Sarah Timberman & Carl Beverly Move To Lionsgate With Big Overall Television Deal

All eyes were on Kylie Jenner, 23, when she headed to dinner in Beverly Hills on April 24. The cosmetics boss rocked a beige bodysuit with some major cutouts at her waist and chest, putting her toned and tanned abs on full display.

Few have loomed so large and for so long over the entertainment industry as famously autocratic late billionaire Sumner Redstone, who passed last year at 97 years old after years of illness and isolation, not to mention rampant rumors of incapacitation and bitter infighting among his family and a couple of his significantly younger former girlfriends and care takers.

The Knick creators, executive producers and showrunners Jack Amiel and Michael Begler are returning to the HBO fold with a rich three-year overall deal. Under the pact, said to be in the eight-figure range, the duo have been tapped as writers, executive producers and showrunners for Season 2 of HBO’s drama series Perry Mason starring Matthew Rhys.

Starz has put in development The Case of Cyntoia Brown, a limited drama series inspired by the story of Cyntoia Brown-Long, who served 15 years of a life sentence for killing a man when she was 16 years old.

presidential candidate, Johnson, 48, closed on the six-bedroom, 12-bathroom abode on April 6 quietly, in an off-market deal. Considered the largest property in the upscale Beverly Park neighborhood, and home to the likes of Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy, Sofía Vergara, Sylvester Stallone and Rod Stewart, the structure sits on a flat 3.67 acres. The ultra-private estate is made up of several gates for easy access in and out of the property.

EXCLUSIVE: Retiring after a 12 season career with the New England Patriots in which he was part of three Super Bowl winning teams and was chosen MVP of Super Bowl LIII, wide receiver Julian Edelman has caught a second act. He and his Coast Productions partner Assaf Swissa have made an overall deal at ViacomCBS. As part of that, Edelman will joining the Inside The NFL team as an analyst. That starts this fall, when the Emmy-winning series makes its debut on Paramount+.

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Pilgrim Media Group’s Craig Piligian has re-upped his deal with Lionsgate, expanding his purview to oversee the studio’s unscripted division. Piligian will continue as CEO of Pilgrim Media Group. Under the new deal, he also has also been elevated to Chair of Pilgrim Media Group.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated director-producer Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland) has teamed with executive/Emmy-winning producer Cheryl Bloch (Northern Exposure) to launch Backyard Pictures. The new company will be based at Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, with a first-look deal. Under the pact, Backyard Pictures will develop new television series spanning broadcast, cable and streaming. They already have multiple projects in the works.

Sarah Ramos (Parenthood) has been tapped to play Cheryl Pistono, the girlfriend of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in Adam McKay’s Los Angeles Lakers HBO drama series, based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay’s Hyperobject Industries is producing.

Clare Crawley‘s 40th birthday was a special one — and not just because she spent it in the heart of California’s beautiful wine country in the Napa Valley! No, the headline here is all about how the former Bachelorette enjoyed the big day as part of a “very romantic” getaway with none other than ex-fiancé Dale Moss!

Kyanna Simone (Chambers) is joining the Season 3 cast of the CW’s All American as recurring. She’ll play Nhani Rivers, a confident, fun, and energetic student at South Crenshaw High.