Exclusive: How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life) creator Claudia Lonow is returning to ABC with a new comedy project, also inspired by her life. ABC is developing Boss, a single-camera workplace comedy from Lonow and ABC Signature, Deadline has learned.
Written and executive produced by Lonow and inspired by Lonow’s real-life experiences, Boss is a multi-generational, adult, ensemble, office comedy about two women, frenemies and competitors with little in common, who wind up hiring each other’s equally opposite daughters as their assistants.
ABC Signature is the studio.
Lonow has created four shows that have gone to series: Accidentally On Purpose for CBS, Rude Awakening for Showtime, Good Girl’s Don’t for Oxygen and How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life) for ABC. Like Boss, How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life...
Written and executive produced by Lonow and inspired by Lonow’s real-life experiences, Boss is a multi-generational, adult, ensemble, office comedy about two women, frenemies and competitors with little in common, who wind up hiring each other’s equally opposite daughters as their assistants.
ABC Signature is the studio.
Lonow has created four shows that have gone to series: Accidentally On Purpose for CBS, Rude Awakening for Showtime, Good Girl’s Don’t for Oxygen and How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life) for ABC. Like Boss, How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life...
- 1/6/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Director Greg Berlanti has tapped Ray Romano to join the cast of Project Artemis, the Apple Original Films production that stars Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum and Jim Rash. The ‘60s space race pic is scripted by Rose Gilroy. Berlanti producing with Johansson and her These Pictures cohorts Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn. Apple won the package in a big auction.
The Emmy-winner takes the role after recently setting at Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions his feature directorial debut Somewhere in Queens after a Tribeca premiere earlier this year. He’ll also star in the Jim Valvano biopic, and will join the sitcom Bupkis. Romano is repped by CAA, The Conversation Company and Jonathan Moonves of Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein.
The Emmy-winner takes the role after recently setting at Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions his feature directorial debut Somewhere in Queens after a Tribeca premiere earlier this year. He’ll also star in the Jim Valvano biopic, and will join the sitcom Bupkis. Romano is repped by CAA, The Conversation Company and Jonathan Moonves of Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein.
- 10/31/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Marc Cherry is returning to broadcast TV.
The Desperate Housewives creator has struck a direct talent deal with Fox and has set up his first project at the network – psychic-fueled spy drama Jenny Is A Weapon.
The project has landed a script commitment from the network and is being eyed for a potential straight-to-series order.
Fox Day @ TCA: Deadline’s Complete Coverage
It follows the story of a sheltered Maryland housewife who, at the moment her marriage falls apart, discovers she has special psychic powers and is recruited by a secret government agency where she will have to juggle her broken family and saving the world.
Fox’s President of Entertainment Michael Thorn told Deadline that it’s the “unlikely story of a heroic housewife”.
“It has the signature Marc Cherry 40-something female lead,” he added. “This is not a procedural, it’s not a classic franchise, but it’s...
The Desperate Housewives creator has struck a direct talent deal with Fox and has set up his first project at the network – psychic-fueled spy drama Jenny Is A Weapon.
The project has landed a script commitment from the network and is being eyed for a potential straight-to-series order.
Fox Day @ TCA: Deadline’s Complete Coverage
It follows the story of a sheltered Maryland housewife who, at the moment her marriage falls apart, discovers she has special psychic powers and is recruited by a secret government agency where she will have to juggle her broken family and saving the world.
Fox’s President of Entertainment Michael Thorn told Deadline that it’s the “unlikely story of a heroic housewife”.
“It has the signature Marc Cherry 40-something female lead,” he added. “This is not a procedural, it’s not a classic franchise, but it’s...
- 9/7/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“Desperate Housewives” and “Devious Maids” creator Marc Cherry is developing a new female-fronted drama at Fox.
Titled “Jenny Is a Weapon,” the one-hour series follows the story of a sheltered Maryland housewife who, at the moment her marriage falls apart, discovers she has special psychic powers and is recruited by a secret government agency where she will have to juggle her broken family and save the world, per its official logline.
