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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Amazon MGM Studios’ in-the-works series based on the Steig Larsson books, has brought on Seven Seconds creator Veena Sud as showrunner, Deadline has confirmed. The series, which has been in development since May 2020, revolves around the Lisbeth Salander character…

UPDATE: Quibi has added one more series to be submitted for Emmys it’s Elba Vs Block, to compete in Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction or Reality Category. Show stars Idris Elba and Ken Block as they go head to head to see who’s best behind the driver’s seat. EXCLUSIVE: Quibi has firmed the list of 19 shows, and the…

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s new short-form mobile streaming platform Quibi put its stake in the Park City snow with a strong presence at the Sundance Film Festival. Veena Sud (The Killing, Seven Seconds) and Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) stopped by the Deadline Studio to talk about their…

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s frosh mobile short-form streaming service Quibi is making a big splash here at Sundance ramping toward its April 6 launch, following a stop earlier this month at CES. Today at the Chase Sapphire lounge on Main Street, Quibi gave indie film fans a taste of what to expect with…

EXCLUSIVE: Avan Jogia (Zombieland: Double Tap, Now Apocalypse), Dane DeHaan (ZeroZeroZero, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets) and Maika Monroe (It Follows, Honey Boy) are set to star in Veena Sud’s (The Killing, Seven Seconds) upcoming Quibi series The Stranger. The thriller follows an unassuming young…

Quibi continues its content spree with a new series from The Killing creator Veena Sud. She is set to create, write, direct and executive produce The Stranger, a shortform thriller from Fox 21 Television Studios. The logline: An unassuming young rideshare driver is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious…

Bridesmaids director and Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig and The Killing and Seven Seconds creator Veena Sud are the latest high-profile talents to be added to the Quibi development slate. Feig and Sud both revealed they were working with Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman's short-form digital service in separate…

To follow up her acclaimed Netflix limited series Seven Seconds, which brought Regina King her fourth Emmy nomination, Veena Sud decided to wade into darkness once more with Toronto-premiering drama The Lie, placing a magnifying glass on a parent's worst fears. Starring Mireille Enos, Peter Sarsgaard and The Kissing Bo…

Regina King can do no wrong. A favorite of the Television Academy with back-to-back-to-back Emmy nominations for John Ridley's American Crime—an anthology series in which she played a different character every season—the actress is back in the running this year with Veena Sud's Netflix drama Seven Seconds. But there…

As Hollywood attempts to move the needle more and more on the gauge of diversity and inclusion, Veena Sud is doing her part to make sure that she is doing her part to not only put more stories from marginalized communities on the screen, but to make those narratives resonate with all audiences. As the showrunner of…

When I started writing TV in 2002, I was mentored by a good man and later hired by a great woman, neither of whom viewed this woman of color as a charity case but as a writer, plain and simple. I was wildly lucky. Fellow writers coming up at the same time were not as fortunate. In just one example, a friend of a…

A pair of panels highlighting some of Hollywood’s top female TV showrunners is getting underway soon at Twitter headquarters in Santa Monica, presented and moderated by The Post co-screenwriter Liz Hannah. Deadline will be following along with the live stream of the event, which is scheduled to include the likes of…