JJ Abrams, Angela Robinson Bringing DC Comics’ ‘Madame X’ to TV at HBO Max

Abrams and McGrath — whose Bad Robot is also based at WarnerMedia with a $250 million overall deal — after the former got to know Robinson through Time’s Up. Paramount TV Studios, where Robinson was formerly housed with a long-term overall deal, bid hard to keep Robinson but ultimately bowed out when Warners came back […]

‘Good Girls’ Canceled at NBC as Move to Netflix Falls Apart

The beloved but little-watched on linear drama series has been canceled after four seasons on NBC. The five remaining episodes of the series from creator Jenna Bans and Universal Television will continue to air on NBC. Starring Christina Hendricks, Mae Whitman and Retta, Netflix boarded Good Girls before the drama about friends who become intwined […]

Peter Gelb’s ‘Wolfgang’ Explores What Drove Wolfgang Puck’s Rise to Fame

If Bourdain was the Sid Vicious of rock star chefs, Puck was the Paul McCartney of his field—a prolific composer of dishes that sang with bold, bright flavors; a people pleaser whose career was remarkably free of scandal. “The biggest conflict that he has with himself is he didn’t have a good example set for […]

‘Supernatural’: The CW Attempting a Third Spinoff

The CW CEO Mark Pedowitz will be the first to tell you that Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki were the secret to the success of former network juggernaut Supernatural. Ackles and his wife/producing partner and former Supernatural actress Danneel Ackles are developing The Winchesters, a prequel series to the former genre drama. Here’s the concept: […]

Andrew Garfield, Daisy Edgar-Jones to Star in ‘Under the Banner of Heaven’ FX on Hulu Series

Inspired by the book, the series revolves around a devout detective whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government. Black, who grew up in a Mormon household and previously wrote on HBO’s Big […]

How ‘The Late Late Show’ Booked Prince Harry for First Sit-Down

25 broadcast and dropped on YouTube that night without any pre-release promotion , the segment, titled “An Afternoon With Prince Harry & James Corden,” has been viewed more than 25 million times and praised by media insiders for humanizing the royal thanks to a candid conversation on a double-decker bus and bits like a stop […]

Andy Richter Reflects on ‘Conan’ Legacy (and Absurdity) as Conan O’Brien Exits Late Night

When Conan O’Brien — a 30-year-old Harvard-educated writer who’d worked on The Simpsons — was tapped in 1993 to replace David Letterman as host of NBC’s Late Night, the general reaction was, “Who?” Twenty-eight years later, the 6-foot-4 comedian, with the swooping red hair, becomes history’s longest-running late night host when his TBS show, Conan, […]

Saban Films Expands Globally With Distribution Deals in Europe, Australia

Saban Films has signed distribution deals with a slate of independent distributors in Europe, including in Germany, France and Spain, that will see the U.S. On Thursday, the company announced new distribution deals with Splendid for Austria and Germany; ACE Entertainment for France; Mis.Label for the Nordic territories; and Key2Media in Spain. Saban said it […]

Wattpad, Webtoon Merge Studios With $100M in Development, Production Financing

The tie-up to create Wattpad Webtoon Studios was expected after Naver acquired Wattpad for $600 million to create a platform with a joint global monthly audience of 160 million users. We’re looking to the future, with hundreds of millions of new stories to power the next 100 years of hits on screens and bookshelves,” said […]