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Two movies whose directors are likely to draw protests, Woody Allen’s French-language “Coup de Chance” and Roman Polanski’s “The Palace,” will make their world premieres at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival, Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera and La Biennale di Venezia president Roberto Cicutto announced at a Tuesday morning press conference.

Both films will screen out of competition, though they’ll likely draw an inordinate amount of attention at a festival that has assembled a robust lineup of major filmmakers even as it struggles with the effects of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes.

Films booked for the Venice main competition include Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro”; Yorgos Lanthimos’ sci-fi drama “Poor Things”; Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley film “Priscilla”; Michael Mann’s auto-racing film “Ferrari”; Ava DuVernay’s “Origin,” with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Niecy Nash-Betts and Vera Farmiga; and David Fincher’s “The Killer,” with Michael Fassbender.

Includes films from David Fincher, Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay, Yorgos Lanthimos, Bradley Cooper and Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Venice Film Festival announced the programme for its 80th edition, including a 23-strong Competition with new films from David Fincher, Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay, Yorgos Lanthimos, Bradley Cooper and Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

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The selection was announced by festival president Roberto Cicutto and artistic director Alberto Barbera. The SAG-AFTRA strike in the US has had a “quite modest” impact on the selection according to Barbera, who was forced to pull Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers as the opening film over the weekend due to the strike.

This year’s selection will be announced at 11:00 Cest (10:00 BST) by Roberto Cicutto and Alberto Barbera.

The line-up for the 80th Venice International Film Festival (August 30-September 9) will be revealed this morning at 11:00 Cest (10:00 BST) by festival president Roberto Cicutto and artistic director Alberto Barbera

The press conference will be live-streamed below, and this page will be updated with the films as they are announced.

Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers was originally set to open the festival but was pulled by MGM amid the actors’ strike. It was replaced by Edoardo De Angelis’ Comandante.

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A killer pursuit kicks off on ABC later this year. 

The network dropped its first trailer for The Big Sky on Sunday night, and while it may look like a new season of Secrets and Lies, it's a new show entirely. 

From visionary storyteller David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) comes Big Sky, a thriller created by Kelley, who will write multiple episodes and serve as showrunner during the first season. 

Private detectives Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt join forces with his estranged wife and ex-cop, Jenny Hoyt, to search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana.

But when they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

Based on the series of books by C.J. Box, Big Sky...

Pitch‘s Kylie Bunbury and Secrets and Lies‘ Ryan Phillippe have no idea what dangers lurk when they set out to catch a small-town killer in ABC’s Big Sky (premiering Tuesday, Nov. 17 at 10/9c).

The network’s lone new fall drama — which was previewed in a series of promos during Sunday’s 72nd Emmy Awards — hails from prolific TV producer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies), and stars TV faves Bunbury and Phillippe as private detectives on the hunt for two kidnapped sisters in Montana. Soon they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area — at one point,...

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is getting back to work tomorrow – the day after the Emmys.

The NBC musical drama, which is a co-production between Lionsgate TV and Universal TV, is heading back into production in Vancouver on September 21.

The news was revealed by Ted Danson, husband of star Mary Steenburgen, during E! Entertainment’s virtual ‘Red Carpet’ coverage.

Deadline revealed earlier this month that a number of U.S. shows were returning to production in Vancouver including ABC/Sony Pictures Television’s The Good Doctor, Disney+/ABC Signature’s The Mighty Ducks, ABC/A+E Studios’s Big Sky and ABC/Kapital/ABC Signature’s A Million Little Things.

This now includes Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist after Danson joked that Steenburgen required an early night ahead of the shoot.

Created and executive produced by Jake in Progress creator Austin Winsberg, who serves as showrunner, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist stars Jane Levy as Zoey Clarke,...

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The Grey's Anatomy void will soon be over! Less than a month after Ellen Pompeo put her scrubs back on to kick off production for season 17 of Grey's Anatomy, ABC revealed the premiere date for the hospital drama. The show will return for a two-hour premiere on Thursday, Nov. 12. Lucky for superfans, it'll follow the season four return of Station 19 for a stay-glued-to-your-couch crossover premiere event. The Good Doctor, For Life, A Million Little Things and newcomer Big Sky are also all slated to premiere in November. "Our fall series is now complete with a dynamic lineup of new and returning drama series," said Karey Burke, president of ABC Entertainment, in a statement....

