‘Preacher’ Showrunner Sam Catlin Strikes Overall Deal With Apple

EXCLUSIVE:  Chicago P.D. writer/executive producer Gwen Sigan has been promoted to showrunner. She is taking the reins of the long-running NBC series as part of an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, which produces the cop drama.

EXCLUSIVE: Writer Raamla Mohamed is staying in business with ABC Signature with a multi-year extension of her overall deal. The extension comes on the heels of Mohamed’s legal drama Reasonable Doubt getting a series order by Onyx Collective to stream on Hulu. Mohamed signed her first overall with the Studio, a part of Disney Television Studios, in 2018, and has been in the Disney family since 2009.

Ruth Negga and Rebecca Hall are continuing their press tour for their new movie!

Saturday Night Live star and Shrill co-creator/star Aidy Bryant has closed an overall deal with Universal Television.

Selome Hailu editorAidy Bryant, best known for starring in “Saturday Night Live, has signed an overall deal with Universal Television to develop and produce projects for the studio.Bryant is currently in her tenth season at “SNL.” Most recently, she co-created, wrote, directed, executive produced and starred in “Shrill,” the three season Hulu comedy based on Lindy West’s essay collection of the same name.

Selome Hailu editorWriter, director and showrunner Kenny Smith has signed an overall deal with Universal Television to develop and produce projects across various platforms.Smith recently joined Kenan Thompson’s NBC and UTV sitcom “Kenan” as co-showrunner after completing an overall deal with ABC earlier this year.

Kenny Smith is moving from Disney to NBCUniversal.

Tom Cruise enjoyed a little baseball in San Francisco on Saturday.

EXCLUSIVE: Susie Abromeit (Jessica Jones) is expanding her relationship with GAC Family with a new overall deal. Under the pact, Abromeit will star in four original films on the cable channel and host GAC Family Original Movie Nights. In addition to the deal, Abromeit will star in the previously announced holiday movie Much Ado About Christmas, which is set to premiere October 30 as part of GAC Family’s “Great American Christmas” franchise.

EXCLUSIVE: Phil Augusta Jackson, creator and executive producer of NBC’s Grand Crew, has signed an overall deal with Universal Television, the studio behind the upcoming single-camera comedy series. This marks the first overall pact for Jackson, a writer, actor, director and musician from Philadelphia, who will develop and produce broadcast, cable and streaming projects for Universal TV, a division of Universal Studio Group.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorEmily Morse’s “Sex With Emily” — touted as the industry’s longest-running sex and relationship podcast — has signed a distribution and monetization deal with Acast.The show, which Morse launched in 2005 from her San Francisco apartment, consistently ranks as No. 1 in Apple Podcasts’ sexuality category.

Debra Moore Muñoz, co-executive producer and writer on FX’s Mayans M.C., is expanding her relationship with the show’s producer, FX Productions. Moore Muñoz has signed an overall deal with the studio to develop new content for FX through her company Apogee Films, Inc.

Selome Hailu editorDebra Moore Muñoz, a co-executive producer and writer on FX’s “Mayans M.C.,” has signed an overall deal with FX Productions. She will develop new content for FX through her company, Apogee Films, Inc.Muñoz is a first-generation Mexican-American who was born and raised in Los Angeles.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSam Catlin has signed an overall deal at Apple, Variety has learned.Under the deal, Catlin will develop and produce scripted television projects for Apple under his Short Drive Entertainment banner along with his producing partner, Tiffany Prasifka.Catlin most recently served as showrunner, and executive producer, and co-creator of AMC series “Preacher.” He developed the show alongside Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

Apple TV+ has not picked up the second season of Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s comedy-drama Mr Corman.The show, created, written, directed, executive produced and starring Gordon-Levitt, premiered at the start of August and the last of the nine episodes aired yesterday (October 1).Gordon-Levitt starred as the titular Mr Corman, a fifth-grade teacher who ponders the bigger questions to life and struggles with his own emotions while keeping his San Fernando Valley elementary school class afloat.

Back to the grind! Dale Moss blew off some steam after his split from Clare Crawley during a joint workout event with fellow Bachelorette alum Tyler Cameron.

“No Time to Die” star Daniel Craig in the lead and Oscar nominee Ruth Negga (“Loving”) as his cunning and treacherous wife, Lady Macbeth.“Macbeth” will begin its run on March 29, 2022, at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre, with opening night set for April 28.The 15-week production will be directed by Tony Award-winner Sam Gold (“Fun Home”).“Daniel is not only a great film actor but a magnificent theater actor as well,” producer Barbara Broccoli said of Craig, 53, adding that “exquisitely talented”

NEW YORK -- Fresh off his turn as James Bond, Daniel Craig has his next project lined up and its also got plenty of blood being spilled.Craig will return to Broadway in 2022 as Macbeth in a revival of Williams Shakespeare's tragedy, with Ruth Negga making her Broadway debut playing Lady Macbeth.“Macbeth” will play the Lyceum Theatre starting March 29, 2022, with an opening set for April 28. Tony Award-winner Sam Gold will direct.