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CBS is laying a big bet on Las Vegas for the upcoming Super Bowl.

The week of Super Bowl Lviii will see the network use the famed Fountains of Bellagio as the backdrop of its central broadcast location. CBS will offer weeklong, multiplatform coverage of the Super Bowl in sports, news and entertainment, all leading up to CBS Sports’ presentation of the game on Sunday, Feb. 11.

The location will be home to shows from four CBS divisions across broadcast, cable, and streaming from Monday, Feb. 5 to Sunday, Feb. 11, with four outdoor sets shared across the various shows. The shows originating from Las Vegas are:

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The NFL Today – CBS Sports’ pregame show with host James Brown and analysts Phil Simms, Bill Cowher, Nate Burleson, Boomer Esiason, JJ Watt, and lead NFL insider Jonathan Jones will provide Super Bowl Lviii game analysis, features and interviews.

Super Bowl Live – Host Adam Zucker...

The Brady organization against gun violence is calling on Hollywood writers, directors and producers to examine onscreen gun violence and depictions of gun safety, asking the creative community to sign a pledge that’s already garnered more than 200 signatures of such names as Judd Apatow, Shonda Rhimes, Damon Lindelof and Jimmy Kimmel and the writers of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The pledge, while noting that the “responsibility lies with lax gun laws supported by those politicians more afraid of losing power than saving lives,” acknowledges that “America’s storytellers” have the power to “effect change.”

“Cultural attitudes toward smoking, drunk driving, seatbelts and marriage equality have all evolved due in large part to movies’ and TV’s influence. It’s time to take on gun safety,” the Brady pledge states, and goes on to ask writers, directors and producers to, whenever possible, to:

Use creativity “to model responsible gun ownership and...

If you really want to get weird, just take a look at Anders Holm's Instagram inbox. The Workaholics alum appeared on the newest episode of E!'s Down in the DMs, revealing all sorts of strange messages, from "creepy" audio recordings to the seemingly seductive (which have ramped up after he recently "set the Internet on fire" with a speedo selfie).  That said, Holm mostly sticks to chatting with his friends, whether that's in the group message he shares with Adam Devine and Blake Anderson or as part of his ongoing exchange with the Chicago Bears' Kyle Long. "It spawned into something fantastic," Holm said of Long first reaching out....

Exclusive: Tfc Management has signed writers-producers Kyle Long (Unsolved), Taylor Elmore (The Stand), Sabaah Folayan (Betty) and Alison McDonald (Your Honor). Launched last summer by senior TV lit agents Ben Jacobson and David Stone, Tfc Management represents creators, showrunners, filmmakers and producers.

Long recently exited an overall deal at UCP where he created and executive produced the USA Network series Unsolved about the murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. Prior to that, he worked on USA’s Suits and Fox’s The Good Guys. Long also has worked extensively as a feature writer, setting up projects at Disney, New Regency and recently just sold a pitch, with Jameal Turner and Will Packer producing, to Lionsgate.

Elmore is an executive producer on the Justified offshoot in the works at FX. He was most recently under an overall deal at CBS Studios where he was the co-showrunner of the...

Super Bowl Lv pitting the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers is Sunday, with the kickoff set for 6:30 p.m. Et/3:30 p.m. Pt on CBS.

CBS Sports, broadcasting its 21st Super Bowl, will have Jim Nantz and Tony Romo calling the game from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fl, along with sideline reporters Tracy Wolfson, Evan Washburn and Jay Feely and Gene Steratore.

The network said it is using 120 cameras to cover the game (12 with 8K and 4K capabilities), including the debut of the Trolley Cam which can go 65 mph and provide a vantage point equivalent to the eighth row of the stands.

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In addition to the CBS broadcast, the game will be livestreamed on the network’s CBS All Access streaming service and digitally across CBS Sports, including unauthenticated at CBSSports.com and on the CBS Sports app for Ott devices and services,...

Amazon has set broadcast crews and other programming on Prime Video and Twitch for what it is billing as a week-long “NFL Holiday Blitz.”

