Primetime Pilot Panic News

EXCLUSIVE: The budget cuts that came with Superman & Lois‘ and All American: Homecoming‘s renewals at the CW are also impacting the series’ writers rooms, which are undergoing downsizing. Superman & Lois is going from eight writers to five for the upcoming fourth season, Homecoming — from nine to seven…

EXCLUSIVE: For the past four months, Suits has been the hottest series on television, breaking a slew of streaming viewership records. Now the franchise, which ended in September 2019 with the Suits series finale, is plotting a comeback. Series creator Aaron Korsh is in development of a Suits…

UPDATED, Oct. 12: We’re getting an extended look at Showtime’s genre-bending series The Curse, starring Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie. The trailer release comes as the series world premieres today at the New York Film Festival. You can watch the official trailer above. PREVIOUS, Sept. 2…

EXCLUSIVE: The Spiderwick Chronicles, starring Joy Bryant and Christian Slater, has found a new home. Roku has picked up the exclusive U.S. rights to the television adaptation of the popular children's fantasy books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The eight-episode series, from Paramount Television…

Writers rooms are opening this week for Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television’s three Chicago dramas for NBC, three FBI dramas for CBS as well as NBC’s Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU. In light of Wolf veteran Derek Haas’ departure last spring as FBI: International showrunner and Chicago Fire…

Starz has handed an eight-episode series order to thriller drama The Hunting Wives. The project, based on the novel by May Cobb, is executive produced by Cobb, Hightown creator Rebecca Cutter, who wrote the adaptation and will serve as showrunner, and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Erwin Stoff. Lionsgate…

After 148 days of a WGA strike that ground production to a halt and put tens of thousands out of work, everyone in Hollywood has a reason to celebrate this week after the guild and the studios reached a tentative agreement Sunday night and the strike came to an end this morning. The WGA leadership, which…

Law & Order, FBI, Grey's Anatomy and 9-1-1: Lone Star fans are set to be able to enjoy some new episodes of their favorite shows in the 2023-24 broadcast season after the WGA and the AMPTP struck a tentative deal that would end the writers strike. The beginning of October widely was seen as the…

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing Jonah Kills, a UK-based comedy created and written by Clem Garritty. It hails from Jax Media UK, which commissioned up-and-comer Garritty to generate four scripts before the comedy was pitched to Showtime. There is no work currently being done on the scripts but I hear…

CBS’ fall 2023 schedule unveiled in May featured NCIS: Hawai’i in the Monday 10 PM slot, following the mothership NCIS series at 9. The ongoing Hollywood strikes changed broadcast networks’ plans but CBS will still have an NCIS original set on an island in the Monday 10 PM hour this fall — the network anno…

The options on the cast of ABC’s backdoor pilot The Good Lawyer were up today, which means that by now, the network would’ve made a decision on The Good Lawyer spinoff starring Kennedy McMann and Felicity Huffman. But the fate of the pilot — as well as ABC bubble series The Rookie: Feds and Home Econ…

Part 2 of two-part interview with The Last Of Us creator Craig Mazin about series’ 24 Emmy nominations, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and Season 2 of the hit HBO series. HBO’s Emmy-nominated The Last Of Us was renewed in January, shortly after the adaptation of the popular PlayStation video game…