Are you ready for the new season of TV? ABC just announced the Fall 2020 premiere dates for Grey's Anatomy, Station 19, The Good Doctor, and more.

This fall will also see the debut of David E. Kelley's new drama series, Big Sky. The TV show follows two private detectives as they search the remote countryside of Montana for two missing sisters. The cast includes Katheryn Winnick, Kylie Bunbury, Brian Geraghty, John Carroll Lynch, and Ryan Phillippe.

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In today’s TV news roundup, ABC announced premiere dates for dramas including “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Good Doctor,” and Amazon Prime Video announced the premiere date for “Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2.”

Casting

ABC confirmed the casting of Chloe Jo Rountree, Jecobi Swain and Jordyn Curet for its “Home Economics” pilot. The series, written by Michael Colton and John Aboud, follows three adult siblings who fall into different wealth brackets: upper, middle and lower class. Roundtree, Swain and Curet will play cousins, as the children of the focal three siblings. Rountree is represented by The Osbrink Agency and Eileen O’Farrell Management, while Swain and Curet are represented by Paradigm and Dba Talent.

Renewals

The CW Network‘s horror anthology series “Two Sentence Horror Stories” has been renewed for Season 3 ahead of its Season 2 premiere, which is scheduled for early 2021. The psychological show features new stories in each episode, with...

The long wait for original scripted content from ABC is almost over.

The network on Thursday announced premiere dates for returning dramas Grey's Anatomy, The Good Doctor, A Million Little Things, and more.

Unfortunately, The Rookie Season 3 has been postponed, with a premiere date set to come later in the season.

But still, the show is coming back, unlike Stumptown, which was renewed and subsequently canceled.

The highly anticipated return of Grey's Anatomy will air over two hours following the Season 4 premiere of Station 19 Season 4 on Thursday, November 12.

This means A Million Little Things will return the week later on November 19.

The Good Doctor will be getting an early-ish start, kicking off its fourth season out of Dancing With the Stars on Monday, November 2.

For Life, which scored a surprise renewal for a second season amid soft on-air ratings, will debut Wednesday, November 18 out of the network's sole comedy block.

ABC has set November premiere dates for its scripted drama series, including “The Good Doctor,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and David E. Kelley’s new thriller “Big Sky,” rounding out its fall schedule.

In addition to the shows mentioned above, as well as “Station 19” and “A Million Little Things,” the second season of “For Life” will also debut in November, marking a move up from midseason. The legal drama will take the Wednesday-night time slot previously occupied by the Cobie Smulders-led “Stumptown,” which was canceled on Wednesday.

The new batch of premiere dates joins the previously announced dates for the network’s comedy and unscripted slates, including “black-ish,” “The Bachelorette” and the Leslie Jones-hosted reboot of “Supermarket Sweep.”

The only fall series yet to receive a premiere date from the network is Nathan Fillion’s “The Rookie,” which will return “later in the season.”

“Our fall schedule is now...

The doctors, both good and Grey, will be in come November on ABC.

Having previously released an early fall schedule that is chockablock with reality-tv and game shows… and then some mid-fall sitcom premiere dates… ABC now has lifted the curtain on its later fall plan, which launches new seasons of Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Doctor, A Million Little Things and other returning dramas.

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ABC has rounded out its fall schedule with changes and premiere dates involving its drama series.

Five ABC dramas — returning Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, The Good Doctor and A Million Little Things as well as straight-to-series newcomer Big Sky — which were featured on the fall 2020 schedule unveiled by the network in June, have been assigned November premiere dates and to roll out between Nov. 2 (The Good Doctor) and Nov. 19 (A Million Little Things). All five series are already in production on their new seasons in Vancouver and Los Angeles (Grey’s Anatomy and spinoff Station 19).

Flagship Grey’s Anatomy is getting a two-hour Season 17 premiere on Nov. 12.

The major change from the announced ABC fall schedule involves For Life taking over the Wednesday 10 Pm slot from the previously renewed Stumptown, which was canceled yesterday. Additionally, The Rookie has been officially pushed to later in the season.

