‘The Thing About Pam’: Jenny Klein Named Showrunner Of NBC Limited Series As Jessika Borsicsky Exits

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Warner Bros. Television have secured all key Manifest cast members for the upcoming supersized, 20-episode fourth and final season of the missing plane drama.

ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Studios have struck an exclusive overall deal with Emmy-nominated actor David Oyelowo and his wife, actress, writer and producer Jessica Oyelowo, for original scripted and unscripted series via their Yoruba Saxon productions. 101 Studios will serve as production partner on all projects.

2011 was ten years ago (can you believe it?), and as with every year the 2011 Met Gala played host to Hollywood’s biggest stars during the fashion event of the year.

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu’s The Girl From Plainville has rounded out its directors for the upcoming limited series, starring Elle Fanning, Colton Ryan, Chloë Sevigny and Norbert Leo Butz. Series co-creator Liz Hannah (The Post, Mindhunters), Zetna Fuentes (The Nevers, Ray Donovan) and Pippa Bianco (Share, Euphoria) will join previously announced helmer Lisa Cholodenko (Unbelievable, Olive Kitteridge).

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Levinson is attached to direct a limited TV series that will be exec produced by Kevin Costner, and comes from 24’s Stephen Kronish and Zodiac producer Mike Medavoy.

Jennifer Yuma editorNetflix has revealed the cast and showrunners for its limited series about the 2018 rescue of trapped soccer players in a Thai cave.Dana Ledoux Miller and Michael Russell Gunn, both veterans of “Designated Survivor,” will serve as showrunners for the series, slated to premiere globally in 2022.The limited series, set to start shooting in Northern Thailand, will tell the story how 12 young soccer players and their coach — known as the Wild Boars — were finally rescued after

EXCLUSIVE: Judy Greer and Katy Mixon are set as leads opposite Renée Zellweger and Josh Duhamel on NBC/Blumhouse’s limited series The Thing About Pam.

Pre-production on the upcoming NBC/Blumhouse limited series The Thing About Pam, starring Renée Zellweger and Josh Duhamel, has been suspended, a rep for Blumhouse told Deadline. Based on a the real-life, stranger-than-fiction story behind the 2011 murder of Betsy Faria, the series has been in final stages of pre-production in New Orleans, with filming slated to begin Sept.

FX has set the ensemble to join Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones in the studio’s new limited series Under the Banner of Heaven, tapping Sam Worthington, Denise Gough, Wyatt Russell, Billy Howle, Gil Birmingham, Adelaide Clemens, Rory Culkin, Seth Numrich, Chloe Pirrie, Sandra Seacat and Christopher Heyerdahl to round out the cast.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPeacock is developing a one-hour drama series about millennial nuns from “The Thing About Pam” creator Jessika Borsiczky, Variety has learned exclusively.The series is titled “Called” and is based on the Huffington Post article “Behold, The Millennial Nuns” by Eve Fairbanks.

EXCLUSIVE: The secrets of the Hammer family, including Armand Hammer and actor Armie Hammer, is set to be explored in a Discovery+ series.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorCNN is bringing more of its big-name TV talent into the podcast arena.The news network’s fall podcast lineup includes new limited-series podcasts from CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash, chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, and senior political reporter/analyst Harry Enten, as well as a new companion podcast for HLN’s “Very Scary People” true-crime show and a series on Princess Diana from longtime podcaster Aminatou Sow.Ward’s “Tug of War”

HBO Max has ordered the limited series “Full Circle” from Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon.Soderbergh will direct all six episodes and executive produce with Solomon, who will write. Casey Wilver will also executive produce.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSteven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon have landed a series order at HBO Max for the drama “Full Circle,” Variety has learned exclusively.The series reunites the pair after they worked together on the film “No Sudden Move,” which was released on HBO Max in July. Casey Silver, who was a producer on “No Sudden Move,” will be an executive producer on the series.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “The Witcher” writer Jenny Klein, who was on the creative team for NBC and Blumhouse Television’s limited podcast-to-screen adaptation “The Thing About Pam,” has been promoted to showrunner of the series. Klein, who has also written for “Supernatural” and “Jessica Jones,” replaces Jessika Borsiczky (“House of Lies,” “Sex/Life”).

Zellweger stars in NBC’s adaptation as Pam Huff, with Josh Duhamel playing Joel Schwartz, the defense attorney for Russ Faria.The series stems from a partnership between Blumhouse Television and NBC News Studios. The Betsy Faria case was featured on multiple episodes of NBC News’ “Dateline,” becoming “one of the most popular topics to ever air” on the show, according to the network.Zellweger serves as executive producer on the adaptation via her Big Picture Co.

Showtime‘s Dexter: New Blood may remain a limited series, the network’s president of entertainment Gary Levine revealed on Tuesday.

Last year, Amazon Prime Video and Blumhouse Productions announced the horror collection “Welcome To The Blumhouse,” a series of unique, unsettling thrillers developed and produced with an eye towards original, diverse storytelling. Not quite an anthology, “Welcome To The Blumhouse” is just a series of films.

Peacock is doubling down on true-crime content and global co-productions, while NBC will develop more limited series in the vein of Renée Zellweger’s upcoming drama The Thing About Pam.

Josh Duhamel is taking on a new role alongside a fellow superstar.