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[09/19/25 - 11:49 PM]
Development Update: Week of September 15-19
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
ALL THE SINNERS BLEED (Netflix) - John Douglas Thompson has been cast in the S.A. Crosby adaptation as Albert Crown, the father to Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù's Titus Crown. (Variety.com, 9/15)
AMERICAN HOSTAGE (MGM+) - Giovanni Ribisi will star opposite Jon Hamm in the upcoming drama as Tony Kiritsis: "Unpredictable, temperamental, charming, Tony's honesty is disarming. He's an unmarried, failed everyman at the end of his rope after his mortgage lender plans to foreclose on his property. Tony takes the head of the mortgage company, Dick Hall, hostage via a shotgun rigged to shoot Dick in the head if Tony is jostled or pulled. Tony informs the cops of his plan, but what he really wants is to tell his story, live, to the one person he trusts to hear him out, beloved radio news anchor Fred Heckman (Hamm) on local WIBC radio. As the public begins to hear the oddly charismatic Tony's side of the story, he begins to become a folk hero, despite his criminal actions, but are there skeletons in his closet that paint a darker picture?" (Deadline.com, 9/17)
BARB WIRE (New!) - The Pamela Anderson-led comic book-turned-feature film is being developed as a TV series by Anderson's new production company And-Her-Sons Productions. Anderson; her sons Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee; and Mike Richardson and Keith Goldberg will executive produce the project for UCP and Dark Horse Entertainment: "Barb Wire, the drama series adaptation, follows nail-hard, tough Barbara Kopetski, aka Barb Wire, the baddest bounty hunter on the mean streets of Steel Harbor. Armed with her arsenal, motorcycle and an attitude that just won't quit, Barb is willing to right any wrong in Steel Harbor - if the price is right." (Deadline.com, 9/19)
CIA (CBS) - Natalee Linez is the latest to board the "FBI" spin-off as Gina Rojas, "a trusted CIA analyst on the team." (Deadline.com, 9/16)
DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN (Disney+) - Marvel Studios' Brad Winderbaum has confirmed the series has been picked up for a third season, to begin shooting next year. (IGN.com, 9/18)
DMV (CBS) - The Eye has commissioned seven additional episodes of its freshman comedy in advance of its premiere, taking its season total to 20 installments. (Deadline.com, 9/17)
DUTTON RANCH, THE (Paramount+) - Jai Courtney is the latest to board the "Yellowstone" spin-off as Rob-Will, "an imposing, unpredictable ranch foreman." (Variety.com, 9/16)
ELSBETH (CBS) - Sarah Steele, Tony Hale, Dianne Wiest, and Lois Smith are the latest bound for the new season. Steele will reprise her role of Marissa Gold from both "The Good Wife" and "The Good Fight"; with Hale as Craig Hollis, "a FinTech CEO who has become increasingly paranoid about the current "eat the rich" zeitgeist"; Wiest as the Reverend Mother Constance Mary Cabot, "who is responsible for keeping her convent running and keeping the sisters safe"; and Smith as Delores Feinn, "the cantankerous longtime supporter of the Pidgeon Press who has promised to leave the poetry journal a great deal of money in her will... if she ever dies." (Deadline.com, 9/17)
HACKS (HBO Max) - Co-star Hannah Einbinder has confirmed confirmed the upcoming fifth season of the series will be its last. (Variety.com, 9/14)
HIGH POTENTIAL (ABC) - Keith Carradine will drop by the new season as Newmeyer: "This haughty business mogul has made a fortune in manufacturing... but may have crossed a line putting profits over people's lives." (Variety.com, 9/16)
LOVE & ANARCHY (GERMAN) (Netflix, New!) - Producer Bilduntonfabrik is set to begin filming a German take on the Swedish series, also at the streamer, "which follows a consultant and married mother who starts playing a flirtatious game with a young I.T. expert. They challenge each other to perform daring tasks." The company's Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murman will presumably executive produce. (Deadline.com, 9/17)
