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With a concept unlike anything else currently on their programming schedule, NBC has given a thumbs-up to a pilot from Gotham writer Ken Woodruff's action-drama The Enemy Within Woodruff will serve as write and also serve as executive producer alongside Vernon Sanders Universal Television is set as the production studio. The Enemy Within is described as "a character-driven[...]

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) This marks the first pilot[...]

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.

Speaking backstage after receiving the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Emmy for his role as Frank Gallagher in Showtime's long-running comedy-drama series Shameless, Macy related to the press a meeting of Hollywood men that he attended recently; and the reason why meetings such as these are so important: "It's hard to be a[...]

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 The three 20th Century Fox TV projects include: Our People, a comedy from Lee Daniels and Modern Family executive producer Vali Chandrasekaran; Rel, a comedy starring[...]

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

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.

Days of Hate #1 begins in a near-future America that is on the other side of a civil war. Two people investigate the arson of a gay nightclub. Elsewhere, a woman is picked up by national security. But does it all make for a good read?

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.

Narcos co-creator and executive producer José Padilha (Elite Squad) is extending his stay at Netflix, with the streaming service releasing the first official trailer for his upcoming thriller series The Mechanism.

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.

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.