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Joe Otterson TV Reporter Lionsgate is launching a new alternative television division. The news comes on the heels of the independent studio closing its $375 million acquisition of eOne in late December. Lionsgate Alternative Television will combine Pilgrim Media Group (which is majority owned by Lionsgate) with eOne’s U.S.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Minx” has been canceled at Starz, Variety has learned. This now marks the second time the series has been canceled. The first season of the comedy originally aired on Max, where it was renewed for a second season before it was canceled in a cost-cutting move.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter CBS has ordered an “NCIS” prequel series that will focus on a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Variety has confirmed. The series is titled “NCIS: Origins” and will air during the 2024-2025 season. The show will be set in 1991 with Mark Harmon (who played Gibbs for nearly two decades) serving as narrator.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Samuel L. Jackson is set to star in the upcoming Peacock true crime limited series “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist,” Variety has learned. The show was ordered to series at Peacock in December with Kevin Hart attached to star and executive produce with Will Packer also executive producing.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “American Born Chinese” has been canceled after one season at Disney+, Variety has learned. According to an individual with knowledge of the decision, Disney was high on the creative of the series, but its viewership did not justify greenlighting a second season. The producers plan to shop the series to other outlets.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The critically-acclaimed documentary feature “The Eternal Memory” is returning to theaters, Variety has learned exclusively. The doc, which hails from MTV Documentary Films, will be back on theater screens in New York and Los Angeles starting today. The film will screen daily at The IFC Center in New York on Jan.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter CBS has given a straight to series order to a drama series that will see Morris Chestnut star as the iconic literary character Dr. John Watson, the companion of master detective Sherlock Holmes. The show, titled “Watson,” is a contemporary story set one year after the death of Holmes at the hands of his archnemesis Moriarty.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Broadcast pilot season was already mostly dead when the Hollywood strikes came along. But to paraphrase Billy Crystal in “The Princess Bride,” “There’s a big difference between ‘mostly dead’ and ‘all dead.’ Mostly dead is slightly alive!” And that’s where pilot season now stands: Mostly dead — and yet still stubbornly, slightly alive. A relic of a bygone TV era, broadcast pilot season has been on the chopping block for years as networks aimed to get out of that springtime crunch by focusing on year-round development.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Paramount Television Studios has acquired the rights to Jakob Kerr’s upcoming debut novel “Dead Money,” Variety has learned exclusively. The rights for the book were sold to the studio in a seven-figure deal following a bidding war. The book will be published by Ballantine, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in summer 2024.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Leverage: Redemption” has been renewed for Season 3, but will be changing platforms. The first two seasons aired on Amazon‘s Freevee, but Season 3 will debut on sister streamer Prime Video in 2024 instead. The move is significant, as “Leverage: Redemption,” a revival of the TNT series “Leverage,” was one of the major scripted titles available on Freevee.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” has been renewed for three more seasons at HBO. The deal will keep the series on the air through 2026. “We’re very happy to get to keep making this show with our fantastic staff,” said Oliver.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Netflix has ordered the drama “Ransom Canyon” to series, with Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly set to star. Netflix has given “Ransom Canyon” a 10-episode order.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Foundation” has been renewed for Season 3 at Apple TV+. “I’m thrilled Apple has given us the opportunity to continue chronicling Asimov’s pioneering galactic saga. This time, the stakes for Foundation and Empire are even higher as the Mule takes center stage, along with fan-favorites Bayta,Toran, Ebling, and Magnifico Giganticus,” said showrunner and executive producer David S.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Spider-Man Noir live-action series in the works at Amazon has brought on Steve Lightfoot as co-showrunner, Variety has learned exclusively. The show was first reported to be in the works at Amazon back in February. Oren Uziel is the writer on the project and will serve alongside Lightfoot as co-showrunner and executive producer.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Reacher” has been renewed for Season 3 at Amazon‘s Prime Video. The announcement was made during the Prime Video panel at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil. The news comes ahead of the Season 2 premiere of the action series, which is due to debut on Dec.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Jury Duty” star Ronald Gladden has signed an overall deal with Amazon MGM Studios, Variety has learned. Under the two-year deal, Gladden will work with the studio to produce, develop, and star in content across platforms. “Words cannot express how excited I am to officially be a part of the Amazon family,” said Gladden.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Swagger” has been canceled at Apple TV+ after two seasons. Series creator Reggie Rock Bythewood shared the news with fans via Instagram.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Noah Hawley‘s “Alien” series at FX has filled out its main cast with six new additions, Variety has learned exclusively. Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla,” “Damilola”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984,” “Noughts and Crosses”), Erana James (“Uproar,” “The Wilds”), Lily Newmark (“Pin Cushion,” “Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black,” “Alex Rider 3”), and Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace,” “A Spy Among Friends”) have all been cast in the series. They join previously announced cast members Sydney Chandler, Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, David Rysdahl, Samuel Blenkin, and Adarsh Gourav.