The drama has received a script commitment from Fox Entertainment and is being eyed for a potential straight-to-series order at the broadcaster under a direct deal with Cherry.
Should it be picked up, the choice to produce “Jenny Is a Weapon” in house, rather than working with an outside studio on the show, is part of Fox’s new continuous strategy to own as much of its aired content as possible now that it is an independent network.
Michael Thorn,...
Titled “Jenny Is a Weapon,” the one-hour series follows the story of a sheltered Maryland housewife who, at the moment her marriage falls apart, discovers she has special psychic powers and is recruited by a secret government agency where she will have to juggle her broken family and save the world, per its official logline.
The drama has received a script commitment from Fox Entertainment and is being eyed for a potential straight-to-series order at the broadcaster under a direct deal with Cherry.
Should it be picked up, the choice to produce “Jenny Is a Weapon” in house, rather than working with an outside studio on the show, is part of Fox’s new continuous strategy to own as much of its aired content as possible now that it is an independent network.
Michael Thorn,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Tom Papa has taken his talents to UTA.
The veteran stand-up comedian, writer and radio/podcast host has signed with the agency for worldwide representation in all areas.
In February 2020, Papa released his latest Netflix stand-up comedy special, “Tom Papa: You’re Doing Great!” which was filmed in front of a live audience at the Victoria Theater at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The new hourlong show, which humorously tackled body image issues, social media and more, received positive reviews from critics and fans. Papa followed up the special with his second book, titled “You’re Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive.” The book, a collection of 75 essays, was published by St. Martin’s Press in May 2020.
Alongside comedian Fortune Feimster, Papa currently hosts the daily satellite radio show “What a Joke With Papa and Fortune” on the SiriusXM channel Netflix Is a Joke Radio.
The veteran stand-up comedian, writer and radio/podcast host has signed with the agency for worldwide representation in all areas.
In February 2020, Papa released his latest Netflix stand-up comedy special, “Tom Papa: You’re Doing Great!” which was filmed in front of a live audience at the Victoria Theater at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The new hourlong show, which humorously tackled body image issues, social media and more, received positive reviews from critics and fans. Papa followed up the special with his second book, titled “You’re Doing Great!: And Other Reasons to Stay Alive.” The book, a collection of 75 essays, was published by St. Martin’s Press in May 2020.
Alongside comedian Fortune Feimster, Papa currently hosts the daily satellite radio show “What a Joke With Papa and Fortune” on the SiriusXM channel Netflix Is a Joke Radio.
- 4/27/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
The worldwide best-selling game franchise Fallout is headed to television via Prime Video. Following months of dealmaking, Amazon Studios has licensed the rights to the games for Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy to develop a TV adaptation, which has received a series commitment.
This marks the first major project to come out of Westworld creators/executive producers’ big overall deal with Amazon Studios. The duo’s Kilter Films is producing Fallout alongside Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Prime Video and Bethesda just posted a short “easter egg” video teasing the project. (You can watch it below the story.)
The world of Fallout is one where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. In Fallout, the harshness of the wasteland is set against the previous generation’s utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. It is serious in tone,...
This marks the first major project to come out of Westworld creators/executive producers’ big overall deal with Amazon Studios. The duo’s Kilter Films is producing Fallout alongside Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks. Prime Video and Bethesda just posted a short “easter egg” video teasing the project. (You can watch it below the story.)
The world of Fallout is one where the future envisioned by Americans in the late 1940s explodes upon itself through a nuclear war in 2077. In Fallout, the harshness of the wasteland is set against the previous generation’s utopian idea of a better world through nuclear energy. It is serious in tone,...
- 7/2/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Picture It Productions has set a first-look deal with CBS Television Studios. The two-year pact comes as Picture It previously developed projects with CBS TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Productions including a Josh Reims military medical drama last fall.