The spree of football starts today and runs through Saturday’s exclusive stream of the San Francisco 49ers-Arizona Cardinals game, which will mark a milestone for Amazon. The company has steadily ramped up its sports offerings in recent years, part of an effort by several major tech firms to leverage the tune-in potency of live game coverage.

On Christmas Day, Prime Video and Twitch (the gaming-centric streaming platform Amazon acquired in 2014) will offer streams of the Minnesota Vikings-New Orleans Saints game. That complementary stream will follow the season’s Thursday night pattern, with Fox and the NFL Network airing the game on linear TV.

Hannah Storm, Andrea Kremer, Bucky Brooks, Daniel Jeremiah, and Joy Taylor will call both matchups on Prime Video. Andrew Hawkins,...

Amazon has set a more aggressive game plan to drive viewers to “Thursday Night Football” streaming for the 2020 season, adding several new features and “shoulder programming” for the NFL games available on both Prime Video and Twitch.

The ecommerce giant’s global “Tnf” streaming coverage kicks off this week, featuring the Chicago Bears hosting Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 8:20 p.m. Et (also available on Fox and NFL Network in the U.S.). Amazon again is making “Thursday Night Football” available to stream on Twitch — for free to anyone.

It’s the fourth year that Amazon is live-streaming “Tnf.” Amazon earlier this year clinched a three-year extension on the “Tnf” digital games package (through 2022), scoring an additional single exclusive late-season NFL game for each season.

The Amazon-exclusive NFL game hasn’t been set yet, but it will be in November or December and...

A man who thought Google shut down his YouTube channel has been arrested after driving across the U.S. to confront employees at Google’s California headquarters.

Kyle Long, who’s 33 and from Waterville, Maine, had three baseball bats in his car when he was arrested a couple of miles from Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., NBC News reports.

Police became suspicious of Long after a pair of incidents during his cross-country road trip that resulted in him speaking with Iowa police twice. First, he got his car stuck in a ditch and required assistance getting out; then, he vandalized a gas station bathroom and the station's owners contacted police. While speaking with police, Long told a state trooper that he was angry with Google for supposedly shutting down his YouTube channel. He said the channel gave other YouTubers advice about how to boost their view counts and make more money on the site.

Homecoming creators Eli Horowitz and Micah Bloomberg have signed an overall deal with Universal Cable Productions, the studio behind the upcoming Amazon series starring Julia Roberts.

Under the pact, Horowitz and Bloomberg will develop original scripted programming with Ucp for the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment portfolio, as well as for external networks and streaming services.

Homecoming, co-produced by Ucp and Amazon Studios, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, September 7, and its streaming premiere on Amazon Prime Video on November 2.

Horowitz and Bloomberg serve as co-showrunners, executive producers and writers of Homecoming, which is based on the duo’s critically-praised Gimlet Media podcast of the same name. The half-hour drama received a two-season straight-to-series order at Amazon last year.

Directed and executive produced by Sam Esmail, Homecoming is a psychological thriller that centers on Heidi Bergman (Roberts), a caseworker at the Homecoming Transitional Support Center,...

Writer-showrunner Liz Sarnoff (Lost) has signed an overall deal with Universal Cable Productions.

Sarnoff, who has been switching between drama and comedy, is currently writing for the second season of HBO’s comedy series Barry. For her work on the first season of the breakout hit, Sarnoff received an Emmy nomination for writing the ‘Loud, Fast, and Keep Going.’ episode. She also is expected to share in Barry‘s best comedy series nomination.

Sarnoff recently created and executive produced the TNT pilot Highland starring Margaret Cho and directed by Nisha Ganatra. I hear the project is currently being shopped by Tomorrow Studios and has been getting interest, with Ucp poised to come on board as co-producer if it’s picked up.

Sarnoff rose through the ranks on HBO’s Deadwood and ABC’s Lost, sharing in best drama series Emmy nominations for both shows. She went on to co-create Bad...

