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Producer Checka Propper has been named the new head of television at Color Force, the production company behind series like “Pose” and “American Crime Story: The People V Oj Simpson.”

In her role, Propper will oversee the Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson-run company’s television slate and work closely with FX, which just expanded their exclusive producing deal with Color Force through 2027.

Beyond its work with FX, Color Force’s other notable credits include “The Hunger Games” franchise, “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid” films.

Before joining Color Force, Propper worked as executive vice president at David E. Kelley Productions where she helped adapt Rufi Thorpe’s 2023 novel “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” for Apple TV+. After spending her fledgling years at Fox and MTV, Propper served as VP of television at Doug Liman’s Hypnotic where she developed series such as “The Recruit,” “Suits,” “Pearson” and “Nightflyers.

When it comes to scripted TV shows, Syfy has had both hits and flops. Which of the current series will be cancelled or renewed for another season?

Syfy execs consider a lot of data when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series, but ratings are a major factor.

Scripted Syfy Network shows listed: 12 Monkeys, Aftermath, The Ark, Astrid & Lilly Save the World, Bitten, Blood Drive, Channel Zero, Childhood's End, Chucky, Continuum, Dark Matter, Day of the Dead, Deadly Class, Defiance, Dominion, The Expanse, Ghost Wars, Happy!, Haven, Helix, Hunters, Incorporated, Killjoys, Krypton, Lost Girl, The Magicians, Nightflyers, Olympus, Reginald the Vampire, Resident Alien, Superstition, SurrealEstate, Vagrant Queen, Van Helsing, Wynonna Earp, and Z Nation.

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The long-gestating “Magic: The Gathering” animated series at Netflix is moving forward with a new showrunner.

Terry Matalas is now set as the series’ showrunner, as revealed during Netflix’s annual Geeked Week event. The new take on the series is now in production. The show is produced in partnership with Hasbro Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast. Plot details for the new iteration are being kept under wraps.

There had recently been widespread speculation that the show was no longer moving forward at Netflix. Originally announced in 2019, the first iteration of the series was overseen by the Russo brothers of MCU fame. But then Jeff Kline was announced as the new executive producer and creative lead on the show in 2021 after the Russos departed over creative differences, with Brandon Routh being announced as voicing the series lead not long after.

Since then, however, there has been virtually no news about the series.

Netflix is starting again with its animated adaptation of table-top game Magic: The Gathering.

The streamer previously announced a version of the show in 2019 with Joe and Anthony Russo at the helm. The Russos and their team, including head writers Henry Gilroy and Jose Molina, departed early in the process over different visions for how best to adapt the IP. Jeff Kline (Transformers: Prime) took over in August 2021 but he has also now left.

The new showrunner will be Terry Matalas, who was recently named showrunner of Marvel’s Vision series for Disney+.

Brandon Routh was set to voice Gideon Jura in the series, which tells the stories of the Planeswalkers, Magic’s unique magic-wielding heroes and villains. He recently said that the show was scrapped.

However, it turns out that this was only partly true; his version, which was written and record has been scrapped but Netflix is going...

“Borderline,” a detective series from Lionsgate Television, is heading to the Roku Channel for its U.S. premiere on Sept. 1.

Per the official logline, in the series, “straitlaced detective inspector Philip Boyd of North Ireland finds himself working alongside his foul-mouthed Republic of Ireland counterpart, detective inspector Aoife Regan, and although neither are happy about the partnership, the two must put their personal and professional differences aside to solve the brutal cases of victims along the border.”

The cast includes Eoin Macken as Philip and Amy De Bhrun as Aoife. Lochlann O’Mearáin also stars.

“Borderline” was created and written by John Forte. Robert Quinn serves as director, while Steve November and Mary Callery are executive producers. The series is produced by ShinAwiL and Further South Productions in association with Screen Ireland and Lionsgate Television. Lionsgate distributes the series internationally. In the U.K. and in Ireland, “Borderline” will premiere on MGM+ on Sept.

Jodie Turner-Smith has joined the cast of the upcoming espionage series “The Agency” at Paramount+ With Showtime.

She will star in the series, which is based on the French series “Le Bureau des Legendes,” alongside previously announced cast members Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere.

“Jodie Turner-Smith is a force who captivates audiences with her raw, emotional power,” said Nina L. Diaz, president of content and chief creative officer for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios & Paramount Media Networks. “We are thrilled she is joining our extraordinary cast alongside Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere.”

Per the official description, the series “follows Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.

Consider The Cleaning Lady‘s recent behind-the-scenes shakeup tidied.

