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Peter White Television EditorLilly Singh, host of NBC late-night series A Little Late With Lilly Singh, is making a primetime play with a two-part sketch special.NBC has ordered Sketchy Times with Lilly Singh, which will see the comedian perform a range of sketches – a nod to her early work on YouTube.The show will see Singh portray every character in the sketches, satirizing how we’re adjusting to the new normal under COVID-19, and will also feature musical parodies.

Peter White Television EditorApple is moving into the competition space with a country music talent contest exec produced by Reese Witherspoon.The streamer has ordered My Kind of Country from Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, country music manager Jason Owen, and The Masked Singer showrunner Izzie Pick Ibarra.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks-owned streamer UMC has ordered a legal drama from Adam Starks (On My Block), Tracy Grant (Lincoln Heights) and Kemy Time Productions.The subscription service, dedicated to Black film and TV and a rival of ViacomCBS’ BET+, has handed Lace a six-episode order for its first season.The series will follow a prolific Los Angeles attorney who often blurs the lines between right and wrong to protect her rich and powerful clientele.It is currently

Peter White Television EditorNBC is continuing to rejig its fall schedule with American Ninja Warrior moving into The Voice’s slot in September.Season 12 of the reality competition series, which completed production during the pandemic, will launch from 8-10 p.m. Monday, September 7.Deadline understands that The Voice, which was set to occupy the Monday 8-10 p.m.

Peter White Television EditorShondaland Audio, the podcast arm of Shonda Rhimes’ production company, has set its debut podcast slate with a slew of scripted and non-scripted series.This comes after the Grey’s Anatomy creator partnered with iHeartMedia on a tranche of original podcasts.Dylan Brown, a writer and producer on Power prequel Raising Kanan, is writing, producing and directing #Matter, a series told through the lens of a reporter looking back at a case of police brutality, as a father

Peter White Television EditorArgonon, the British production group behind House Hunters International, is launching a new U.S. division, its first West Coast operation and hiring former Dance Moms producer Lindsay Schwartz.Schwartz, who was most recently SVP, Development at Aslyum Entertainment’s Story Street, joins as Chief Creative Officer for Leopard USA.

Peter White Television EditorElle Fanning is to star in The Girl From Plainville, about the Michelle Carter texting-suicide case with Hulu picking up the drama straight-to-series.The thriller comes from The Post writer Liz Hannah and Dr.

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Peter White Television EditorAmazon has struck a first-look deal with Good As Hell singer Lizzo.Lizzo, real name Melissa Viviane Jefferson, is to work with the streamer to develop and produce TV series.Albert Cheng and Vernon Sanders, Co-Heads of Television at Amazon Studios, revealed the news as part of the company’s virtual TCA press tour.

Peter White Television EditorOlympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn and her dog Lucy are hosting a canine adventure competition series for Amazon.The streamer has greenlit The Pack, which has been described as The Amazing Race with dogs, from eOne-owned Naked and Afraid producer Renegade 83 and Amazon Studios.Filmed earlier this year, the TV series features twelve teams of dogs and their humans on an epic adventure across multiple continents.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Novelist-turned-TV writer Megan Abbott is setting up her latest television project after eOne snapped up the rights to her upcoming book The Turnout.The Turnout is set in the hothouse world of a ballet school led by the Durant sisters, Dara and Marie, and Dara’s husband Charlie. Their connection is intense, forged by a glamorous but troubled family history.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: I Married A Mobster producer Dan Pearson is developing a raft of social justice and mob formats with Painless Productions after striking a co-production deal with The Dead Files producer.Pearson, via his Dan 4 Entertainment (D4E) company, is working with Jim Casey-found Painless to develop and produce non-scripted shows with a focus on social justice, organized crime and Black celebrity-led entertainment formats.The slate includes criminal justice

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Alexa Mansour, one of the stars of the upcoming zombie spinoff The Walking Dead: World Beyond, has signed with UTA. The agency will represent the newcomer in all areas.This comes as it emerged that The Walking Dead: World Beyond will premiere on AMC on October 4.The Walking Dead: World Beyond delves into new TWD mythology to follow the first generation raised in a surviving civilization of the post-apocalyptic world.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Peacock is developing a teen comedy drama about Black teenagers in L.A. from Real Husbands of Hollywood creator Chris Spencer and Grown-ish writer Chad Sanders.How To Survive Inglewood is created and written by by the pair, who will exec produce alongside Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary of Revelations Entertainment.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Epix comedy documentary series Unprotected Sets is moving from television to podcasting with a 12-episode audio series.MGM and Audio Up, the podcasting company that the studio invested in earlier this year, will launch the series on August 5.It is the latest MGM series to move into the podcast form after the company launched audio series based on its unscripted franchises including Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court and Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader.The

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Mo Marable, who directed the pilot of Hulu comedy Woke, is set to direct and exec produce the pilot of Freeform’s None of the Above, a single-camera comedy from Black-ish’s Kenny Smith.This comes after the youth-skewing Disney cable network ordered the project to pilot in April.Marable’s other credits include Brockmire, Lodge 49, The Last O.G and Insecure.None of the Above, which comes from ABC Studios and Tornante TV, is about two friends post-college who

Peter White Television EditorComedian Denis Leary has signed a development deal with Fox Entertainment.

