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Anthony D'Alessandro, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: It was revealed tonight during Deadline’s Emmy season virtual screening of Comedy Central’s Drunk History that the Derek Waters-Jeremy Konner series will not be moving forward with a seventh season, originally ordered last summer.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersThe series’ sixth — and now final — season, which wrapped its run on Aug.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs has signed a multi-year overall deal with Universal TV, the studio behind the popular NBC series. As part of the deal, Krebs will continue his work on Good Girls and develop new projects.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski HBO Max has given a pilot order to Verbatim, an anthology series from Brett Weiner (Honest Trailers), Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films and Left/Right Productions.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersCreated and directed by Weiner, Verbatim is based on his New York Times Op-Docs digital series. It tackles actual events with all dialogue taken from primary sources and presented verbatim.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVMeet the Leverage team’s new full-time hacker.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski On the heels of its breakout series premiere, Apple has given an early season 2 renewal to sports comedy Ted Lasso. The streaming service has ordered a 10-episode second season of the series from Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence, set to debut next year.Co-written by Sudeikis and Lawrence, Ted Lasso is based on the popular Coach Ted Lasso character Sudeikis played in NBC Sports videos several years ago.

Justin Kroll, Nellie Andreeva In her first major foray into TV series, Rachel Weisz is set to headline and executive produce Dead Ringers, a reimagining with a gender swap of David Cronenberg’s cult classic 1980s film.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Miramax TV has optioned the rights to Alka Joshi’s bestselling debut novel The Henna Artist for series development.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Kenny Ortega, the prolific director, choreographer and producer known for the Disney Channel’s High School Musical franchise, has signed with A3 Artists Agency.This marks the second highest-profile long-time Paradigm lit client to sign with A3, which last month brought in four former Paradigm agents to reestablish a literary division, led by Andy Patman and Adam Kanter, Co-Heads of Television Content and Motion Pictures, respectively.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: CBS All Access has landed for development Remote, a remote workplace comedy from Ben Silverman, Paul Lieberstein and Big Breakfast, I have learned.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNBCUniversal is expanding the probe into workplace culture at NBC Entertainment beyond the ongoing investigation triggered by professional misconduct allegations against former Chairman Paul Telegdy. In an internal memo, Mark Lazarus, Chairman, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, confirmed the investigation, triggered by a news report last week, without mentioning Telegdy by name.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios is developing Stay Tuned, a TV series adaptation of the 1992 cult classic which starred John Ritter and Pam Dawber. The project hails from Fear The Walking Dead co-showrunner/executive producer Ian Goldberg & writer/producer Richard Naing, who will write the series, part of Goldberg’s overall deal at AMC Studios.

Nellie Andreeva, Dominic Patten For weeks, ABC/Sony Pictures TV’s medical drama The Good Doctor had looked like the show that would restart U.S. series production in Vancouver, leading the way out of the coronavirus-related shutdown.

Nellie Andreeva, Dominic Patten ICM Partners is finalizing an agreement with the WGA, sources tell Deadline.The pact, which would join a similar deal the guild reached with UTA last month, paves the way to eliminating the practice of packaging by June 30, 2022, which had been contingent on two of the so called “Big 4” agencies, CAA, WME, UTA and ICM, reaching agreements with the WGA.Noone would comment but, according to sources, the terms in ICM’s deal are in the ballpark of the ones negotiated

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVTop CAA agent Nick Khan, who was Co-Head of Television, is departing the agency to join client WWE as President & Chief Revenue Officer, reporting directly to WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon.Khan fills the void left by the January exit of Co-Presidents George Barrios and Michelle Wilson who were ousted in January amid a rocky last year for the company.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski As part of a major push into adult animation, Comedy Central has given a series green light to a reimagening of the cult Emmy-nominated The Ren & Stimpy Show. Comedy Central has been tapping into IP across ViacomCBS to build an original animated slate around stalwart South Park.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Miramax Television is rebooting cult 1997 horror sci-fi thriller movie Mimic as a TV series. Paul WS Anderson is set to direct the potential pilot and executive produce the series with his longtime producing partner Jeremy Bolt.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersJim Danger Gray (Orange is the New Black) will write the adaptation, executive produce and serve as showrunner.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVDesperate Housewives and Women Who Kill creator Marc Cherry has has signed with A3 Artists Agency. This marks the highest-profile showrunner signing for A3, which last month brought in four former Paradigm agents to reestablish a literary division, led by Andy Patman and Adam Kanter, Co-Heads of Television Content and Motion Pictures, respectively.Cherry was one of Patman’s longtime clients at Paradigm who is now following him to the new agency.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: Landmark Studio Group, a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company, has partnered with District 33 (BlackBalled) to develop and produce Shadows In The Vineyard, a limited event drama series based on journalist Maximillian Potter’s bestselling book, Shadows in the Vineyard: The True Story of the Plot to Poison The World’s Greatest Wine, with Noah Wyle and Judith Light attached to star and executive produce.