ABC has canceled “Stumptown” despite previously renewing the show for a second season.

According to an individual with knowledge of the situation, due to timing and scheduling needs for the current season that have been impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, ABC opted not to move forward with the second season as planned. Studio ABC Signature will be shopping the series to other outlets.

Based on the graphic novel series of the same name, “Stumptown” starred Cobie Smulders as Dex Parios – a strong, assertive and sharp-witted veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of in Portland, Oregon.

The series also starred Jake Johnson as Grey McConnell, Tantoo Cardinal as Sue Lynn Blackbird, Cole Sibus as Ansel Parios, Adrian Martinez as Tookie with Camryn Manheim as Lieutenant Cosgrove, and Michael Ealy as Detective Miles Hoffman.

“Stumptown” was created and and executive produced by Jason Richman,...

ABC has given out a straight-to-series order to the drama series “Rebel.”

Katey Sagal stars in the show, which is inspired by the life of Erin Brockovich. It is slated to debut in 2021. Sagal stars as Annie “Rebel” Bello, a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree. She’s described as a funny, messy, brilliant and fearless woman who cares desperately about the causes she fights for and the people she loves. When Rebel applies herself to a fight she believes in, she will win at almost any cost.

In addition to Sagal, the series stars John Corbett as Grady Bello, James Lesure as Benji, Lex Scott Davis as Cassidy, Tamala Jones as Lona, Ariela Barer as Ziggie, Kevin Zegers as Nate, Sam Palladio as Luke, and Andy Garcia as Cruz.

“Grey’s Anatomy” and “Station 19” showrunner Krista Vernoff wrote the pilot and executive produces along with Alexandre Schmitt of Trip the Light.

ABC today has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to Rebel, its Katey Sagal-starring drama inspired by the life of activist Erin Brockovich. It hails from Brockovich, Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 executive producer/showrunner Krista Vernoff, Davis Entertainment, Sony Pictures TV and ABC Signature. It will debut in 2021.

Rebel was one of five 2020 ABC pilots — all grounded by the coronavirus pandemic — that were selected by the network in June to shoot once production can resume safely. It joins two other projects from ABC’s 2020 pilot slate that have received straight-to-series orders for next this coming: David E. Kelley’s Big Sky, which already is filming in Vancouver, and Kari Lizer’s comedy Call Your Mother, which is also a Sony TV/ABC Signature co-production.

As a precursor to a straight-to-series order, ABC had commissioned a writers room for Rebel, which I hear has produced six scripts to date. The pickup...

ABC is developing a single-cam comedy from two former “Single Parents” writers.

The project is titled “Happy for You.” Taylor Cox is attached to write while Kim Rosenstock will serve as executive producer. The network has given the project a script commitment with a penalty attached. 20th Television, where Rosenstock is currently under an overall deal, will serve as the studio. News of the development comes as ABC is increasingly looking for female-focused content, like it’s upcoming comedy series “Call Your Mother” and the drama “Big Sky.”

In the series, when the youngest of three sisters announces she’s getting married first, it sends her older, unmarried sisters — and their newly separated mother — into an existential tailspin. The show follows this family of midwestern women as they confront their own failed love lives, plan a wedding, and try not to take their feelings out on the flower arrangements.

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FX’s award-winning series “Pose” is planning to return to production in October.

While the situation remains fluid, a member of the “Pose” crew is getting tested for Covid-19 this week in anticipation of the show starting to film next month, a source tells Variety. Production on season 3 was halted in March, due to the coronavirus outbreak in New York City and across the country.

“When production paused, I wasn’t shocked — I knew it would happen — but it was a bittersweet moment for me,” star Indya Moore told Variety in June. “On the one hand, if anyone had gotten sick, it surely would have spread fast. On the other hand, most folks working on a production are living paycheck to paycheck. So I was worried about how they are going to survive.”

Disney Television Studios declined to comment.

Production has recently begun on Disney shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy,...

Production is gearing up in Vancouver. Several TV shows have started or will soon start production in the city north of Seattle. Returning shows include ABC's The Good Doctor and A Million Little Things, The CW's Batwoman, and Netflix's Lost in Space. New series getting underway include Disney+'s The Mighty Ducks, ABC's Big Sky, Netflix's Midnight Mass, and Hulu's The Mysterious Benedict Society. As previously reported, The CW's Supernatural resumed production on its two final episodes earlier this month.