Atlanta-based Picture It Prods. is topped by its three founders, Head of Development and actor-writer-producer Lance Krall, director-producer and Head of Production Peter Siaggas and Head of Legal and Business Affairs Peter Stathopoulos.
The company has several projects in development including Party Girls, a project with Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy and Platform One that earlier this year landed a script-to-series deal at Freeform. The half-hour, single-camera coming-of-age dramedy is inspired by the true story of Ericka Suzanne, daughter of the first female leader of the Black Panther Party.
Additional shows...
Atlanta-based Picture It Prods. is topped by its three founders, Head of Development and actor-writer-producer Lance Krall, director-producer and Head of Production Peter Siaggas and Head of Legal and Business Affairs Peter Stathopoulos.
The company has several projects in development including Party Girls, a project with Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy and Platform One that earlier this year landed a script-to-series deal at Freeform. The half-hour, single-camera coming-of-age dramedy is inspired by the true story of Ericka Suzanne, daughter of the first female leader of the Black Panther Party.
Additional shows...
- 5/30/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Freeform has closed a script-to-series deal for Party Girls, a half-hour, single-camera coming-of-age dramedy inspired by the true story of Ericka Suzanne, daughter of the first female leader of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown. The project hails from writer Dayna Lynne North (Insecure), Platform One Media, Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland’s Cinema Gypsy Productions and Picture It Productions.
Set in Oakland in the 1970s, Party Girls follows Ericka’s attempt to survive her adolescence as her mother rises in the Party. The plot explores an unconventional mother-daughter relationship, balancing the stakes of the movement with the humor inherent in coming-of-age, and asking the question how do you rebel when your mom is leading a rebellion?
North will pen the script and serve as executive producer/showrunner should the project go to series, contingent on script approval. Elisa Ellis executive produces for Platform One Media, along with...
Set in Oakland in the 1970s, Party Girls follows Ericka’s attempt to survive her adolescence as her mother rises in the Party. The plot explores an unconventional mother-daughter relationship, balancing the stakes of the movement with the humor inherent in coming-of-age, and asking the question how do you rebel when your mom is leading a rebellion?
North will pen the script and serve as executive producer/showrunner should the project go to series, contingent on script approval. Elisa Ellis executive produces for Platform One Media, along with...
- 1/28/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS has put in development a drama from writer-producer Josh Reims (Dynasty), actor-writer-producer Lance Krall, Jerry Bruckheimer Television and CBS TV Studios where the company is based.
Written by Reims, the untitled project is an intimate look at the high-octane, complicated lives of the med students, residents and attending physicians at the elite Uniformed Services University, where every doctor is also a trained soldier whose patients can be anyone from a fellow serviceperson to the President of the United States.
The potential series is being done in partnership with the Uniformed Services University and the Pentagon.
Reims executive produces alongside Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and KristieAnne Reed of Bruckheimer TV and Krall vis his Atlanta-based Picture It Productions.
Reims co-created with J.J. Abrams and executive produced the NBC action series Undercovers. He serves as co-executive producer on the CW/CBS TV Studios drama series Dynasty and previously was executive producer on ABC’s Mistresses.
Written by Reims, the untitled project is an intimate look at the high-octane, complicated lives of the med students, residents and attending physicians at the elite Uniformed Services University, where every doctor is also a trained soldier whose patients can be anyone from a fellow serviceperson to the President of the United States.
The potential series is being done in partnership with the Uniformed Services University and the Pentagon.
Reims executive produces alongside Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and KristieAnne Reed of Bruckheimer TV and Krall vis his Atlanta-based Picture It Productions.
Reims co-created with J.J. Abrams and executive produced the NBC action series Undercovers. He serves as co-executive producer on the CW/CBS TV Studios drama series Dynasty and previously was executive producer on ABC’s Mistresses.
- 11/6/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ray Romano is set to star with Hugh Jackman and Allison Janey in Bad Education, the movie based on a true story from I Think We’re Alone Now screenwriter Mike Makowsky and Thoroughbreds director Cory Finley. Finley is directing the pic, from Automatik’s Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sight Unseen’s Eddie Vaisman, Julia Lebedev and Oren Moverman.