Peter White Television EditorThe Hurt Locker writer and producer Mark Boal is adapting Israeli drama When Heroes Fly for Apple.The streamer has handed the series, which will be known as Echo 3, a straight-to-series ten-part order.It will be produced by Keshet Studios and Apple and will be set in South America.The series follows Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, the emotional center of a small American family.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorNBCUniversal streaming service Peacock will expand nationally tomorrow with 13,000 hours of programming available for free and 20,000 on its premium subscription tier.The company on Tuesday offered its first breakdown of programming available on the free and premium tiers.

Nellie Andreeva, Peter White EXCLUSIVE: CBS Entertainment has combined the network’s specials and alternative programming units under Jack Sussman, a 22-year CBS veteran who has overseen the network’s specials since 1998, most recently as EVP, Specials, Music and Live Events. In the new setup, Sussman will take on additional responsibilities and head the combined department.The restructuring comes three months after Sharon Vuong exited CBS as SVP and head of alternative.

Peter White Television EditorThe life of entertainer and activist Lena Horne is to be turned into a limited series by Showtime with Alex Kurtzman and her granddaughter Jenny Lumet.The ViacomCBS-backed cable network is developing Blackbird: Lena Horne and America and will tell her story from dancing at the Cotton Club when she was 16, through World War II and stardom of the MGM years, McCarthyism, the civil rights movement and her triumphant return to Broadway.It will explore her relationships

Peter White Television EditorMichael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini’s SMAC Entertainment has signed Total Bellas stars and exec produces Brie Bella and Nikki Bella.The company will represent the pair, whose E! reality series was recently renewed for a sixth season.This comes after the business signed Power alum Omari Hardwick to its client roster and launched in-house social media management and digital consulting division SMAC Digital Management.In addition to starring and exec producing

Jake Kanter, Peter White, Nellie Andreeva EXCLUSIVE: Billions’ Damian Lewis and The Affair alum Dominic West are in negotiations to headline and executive produce a limited series adaptation of bestselling Cold War espionage thriller A Spy Among Friends for Spectrum Originals and UK streamer BritBox.The six-episode A Spy Among Friends, based on Ben Macintyre’s book, comes from former Homeland executive producer Alexander Cary, Sony Pictures Television and ITV Studios.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Charles Booker, the Democratic senate candidate who narrowly lost to former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath in a close race in Kentucky, is set to have his campaign documented by American Relapse and Bernie Blackout director Pat McGee.Booker’s campaign was gaining steam right up until he lost to McGrath earlier this week by a narrow margin.McGee has been embedded with the Booker campaign after the Kentucky House of Representatives member handed him access

Peter White, Bruce Haring UPDATE: An appeals court has upheld the decision to award actor Geoffrey Rush a record amount of damages for being defamed by two publications.Rush won the largest defamation payment awarded to a single person in Australia in 2019 after a court found Sydney’s Daily Telegraph defamed the actor by accusing him of inappropriate behavior towards a former co-star.

Nellie Andreeva, Peter White NBC has opted not to renew family drama Council of Dads, sources confirm to Deadline. The decision comes two episodes before the end of the drama’s Season 1 run.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Christopher Potts and Jonty Nash, two of the creative minds behind Netflix reality series Nailed It! and Sugar Rush, have signed an overall deal with ITV America.The pair, who also helped to develop NBCU’s hit British reality series Made In Chelsea, will work with the Love Island producer via their recently established production label Nobody’s Hero.Nobody’s Hero was established at the start of the year after the pair previously worked together at Project

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: One Day at a Time co-creator and showrunner Gloria Calderón Kellett has teamed up with Insecure writer and star Natasha Rothwell for a coming of age feature for HBO Max.Deadline understands that the nascent digital platform beat out a number of other companies, including traditional studios, to win We Were There, Too. Rothwell, who recently wrote the episode of HBO’s Insecure that celebrated Black love, has written the screenplay with Calderón Kellett.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Ghosts of the Ozark, which stars Tim Blake Nelson and David Arquette, has kicked off filming in Arkansas.It marks one of the first films greenlit by local officials to resume production in the state in the wake of COVID-19.Filming began on June 15 will the support of SAG AFTRA and the gothic thriller has hired a safety task coordinator in order to ensure that all social distancing guidelines and precautions will be enforced on set.The cast and crew will

Peter White Television EditorAmerican Idol finished in an unusual fashion this year with its live shows being filmed remotely as a result of COVID-19.The team behind the music talent competition will be hoping for smoother sailing for its next run in 2021.ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke is also hoping that all of the stars on the show, including Katy Perry, who is set to give birth to her first child this summer, will return.Perry was one of the judges alongside Lionel Richie and Luke