LUX (Amazon, New!) - Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders are spearheading a TV take on Jennifer L. Armentrout's paranormal fantasy book series at Amazon MGM Studios: "An instant bestseller, the Lux book series follows 17-year-old Katy Swartz, who moves to a small town in West Virginia, only to discover that her neighbors and new friends, Daemon and Dee Black, are part of a powerful alien race hiding in plain sight. After Daemon saves Katy's life by healing her with his powers, an unbreakable bond forms between them, drawing Katy deeper into a world of supernatural threats, government conspiracies, and a forbidden love that could ignite a war capable of tearing their worlds apart." Armentrout, Liz Pelletier, and Sherryl Clark will also executive produce for Premeditated Productions with Julie Jarmon as a co-executive producer. (Deadline.com, 9/18)
MATLOCK (CBS) - Former CBS Studios and CBS All Access executive Julie McNamara has joined Jennie Snyder Urman's studio-based Sutton St. Productions as a partner. She'll succeed Joanna Klein, who exited the company earlier this year. (Deadline.com, 9/16)
MEMORY OF A KILLER (FOX) - Michaela McManus and Gina Torres will both recur on the upcoming drama. The former will play Nicky, "the manager of the Silverstrand Club, a gathering place for mobsters on the take. Motivated by a secret agenda of her own, Nicky and Angelo fall into a dangerous romance." And the latter is set as Linda Grant, "a mercurial, seasoned, and brilliantly tenacious FBI Agent who becomes a major antagonist for Angelo across Season 1. When Grant begins investigating one of Angelo's kills, it puts them on a collision course that will see Grant come perilously close to unmasking Angelo's many secrets and threatening everything he holds dear." (Deadline.com, 9/18)
MONSTER VOLUME 4 (Netflix) - Billie Lourd and Jessica Barden have been tapped for roles on the new season. Lourd will play Lizzie's (Ella Beatty) older sister Emma Borden; while Barden is set as Nance O'Neill, "a stage actress whose close friendship with Lizzie created a rift between her and her sister Emma." (Deadline.com, 9/17)
MUPPET SHOW, THE (Disney+, New!) - The streamer has commissioned a backdoor pilot for a potential reboot of the series, which "will feature Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo and the gang as they return to the Muppet Theatre to produce a variety show." Alex Timbers is directing from a script by Albertina Rizzo with both executive producing alongside special guest star Sabrina Carpenter, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, Alex McAtee, David Lightbody, Leigh Slaughter, Michael Steinbach, Matt Vogel, and Eric Jacobson for 20th Television, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures. The special will premiere in 2026 timed with the 50th anniversary of the original incarnation. (Deadline.com, 9/17)
PAID IN FULL (New!) - Miramax Television and G-Unit Film & Television are looking to bring the 2002 film to the small screen: "In the film, three friends quickly rise through the ranks of the Harlem drug trade, but their success comes at a terrible price." The latter company's Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson would be among the executive producers. No writer is attached. (Variety.com, 9/18)
RALLY (Amazon, New!) - Tennis legend Andre Agassi is among the executive producers of a proposed scripted series from Amazon MGM Studios and Universal Television: "Set at a hyper-competitive elite tennis academy, the series follows ambitious young players who discover the loneliest sport in the world demands sacrificing the very connections that might be the only thing that makes winning feel worth it." Julie Plec is behind the project with Entertainment 360's Guymon Casady, My So-Called Company's Emily Cummins, and Justin Gimelstob likewise executive producing. (Deadline.com, 9/18)