Unsolved creator Kyle Long has signed an overall deal with Universal Cable Productions, the studio behind the critically praised USA Network series, to develop and produce premium scripted content for cable and streamers.

The first potential series developed under the deal will be an adaptation of Kris Radish’s book Run, Bambi Run, with Long set to write and executive produce. The book follows the true story of Lawrencia “Bambi” Bembenek, a former Milwaukee police officer, who was suing the department for sexual discrimination when she was arrested and eventually convicted for murdering her husband’s ex-wife. Bembenek insisted she was railroaded and after breaking out of prison became a national folk hero, inspiring the slogan “Run, Bambi, Run.”

“Working with Ucp on Unsolved was the type of experience a writer dreams of,” said Long. “I’m thrilled to cement the relationship with Run Bambi Run, a project I am...

No, there’s not about to be an arrest in the cold case from the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, Las Vegas police told TheWrap.

“We are aware of the statements made in the BET interview regarding the Tupac case. As a result of those statements we have spent the last several months reviewing the case in its entirety,” Lt. Ray Spencer, who heads up the Lvmpd Homicide Section, told TheWrap in a statement Thursday. “Various reports that an arrest warrant is about to be submitted are inaccurate. This case still remains an open homicide case.”

So what is this interview they are referencing that has led the Lvmpd to review the case “in its entirety” over the last few months? Well, there was an episode of BET's “Death Row Chronicles” docuseries that aired in February and featured interviews with Keffe D — a Southside Crips member and the late...

When Lyah Beth LeFlore joined USA’s anthology series “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.” as a co-producer and music supervisor, she anticipated one big obstacle: not getting the rights to their music. The estates of both rappers are famously restrictive when it comes to licensing their songs, but LeFlore, who came up in the ‘90s hip-hop scene and knew the rappers personally, already had a plan to work around that.

“Having known and watched their relationship as friends, I didn’t expect to be able to get the music and sort of had the foresight to say, ‘Ok, if we can’t get it, and out of respect for the estates, what do I do?’” LeFlore said during Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts: Music panel, moderated by this author (watch above). “And I knew that it had to have an authentic sound, it had to connect to their legacies,...

“The fact that we’ve never really dealt with their humanity and got to understand them as young men, as well as young artists, is a tragedy in and of itself,” “Unsolved” lead director and executive producer Anthony Hemingway says in an interview with Gold Derby (watch the exclusive video above). The USA Network true crime anthology program, which was subtitled “The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.,” starred Josh Duhamel and Jimmi Simpson.

Referring to the iconic pair of young rappers who were murdered separately in the 1990s as “two little kids really,” Hemingway explains, “Those two had voices that really spoke loudly about what was happening in their reality and just w[ere]n’t heard. We are going through it again today. Kendrick Lamar is that right now, Childish Gambino is that right now and these voices are sounding alarms and we need to take heed and listen.

This week’s slate of videos and podcasts on Deadline include a queen, hip-hop legends, and Oz’s first Latina Dorothy. Watch the videos and listen to the podcasts in the roundup below.

When the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated Claire Foy sat down with Pete Hammond for the latest edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, she said she always knew that The Crown was only going to be two seasons before handing the role to another actress. We talk a lot about this groundbreaking role for her and what it has meant.

Besides teasing the conclusion of the 10-part series created and written by Kyle Long and mainly directed by Anthony Hemingway,...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains details of tonight’s Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. finale on USA Network.

“There was a lot of information that was spilled in Unsolved that hasn’t been touched on,” Wavyy Jonez says of Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. in our latest installment of Next Generation TV. “You’ll get closure,” adds Marcc Rose of tonight’s finale of the USA Network series, on which he plays Tupac Shakur to Jonez’s Biggie. “And you have a few final testimonies,” he adds of the limited series that co-stars Jimmi Simpson, Bokeem Woodbine and Josh Duhamel.

As you can see in the video above, Straight Outta Compton alum Rose and Jonez are pretty much as tight as the two rappers were in real life before things went fatally wrong in the mid-1990s. Besides teasing the conclusion of...