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Exclusive: The Locke siblings are set to resume their roles as Keepers of the Keys as production on Netflix’s Locke & Key is set to resume later this month.

Deadline understands that filming will resume on September 21 at Cinespace Film Studios in Toronto, Canada. The plan is to film through to the end of March for the second season of the adaptation of the comic book series.

This comes after the streamer handed the show, which is based on the books by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, a second season in March, a month after the first season launched.

The first season of Locke and Key starred Darby Stanchfield, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones, Jackson Robert Scott, Laysla De Oliveira, Aaron Ashmore, Petrice Jones, and Griffin Gluck.

The coming-of-age supernatural drama follows the Locke siblings after their father is murdered under mysterious circumstances. The three siblings and their mother move into their ancestral home,...

More U.S. series have started filming in Vancouver with Covid-19 protocols amid the pandemic.

ABC/Sony TV’s The Good Doctor, which helped pave the way to an agreement between Hollywood studios and the British Columbia unions, started production on its fourth season today, I have learned.

Disney+/ABC Signature’s The Mighty Ducks, whose production was halted in March because of the pandemic, resumed filming Tuesday, I hear. ABC/A+E Studios’s Big Sky began filming Thursday; ABC/Kapital/ABC Signature’s A Million Little Things has been shooting since Sunday; and Hulu/Sonar/20th TV’s The Mysterious Benedict Society also kicked off filming last week, sources said.

Netflix’s Midnight Mass and the CW/Warner Bros. TV’s Supernatural were believed to be the first U.S. series to start production in Vancouver following the coronavirus-related five-month break. Supernatural, which had two remaining episodes of its final season to shoot,...

“Grey’s Anatomy” is officially heading back to set.

The ABC medical drama will begin shooting its upcoming seventeenth season this month, Variety has learned exclusively.

Production on the first two episodes of season 17 could begin in Los Angeles as early as next week. Precisely when the show will return to screens remains to be seen, however, as news of the resumption comes less than a week after ABC announced an unscripted-heavy fall schedule which no longer featured “Grey’s.” A previous version of the schedule listed the show in its regular Thursday night slot next to “Station 19.”

This news would appear to put ABC in a more solid position on the scripted front than some of its rivals, as the Disney-owned network already has “The Goldbergs,” “A Million Little Things,” “The Good Doctor” and “Big Sky” confirmed as returning to production.

“Grey’s” halted production due to Covid-19 back in March,...

ABC's fall schedule will get underway without scripted originals, it has been announced.

The network on Thursday announced premiere dates for unscripted series such as The Bachelorette, Supermarket Sweep, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

These premieres mean that the network's scripted series will not be back on the air in September this year.

Grey's Anatomy, Station 19, The Good Doctor, as well as comedies like The Conners and The Goldbergs have now been pulled from the fall schedule ... for now.

“We’re fortunate to have such a strong unscripted slate to launch our first wave of programming this fall,” ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke said in a statement.

“Presenting the new Supermarket Sweep with Leslie Jones alongside fresh, original episodes of returning shows that viewers have come to know and love is invigorating."

"And with our scripted series ramping up production, we look forward to announcing more premiere dates very soon.

ABC is throwing out the script for fall, launching its heavily asterisked new season with an all-unscripted slate that includes the return of The Bachelorette, Dancing With the Stars and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, as well as the premiere of the previously announced Supermarket Sweep reboot hosted by Saturday Night Live alumna Leslie Jones.

“We’re fortunate to have such a strong unscripted slate to launch our first wave of programming this fall,” ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke said in a statement. “Presenting the new Supermarket Sweep with Leslie Jones alongside fresh, original episodes of returning shows that...

ABC has set premiere dates for its unscripted fall offerings, including the delayed season of “The Bachelorette” and the “Supermarket Sweep” reboot hosted by Leslie Jones.

The network will kick off its fall season with the revamped “Dancing With the Stars” hosted by Tyra Banks on Sept. 14, as previously announced. Later in the month, ABC will premiere new episodes of its summer game show reboots “Celebrity Family Feud,” “Press Your Luck” and “Match Game.”