RAM, THE (ABC, New!) - Rob Lowe is attached to topline a potential series at the Alphabet billed as a "workplace romantic comedy in which Rob Lowe plays a daily sports talk show host who falls for the new producer brought in to boost his ratings." Betsy Thomas, Bob Fisher, and Rob Greenberg are all behind the project with Lowe, Colin Cowherd, Eric Tannebaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Jason Wang, Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, and Ben Brown also executive producing for the Tannenbaum Co., Omaha Productions, and 20th Television. (Variety.com, 9/17)
RANSOM CANYON (Netflix) - Ben Robson and Heidi Engerman will recur on the show's second season in unspecified roles. (Deadline.com, 9/19)
UNTITLED DAN FOGELMAN NFL SERIES (Hulu) - Chace Crawford, Chloe Bennet, Tanner Zagarino, and Sam Corlett have all scored roles on the football drama. Crawford will play the team's new General Manager; with Bennet as Hank's (William H. Macy) youngest daughter; Zagarino believed to be playing Danny's (Christopher Meloni) older son; and Corlett as Danny's younger son. (Deadline.com, 9/18)
UNTITLED WITNESS PROTECTION PILOT (FX) - The Alison Brie-led drama pilot has added Pablo Schreiber as "a gun store owner who helps Remy (Brie)"; Antonella Rose as Remy's daughter Liv; Zoë Chao plays as "the mom of one of Liv's friends"; and Jamie Neumann as "an escort in Remy's new town." (Deadline.com, 9/19)
VARNELL HILL (BET+) - Neil Brown Jr. has been cast in the "Martin" spin-off as Thad Metcalf, "the kind of guy who name-drops The Harvard Lampoon within three minutes of meeting you, not to flex, but because he genuinely thinks you'll be impressed. He's whip-smart, overly literal, socially awkward, and armed with more obscure comedy references than charm. Thad is a former SNL writer with impeccable credentials and zero people skills." (Deadline.com, 9/16)
VISION QUEST (Disney+) - Oscar-nominee Mary McDonnell will appear in the Marvel Television series in a yet-to-be-revealed role. (THR.com, 9/15)
WEDNESDAY (Netflix) - Executive producer Andrew Mittman and his 1.21 banner have renewed their overall deal with the show's producer MGM Television. (Variety.com, 9/18)
WILD THINGS: SIEGFRIED & ROY (Apple TV+) - Justin Theroux and Darius Fraser have both been cast in the Jude Law/Andrew Garfield-led limited series. Theroux will play Steve Wynn, "who signed the duo to a five-year, $57.5 million deal to perform at his Mirage hotel"; while Fraser is set to recur as Toney Mitchell, "an aspiring dancer who, while on the Las Vegas strip, worked his way into Siegfried & Roy's show and inner circle." (Deadline.com, 9/18)
WITSEC (HBO, New!) - Justin Piasecki and David Kob have sold a new drama to the network based on Pete Earley and Gerald Shur's nonfiction book, subtitled "Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program": "The WitSec series follows a DOJ lawyer and a hardened mob hitman, both fed up with the corrupt institutions around them, who form a precarious alliance to convict criminal titans and save lives in the rogue origins of the Witness Protection Program." Earley, Alex Jackson, and Miriam Shur are also executive producing for Chernin Entertainment. (Deadline.com, 9/19)
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[10/24/25 - 02:30 PM]
Video: First Look at Upcoming New Drama "Memory of a Killer" Starring Patrick Dempsey and Michael Imperioli - Premiering This January on FOX
Dempsey stars as a hitman, Angelo Doyle, leading a dangerous double life while hiding an even deadlier personal secret - he has developed early onset Alzheimer's.
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[10/24/25 - 02:02 PM]
"20/20" Is Friday's Most-Watched Newsmagazine Across the Board
In addition, "20/20" posted its best Adults 25-54 in more than four months.
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[10/24/25 - 02:01 PM]
ABC News' "Nightline" Ranks No. 1 Across the Board, Leading NBC in All Key Demos for the 4th Straight Week
"Nightline" grew year to year across the board: Total Viewers, Adults 25-54, and Adults 18-49.