Daniel Cerone (The Blacklist) will take over as showrunner for Season 4 of the Fox drama, TVLine has confirmed. Our sister site Deadline first reported the news.

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The Cleaning Lady‘s 12-episode renewal in May came with the news that Miranda Kwok, who developed the series, and Jeannine Renshaw, who served as co-showrunners...

As Marvel Studios continues to expand its universe, new reports have revealed that the studio has hired the 12 Monkeys showrunner Terry Matalas for a new Disney+ series following Paul Bettany’s Vision. The series has been in talks since his last appearance alongside Elizabeth Olsen in the 2021 Disney+ series WandaVision.

WandaVision | Credit: Disney

The 2021 Marvel series featured Wanda Maximoff reincarnating the character in the series, which later introduced a ghost-white android version without memories. The new series is expected to explore his journey to regain his memories and purpose in life.

Marvel Hired Terry Matalas For an Untitled Vision Series

According to Variety, Marvel Studios has brought in the TV writer and director Terry Matalas for the new Disney+ series centered around Vision. Matalas has joined the Marvel series as the showrunner with Paul Bettany set to reprise his MCU role.

Terry Matalas | Credit: Super Festivals/Wikimedia Commons

The new...

Marvel has tapped “Star Trek: Picard” executive producer Terry Matalas to resurrect Vision, the synthezoid played by Paul Bettany, for a new, untitled Disney+ series set for 2026, Variety has learned exclusively. Bettany will return to the role and Matalas will serve as showrunner.

After Vision died at the hands of Thanos in 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” he returned twice over in 2021’s “WandaVision,” first as a spectral creation by his beloved, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen), through magic powered by grief; then as a rebuilt, nuts-and-bolts android with a ghost white appearance and zero memory of his past life. When the two Visions battled in the “WandaVision” finale, Wanda’s Vision restored the ghost Vision’s memories, then Wanda allowed her Vision to fade from existence. The new show will take place after those events, as ghost Vision presumably explores his new purpose in life.

Marvel brought in Matalas after his...

Exclusive: The CW has rounded out the series regular cast of The Librarians: The Next Chapter. Callum McGowan, Olivia Morris, Bluey Robinson and Caroline Loncq join previously announced Jessica Green and guest star Christian Kane, who reprises his role as Jacob Stone, in the spinoff series.

From writer and executive producer Dean Devlin, The Librarians: The Next Chapter is a spinoff of the original TV series The Librarians, which followed the adventures of the custodians of a magical repository of the world’s most powerful and dangerous supernatural artifacts. The new series centers on a “Librarian” (McGowan) from the past, who time traveled to the present and now finds himself stuck here. When he returns to his castle, which is now a museum, he inadvertently releases magic across the continent. He is given a new team to help him clean up the mess he made, forming a new team of Librarians.

James Brolin, Lizzy Greene (“A Million Little Things”), and Eoin Macken (“La Brea”) are set to join Netflix’s upcoming romantic drama “Ransom Canyon,” Variety has confirmed.

They join previously announced leads Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly. Kelly will portray Quinn, a character who “has often found herself in the shadow of others, but after a stint in New York pursuing her career as a concert pianist, she has returned to Ransom Canyon to carve out a new path for herself.”

Duhamel is set to play Staten Kirkland, the “steadfast and stoic” owner of the Double K Ranch. Staten “leads the charge to resist outside forces threatening his way of life and the land that he loves,” reads the description.

Based on the books by Jodi Thomas, the series is described as a romance-fueled family drama and contemporary Western that “charts the intersecting lives of three ranching families, all set...

Jodie Turner-Smith is a British actress and model. She is best known for her captivating role as Queen in the 2019 film Queen and Slim, where she received widespread recognition as well as critical acclaim, establishing herself as an ascending talent in the industry.

Jodie Turner-smith Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Jodie Turner-Smith was born on September 7, 1986 (Jodie Turner-Smith’s age 36) in Peterborough, England. Her parents are both Jamaican. However, she is the only one of her siblings who wasn’t born there. She was raised in Peterborough up until she was ten years old. Following her parent’s divorce, Turner-Smith, emigrated to the United States with her mother, half-sister and brother, where they ended up in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Turner-Smith attended Gaithersburg High School and studied finance at the University of Pittsburgh. She graduated in 2008 before becoming employed at a nearby bank.

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In 2009, Turner-Smith was introduced...

Jodie Turner-Smith, who starred in 2019’s Queen & Slim, has joined the cast of Tron: Ares, the third installment of Disney’s technology-pushing movie series.