The plot are being kept under wraps, but it will be based on Makowsky’s high school experience.
Romano stars in Epix’s Get Shorty, which bows its Season 2 on August 12. He also starred in an untitled Duplass Brothers movie that Netflix will bow later this year, has a Netflix comedy special in the works and is in next year’s The Irishman.
He is repped by ICM Partners, The Conservation Company and attorney Jonathan Moonves.
The plot are being kept under wraps, but it will be based on Makowsky’s high school experience.
Romano stars in Epix’s Get Shorty, which bows its Season 2 on August 12. He also starred in an untitled Duplass Brothers movie that Netflix will bow later this year, has a Netflix comedy special in the works and is in next year’s The Irishman.
He is repped by ICM Partners, The Conservation Company and attorney Jonathan Moonves.
- 7/27/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
While YouTube work to ensure the family-friendly nature of the videos in its children's section, a startup is putting together a formidable lineup of popular, kid-safe creators. Pocket.watch, led by a group of execs that includes Chris Williams, Albie Hecht, and Jon Moonves, has added EvanTube and Jordan "CaptainSparklez" Maron to its roster of creative partners. In addition, the company has inked a partnership with a book publisher, hired a CFO, and announced a powerful team of advisors.
Both EvanTube and CaptainSparklez have played innovative roles in the world of children's content on the internet. The former channel, which stars an 11-year-old kid named Evan, is one of the best known examples of the unboxing trend, in which kids open up new toys and play with them on camera. Evan's prowess in that category is so great that in 2015 his exploits pulled in a rumored $1.4 billion for his family.
Both EvanTube and CaptainSparklez have played innovative roles in the world of children's content on the internet. The former channel, which stars an 11-year-old kid named Evan, is one of the best known examples of the unboxing trend, in which kids open up new toys and play with them on camera. Evan's prowess in that category is so great that in 2015 his exploits pulled in a rumored $1.4 billion for his family.
- 11/21/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
When Jon Moonves speaks about Pocket.watch, the kid-friendly media company where he serves as Chief Strategy Officer, he shares his desire to build a brand that impacts today's young consumers in the same way MTV did for Generation X and Nickelodeon did for Millennials. If Pocket.watch is going to achieve such a lofty goal, it will need to team up with the creators who most captivate today's children, and with its latest partnership, it has done exactly that. It has announced a multi-platform deal with Ryan Toys Review, the massive popular channel that stars an adorable five-year-old kid.
By joining forces with Ryan and his parents, Pocket.watch will gain access to one of the largest and most engaged audiences in the online video world. Ryan Toys Review pulls in hundreds of millions of views each week and has received more than 14 billion hits in total. That makes...
By joining forces with Ryan and his parents, Pocket.watch will gain access to one of the largest and most engaged audiences in the online video world. Ryan Toys Review pulls in hundreds of millions of views each week and has received more than 14 billion hits in total. That makes...
- 9/26/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
According to a new report from the folks over at The Hollywood Reporter, the host of CBS' hit summer reality show "Big Brother" Julie Chen (above) has encountered and issue when it comes to the new celebrity edition that's scheduled to get introduced this winter 2018. Apparently, the problem will hit her checkbook. They're saying that her husband and CBS chief Leslie Moonves has forced her to take a pay cut to make this Celebrity Big Brother edition happen. It's reported that Moonves is making her take a pay cut because the celebrity season will be much shorter than the regular season. We're guessing that it might also have to do with the fact that they'll have to pay celebrities a lot more money to do it than they would people of a non-celebrity status. So, that money has to come out of somewhere and it's coming out of Julie's pay check.
- 9/17/2017
- by Andre Braddox
- OnTheFlix
Pocket.watch, a children’s digital entertainment network founded by a trio of media luminaries -- which announced a $6 million funding round late last month -- has signed its first network partner: the massively popular YouTube brand HobbyKidsTV.