The much-speculated-about season of “The Bachelorette” will finally debut on Tuesday, Oct. 13 after previously being delayed by Covid-19.

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“Shark Tank” will return later in the week on Friday, Oct. 16, followed by “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “Supermarket Sweep,” “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and “Card Sharks” on Sunday, Oct. 18.

ABC previously announced a scripted-heavy fall schedule, including the premiere of David E. Kelley’s “Big Sky,...

Exclusive Updated: Vancouver is open for business. We hear that the impasse between U.S. studios and the British Columbia unions over safety protocols is starting to get resolved, with the local unions clearing a number of TV series to begin production there.

One of the first to get a green light was The Good Doctor, we hear, after its lead studio Sony Pictures TV made a deal with the BC Council of Film Unions, made up of IATSE, Teamsters and International Cinematographers Guild locals, and various actors’ unions.

We hear Disney TV Studios also has reached an agreement with the BC Council for its Vancouver-based broadcast and streaming series A Million Little Things, Mighty Ducks, Mysterious Benedict Society, Big Sky and Turner & Hooch.

Netflix’s Midnight Mass may be the first series to start production in Vancouver. We hear it is expected to start filming this coming week...

Disney Television Studios has launched a major rebrand of its three studios, 20th Century Fox Television, Fox 21 TV Studios and ABC Studios/ABC Signature. The move comes nearly 18 months after Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of key 21st Century Fox assets and seven months after the Disney-owned film companies — 20th Century Fox Studios and Fox Searchlight Pictures — dropped “Fox” in January to become 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures.

ABC Studios and its cable/streaming subsidiary ABC Signature, led by president Jonnie Davis, will merge into one studio entitled ABC Signature. Fox 21 Television Studios, led by president Bert Salke, will be renamed Touchstone Television. 20th Century Fox Television, led by president Carolyn Cassidy, will become 20th Television. Because they are all part of Disney TV Studios, the divisions also all dropped “studios” from their monikers.

Removal of Fox was agreed to when the transaction between Disney and 21st Century Fox...

In today’s TV news roundup, HBO released a teaser and premiere date for “The Undoing,” and Netflix debuted the trailer for “Hoops.”

Casting

Keke Palmer has been cast in Disney Plus’ animated series “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.” She will voice Maya Leibowitz-Jenkins, a 14-year-old activist and an adopted daughter of mixed race parents. Other cast members currently include Kyla Pratt, Tommy Davidson, Paula Jai Parker, Jo Marie Payton and Cedric the Entertainer. Bruce W. Smith and Ralph Farquhar will executive produce.

Valerie Mahaffey has joined the cast of David E. Kelley’s ABC series “Big Sky.” She will portray Helen Pergman, a meticulous mother who navigates a contentious relationship with her son Ronald (Brian Geraghty). The Emmy-winning actress has starred in “Northern Exposure,” “Dead to Me” and “Seinfeld.” Along with Kelley, Ross Fineman, Matthew Gross, Paul McGuigan, C.J. Box and Gwyneth Horder-Payton will executive produce. The series...

The CW is making a change to its Sunday lineup: The network has pulled the UK game show Taskmaster from its schedule after just one low-rated episode, our sister site Variety reports.

The series, hosted by comedian Greg Davies and creator Alex Horne, debuted Aug. 2 to a 0.1 rating among adults 18-49 and just 212,000 viewers. The program will be replaced by reruns of Supernatural‘s fifteenth and final season, which is slated to conclude this fall.

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Valerie Mahaffey (Dead To Me) has been cast opposite Brian Geraghty, Katheryn Winnick, Ryan Phillippe and Natalie Alyn Lind in Big Sky, ABC’s straight-to-series drama created and executive produced by David E. Kelley. Based on The Highway, the first book in C.J. Box’s Cassie Dewell series of novels, the project, hails from A+E Studios, which will produce in association with 20th Century Fox Television, part of Disney TV Studios.

Written by Kelley, Big Sky is a procedural thriller in which private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt (Winnick) on a search for two sisters, Danielle and Grace Sullivan, played by Lind and Pettyjohn, respectively, who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

It’s end of July. Usually at this time, broadcast TV dramas would be back in production, with comedies also getting started on new seasons. But in summer 2020, disrupted by the devastating effects of the coronavirus pandemic, cameras on fall scripted series have yet to begin rolling.