Jared Leto, Greta Lee and Evan Peters have already logged on to the cyber adventure, which is gearing up for an August shoot in Vancouver. Joachim Ronning, who helmed Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and co-directed Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, is in the director’s chair.

Disney released the original Tron in 1982, with Jeff Bridges starring as video game designer Kevin Flynn, who is transported inside his own creation and teams up with Tron, a security program played by Bruce Boxleitner. Bridges returned for a 2010 sequel, Tron: Legacy.

While the two previous movies were largely set inside the world of computers and programs, the script for Ares, written by Jesse Wigutow and Jack Thorne, is said to focus on the emergence...

The Acolyte is moving forward at Disney+, and there's an exciting new casting announcement.

Deadline reported this week that Jodie Turner-Smith is finalizing a deal to join the Star Wars universe TV series.

The only confirmed cast member so far is Amanda Stenberg.

Disney+ and Lucasfilm have both been secretive about projects set in that universe in the past.

There's a good chance the series already has a complete cast, and more details will be revealed as filming gets underway.

Turner-Smith's previous TV credits include True Blood, Mad Dogs, The Last Ship, Nightflyers, and Anne Boleyn.

Details of her role on The Acolyte are being kept under wraps, which is par for the course with these shows.

Leslye Headland (Russian Doll) is on board to showrun this series that takes place a full century before Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.

“My relationship with Star Wars probably runs the...

Exclusive: Maggie Kiley, who recently directed and exec produced the first three episodes of Netflix’s Melissa Barrera-fronted series Breathe, is staying in business with Warner Bros. TV.

The director and producer originally struck an overall deal with the studio in 2019 and has reupped the exclusive pact.

It comes after she also directed an episode of Warner Bros. TV’s upcoming HBO Max series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, from Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Lindsay Calhoon Bring, and Alloy Entertainment.

She will continue to direct and exec produce projects for the studio and will also develop her own television projects for streaming platforms, cable, and the broadcast networks.

Separate from her Wbtv deal, Kiley executive produced and directed the pilot of Peacock’s limited series Dr. Death, starring Joshua Jackson. She also served as director and co-executive producer of Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story, the second installment in the anthology series.

Exclusive: David E. Kelley Productions has tapped Checka Propper, most recently VP of Television at Hynotic, as its EVP, All Media.

Propper’s hire is the latest amid the company’s expansion, following the announcement of Matthew Tinker as President earlier this month.

In her new role, Propper will source and develop television and film for the production banner, in addition to covering their current slate. With several programs returning or gearing up to return, Propper will be an integral part of staffing and overseeing series development.

Said Kelley, “With her discerning eye for IP and wealth of knowledge across the entire industry, Checka is an incredible asset. We’re thrilled to welcome her to the company and can’t wait to see where she takes us.”

During her time at Hypnotic, Propper produced the series Impulse for YouTube Premium and the upcoming Netflix series, Graymail. She also packaged and developed multiple projects,...

Platforms are flooding the market with episodic content, vying for a slice of a vast global television landscape. It’s a landscape that’s been forced to evolve in order to survive a chain of likely irreversible transformations. And audiences are understandably overwhelmed. The search for what to watch that suits any given mood has become an increasingly taxing process that can frustrate even the least flustered.

IndieWire is here to help carry some of the burden with monthly recommendations of films and television series to watch. For this feature, stories that foreground Black lives in a serial format are in focus. It’s a selection of eight shows, all from the last decade, crossing three continents, dominated by the onscreen talents of Black women. From soap opera (“Greenleaf) to action (“L.A.’s Finest”), science-fiction (“Nightflyers”), animation (“Yasuke”), and crime (“Top Boy”), there’s something here to suit almost every palate on earth and in space.

Dominic Orlando, a playwright and TV writer, known for working on shows such as Mindhunter and The Oa, died on November 17 following complications from cancer, his family and a CAA spokesperson announced. He was 57. Born in Brooklyn on Christmas Day in 1963, Orlando began his career in New York theater, co-founding the No Pants Theater Company in 1992, a company focused on examining the spiritual side of America. He later moved to Minneapolis, where he co-founded another theater company, the Workhaus Collective, where he worked while on Jerome and McKnight fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center. After writing numerous plays and operas, Orlando eventually moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television. He contributed to 10 episodes of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s Netflix thriller The Oa, wrote an episode of David Fincher’s Mindhunter, and produced six editions of Syfy’s Nightflyers. This year, he wrote three episodes of the Amazon series Them.

Dominic Orlando, a prolific playwright on the Off Broadway and regional theater scenes who more recently pivoted to such television series as Amazon’s Them and Netflix’s Mindhunter and The Oa, died November 17 of complications from cancer in Washington D.C. He was 57.

