ABC Orders ‘High Potential’ Starring Kaitlin Olson to Series, Other Pilots Remain in Contention

More than 1,000 artifacts from decades of television will hit the auction block on June 2-4.

Hunter Schafer is set to share the screen with the likes of Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in the upcoming movie Mother Mary.

According to numerous reports, Zendaya recently re-negotiated her Euphoria salary and she’s now among the highest paid stars on television.

Chloe Madeley will star in a new ITVX reality series following her life as she navigates being a first-time mother alongside her husband and former England rugby player James Haskell. At Home With The Madeleys will focus on the daughter of TV presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan after welcoming daughter Bodhi last year, ITV have said. The series will showcase the Madeley family dynamic as Chloe’s husband, sports star Haskell, forges a new career as a DJ.

Chloe Madeley is set to star in a new reality TV series about life as a first-time mum as she opens up on her experiences of having a baby. At Home With The Madeleys is being made for ITVX and will focus on Chloe's new life as mum to daughter Bodhi, who she gave birth to in August 2022. Personal trainer Chloe, 35, is best known as the daughter of daytime TV stars Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, while her husband James Haskell is a former rugby player who appeared in I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!.

Now that “The Mandalorian” Season 3 is over, it’s time for “Star Wars” fans to look at what’s ahead on Disney+ later this year. Next up? “Ahsoka” this August, which sees Rosario Dawson reprise her role as the famed Jedi she played in the second season of “The Mandalorian.” But Dawson isn’t the character returning in the upcoming show.

As upfronts week comes to a close, the broadcast networks have announced many of their new series pickups for next season, although, amid a pull away from the traditional pilot cycle and the writers strike, pickup decisions on several pilots are still pending. Additionally, there are more reality series and acquisitions among the 2023-24 freshman class due to evolving business models as well as the work stoppage.

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AppleTV+, was created by Nancy Fichman (“Nurse Jackie”), Katie Ford (“Miss Congeniality”) and Jennifer Hoppe. The story follows Peggy (Arquette), a woman who is down-on-her-luck. Her estranged husband Denny (Matt Dillon) is in prison, she’s reeling from her mother’s death, she’s a recovering addict and she’s got a dead-end job working as an actress in an Old West frontier-town tourist attraction. “I liked the humor, and also the characters.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The major broadcast networks are trying very hard this year to do what they do best – create franchise drama series built around the adventures of larger-than-life characters. Kathy Bates, Kaitlin Olson, Carrie Preston and Shanola Hampton are among the female actors hoping to click as distinctive protagonists with new series in the 2023-24 season. Bates will bring to life a next-generation “Matlock,” while Preston limns a new chapter for Elsbeth Tascioni, the attorney character she has played on and off on CBS’ “The Good Wife” and Paramount+’s “The Good Fight” since 2010. This is good news for the hundreds of international television buyers heading to Los Angeles for next week’s LA Screenings market. Another welcome development is that the largest media congloms are now on a big push to reopen their doors to third-party buyers, after a few years of holding back the biggest shows for in-house streaming services.

The Traitors is going to be a “different game” when the psychological reality TV show returns to the BBC, its production company has said. Series two has had more than 40,000 applications, according to Studio Lambert, following the show proving a hit over the Christmas period last year when 22 strangers competed for a £100,000 prize at a castle in the Highlands.The original format saw groups secretly divided for “the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust”.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Disney’s annual upfront presentation leaned heavily on the company’s non-scripted programming, opening with nearly an hour of focus on ESPN and its sports offerings. The emphasis on live events, of course, comes as the writers strike continues and is expected to impact the fall TV season. In fact, around 100 Writers Guild members and other union supporters marched outside the Javits Center on Tuesday to remind Disney they are still looking for a deal with the company and the other studios. Among those seen on the picket line: Zach Cherry and Michael Emerson. Inside the Javits, sports and news stars from within Disney were out in force, while reality personalities like Kim and Khloe Kardashian, Jesse Palmer and Ryan Seacrest made appearances as well. Even WABC-TV New York anchors Sade Baderinwa and Bill Ritter got some time onstage.

The Traitors is going to be a “different game” when the psychological reality TV show returns to the BBC, according to its production company following the huge success of its first run.

ABC has handed Drew Goddard’s pilot High Potential, starring Kaitlin Olson, a series order.

An ABC7 anchor was fired after a hot mic allegedly caught him insulting his co-host, a report has said.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer The last-ever episode of “9-1-1” on Fox airs Monday, and it’s a bittersweet occasion for Oliver Stark, who has starred as Evan “Buck” Buckley on the Ryan Murphy-produced first-responder drama since its debut six seasons ago. While the show is ending its run on one network, it will be alive and well next season on ABC — the broadcaster that is owned by Disney, the parent company of “9-1-1” studio 20th Television, which not too long ago was owned by Fox — so Stark isn’t saying goodbye to his character, so much as a family he and his co-stars have established behind-the-scenes. Here, Stark discusses with Variety his reaction to the move to ABC for Season 7, and if he thinks spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star” (which also hails from 20th Television) remaining at Fox for its fifth season means the chance at another crossover episode between the two series is slim.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Fox Entertainment’s CEO addressed the decision to cancel “9-1-1” and the show’s subsequent move to ABC during a conference call with the press ahead of the network’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New York. “We look at shows in two different ways,” said Rob Wade, CEO of Fox Entertainment. “First and foremost from a creative lens and how much we like the creative. And the second thing is really the economics of that. I think we felt moving forward into what is really a new era of television, the economics weren’t going to pan out on this show for us. The decision was made there that the business model wasn’t right for us and that 20th TV would take the show back.”

So many stars have become new moms within the past year!

ABC has revealed three new shows that will not be getting additional seasons.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter ABC has canceled the drama series “Alaska Daily,” “Big Sky,” and “The Company You Keep,” Variety has learned. Hilary Swank starred in “Alaska Daily” series as Eileen Fitzgerald, described as “a fiercely talented and award-winning investigative journalist who leaves her high-profile New York life behind after a fall from grace to join a daily metro newspaper in Anchorage on a journey to find both personal and professional redemption.” In addition to Swank, the series starred Jeff Perry as Stanley Cornik, Matt Malloy as Bob Young, Meredith Holzman as Claire Muncy, Grace Dove as Rosalind “Roz” Friendly, Pablo Castelblanco as Gabriel Tovar, Ami Park as Yuna Park, and Craig Frank as Austin Teague.