial politics in the United States.“It’s just so sad,” he said during the virtual postgame presser.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorYoung Sheldon is heading to Nickelodeon. In an off-network sale, TV’s No.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorUPDATED, 5:05 PM: Ink Master tattoo artist Daniel Silva was sentenced Tuesday to 364 days in county jail, 250 hours of community service and five years probation in a deadly car crash that killed YouTube personality Corey La Barrie.Silva, who initially was charged with murder in connection with the crash, pleaded no contest in July to a felony count of gross vehicular manslaughter.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Misfits) is set as a series regular on HBO Max’s Lena Dunham-produced half-hour dramedy, Generation.Created by Zelda Barnz and her father Daniel Barnz, who also directs, Generation is a dark yet playful half-hour following a group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorBuzzfeed is making an expanded push into television, signing a first-look deal with Universal TV, in which the studio will produce scripted content based on stories and original reporting published by the tech-powered media company.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorFacebook Watch has teamed with Will Packer Media and Jesse Collins on a one-hour special to commemorate the historic 1963 March on Washington and its impact on the civil rights movement.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Fox has put in development Icon, an anthology drama series profiling some of the world’s biggest music legends, from producer Gail Berman and leading country music manager Jason Owen. The first installment will focus on Grammy-winning mother and daughter country music duo Naomi and Wynonna Judd, who will executive produce.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorHBO Max has unveiled the full cast for Equal, its upcoming four-part docuseries chronicling landmark events and the forgotten heroes of the LGBTQ+ movement, from Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions, Jim Parsons and That’s Wonderful Productions, Scout Productions, Jon Jashni (Lost in Space) and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television.Samira Wiley, Cheyenne Jackson, Anthony Rapp, Sara Gilbert, Shannon Purser, Heather Matarazzo, Jamie Clayton, Isis King, Gale

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorA very familiar face will be missing from The Real Housewives of New York City. After six seasons of trying to “Make it Nice,” Dorinda Medley announced today that she is leaving the Bravo reality series.“What a journey this has been.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorOscar nominee and The Outsider star Cynthia Erivo is expanding her relationship with MRC Television and Civic Center Media, the studio’s joint venture with UTA, with a first-look deal. Under the pact, Erivo will develop and produce television projects through her newly formed production company, Edith’s Daughter.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorGarcelle Beauvais has been tapped as a new co-host of daytime talk show The Real. Beauvais joins the show following the exit of Tamera Mowry-Housley, who stepped away from the gig in July after six seasons, and the departure of Amanda Seales earlier this year.Beauvais announced the news Monday on social media.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the Apollo Theater have partnered on A Marvelous Night at the Apollo, a one-hour digital special celebrating the historic theater and its connection to the Amazon series.Directed by Leigh Silverman, the special is a three-part conversation piece covering comedy, music and dance featuring series creators Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, star Rachel Brosnahan, along with Wanda Sykes, Sterling K.