His death was announced by his family and CAA.

Orlando, a Brooklyn native, began his career in New York’s downtown theaters during the early 1990s before relocating to Minneapolis, where he continued writing plays. While on Jerome and McKnight Fellowships at Minneapolis’ Playwrights’ Center, he co-founded another theater company, the Workhaus Collective, where he wrote and directed plays including A Short Play About Globalization (2007), The Sense of What Should Be (2009) and A Short Play About 9/11 (2011).

After moving to Los Angeles, Orlando wrote for such series as Them, The Oa, Mindhunter and Nightflyers. Acording to his family, he also contributed to a pair of upcoming series:...

Dominic Orlando, a TV writer and playwright, died due to complications from cancer on Nov. 17, his family and CAA announced. He was 57.

Born in Brooklyn on Christmas Day in 1963, Orlando pursued the life of an artist from an early age. He began his career in New York theatre, where he co-founded the No Pants Theater Company in 1992, a company that aimed to explore large-scale mythological and spiritual stories of America. After New York, he relocated to Minneapolis where he co-founded the Workhaus Collective while on Jerome and McKnight Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center. The mission of the company was to support the uncompromising vision of its authors. Over the years, Orlando wrote numerous plays and operas and taught theater.

Eventually, Orlando moved to Los Angeles, where he pursued a career in television and wrote for shows like the Amazon series “Them,” “Outer Range,” FX’s “Retreat,” “The Oa” from Netflix,...

Exclusive: Seoul- and Los Angeles-based Bound Entertainment (AppleTV+’s Dr. Brain), is teaming with YA author Marie Lu to develop a series adaptation of her dystopian fantasy novel, Legend.

The best-seller is the first of a trilogy and was originally published in 2011, going on to sell over 3M copies worldwide. It’s set in a futuristic world where what was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Eighteen-year-old Day lives on the streets as the country’s most wanted criminal, while eighteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed by the Republic’s highest military circles. The two teenagers cross paths when Day becomes the suspect in a high-profile murder case.

Lu will be developing the series and writing the pilot in collaboration with Lindsay Sturman who will also serve as executive producer. Bound Entertainment...

Questlove’s Summer of Soul is up to 753 theaters as the doc about the 1969 ‘Black Woodstock’ concert in Harlem that debuted in two locations last weekend crossed into arthouse, commercial and urban venues.

Not that it was easy, said Frank Rodriguez, SVP General Sales Manager, Searchlight Pictures. “Exhibitors are eager to get back on track,” he said. “We had to push very hard in a crowded marketplace” that includes The Boss Baby: Family Business, The Forever Purge and week two of the first true post-Covid blockbuster, F9.

Rodriguez cited notable performances in Brooklyn, San Francisco and Georgetown in D.C. after what was basically an extended promo in NY and LA. Deadline is hearing from industry estimates that Thursday night came in north of $78K.

Full title Summer of Soul, which features never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone,...

Available In Theaters And On Demand July 2 Starring Megan Fox (Jennifer’s Body) Co-staring Callan Mulvey (Russo Brothers’ upcoming The Gray Man), Eoin Macken (George Rr Martin’s Nightflyers), Aml Ameen (HBO’s “I May Destroy You”) and Jack Roth (Medici) Directed by S.K. Dale Screenplay by Jason Carvey *Megan Fox and Director S.K. Dale Available for …

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Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, Finn Cole, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ferida Walsh-Peelo, Ralph Ineson, Travis Fimmel, Conleith Hill | Written and Directed by Eoin Macken

About 4 or 5 years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing an up-and-coming director about his debut feature Leopard. A really low-budget independent Irish flick that had all the integrity and power of a Shane Meadows movie and showed us that Eoin Macken was well on his way to be more than just a leading man on American hospital drama The Night Shift. I was genuinely smitten with Leopard and thought it was a powerhouse story told with style, grace and intelligence. Macken was a director I was now aware of and would have to keep an eye on going forward. What would follow was a hell of a run on American hospital drama The Night Shift as Tc Callahan; and a role on the prematurely cancelled George R Martin show Nightflyers for Syfy.

Exclusive: Screen Media has snapped up U.S. rights to Millennium Media’s suspense thriller Till Death starring Transformers actress Megan Fox. A summer theatrical and on demand release is planned.

Till Death begins with Emma (Fox) waking up, handcuffed to her dead husband after a romantic evening in their secluded lake house. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers and escape her husband’s twisted plan.

The pic is directed by S.K. Dale (award-winning horror short The Coatmaker) who is making his feature directorial debut here. The role reps Fox’s first genre role since the 2009 Diablo Cody scripted horror pic Jennifer’s Body.