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[10/24/25 - 01:05 PM]
"Dancing with the Stars" Makes Television History - Rising for Fifth Straight Week
The October 21 episode scored 6.63 million Total Viewers and a 1.38 rating among Adults 18-49, hitting new season highs in both demographics.
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[10/24/25 - 08:01 AM]
Netflix Announces "Hollywood Arts," A Brand-New Spinoff of Hit Live-Action, "Victorious," with Daniella Monet Returning as Star and Executive Producer
The series is set to debut on Netflix in 2026, followed by releases on Nickelodeon and Paramount+.
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[10/24/25 - 07:14 AM]
FOX Sports Readies for Major League Baseball's 121st World Series Presented by Capital One
Action leads off Friday, October 24, between the National League and current reigning World champion Los Angeles Dodgers and American League champion Toronto Blue Jays from Rogers Centre in Toronto, Canada, on FOX, FOX Deportes, the FOX Sports App and FOX One.
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[10/24/25 - 07:01 AM]
Video: "Love Is Blind" Season 9: The Reunion - Official Trailer - Netflix
Denver singles shake up their search for "the one" and step into the pods, braving twists, turns and love triangles to find their soulmate sight unseen.
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[10/24/25 - 07:01 AM]
Experience the Family, the Fun, and the Fantastic! Marvel Studios' "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" Lands Exclusively on Disney+ November 5
Continuing the celebration of Marvel's First Family, the announcement was made live from SpaceCon 2025 in San Antonio, where The Fantastic Four: First Steps Immersive Pop-Up Experience invites attendees to step inside the iconic Baxter Building.
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[10/24/25 - 06:00 AM]
The CW Network and Xfinity Celebrate 11 Years of the NASCAR Xfinity Series by Presenting the Third Stage of the Championship Race Commercial-Free
Taking place in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday, November 1, the commercial-free stage presented by Xfinity was created to thank the loyal race fans who have supported the NASCAR Xfinity Series for more than a decade - helping the series grow through their unwavering enthusiasm, increased viewership, and continued trackside attendance.
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[10/23/25 - 05:01 PM]
Video: "As You Stood By" - Official Trailer - Netflix
When two women plot to end an abusive marriage through murder, an unexpected visitor arrives - threatening to shatter everything they've carefully planned.
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[10/23/25 - 02:33 PM]
Largest Audience for "NBA Tip-Off" Doubleheader Since 2010 as NBA Returned to NBC and Debuted on Peacock
Tuesday night's audience across NBC and Peacock peaked at 7.1 million viewers from 10:45-11 p.m. ET as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder to a one-point win over the Houston Rockets in double overtime.
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[10/23/25 - 02:28 PM]
The 305 Just Got Hotter: "Love & Hip Hop: Miami" Moves to BET Season 7 Premieres Tuesday, November 4 at 8 PM ET/PT
The upcoming seventh season dives deeper than ever into Miami's thriving entertainment scene, following a cast of stars who are rebuilding, rebranding, and redefining success in real time.
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[10/23/25 - 01:30 PM]
Critically Acclaimed Noir Thriller, "Dark Winds," to Return to AMC and AMC+ Sunday, February 15
The series' gripping fourth season focuses on the search for a missing Navajo girl, which takes Leaphorn, Chee and Manuelito from the safety of Navajo Nation to the gritty terrain of 1970s Los Angeles in a race against the clock to save her from an obsessive killer with ties to organized crime.
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[10/23/25 - 12:01 PM]
Video: BET+ Releases Trailer for Horror Film "A Demon's Revenge"
In the film, following the bloodshed in Belize, Peaches, played by Jhoné Lucas, delves deeper into Caribbean folklore and the terrifying truth that lurks beneath.
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[10/23/25 - 12:00 PM]
FOX Entertainment Acquires Equity Stake in Chain, Forging Strategic Partnership with Experiential Food Phenomenon Co-Founded by B.J. Novak
Included in the investment is a first look development deal through Chain Media.
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