Tonight, Season 1 of USA Network’s scripted true crime series “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.” will end with an episode titled “Unsolved?” That sounds about right for creator Kyle Long, who believes it is actually pretty obvious what happened here. At least in the case of the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.

“I would say, in regards to the Tupac murder, I think it’s — you know — very clear what happened,” Long told TheWrap in an interview last week. “There’s elements of it that are questionable, but certainly Keffe D and the Southside Crips killed Tupac Shakur. And it is outrageous that Keffe D is not in jail. And that should be in the article.”

“In the [‘Unsolved’] finale, when you see why the whole Keffe D thing, how he had immunity and that — long story short, in real life and in the television show, he had immunity to make this confession to the task force,” Long said of the Southside Crips member and the late Orlando Anderson’s uncle, real name Duane Keith Davis. “When the task force fell apart he still had immunity.”

Also Read: USA Gets Its Own True Crime Anthology Series About the Murders of Tupac and Biggie

“But this guy, this year — no one is talking about this, but I guess people just don’t care about Tupac Shakur, a young black man — he, this guy goes on a documentary this year and tells a version of the same story, he tries to go all cute and say, ‘I don’t know who triggered there,'” Long said. “But he talked about being in the car with the Crips, they specifically went to hunt [Tupac] down and then Tupac gets shot, you just have to say who pulled the trigger.”

However, Long says it ultimately “doesn’t matter that he doesn’t say who pulled the trigger.”

“He went live on television and confessed to being an accessory to murder and the Las Vegas Pd, as far as I know, is doing nothing about it,” Long continued. “And I just think it’s outrageous. I just don’t understand it. It makes me upset. And it’s just crazy town to me. It is so wild that a guy can — and I don’t know what kind of lawyer he has telling him to go on this television show and talk about it, but you know, it’s crazy. So that’s my rant about Keffe D and the Tupac murder, like to me, that murder, you could go arrest someone for that right now.”

Also Read: Why USA's Tupac and Biggie Series Doesn't Have Tupac and Biggie Music

Long is referencing an episode of Bet’s “Death Row Chronicles” docuseries which aired in February and featured interviews with Davis and former Lapd detective Greg Kading about Shakur’s murder.

Kading, who wrote the book “Murder Rap: The Untold Story of Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations,” is one of the key characters in the show “Unsolved” (played by Josh Duhamel), as he led investigations into the murders of Shakur and Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls. He is also a co-executive producer on the USA series.

Multiple attempts by TheWrap to reach Davis for comment for this story were unsuccessful. All phone calls made to numbers associated with Davis went unreturned or led to disconnected lines. Emails sent to addresses associated with Davis and his relatives went unanswered. Both Bet and NBCUniversal did not have current contact information for Davis. Attempts to locate contact information for Davis through arrest records and to reach Wayne Higgins — an attorney who is listed in court documents as having previously represented Davis — were also unsuccessful.

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“Unsolved” chronicles the stories of the police investigations led by Kading (Josh Duhamel) and Detective Russell Poole (Jimmi Simpson) into the murders of Tupac Shakur (Marcc Rose) and Biggie Smalls (Wavyy Jonez).

Long penned the script and executive produces along with director Anthony Hemingway (“The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story”) and Mark Taylor.

See a clip of Davis on the “Death Row Chronicles” above.

The season 1 finale of “Unsolved” airs Tuesday at 10/9 c on USA.

Pamela Chelin contributed to this story.

Read original story ‘Unsolved’ Creator Finds It ‘Outrageous’ That Keffe D Isn’t in Jail ‘Right Now’ for Tupac’s Murder At TheWrap...

Executive producer Anthony Hemingway and show creator Kyle Long have given audiences a closer look into the personal lives of rap legends Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. on USA Network’s <em>Unsolved</em>, including shining a light on the friendship between the two that was overshadowed by their publicized feud.

Hemingway told <em>The Hollywood Reporter </em>In Studio that tapping into that relationship was important. “One of the things that really excited me about it was the idea of changing the narrative of what we’ve shared. I think when you think of Biggie and Tupac, and to me ...