Somewhat surprisingly, S.W.A.T., which was only moved up from midseason to CBS’ fall schedule two weeks ago to replace Survivor, could be the first broadcast primetime scripted series to resume production; it is tentatively slated to begin filming Tuesday in Los Angeles. I hear actors and crew have already been tested ahead of the potential shoot. As is the case with any production during the pandemic, the situation is fluid, and the eyed start of production could be pushed, but currently, it looks promising for filming to commence. The Good Doctor is right behind, gearing up to start production by mid-August in Vancouver.

Nickelodeon’s animated Star Trek series now has a title: Star Trek: Prodigy. The announcement, as well as the above logo, were shared during the Trek Universe’s Comic-Con @ Home streaming panel on Thursday.

The show, debuting in 2021, follows a group of lawless teens who discover a derelict Starfleet ship and use it to search for adventure, meaning and salvation.

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Kylie Bunbury has tasted pure happiness, and it tastes sweet.

No, seriously. For her role in Peacock’s adaptation of Brave New World, which premieres Wednesday on the streaming service’s launch day, Bunbury frequently had to ingest prop pills known in the show as “Soma” — a drug dispensed freely in the futuristic society depicted in the series. Soma’s main function: keep the populace’s serotonin levels high, thereby making feelings of anger, hurt, grief and despair flit away like butterflies on the breeze. Or, as the show’s tagline somewhat menacingly suggests: “Everybody happy now.”

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ABC has made a range of decisions on its remaining pilots this season, which were all shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Firstly, the network is scrapping its pilots for the dramas “The Brides” and “Thirtysomething(else)” and the comedy “Valley Trash.” The news is surprising for “The Brides” — a female-led vampire soap opera with “Riverdale’s” Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa writing — and “Thirtysometing(else) — a sequel series to the classic dramedy “Thirtysomething” with the original creators and multiple original cast members returnin. Both shows were pegged as early frontrunners for series pickups prior to the pandemic. According to sources, both shows were on the pricier side to produce, which may have contributed to ABC cutting them loose.

Elsewhere on the slate, ABC will be picking up actor options with intent to shoot the following pilots once production can safely begin: drama “Rebel” starring Katey Sagal and based on the life of Erin Brockovich; “Harlem’s Kitchen,...

ABC is beginning to make decisions about its pilot slate as the network looks ahead to resuming production in the coming months.

Five pilots will begin shooting “once production can safely begin,” the network said Monday. ABC will extend actor options for the dramas “Rebel” and “Harlem’s Kitchen,” as well as the comedies “Bossy,” “Home Economics” and “Work Wife.”

TheWrap has also learned that three pilots are not moving forward, including “Riverdale” creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s sexy Dracula pilot “The Brides” and the “Thirtysomething” sequel series featuring the original cast. The Jason Lee-led comedy “Valley Trash” is also being scrapped.

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Three other pilots — “Adopted,” “National Parks Service” and “Triage” — will be rolled over into a second cycle. Decisions about the survival drama “Wreckage,” the comedic western “Prospect” and the new teen comedy...

ABC intends to shoot five pilots once production can safely resume and is rolling three projects to its next pilot cycle.

The network is picking up the cast options for the five projects that it has committed to producing this year through to September 30.

This includes dramas Rebel, starring Katey Sagal and Andy Garcia and Delroy Lindo’s Harlem’s Kitchen, as well as comedies Bossy, which was formerly known as Kids Matter Now, Topher Grace’s Home Economics and Work Wife.

Rolled over into its ‘second cycle’ development are Adopted, National Parks Service, which was formerly known as Isb and Triage.

That leaves Prospect, Wreckage and the Untitled Kapnek/Holland Project, which was formerly known as Wild Child.

This comes as it has also decided not to move forward with the reboot of Thirtysomething, Valley Trash and Brides.

Last month, it picked up two new projects, straight-to-series, David E. Kelley...

