Showrunner Monica Macer Inks Overall Deal With MGM Television

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Dubuque, the co-creator of Netflix’s Ozark, has signed an overall deal with Fifth Season.

“House of the Dragon” executive producer Sara Hess is going to continue developing original projects for HBO. The network announced Friday that Hess, who is also a writer on the “Game of Thrones” prequel series, is extending her overall deal for another two years.

House of the Dragon Executive Producer Sara Hess is staying put at HBO. The cabler has extended her overall deal for an additional two years. Hess also serves as a writer on the Game of Thrones prequel.

EXCLUSIVE: Barry writer-producer Jason Kim has signed a multi-year overall deal with 20th Television and Onyx Collective, under which he will develop television projects exclusively for both.

The Missouri man accused of holding a woman hostage in his basement for a month until she escaped and begged neighbors for help wearing "latex lingerie" and a padlocked metal dog collar is under investigation for more potential crimes, according to authorities. Police arrested 39-year-old Timothy Marrion Haslett Jr. of Excelsior Springs last week on charges of first-degree rape or attempted rape, first-degree kidnapping and second-degree assault after allegedly holding a woman in a dungeon-like chamber in his basement for weeks.

EXCLUSIVE: Laura Neal, who was lead writer and exec producer of the fourth and final season of BBC America’s Killing Eve, is getting into business with MGM Television.

countdown to CMT Artists of the Year is on — and this year's performers have just been unveiled. When fans tune in to the annual event on Friday, viewers will get to see a lineup of country music's brightest stars grace the stage at Nashville's Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Included in the 2022 roster of performers are honorees Alan Jackson, Carly Pearce, Cody Johnson, Kane Brown and Lainey Wilson.

Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines has become hugely popular alongside her husband Chip Gaines.MORE: Magnolia Network star Joanna Gaines shares adorable family video that has fans saying the same thingBut the home renovation star and businesswoman has also suffered from anti-Asian hatred after growing up in Texas as half-Korean.WATCH: Fixer Upper: The Castle coming soon on Magnolia Joanna shared in 2021, at a time of rising anti-Asian rhetoric in America, that she remembered "as a little girl being out with my mom and seeing how in a moment, a person's harsh look or an underhanded comment would attempt to belittle her rich story and her beautiful culture"."We can't take lightly the power that our words and actions carry. The world needs who we were ALL made to be and all the amazing and beautiful differences we each bring with us," she continued in an Instagram post alongisde a throwback picture of her and her mom.MORE: Fixer Upper star Joanna Gaines shares how she 'nurtured' herself back from a place of 'unbalance'MORE: Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's lavish Nashville home could rival a palace"Maybe if we say it enough, it will ring true and become the message that softens even the hardest of hearts," she concluded.Joanna's words came as she annunced her second children's book The World Needs Who You Were Made to Be had been transalated into Korean.

previously served as co-showrunner alongside director Miguel Sapochnik, had previously struck a deal with HBO in 2020, right after “HOTD” got a straight-to-series order. The series, which was also developed by author George R.R. Martin, was the first to triumph after a slew of failed spinoffs, including a pilot starring Naomi Watts.“When I picked up that paperback copy of ‘Game of Thrones’ over two decades ago, I wasn’t even sure I would make it as a screenwriter.

BreAnna Bell “House of the Dragon” co-creator and showrunner Ryan Condal is extending his relationship with HBO and has renewed his overall deal, Variety has confirmed. The agreement comes on the heels of HBO’s “House of the Dragon” success among viewers. After opening to the largest audience for a new original series in the history of HBO in August, the “Game of Thrones” prequel series, which is now averaging 29 million viewers per episode in the U.S., has been renewed for a second season, with Condal to continue on as showrunner. The writer first inked the overall deal with HBO in 2020 following the announcement of “House of the Dragon’s” straight-to-series order. In addition to serving as a writer, he also worked as an executive producer and co-showrunner on Season 1 beside director Miguel Sapochnik. For season 2, Condal was elevated to sole showrunner.

EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Condal succeeded where others failed — out of half-dozen or so writers who took a stab at co-creating a Game Of Thrones prequel with author George R.R. Martin, Condal’s House of the Dragon was the one to make it to series at HBO. After a big launch, the fantasy drama was quickly renewed for a second season, and now HBO also has renewed Condal’s overall deal.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The family of John Prine has signed a partnership deal with RadicalMedia (“Summer of Soul”) to develop two documentaries about the life and work about the life and work of the late singer-songwriter, the company has announced. Filming will be well underway this weekend as RadicalMedia plans to shoot the week-long series of tribute concerts taking place in Nashville under the banner of “You Got Gold,” including shows at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum on Saturday and at the Ryman Auditorium Sunday and Monday. The all-star lineup for these shows is not being publicly revealed in advance. Footage for the “You Got Gold” concerts is being directed by Michael John Warren, who recently helmed the HBO documentary “Spring Awakening: Those You’ve Known” for RadicalMedia.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has re-upped its overall deal with international bestselling author Harlan Coben. The original five-year, multimillion-dollar pact gave Netflix access to 14 Coben books to develop, in partnership with the author, into English-language and foreign-language series as well as films. The new deal, believed to be for four years, adds 12 more Coben titles including his signature 11-book Myron Bolitar series as well as 2021’s Win.

Steven A. Sund, the former chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, has inked a book deal with Blackstone Publishing, promising to reveal new details about the infamous day.

Former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning might have retired back in 2020, but he still has a huge presence at the team’s facility. The Giants play the Cowboys tonight in Monday Night Football!

John Mayer is enjoying a night out with friends.