It’s been more than 20 years since the tragic murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, and memories of many details may have faded. In particular, it’s been nearly forgotten that despite all the hype of an East Coast/West Coast rap war at the time, Tupac and Biggie were initially pals — and respected each other’s craft.

USA’s new series “Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.,” focuses on the failed investigations into the murders of both hip-hop stars, killed when they were in their 20s and at the height of their fame. Was it a function of the so-called East Coast-West Coast rap wars at the time? Was it a gang hit? And were rogue cops from the Lapd involved? Plenty of theories have been bandied about through the years, and “Unsolved” dives into those details with new gusto.

But...

Dry your tears, Patriots fans ... if Chicago Bears star Kyle Long is right, Rob Gronkowski isn't going anywhere anytime soon, 'cause Long tells TMZ Sports all the retirement talk is just that ... talk. After the Super Bowl, Gronk said he was pondering his future in football -- some think he'll actually retire.  But not Long -- who strongly believes Gronk has a lot of football left in him and will return to the Patriots next year.

Moving to Los Angeles shortly before the murder of Christopher Wallace—also known as Biggie, or The Notorious B.I.G.—writer Kyle Long became fascinated by the rapper’s untimely end, and its handling in the media. Biggie’s murder would be linked by many to the murder a year earlier of another iconic American rapper, Tupac, and Long’s fascination with the pair of cultural icons would ultimately result in USA’s upcoming anthology series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the…...

<span class="s1">USA Network is setting out to challenge perceptions with its new true-crime anthology series <i>Unsolved: </i></span><em>The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious Big.</em>

<span class="s1">The drama, which delves deep into the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls (aka Christopher Wallace), <span class="s1">is set to launch Feb. 27 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt</span>. Ahead of <i>Unsolved</i>'s debut, USA on Tuesday trotted out the cast and producers behind the series at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour in Pasadena.</span>

<span class="s1">On hand to field questions about the show were creator Kyle Long, executive producer-director Anthony Hemingway, music supervisor Lyah Beth LeFlore and ...</span>...

USA has set 10 Pm February 27 for the premiere of Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. The network also unveiled a new trailer that you can watch above. Written by Kyle Long, the 10-episode true-crime anthology series chronicles the dual police investigations of Detective Greg Kading (Josh Duhamel) and Detective Russell Poole (Jimmi Simpson) into the controversial murders of two of the rap industry's most legendary players, Tupac Shakur (Marcc Rose) and…...

Underground alumna Amirah Vann has landed a recurring role in USA Network’s Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. true-crime anthology series, from Universal Cable Productions. Written by Kyle Long, Unsolved chronicles the dual police investigations of Detective Greg Kading (Josh Duhamel) and Detective Russell Poole (Jimmi Simpson) into the controversial murders of two of the rap industry's most legendary players, Tupac Shakur (Marcc Rose) and The…...

USA Network’s got a story to tell about rap music loyalty.

The cable network on Friday announced a formal series order for Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.The true crime series, which is envisioned as an anthology, will spend Season 1 chronicling “the dual police investigations into the controversial murders of two of the rap industry’s most legendary players,” per USA’s official synopsis.

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Straight Outta Compton‘s Marcc Rose and newcomer Wavyy Jonez play Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls,...

Though it’s still in search of an official title at the time of writing – Unsolved: The Murders of Biggie and Tupac is the current working one – USA Network’s true-life crime drama Unsolved is beginning to beef up its ensemble cast.

Four weeks ago, we brought you the news that Josh Duhamel (Transformers: The Last Knight), Bokeem Woodbine (Spider-Man: Homecoming) and Westworld‘s Jimmi Simpson had all signed on, and now, Deadline is reporting that the network has added another three: Luke James, Aisha Hinds and Letoya Luckett (Ballers).