Like virtually all aspects of the entertainment industry, the volume of broadcast series orders took a massive hit this year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The pandemic shut down the traditional pilot season, with almost no pilots completing production. But now with the broadcast networks making their series orders for the 2020-2021 season, the true impact is taking shape.

At the time of publication, 15 new shows have been picked up for next season across the five networks. That represents a dropoff of 58% from the 36 new shows ordered in 2019 and 2018.

The number of new broadcast show orders has been trending downward for some time, but a drop of this magnitude is staggering. And as has been tradition for the past several years, major stars and well-known IP drove the majority of pickups.

Along with this drop in series orders comes changes to the fall schedule as well. NBC, CBS,...

As Hollywood gets into gear with decreased pilots and staggered production, Canadian broadcasters that typically rely on U.S. programming acquisitions to anchor their fall schedules have also faced a shortage of new product. But a dearth of American shows is also leading to new opportunities.

The three private broadcasters — Bell Media, Rogers and Corus — presented virtual upfronts to advertisers this week, unveiling schedules that remained fairly similar year-on-year as executives banked on stability and returning series, with a few, coronavirus-era tweaks.

“It wasn’t really a seller’s market,” says Corus Entertainment’s SVP of broadcast networks, Daniel Eves. “There was less product available, but there was also less to show in terms of what a pilot would be. The combination of not knowing what the product would look like [along] with the timing in the market itself [meant] there wasn’t a leverage point on either side in terms of...

Jade Pettyjohn is moving from fire to air: The Little Fires Everywhere actress is joining the cast of the upcoming ABC drama Big Sky, TVLine has learned.

Pettyjohn will play kidnapping victim Grace Sullivan in the thriller from Emmy winner David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies), which earned a straight-to-series order from the Alphabet network back in January. “A tough girl with wisdom beyond her years, Grace is kidnapped alongside her older sister Danielle, but not without a fight,” according to the official description.

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Little Fires Everywhere star Jade Pettyjohn is set as a lead opposite Katheryn Winnick, Ryan Phillippe and Natalie Alyn Lind in Big Sky, ABC’s straight-to-series drama created and executive produced by David E. Kelley. Based on The Highway, the first book in C.J. Box’s Cassie Dewell series of novels, the project, hails from A+E Studios, which will produce in association with 20th Century Fox Television, part of Disney TV Studios.

Written by Kelley, Big Sky is a procedural thriller in which private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt (Winnick) on a search for two sisters, Danielle and Grace Sullivan, played by Lind and Pettyjohn, respectively, who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

Jade Pettyjohn has joined the cast of the upcoming ABC drama series “Big Sky.”

The series hails from David E. Kelley and is based on the Cassie Dewell book series by C.J. Box. In the series, private detectives Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury) and Cody Hoyt (Ryan Phillippe) join forces with his estranged wife and ex-cop, Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick), to search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. But when they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the killer before another woman is taken.

Pettyjohn will star as Grace Sullivan, one of the two kidnapped sisters. Described as a tough girl with wisdom beyond her years, Grace is kidnapped alongside her older sister Danielle, but not without a fight.

Pettyjohn recently starred in the...

ABC's 2020-2021 primetime schedule is here, with some changes afoot. Mixed-ish has been benched for later in the season with American Idol and The Bachelor starring Matt James, as well as new comedy Call Your Mother. Returning favorites including The Bachelorette, Dancing With the Stars and three new shows set to premiere…sometime in 2020. The network was sure not to label this a fall schedule, rather "primetime schedule." Some shows, like The Conners, which will slide into Modern Family's old timeslot, are on the move. In addition to 20 returning series, ABC will roll out David E. Kelley's Big Sky, a new comedy dubbed Call Your Mother and the new Supermarket...

Co-productions and outside studio purchases in broadcast television have become rarer in recent years, but they are likely to increase for the 2020-’21 television season, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to multiple agency sources, this is a way to mitigate risk. Co-productions and outside studio purchases are two ways broadcasters can protect their balance sheets amid the uncertainty caused by the shutdown. By ordering from studios outside their vertically integrated counterparts, networks can spread out the cost of new shows should the pandemic prevent production from beginning in the near future, thus limiting their financial exposure.

Another major factor to consider is liability for medical issues. If a show’s star or showrunner were to contract coronavirus during production, the network and its vertically integrated counterpart are not solely on the hook if the show is a co-production or outside studio order.