David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick (Orphan and the upcoming prequel Esther), Tanner Mobley (The Piper), Yariv Lerner (The Outpost), Les Weldon (The Expendables), Rob Van Norden (Jolt) and Jeffrey Greenstein (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) produce. Till Death co-stars Callan Mulvey (Russo...

Distributor plans summer theatrical, VOD release.

Screen Media has acquired all US rights from Millennium Media to the Megan Fox thriller Till Death and plans a summer theatrical and on-demand release.

S.K. Dale’s (horror short The Coatmaker) feature directorial debut co-stars Callan Mulvey (Russo Brothers’ upcoming The Gray Man), Eoin Macken (George Rr Martin’s Nightflyers), Aml Ameen (HBO’s I May Destroy You) and Jack Roth (Medici).

Based on Jason Carvey’s screenplay that made it on to the Blood List, the yearly compilation of the best unproduced genre scripts, Till Death finds Emma (Fox) handcuffed to...

Set in the very near future where scientists have discovered a method of matching people with their perfect romantic fit using DNA, eight-part Netflix Original The One is technically a sci-fi drama. Really though, it’s a crime thriller revolving around the murky circumstances in which the cash cow company behind the matching service was created. Written by Misfits and Crazyhead creator Howard Overman, The One is based on the 2017 novel of the same name by John Marrs. It’s a cat-and-mouse game between wealthy, driven CEO Rebecca (Hannah Ware) and police detective Kate (Zoë Tapper).

While you’re solving the show’s mysteries, we’ve taken the liberty of solving that nagging background question of where you might have seen its cast on screen before…

Hannah Ware – Rebecca Webb

Prior to The One, actor and model Hannah Ware’s biggest roles were over in the US. She starred opposite...

George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards, based on the popular book series, is set up at a new home. The project, which had been in development at Hulu since 2018, has moved to Peacock with UCP producing.

The Secret Circle creator Andrew Miller, who was previously attached to write and executive produce, is no longer involved in the project. But UCP, where Miller is under a deal, is currently in development with Miller on various scripted television and podcast projects. A search for a new writer is underway.

In Wild Cards, an alien pathogen known as the Wild Card virus is released over Manhattan in 1946, altering the course of human history. The virus rewrites DNA, mutating its survivors. A lucky few are granted awe-inspiring superpowers, while the sad majority are left with often repulsive physical deformities.

Martin, Melinda Snodgrass and Vince Gerardis, who co-edited the books with Martin, will executive produce.

After two years of development, George R.R. Martin’s “Wild Cards” is moving from Hulu to Peacock.

The project, which remains in the development stage, is currently looking for a new writer. Andrew Miller was previously attached to write and create a multi-show universe at Hulu, but has since left the project.

“Wild Cards” is from Universal Content Productions, which is part of NBCUniversal.

Set in the present day, the “Wild Cards” books explore the aftermath of an alien virus (dubbed the “Wild Card” virus) that killed 90 percent of those it infected. Here is the logline for the Peacock adaptation:

An alien pathogen known as the Wild Card virus is released over Manhattan in 1946, altering the course of human history. The virus rewrites DNA, mutating its survivors. A lucky few are granted awe-inspiring superpowers, while the sad majority are left with often repulsive physical deformities.

Martin will executive produce along with Melinda Snodgrass,...

The TV adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “Wild Card” book series is moving from Hulu to Peacock.

The project was originally set up at Hulu in 2018. Andrew Miller, who had been attached to write and executive produce the project at Hulu, is no longer involved. The project remains in development as the search for a new writer is ongoing. Martin will executive produce along with Melinda Snodgrass and Vince Gerardis. Martin and Snodgrass edit the “Wild Card” books, while Gerardis is Martin’s manager. UCP will produce for Peacock.

In the series, an alien pathogen known as the Wild Card virus is released over Manhattan in 1946, altering the course of human history. The virus rewrites DNA, mutating its survivors. A lucky few are granted awe-inspiring superpowers, while the sad majority are left with often repulsive physical deformities.

The plan at Hulu had been to develop at least two shows...

The upcoming NBC drama series “La Brea” has added four new castmembers.

Eoin Macken, Jack Martin, Jon Seda, and Lily Santiago have all joined the series. They join previously announced cast members Natalie Zea, Zyra Gorecki and Chiké Okonkwo.

In the show, when a massive sinkhole mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, it tears a family in half, separating mother and son from father and daughter. When part of the family find themselves in an unexplainable primeval world, alongside a disparate group of strangers, they must work to survive and uncover the mystery of where they are and if there is a way back home.