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The returns of both CM Punk and Randy Orton saw the ratings for WWE‘s “Monday Night Raw” rise by nearly a third over last week. The Best in the World and the Apex Predator helped the “Raw” viewership rise to 1.88 million viewers, up 29% over last week and 13% over the comparable show a year ago. That is the highest viewership for a “Raw” episode since August 7.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The world of “The Boys” could soon be expanding to Mexico. According to sources, Amazon is currently developing a Spanish-language spinoff of their popular dark superhero series based on the Garth Ennis/Darick Robertson comic books that would be set in Mexico City. Exact plot details remain under wraps.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Max series based on DeuxMoi’s novel “Anon Pls” has attached Diablo Cody and Ryan O’Connell to serve as writers, Variety has learned from sources. As initially reported in May 2022, the project is currently set up at Max with a script-to-series commitment. It is being developed as a one-hour drama series via Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Reid Scott is set for a series regular role in Season 23 of “Law & Order,” Variety has learned. Exact details on the character Scott will be playing are being kept under wraps, aside from the fact he will be portraying an NYPD detective. The news comes a week after it was announced that Jeffrey Donovan would not be back for the new season of the long-running (and recently revived) procedural.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Good Burger 2” will be the launch pad for a new era of collaboration between Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell, according to the two actors. In an interview with Variety, Thompson says he and Mitchell will “one million percent” keep working together after the debut of the long-awaited sequel to their cult classic Nickelodeon film on Paramount+. “It would be only right for us to continue to go explore what Kenan and Kel could have been when we were in our 20s when we left Nickelodeon and decided to try to figure it out, instead of just automatically doing the Abbott and Costello thing,” Thompson says.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Lee Sung Jin, the creator of the critically acclaimed Netflix series “Beef,” has signed a multi-year overall deal with the streamer. The deal covers both film and television projects that Lee (also known as Sonny Lee) may develop. As is customary with such announcements, financial terms were not disclosed.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “The Penguin” is heading back into production. The Max-DC series, which stars Colin Farrell in a spinoff of the film “The Batman,” is set to return to shooting now that the SAG-AFTRA strike has been settled. Production on the series will resume the week after Thanksgiving, Variety has learned.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Amazon is making a limited series about Prince Andrew’s disastrous interview with Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis, Variety has learned. Production is underway in the U.K. on the three-part series, titled “A Very Royal Scandal.” Michael Sheen will star as Prince Andrew, while Ruth Wilson will play Maitlis.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter With the strikes that shut down Hollywood over, NBC is setting midseason premiere dates for much of its scripted lineup. The Dick Wolf universe of shows — “Chicago Med,” Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Law & Order: Organized Crime” — are all poised to return. New episodes of the “One Chicago” shows will debut Wednesday, Jan.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” is staying put at ABC for the foreseeable future. Variety has learned that ABC and Dick Clark Productions have extended their deal for the annual New Year’s Eve show through Jan. 1 2029.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Amazon Prime Video has ordered a “Bosch” spinoff about the LAPD’s cold case division and Det. Renée Ballard. The 10-episode series was first reported as being in the works at Amazon MGM Studios in February.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The Golden Globe Awards have found a TV home for 2024 at CBS. The 81st edition of the awards show will air Jan. 7 on the broadcast network immediately after an NFL on CBS doubleheader.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The “Ted” series coming to Peacock has set its premiere date. The seven-episode event series, which serves as a prequel to the two “Ted” films, will debut on Peacock on Jan. 11.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “9-1-1: Lone Star” Season 5 will not return to Fox until Fall 2024, Variety has confirmed. According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, the fifth season of the spinoff series will consist of 12 episodes. Fox will use “Lone Star,” it’s highest-rated drama, to launch its new shows “Doc” and “Rescue: Hi-Surf,” both of which were ordered earlier this year but have yet to begin production.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “SEAL Team” will conclude with the upcoming Season 7 at Paramount+. The military drama series was renewed for a seventh season back in January. Production on the final season is slated to begin in December.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Young Sheldon” will end its run at CBS with its upcoming Season 7. The “Big Bang Theory” prequel series is set to return on Feb. 15, with the one-hour series finale set to air on May 16.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter “Praise Petey” has been canceled after just one season at Freeform. Series creator Anna Drezen shared the news in an Instagram post on Nov. 13.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell will taking a ride in the Burgermobile this Thanksgiving. Variety has learned exclusively that the comedy duo, who star in the upcoming film “Good Burger 2,” will be onboard when the Burgermobile from the film takes part in the 97th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was previously announced that the iconic car would be part of the parade, though Thompson and Mitchell’s participation was not known at that time.