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Coming off of a pilot season that saw all of their series pickups fronted by men and caused many to call out the network over its lack of inclusion and female-fronted shows, CBS has ordered three female-written pilots: two comedies (History of Them, I Mom So Hard) and a drama (Murder).

Welcome to The Weekly Static's takeaways from TNT's series adaptation of authors Caleb Carr's 1994 historical thriller The Alienist.

Snowpiercer showrunner Josh Friedman is getting off at the next station. Friedman and TNT have parted ways from the series, with sources close to the situation citing "creative differences" as the cause for the split.

Nominations for the 2018 Razzies are here, and Transformers: The Last Knight and Fifty Shades Darker lead the pack in best-of-worst noms.

Actor William H. Macy used the occasion of the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday night to share his thoughts on the "Time's Up" movement and the role men play in eliminating the systemic sexual harassment and gender inequality that's haunted the entertainment industry for decades.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Emmy Award-winning star of HBO's Veep, plans to resume filming the show's seventh and final season in August following her successful breast cancer treatment.

With what might count as cut #998 in the possible demise of Marvel's Inhumans, ABC has removed press access to the series from its site. As originally pointed out by the folks over at SpoilerTV, the formal portal for the series on the press site now leads to a message that reads: "Error 404."

While the final details on the proposed Disney-21st Century Fox deal are still being finalized, Fox is moving head on the programming front and ordering three pilots: two comedies and a drama.

***UPDATE***  As expected, AMC had something to say about Darabont's new lawsuit, issuing the following statement through their attorney, Orin Snyder of Gibson.

Joel McHale has been tapped to host - coincidentally enough - The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale, a weekly topical show (think HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) set to premiere globally on Netflix next month.

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First look at Freeform's Siren: a young girl's mysterious appearance in the small fishing village of Bristol Cove could prove to be a miracle of nature — or a harbinger of horrors yet to come.

Starz has filed two petitions with the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) as a move to legally require Altice to restore the channels to their NYC-based Optimum Systems.

Looking to make a big impact during the early days of this year's Sundance Film Festival, MoviePass announced that it was creating MoviePass Ventures, a subsidiary that will co-acquire films with film distributors.

Deadline Hollywood is reporting exclusively that Black List scribe Stephany Folsom has been signed to take over writing the script for Pixar's Toy Story 4, the next installment in the insanely huge franchise that's scheduled for a Summer 2019 release.

With only hours to go before Spike TV makes the final transition to the Paramount Network, the newly re-branded network is using the occasion to unveil a new "red band" trailer for Heathers, their new hour-long original series based on the 1988 cult classic film.

The Walking Dead ex-showrunner Frank Darabont has filed an additional $10 million lawsuit against AMC, claiming that new information has come to light that proves he is owed additional monies on top of what his original lawsuit is seeking.

Looks like NBC is interested in telling the further adventures of Bad Boys II's Special Agent Syd Burnett, with the network giving a formal pilot production green light to an as-yet-untitled movie spinoff series starring Gabrielle Union.

Looks like Watchmen's Damon Lindelof is pretty happy with the folks over at Warner Bros. TV with news that the Lost creator would be extending his overall deal with the studio.

Amazon's new series The Boys just made a number of new additions to The Seven's membership roster on Wednesday, with Antony Starr (American Gothic), Dominique McElligott (The Last Tycoon), Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl), Jessie T. Usher (Survivor’s Remorse) and Nathan Mitchell (iZombie) joining.

With a move that many are seeing as Amazon continuing their purge of ousted president Roy Price's original-programming strategy, Amazon has announced that they've cancelled three original series:  I Love Dick, One Mississippi and Jean-Claude Van Johnson.

Thanks for joining us after a two week break for our fifth edition of Happy Trails!, Bleeding Cool’s live-blog of Syfy‘s Happy! and tonight’s sixth episode, ‘The Scrap Yard of Childish Things”

What's one cable network's loss could possibly be another cable network's gain, with news of Michael Green's (Hannibal) current availability making its way around several production companies and a number of television series projects, including Brian K. Vaughan's Y: The Last Man.

One of the toughest things you have to do as a friend is knowing when to play proper wingman and when you need to lay down The Hammer of Truth. Case in point? Spike TV, who I've been bros with for about 15 years now.

Welcome back to Bleeding Cool’s weekly recap of Syfy‘s Happy! and another round of our sparkly clean “reminder recaps,” as we take a look back at last week’s Episode 5, ‘White Sauce? Hot Sauce?’.

With what can be viewed by some as his next step towards total film and television domination, the one-man walking Disney himself J.J. Abrams has apparently written a new science fiction drama television series that is the subject of a bidding war between two media behemoths: Apple and HBO.

How far would you be willing to go to save someone you love? Would you take a life so that someone else could live? Those are the questions raised and the themes examined in Amazon Prime's original thriller/drama series Breathe.

With actress Sofia Vergara's (Modern Family) Latino digital media company Raze set to celebrate its one-year anniversary, the presents have already started arriving in the form of production and development deals at Netflix, Hulu, and TNT.

Two prominent names from the Stargate universe are turning their attention from science fiction to fantasy with The Outpost, an original fantasy series executive produced by Stargate producer Dean Devlin and Stargate SG-1 showrunner Jonathan Glassner.

The Umbrella Academy fans have a new reason to get excited, as co-creator/illustrator Gabriel Bá took to social media on Monday to announce that filming has commenced on Netflix's  series adaptation of his and Gerard Way‘s comic book series.