Macken will play Gavin Harris, Eve’s recently estrange husband, full of swagger and charm. Macken recently starred in the Syfy series “Nightflyers” and is also known for his role in the NBC medical drama “The Night Shift.” He is repped by ICM, Magnolia Entertainment, and the Artists Partnership.

The Lincoln Lawyer has a new ex-wife: Ugly Betty vet Becki Newton has joined David E. Kelley’s Netflix legal drama, our sister site Deadline reports.

Based on Michael Connelly’s novels, the series — which was developed as a CBS drama pilot last year before moving to the streamer — follows Mickey Haller (Goliath‘s Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), who runs his law practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car. Newton replaces Kiele Sanchez, who was previously cast as Mickey’s second ex-spouse and office manager Lorna in the CBS iteration. Meanwhile, Angus Sampson (Nightflyers, Shut Eye) and Jazz Raycole...

When it comes to scripted TV shows, Syfy has had both hits and flops. Which of the current series will be cancelled or renewed for another season?

There's lots of data that Syfy execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series but ratings are the major ingredient.

Scripted Syfy Network shows listed: 12 Monkeys, Aftermath, Bitten, Blood Drive, Channel Zero, Childhood's End, Continuum, Dark Matter, Deadly Class, Defiance, Dominion, The Expanse, Ghost Wars, Happy!, Haven, Helix, Hunters, Incorporated, Killjoys, Krypton, Lost Girl, The Magicians, Nightflyers, Olympus, Superstition, Vagrant Queen, Van Helsing, Wynonna Earp, and Z Nation.

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The Witcher: Blood Origin has cast its first role.

Netflix announced on Monday that The Last Ship‘s Jodie Turner-Smith has boarded the prequel series in the role of Éile.

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Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, the six-part Blood Origin limited series “will tell a...

Netflix’s “The Witcher” prequel series “Blood Origin” has cast Jodie Turner-Smith as its lead, the streaming service said Monday.

“The Witcher: Blood Origin” is a six-part, live-action limited series that will serve as a prequel to Netflix’s series starring Henry Cavill.

Here’s the description for the show: “Set in an elven world 1200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time — the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal ‘conjunction of the spheres,’ when the worlds of monsters, men and elves merged to become one.”

Turner-Smith will play Éile, “an elite warrior blessed with the voice of a goddess” who “has left her clan and position as Queen’s guardian to follow her heart as a nomadic musician. A grand reckoning on the continent forces her to return to the way of the...

Jodie Turner-Smith has been tapped as a lead in Netflix’s six-part, live-action limited series The Witcher: Blood Origin, a prequel to the streamer’s hit series The

Witcher.

Set in an elven world 1,200 years before the world of The Witcher, Blood Origin will tell a story lost to time – the creation of the first prototype Witcher, and the events that lead to the pivotal “conjunction of the spheres,” when the worlds of monsters, men, and elves merged to become one.

Turner-Smith will play Éile, an elite warrior blessed with the voice of a goddess, who has left her clan and position as Queen’s guardian to follow her heart as a nomadic musician. A grand reckoning on the continent forces her to return to the way of the blade in her quest for vengeance and redemption.

Declan de Barra serves as executive producer and showrunner of The Witcher: Blood Origin.

Exclusive: The Handmaid’s Tale creator/executive producer Bruce Miller and writers-producers John Herrera and Nina Fiore are bringing another female-driven novel to television. TNT has put in development Heresy, a western drama inspired by Melissa Lenhardt’s book of the same name, from The Handmaid’s Tale trio and MGM/UA Television, where Miller and his White Oak Pictures are under a deal.

Written by Herrera and Fiore, Heresy is set in the Wild West. In it, women have few choices: marriage, whoring or grabbing a gun. For two unlikely allies, the choice is simple.

Described asThelma & Louise meets The Magnificent Seven, Heresy is a female-driven, queer, transgender, multiracial takeover of the West like we’ve never seen before. Led by our two heroines, a group of women transform themselves into a legendary outlaw gang because the only way for a woman to claim her right to life, liberty and the pursuit...

Exclusive: Ben Radcliffe (Pandora) is set for a recurring role opposite Sienna Miller and Michelle Dockery in Anatomy of a Scandal, Netflix’s six-part anthology series based on Sarah Vaughan’s bestselling novel, from Big Little Lies creator David E. Kelley, former House of Cards showrunner Melissa James Gibson, Liza Chasin’s 3dot Productions and Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories.

Anatomy of a Scandal tells the story of a scandal among the British privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake.

