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The first season of the latest Walking Dead spinoff The Ones Who Live is concluding this weekend, but the latest profit participation lawsuit from zombie apocalypse creator Robert Kirkman, franchise executive producer Gale Anne Hurd and others is far from over. With heavy emphasis on the $200 millio…

Macro Television Studios is set to produce Swordplay, an action fantasy drama series based on an original idea by Jonathan and Josh Baker aka The Baker Brothers (Kin). The series was developed by The Baker Brothers, Hebru Brantley and Eric Phillips along with Macro Television Studios. Lucien Christian Adderly…

EXCLUSIVE: Three months into production on Season 1 of Beacon 23, Spectrum Originals and AMC Networks' psychological thriller series starring Lena Headey and Stephan James, has been renewed for a second season. Work on the second season of the series, produced by Boat Rocker Studios and Spectrum Originals, will start…

EXCLUSIVE: The debate has begun over a WGA referendum that would give screen credits to hundreds of feature film writers who currently aren't eligible to receive them. The referendum would authorize the use of an “Additional Literary Material” credit for all “participating writers” who work – sometimes for many months…

EXCLUSIVE: After QC Entertainment won an auction for TV the Chuck Wendig dystopian sci-fi novel Wanderers back in early 2019, the effort to turn it into an event series has grown stronger. Lionsgate has expanded its partnership with QC Entertainment and come aboard to develop the series. They’ve set Glen Mazzara (The W…

EXCLUSIVE: New Republic Pictures’ Brian Oliver and producer Bradley J. Fischer acquired the exclusive rights to all works in Michael Moorcock's seminal fantasy-horror series The Elric Saga. They are beginning to shop the property for series, with Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead and The Shield) and Prison Break and Star…

The Dark Tower TV series is moving forward. As the first in a planned series of films based on the Stephen King books is set to open domestically Friday, The Walking Dead alum Glen Mazzara has been confirmed as showrunner and will oversee the companion series that’s currently in development through Sony Pictures TV…

As bargaining for a new contract continues under a media blackout this week, WGA leaders have released a three-minute video urging their members to give them the authority to call a strike if negotiations fail to produce a fair contract by May 1. Balloting for the strike authorization begins next week. "It's very…

The WGA West said tonight that four newcomers have been elected to the guild’s 2016 board of directors along with four incumbents. The newly seated quartet includes former Walking Dead showrunner and Damien creator Glen Mazzara (1,732 votes of 2,440 ballots cast), Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner (1,597), longtime Grey’s…

Eight years after the end of FX’s ground-breaking drama The Shield, the bulk of its key writers reunited at the ATX TV Festival in Austin Saturday. There was no talk of doing a revival, but creator Shawn Ryan indicated that he had ideas for a potential followup featuring The Shield‘s lead character Vic Mackey. "I have…

Damien, the follow-up drama series to the iconic 1970s horror franchise The Omen, has been canceled after one season on A&E Networks. Creator and former The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara tweeted the news today and A&E confirmed the cancellation to Deadline. The thriller series, which was plagued by low ratings…

Just over three years after leaving The Walking Dead as showrunner, Glen Mazzara is back to put the fear of God and the devil in you with Damien. Debuting on March 7 on A&E, the 10-episode Omen sequel is, as I say in my video review above, not a classic like its source material. However, the mixed bag of Damien does…