Jon Moonves, pocket.watch’s chief strategy officer, tells Tubefilter that the kids' content company will ultimately collect a streamlined roster of 15 YouTube partners, whose relationships with the company will extend far beyond those operated by a traditional multi-channel network. Partners channels not only receive an equity stake in pocket.watch, Moonves explains, but will also gain access to the strategic acumen of its co-founders, including: Moonves, a noted dealmaker; former Maker Studios executive Chris Williams; and ex-Nickelodeon president Albie Hecht.
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Jon Moonves, pocket.watch’s chief strategy officer, tells Tubefilter that the kids' content company will ultimately collect a streamlined roster of 15 YouTube partners, whose relationships with the company will extend far beyond those operated by a traditional multi-channel network. Partners channels not only receive an equity stake in pocket.watch, Moonves explains, but will also gain access to the strategic acumen of its co-founders, including: Moonves, a noted dealmaker; former Maker Studios executive Chris Williams; and ex-Nickelodeon president Albie Hecht.
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- 4/26/2017
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
If you’ve paid attention to our Tubefilter Charts recently, then you know that children’s content is making a huge mark on YouTube. From sing-alongs to toy reviews to whatever this is, videos aimed at kids receive billions of views per week.
Now, a new media company is looking to take advantage of the massive market for family-friendly online videos. Pocketwatch, led by former Maker Studios exec Chris Williams, ex-Nickelodeon president Albie Hecht, and Hollywood dealmaker Jon Moonves, has raised a $5 million Series A funding round. With that capital, Pocketwatch will create a digital network that will partner with top children’s creators to build a multi-platform library of original content.
Williams, who is himself a father, told Tubefilter he was inspired to start Pocketwatch in part because “no brand had emerged from the digital space in an endemic fashion targeting kids.” His team will change that by partnering...
Now, a new media company is looking to take advantage of the massive market for family-friendly online videos. Pocketwatch, led by former Maker Studios exec Chris Williams, ex-Nickelodeon president Albie Hecht, and Hollywood dealmaker Jon Moonves, has raised a $5 million Series A funding round. With that capital, Pocketwatch will create a digital network that will partner with top children’s creators to build a multi-platform library of original content.
Williams, who is himself a father, told Tubefilter he was inspired to start Pocketwatch in part because “no brand had emerged from the digital space in an endemic fashion targeting kids.” His team will change that by partnering...
- 3/22/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Josephine Schleifer Moonves, mother of CBS Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves, died on Friday at the UCLA Hospital in Santa Monica, California, according to a statement from CBS. She was 92. Moonves, commonly known as “Jo,” was a practicing nurse until the age of 70. During her lifetime, she was also a passionate traveler and visited 50 countries on all seven continents. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Moonves was the oldest of five children. She married her husband, Army veteran Herman Moonves, in 1943. Together, they had four children: Leslie Moonves, entertainment attorney Jonathan Moonves, Alan Moonves and Melissa Moonves. Also Read: Leslie Moonves.
- 7/18/2016
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Another actor from a comedy series whose fate is up in the air has boarded CBS’ multi-camera odd-couple comedy pilot Cuz-Bros. Cougar Town co-star Ian Gomez has been cast in the pilot, toplined by Geoff Stults and Parker Young of Fox’s Enlisted. Cuz-Bros, from writers David Caspe and Erik Sommers, Sony TV, CBS Studios and Fanfare, centers on Nick (Stults), a successful, suave ladies man working as a sportscaster for a local Los Angeles TV station whose perfect life gets turned upside down when his mess of a cousin, Barry (Young), needs a place to stay. Gomez, repped by Apa, Intellectual Artists Management and attorney Jonathan Moonves, plays Phil, Nick’s poss at the TV station. He is being cast as a guest star as he is in second position to Cougar Town, the way Stults and Young are to Enlisted, making Cuz-Bros a rare pilot where most...
- 4/18/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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