Radcliffe will play Young James (Older James is played by Rupert Friend).

Kelley and Gibson will write, showrun and executive produce with S.J. Clarkson, who also directs, along with Chasin for 3dot and Papandrea, Steve Hutensky and Allie Goss for Made Up Stories. Vaughan and Margaret Chernin are co-executive producers.

Radcliffe just wrapped a leading regular role on the CW’s Pandora. He recently filmed Nightflyers,...

Exclusive: Disney Investor Day unveiled a lot of new projects from the Mouse House and just when we thought there couldn’t be any more — there is. Disney+ is developing the one-hour action-adventure drama Secret Guide to Celestial Creatures from Michael Golamco, Randall Park and Hieu Ho’s Imminent Collision. The production banner has a first-look deal with 20th Television, which will serve as the studio.

As stated in the official logline of Secret Guide to Celestial Creatures, the action-adventure drama centers on a Korean American family of legendary guardians who protect the supernatural community that lives among us in plain sight. Golamco created the original, live-action concept and is set to write the pilot and executive produce. Park and Ho will also serve as executive producers for Imminent Collision.

“We love genre stories that are funny, magical, and emotional — especially when they come from a very specific place that reflects a universal truth,...

Gretchen Mol will be an American Gigolo‘s one true love in Showtime’s reboot of the 1980 motion picture.

Showtime’s long-gestating Gigolo reboot received a pilot order back in March, and is described as a “present-day reimagining” of the 1980 film that starred Richard Gere as high-end male escort Julian Kaye.

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Exclusive: Gretchen Mol (Boardwalk Empire) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Jon Bernthal in Showtime’s pilot American Gigolo, an update of the 1980 film noir classic that starred Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. The project hails from David Hollander, Paramount TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television.

Written and directed by Hollander, American Gigolo the series is a present-day reimagining of the iconic film. Bernthal will play Julian Kaye, who is introduced 18 years after he’s been arrested for murder and struggling to find his footing in the Los Angeles sex industry, while seeking the truth about the setup that sent him to prison all those years ago and also hoping to reconnect with Michelle (Mol), his one true love.

In the movie, the roles of Julian and Michelle were played by Gere and Hutton, respectively.

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Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the original film, executive produces along with Hollander,...

CBS has put in development dramas Activation, from Katrina O’Gilvie (Swagger); and Tempest, from Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary). Both projects stem from CBS Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat’s Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room program, designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast TV development for the first time. The writers are paired with experienced TV creators/showrunners based at CBS Studios. O’Gilvie worked with Rina Mimoun (Under the Bridge) on Activation and Buhler paired with Anna Fricke (Walker) on The Tempest.

Written by O’Gilvie, Activation revolves around a group of highly trained disaster relief experts comprising a wide array of specialties and skillsets risk their lives as the first boots on the ground, navigating all manner of emergency situations.

O’Gilvie executive produces with Mimoun, along with Thinking Hat’s Craig Turk and Rideback’s Dan Lin and Lindsey Liberatore.

Written by Buhler,...

The Campfire Writers Room partnership between CBS Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat has born two new projects which have been nabbed for development at CBS.

The network has put into the pipeline government mind control series “The Tempest,” which hails from “Nightflyers” writer Jeff Buhler, and disaster relief drama “Activation,” which is being penned by Katrina O’Gilvie, a writer on Apple’s upcoming “Swagger” series.

News of these projects comes only two months after the second year of Campfire Writer’s Room was announced by the three companies. The program is designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast television development for the first time.

“Activation” centers around a group of highly trained disaster relief experts who comprise a wide array of specialties and skillsets. They risk their lives as the first boots on the ground, navigating all manner of emergency situations.

Rina Mimoun will...

Exclusive: Eoin Macken, perhaps best known for starring in the NBC series The Night Shift and Netflix’s Nightflyers, has commenced production on Grey Elephant, a feature film that explores the complexities of two couples meeting together for the first time after months of being on lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Macken wrote and directed the drama and also stars alongside Erin Richards (Gotham), Jill Flint (The Good Wife), Mac Brandt (Lovecraft Country), James Roch Lemon and Brendan Fehr (Roswell).

It follows married couple Lucy and James (Flint and Brandt), who decide to host dinner for James’ best friend, Will (Lemon), and his new girlfriend Alexa (Richards). The dinner quickly highlights both couples’ pent-up fears, frustrations, desires, and insecurities, which escalate to explosive degrees when an unexpected wild card is added to the mix.

Macken teamed with Allusionist Pictures to finance and produce the film.