Dominic Patten, Nellie Andreeva As talks continue with Gabrielle Union over the former America’s Got Talent judge’s racial discrimination claims, NBC Entertainment Chairman Paul Telegdy has become the subject of an internal investigation into allegations of professional misconduct.

Nellie Andreeva, Peter White AMC Networks Entertainment Group President Sarah Barnett will be stepping down from her position after Labor Day.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna has brought in Heather Morris as VP of Development and Production at her ABC Studios-based Lean Machine production company. Morris will identify and develop projects for the company under the overall deal Brosh McKenna signed in January with ABC Studios, a part of Disney Television Studios.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Casey Kyber has left 20th Century Fox TV, where she served as VP of drama development, to join Jenna Bans’ production banner, Minnesota Logging Company, as Head of Television. The hire is part of a ramp-up of Minnesota Logging Co.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Schilling (Orange Is the New Black), Rosemarie DeWitt (Little Fires Everywhere), Aaron Eckhart (Midway) and Paul Dano (Escape At Dannemora) are set as leads in the voice cast of Pantheon, AMC’s hourlong animated primetime drama series from Turn creator/executive producer Craig Silverstein and AMC Studios.Pantheon, which received a two-season order in March, is based on the short stories by Ken Liu about Uploaded Intelligence, or human

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Otmara Marrero (StartUp) has been tapped as a lead in the NBC comedy series Connecting, from Blindspot creator/exec producer Martin Gero, his frequent collaborator Brendan Gall and Universal Television.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersWritten and executive produced by Gero and Gall, Connecting, which last month received an eight-episode straight-to-series order, is an ensemble comedy about a group of friends trying to

Patrick Hipes, Nellie Andreeva Univision’s La Rosa de Guadalupe was Thursday’s top-rated show in primetime among adults 18-49 (Live+Same Day), scoring a 0.6 rating in the demo, along with 1.63 million viewers.

David Robb, Nellie Andreeva Now that UTA has signed the WGA’s franchise agreement after lengthy negotiations, speculation is mounting over which of the other Big Four agencies – WME, CAA or ICM Partners – will be the next to sign.Sources tell Deadline that WGA West president David A.

Nellie Andreeva, Dominic Patten In what would be the biggest get yet for the WGA in its yearlong standoff with the top agencies, the scribes’ union appears close tonight to an agreement with UTA.We hear that at a captains meeting Tuesday evening, WGA West president David Goodman revealed to members that the union were finalizing a deal with “major agency.” Official details of the possible breakthrough agreement could coming as soon as Wednesday, sources say.The agency in question was not

Nellie Andreeva, Dino-Ray Ramos EXCLUSIVE: The suspense novel The Red Lotus from New York Times bestselling author Chris Bohjalian is getting the TV treatment.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski The Moody family will be back. Fox has picked up a second season of comedy The Moodys, starring Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins.The show, based on Australian series A Moody Christmas, started as a holiday event comedy series with the first installment airing during the holiday season last year.The second season, targeted for the 2020-21 season will not be holiday-themed, with a bigger order size than the six-episode original limited run.

Nellie Andreeva, Peter White EXCLUSIVE: CBS Entertainment has combined the network’s specials and alternative programming units under Jack Sussman, a 22-year CBS veteran who has overseen the network’s specials since 1998, most recently as EVP, Specials, Music and Live Events. In the new setup, Sussman will take on additional responsibilities and head the combined department.The restructuring comes three months after Sharon Vuong exited CBS as SVP and head of alternative.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: Orange is the New Black alumna Dascha Polanco is set as a lead opposite Tate Donovan and Melissa Leo in the Fox pilot Blood Relative.

Denise Petski, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: The story of former Philadelphia Police Officer Jeffrey Walker is headed to the screen.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVABC has handed a pilot production commitment to The Wonder Years, a new iteration of the network’s 1980s family comedy-drama. It comes from Dave executive producer Saladin K.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski FX and Hulu have teamed to launch The New York Times Presents, a 10-episode monthly documentary series set to premiere Friday, July 10 at 10 PM.The New York Times Presents is the new incarnation of The Weekly, which FX referred to a second season of the NYT docuseries on its 2020-21 programming slate released in May.The New York Times Presents hails from the same creative team as The Weekly and will also feature breaking news, investigations and character-driven

Denise Petski, Nellie Andreeva CBS Television Studios has parted ways with top showrunner Peter Lenkov.A spokesperson for the studio just released the following statement:“Peter Lenkov is no longer the executive producer overseeing MacGyver and Magnum P.I., and the Studio has ended its relationship with him. Monica Macer will be the showrunner on MacGyver, and Eric Guggenheim will run Magnum P.I.

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has put in development Rip Crew, a crime drama from Code Black creator/executive producer Michael Seitzman, executive producer Mike Weiss and ABC Signature Studios.Written by Weiss, in Rip Crew, when a disgraced ex-FBI agent turned criminology professor discovers that his most gifted students are planning a massive heist, he decides to scoop their score and become the criminal he used to chase.Weiss and Seitzman executive produce with Ross