Primetime Pilot Panic News

EXCLUSIVE: TNT’s Snowpiercer will be pulling into the station. The post-apocalyptic drama’s upcoming fourth season, which is in production, will be its last. I hear the cast’s options were coming up and were not picked up, releasing the actors to book other jobs. “We can confirm that Snowpiercer will end after a…

EXCLUSIVE: Julia Chan (Archive 81) has been cast as a series regular opposite Michaela McManus and Parker Young in Criminal Nature, ABC's drama pilot from Rashad Raisani, 20th Television and A+E Studios. Ian Duff also stars. Written by Raisani, Criminal Nature (fka untitled National Parks project) is described as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Faison and Abigail Spencer are set as the co-leads opposite Jon Cryer in Mike O’Malley’s off-cycle multi-cam NBC comedy pilot from Lionsgate Television. Written by Survivor's Remorse creator O'Malley, the untitled comedy centers on Jim (Cryer) and Julia (Spencer) who, after an amicable divorce…

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing The Whites, a crime drama limited series starring and executive produced by Ethan Hawke. Written by Tony Award-winning playwright and prolific screenwriter Jez Butterworth (Ford v. Ferrari, Spectre), the series is adapted from Richard Price's novel of the same name. The Whites is a…

Ian Duff (We Own This City) is set as a lead opposite Michaela McManus and Parker Young in Criminal Nature, ABC's drama pilot from Rashad Raisani, 20th Television and A+E Studios. Written by Raisani, Criminal Nature (fka untitled National Parks project) is described as a propulsive, soapy procedural set in the…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Girls alum Manny Montana is set as a series regular opposite Dominique Thorne in Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series Ironheart, Deadline has learned. Details about his character are kept under wraps. A rep for Marvel had no comment. Ironheart, which is now filming, stars Thorne as Riri Williams, a genius…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has picked up Before, a limited series starring Billy Crystal, who also will serve as executive producer, Deadline has learned. I hear details on the project, including the size of the order, are being finalized. Written by Sarah Thorp (The Bounty Hunter) and to be directed by Barry Levinson, Befor…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development JumpStart, a multi-camera comedy based on Robb Armstrong's long-running comic strip. Wayne Conley (The Best Man) will pen the TV adaptation, which hails from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS Studios. Based on the popular comic strip that debuted in 1989, JumpStart is…

EXCLUSIVE: United States Of Al star Parker Young has been tapped as a lead opposite Michaela McManus in Criminal Nature, ABC’s drama pilot from Rashad Raisani, 20th Television and A+E Studios. The network snagged Young quickly after he became available following CBS’ cancellation of the Chuck Lorre comedy series after…

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy veterans Bill Martin and Mike Schiff have been named new showrunners of CBS’ popular sitcom The Neighborhood. The duo just opened the writers room for the upcoming fifth season of the series, starring and executive produced by Cedric the Entertainer, which comes from Cedric’s A Bird and a Bear…

EXCLUSIVE: Marque Richardson has been cast as a series regular opposite Kerry Washington and Delroy Lindo in the Onyx Collective comedy series Unprisoned, which will be streamed exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories. Created and executive produced by Tracy…

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Waterston will continue as DA Jack McCoy on Law & Order‘s upcoming 22nd season on NBC. In doing so, Waterston is extending his Law & Order run to 18 seasons to become the longest-tenured cast member on the mothership series. Waterston and Anthony Anderson were two prominent cast members from the Law & Or…