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Exclusive: Maggie Kiley is set to direct and executive produce the first two episodes of Peacock’s limited series Dr. Death, starring Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater. Kiley replaces Stephen Frears, who had signed on for the project in January but had to step away due to scheduling conflicts given the shift of production dates due to coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Death, from Ucp, was among a slew of shows whose production was delayed by months amid the pandemic.

Kiley leads an all-female Dr. Death directing team, which also includes Jennifer Morrison, who will direct the third and fourth episodes, and So Yong Kim, who will direct the remaining episodes.

Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of a sociopath and the failures of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us.

CBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS. The program, designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast TV development for the first time, has set Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary), Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire) and writer Katrina O’Gilvie (Swagger) for this year’s roster.

The trio work with showrunner/executive producers Anna Fricke (Walker), Rina Mimoun (Under the Bridge) and Corinne Brinkerhoff (American Gothic), who all have overall deals at CBS TV Studios. They will provide support from development through series.

The program, run by Thinking Hat founder and writer-producer Craig Turk, sold two projects to CBS Television Network in its first year in 2019-2020: Drift from Chris Salmanpour and The Eshmun Protocol from Jason Keller.

CBS Television Studios and production companies Rideback and Thinking Hat are again partnering on the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writer’s room.

Three new creators have been selected for the second year of the room. They are writer Jeff Buhler, multi-hyphenate Gbenga Akinnagbe, and writer Katrina O’Gilvie. Working alongside them will be three experienced showrunner/executive producers: Anna Fricke, Rina Mimoun, and Corinne Brinkerhoff. Fricke, Mimoun and Brinkerhoff are under overall deals at the Studio.

“Our vision for Campfire is to support exciting creative voices using the power of collaboration, in particular by introducing the writers room dynamic from day one,” said Rideback CEO Dan Lin. “We’re excited to have Jeff, Gbenga and Katrina as our creators this year and support their remarkable new ideas.”

The program is designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast television development for the first time. In its inaugural 2019-2020 year,...

Exclusive: Apa has signed executive producer-writer-creator Brian Nelson. He was formerly with CAA.

Nelson recently served as executive producer on Stephen King’s 11.22.63 at Hulu, on Syfy’s Nightflyers based on the novella by George R.R. Martin, DaVinci’s Demons at Starz, and as co-executive producer on Altered Carbon at Netflix. On the film side, his first feature Hard Candy, starring Ellen Page, remains a cult classic. He went on to write 30 Days of Night for David Slade with Sam Raimi producing, and Devil for M. Night Shyamalan’s Blinding Edge Pictures. Nelson continues to be repped by Management 360.

Apa is one of a few full-service agencies in the industry currently able to represent writers during the ongoing WGA standoff. Earlier this year, the agency signed the WGA’s franchise agreement after merging its television and motion picture divisions under the banner of Apa Scripted Literary to offer clients a forward-thinking approach to representation.

From Emmy Award®-winning writer Lena Waithe (Netflix’s “Master of None”) and Grammy Award®-winning director Melina Matsoukas (Beyonce’s “Formation” and Nike’s “Equality”), comes the unflinching new drama, Queen & Slim, arriving on Digital February 18, 2020 and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-rayTM, DVD and On Demand March 3, 2020 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Hailed by critics as “urgent and beautiful” and “simply gorgeous”, Queen & Slim is a timely and powerful love story that confronts the staggering toll of racism where it meets the shattering price of violence.

Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith bring Queen & Slim to life as the titular characters. Kaluuya and Turner-Smith are accompanied by outstanding supporting performances from Bokeem Woodbine, Chloë Sevigny, legendary Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist, Flea, American country singer, Sturgill Simpson and Indya Moore. Queen & Slim comes from production company Makeready.

While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man (Kaluuya...

Production spend in Ireland rose by 162% to €357 million ($395 million) in 2019, according to the country’s TV, film and animation agency Screen Ireland.

Inward investment projects such as Netflix’s “Nightflyers,” BBC3 and Hulu drama “Normal People,” Apple TV Plus sci-fi series “Foundation,” and feature film “The Green Knight” accounted for €261 million (€289 million) of the overall production spend, around two thirds of the total.

The animation sector in particular has seen its annual production activity rise strongly, increasing fourfold in the last 10 years, to €180 million ($199 million) in 2019. This includes upcoming animated feature “Wolfwalkers,” from the Academy Award winning studio Cartoon Saloon.

Chair of Screen Ireland Annie Doona said that Ireland’s screen production sector has more than doubled in the last decade, and that all the major streaming giants are now among production partners. “The full restoration of Screen Ireland’s annual funding and the ongoing commitment to Section 481 tax incentives are critical to this success,...