From today’s report, it’s understood James has closed a deal to play Sean “Puffy” Combs (Aka Puff Diddy), the “young and wildly successful founder of Bad Boy Records, the label of Christopher Wallace.” Hinds, meanwhile, has climbed aboard to play the coveted part of Wallace’s grieving mother, Voletta Wallace, who became a vocal campaigner for justice...

Luke James (The New Edition Story), Aisha Hinds (All The Way) and Letoya Luckett (Rosewood, Ballers) are set for key roles in Unsolved: The Murders of Biggie and Tupac (working title), USA's scripted true crime serial drama pilot that chronicles the major police investigations into the murders of rap stars Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. Written by Kyle Long (Suits), Unsolved, from Universal Cable Productions, is based on the experiences of former Lapd Detective Greg…...

USA has found its Biggie and Tupac: Wavvy Jonez and Marcc Rose have been cast as Christopher Wallace (aka Biggie Smalls aka the Notorious B.I.G.) and Tupac Shakur in the USA Network pilot “Unsolved: The Murders of Biggie and Tupac.”

Both are relative unknowns who bear a resemblance to the late hip-hop superstars they will portray.

Rose previously played Shakur in the Universal feature “Straight Outta Compton,” while this is the first acting role for Jonez.

Jonez, a rapper who recently released the mixtape “R.E.D. D.O.P.E.” (Real Everyday Drama Doing Over People’s Expectation), was found during a nationwide open casting call and chosen via video audition out of hundreds of entries.

It’s now been 20 years since Shakur and Wallace were both killed within six months of each other,...

USA Network’s Unsolved: The Murders of Biggie and Tupac (working title) has delved straight into Compton to find its Tupac Shakur.

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Actor Marcc Rose, who previously cameoed as Pac in the 2015 Nwa biopic Straight Outta Compton, will once again assume the role of the beloved rapper in the basic cabler’s true crime pilot, TVLine has learned. Additionally, up-and-coming rapper Wavyy Jonez has nabbed the part of Christopher Wallace aka Biggie Smalls, after a nationwide casting call.

Unsolved is based on...

Josh Duhamel (11.22.63), Jimmi Simpson (House of Cards) and Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo) have been cast in the USA Network pilot Unsolved, a docu-drama chronicling the investigations into the murders of Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur, our sister site Deadline reports.

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In the pilot, Duhamel plays former Lapd Detective Greg Kading, who oversaw multiple task forces investigating the murders. Simpson costars as Detective Russell Poole, who in 1997 was actively involved in the investigation into Smalls’ death and suspected the Lapd was attempting to cover something up. Woodbine will play Officer Daryn Dupree,...

Josh Duhamel (Transformers), Jimmi Simpson (House of Cards) and Bokeem Woodbine (Fargo) will lead the cast of Unsolved, USA’s scripted true crime serial drama pilot that chronicles the major police investigations into the murders of rap stars Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur. Written by Kyle Long (Suits), Unsolved, from Universal Cable Productions, is based on the experiences of former Lapd Detective Greg Kading, who is played by Duhamel, author of the book Murder Rap: The U…...

USA ordered a pilot for a new scripted true crime series about the murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. called, Unsolved, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Unsolved will be written by Kyle Long (Suits). Anthony Hemingway, who helmed several episodes of The People v. O.J. Simpson, will direct the pilot. 

The series will be based on the experiences of former Lapd detective Greg Kading and will track the two investigations into Tupac and Biggie's deaths, which happened months apart in in 1996 and 1997. Kading, who spent years investigating the murders,...

Another Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. story is headed to the screen. USA Networks announced a pilot pickup for “Unsolved,” a scripted true crime series that chronicles the two major police investigations into the murders of the iconic rappers.

The drama is based on the experiences of former Lapd Detective Greg Kading, who led multiple law-enforcement task forces investigating the murders and wrote the book “Murder Rap: The Untold Story of Biggie Smalls & Tupac Shakur Murder Investigations.” Kading will be consulting on the pilot script, written by Kyle Long (“Suits”).

“The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story” director Anthony Hemingway is set to direct and executive produce, along with Mark Taylor through their Hemingway | Taylor production company, Kading and Long.

