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Editors note: Michael Seitzman is a veteran film and TV writer and showrunner. He created the series Code Black and Intelligence and penned the Charlize Theron-starring movie North Country. In a guest column titled "Because Jews," he shares his impassioned take on the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and i…

In a competitive bidding situation, Blumhouse Television and Michael Seitzman's Maniac Productions have won the rights to BBC Radio 4's The Battersea Poltergeist podcast, presented by Danny Robins. Blumhouse TV and studio-based Maniac are developing as a scripted series and a companion unscripted series, titled…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Seitzman, who recently signed a first-look TV deal with Blumhouse, has brought in Jeff Nemon as SVP development at his Maniac Productions. Nemon most recently was SVP of drama development at Gail Berman and Fox Entertainment's SideCar Content Accelerator, which was dissolved last year. While there…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse has made a first-look deal for television with writer/producer Michael Seitzman (Code Black, Quantico) and his Maniac Productions company. The pact formalizes Seitzman’s existing collaboration with Blumhouse, the company of his longtime friend, producer Jason Blum. Under the deal, Seitzman will…

The Detroit Youth Choir captivated audiences on season 14 of America's Got Talent – eventually coming runners-up on the 2019 show. The group are now to be the subject of both scripted and non-scripted television series in development with Blumhouse Television, Code Black creator Michael Seitzman and The Innocent Man…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has put in development Rip Crew, a crime drama from Code Black creator/executive producer Michael Seitzman, executive producer Mike Weiss and ABC Signature Studios. Written by Weiss, in Rip Crew, when a disgraced ex-FBI agent turned criminology professor discovers that his most gifted students are…

This is a series tailor-made for Disney’s upcoming family-oriented direct-to-consumer platform. I hear the streaming service is moving forward with Book of Enchantment, an adaptation of the Villains book series by Serena Valentino featuring some of Disney’s most popular villains. The project hails from Michael…

ABC has put in development Trailblazer, a one-hour drama from former Quantico writer Joe Webb, Michael Seitzman and Christina Davis’ Maniac Productions and ABC Studios, where Maniac is based. Penned by Webb, Trailblazer centers on Jordan Cruz, the gifted men's basketball coach at a small D3 college in South Dakota who…

SPOILER AL:ERT: The series includes details about the series finale of Quantico.  ABC’s terrorism drama Quantico starring Priyanka Chopra ended its three-season run tonight with an action-packed finale that put a number of characters in danger, with some of them dying Beaten within an inch of his life, Ryan survives…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about tonight's series finale of Code Black. CBS’ Code Black ended its run on CBS tonight with an action-packed Season 3 finale, which marks a series finale for the medical drama, canceled by the network in May. It gave all characters’ stories proper ending, especially…

CBS medical drama Code Black will not return for a fourth season. Creator/showrunner Michael Seitzman revealed the news in a note to fans early Thursday on Twitter. “The sad news came today that we were cancelled,” Seitzman wrote. “It’s been a true joy to make this show and watch your response every week. Thank you…

Freeform is readying its first-ever period drama, Cleopatra, from Quantico and Code Black executive producer Michael Seitzman, former CBS head of drama Christina Davis, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and ABC Signature. The project has assembled a writers room to work on scripts and is in the process of hiring a casting…