“Now is the time to weather the...

The alphabet network has unveiled its schedule for the fall portion of the 2020-21 broadcast season. Returning to ABC this fall will be 20/20, American Housewife, America's Funniest Home Videos, The Bachelorette, The Conners, Dancing with the Stars, The Goldbergs, The Good Doctor, Grey's Anatomy, A Million Little Things, The Rookie, Shark Tank, Station 19, Stumptown, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. New shows Big Sky and Call Your Mother, as well as the revival of Supermarket Sweep, are also on the fall schedule.

ABC shows that will be returning later in the season include American Idol, The Bachelor, Black-ish, For Life, and Mixed-ish.

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“The Bachelorette” and “Dancing with the Stars” are both scheduled to air in the fall, but one won’t be in its usual timeslot.

ABC unveiled its 2020-21 prime-time schedule on Wednesday with both reality staples on deck: Season 29 of “Dancing” will air Mondays at 8/7c as usual, while Season 16 of “The Bachelorette” with Clare Crawley, delayed due to Covid-19, will air on Tuesdays at 8/7c, ending the network’s 10-year-old Tuesday comedy block.

As we noted last month, something was going to have to give between “Dancing” and “The Bachelorette” if both were slated for the fall since “Dancing” and the “Bachelor” franchise alternate the Mondays-at-8 slot throughout the calendar year. “The Bachelorette” would normally be airing right now — it typically runs from May through July — but production was shut down in March the day it was scheduled to start.

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The 2020 broadcast pilot season was decimated by the coronavirus pandemic, with all but one pilot unable to be produced. In the face of unprecedented disruption, the networks started veering toward the streaming model with backup scripts and straight-to-series orders.

After the traditional pilot cycle was broken by Covid-19, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke does not think we will ever see another regular broadcast pilot season.

“I really hope not,” she told Deadline while discussing the network’s 2020-21 schedule. “I hope that one of the silver linings of this is that we have left that behind us and that we are — whether willingly or by sheer force of nature — moving into a more of a year-round pilot production schedule. I think it’s better for all faucets of the business.”

ABC already had been ramping up its efforts to move its development process off-cycle, branding it a “second cycle,” before...

ABC is the fifth and final broadcast network to announce its fall plans, and it's a relatively stable schedule.

Instead of bringing in pandemic-proof programming like Fox and The CW, the network is following the lead set by CBS and NBC and will air bring back original content in the fall.

That's not to say there will be no changes, however.

The Bachelorette, which was set to launch in May, has officially been bumped to the fall, meaning that ABC thinks it will be able to complete production in the next few months.

It will air on Tuesdays this time, for two hours each week, leading into the Katheryn Winnick-fronted The Big Sky.

This move also means that the Tuesday comedy line-up has been pulled, and forcing The Conners to a new night.

It is inheriting the slot previously held by Modern Family on Wednesdays, and will lead-in to...

ABC unveiled its fall schedule on Tuesday, formally setting Clare Crawley’s season of “The Bachelorette” for the fall and slotting in new shows like “Big Sky” and “Call Your Mother.”

This season of “The Bachelorette” was delayed past its usual summer run due to Covid-19 but will get a run on Tuesday nights. It will be followed by the David E. Kelly thriller “Big Sky,” which was ordered to series earlier this year.

Elsewhere on the schedule, Kari Lizer’s new comedy “Call Your Mother” will air on Wednesday nights at 9:30, capping off a two-hour comedy block of “The Goldbergs,” “American Housewife” and “The Conners.” “Stumptown” will remain in its Wednesday at 10 p.m. timeslot from last season.

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Leslie Jones’ reboot of “Supermarket Sweep” will make its debut on Sunday nights at 8 p.m., leading...

The Bachelorette is breaking up ABC’s Tuesday-night comedy block.

The Alphabet network unveiled its new fall lineup on Wednesday (the last of the five broadcast nets to do so), and the key headline is that the latest season of The Bachelorette — bumped from summer due to the coronavirus pandemic — will replace ABC’s traditional two-hour sitcom lineup on Tuesday. This marks the first fall schedule in 10 years that ABC will not have any sitcoms on Tuesday.

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