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Christopher George Latore Wallace, also known as Biggie Smalls,...

One of the creative minds behind FX’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story is turning his true-crime lens on the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls (a.k.a. Notorious B.I.G.).

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USA Network has ordered a pilot for Unsolved, a docu-drama that chronicles the two major police investigations into the rappers’ murders. People v. O.J. Simpson Emmy winner Anthony Hemingway will direct the pilot and serve as an Ep alongside Mark Taylor and Suits‘ Kyle Long (who is penning the script).

The drama is...

The second time is even sweeter! Kristin Cavallari sat down with her husband Jay Cutler's teammate, Kyle Long, for Chicago's Michigan Avenue magazine to talk about life at home in the Cutler-Cavallari brood, which welcomed its latest addition, baby Jax in May. "He's doing great," the Hills alum, 27, said of her 3-month-old baby. "He just started smiling about a week ago, which is the best feeling in the world. He is a good little baby. He's a happy baby, except that he's not a great napper, [...]...

The New Orleans Pelicans have three seasonal mascots they bring out for Mardi Gras – the King, the Jester, and the infamously creepy King Cake Baby.

The massive baby, sponsored by Geico, hits the court at halftime wearing nothing more than an oversized diaper, bib and crown. The disproportionate size of the head compared to the skinny arms and legs of the person in the mascot's costume makes for a horror movie-like sight.

“@SportsNation: The Pelicans new "King Cake Baby" mascot looks like a Rugrat exposed to radiation. pic.twitter.com/nk1wiqbehn” @travellegaines

— Kyle Long (@Ky1eLong) February 25, 2014

People are terrified by the return of the Pelicans' King Cake Baby mascot (Video): http://t.co/Bui9udnWrW pic.twitter.com/fQaVLivvyN

— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) February 25, 2014

As per tradition, the King Cake Baby, King and Jester compete in a scooter race at halftime. Unfortunately for the wide-eyed, open-mouthed baby, the...

After all of the anticipation and hype, the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft finally came and went.

It was hard to gauge how the draft was going to go because for the first time in a few years, no pick was a sure lock.

For months, everyone thought the Kansas City Chiefs were set at their pick, but then on the night of the draft, decide to throw everyone a curve-ball and take someone completely different.

If you missed the draft and didn’t catch the results, here’s the full first round from Day 1 of the 2013 NFL Draft:

No. 1: Kansas City Chiefs- Eric Fisher, Ot, Central Michigan

No. 2: Jacksonville Jaguars- Luke Joeckel, Ot, Texas A&M

No. 3: Miami Dolphina (via Oakland Raiders)- Dion Jordan, Olb/De, Oregon

No. 4: Philadelphia Eagles- Lane Johnson, Ot, Oklahoma

No. 5: Detroit Lions- Ezekial Ansah, De, Brigham Young

No.

Rob Lieber has been hired to rewrite Driving While Infatuated for Regency Enterprises. With Elizabeth Allen set to direct, Driving follows a love-struck girl who, after flunking her driving test, borrows her stepfather's vintage muscle car for a wild night out with her friends. Allen and scribe Kyle Long co-wrote the original script. Gary Fleder is set to produce. The film will be distributed through one of 20th Century Fox's distribution outlets. Lieber recently rewrote Whitebread for New Line Cinema and Greatest Escape for MGM. He also has written Slay the Bully for New Line. Lieber is repped by ICM, manager Alex Goldstone at Fuse and attorney David Weber at Weber Offer and Dern.

Michael Kuhn's Qwerty Films has hired Kyle Long to turn the hit British TV series Jamie's Kitchen, starring celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, aka the Naked Chef, into a feature film. Aaron Ryder is producing. The series charted Oliver's efforts to train a group of underprivileged youngsters to staff the kitchen of his first restaurant, Fifteen. The film is not designed as a biopic, and it will shift the action from London to New York. Oliver's character is being rewritten as an American, who has yet to be cast.