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Adele Lim Signs Overall Deal With CBS TV Studios, Joins ‘Star-Crossed’ As Co-Showrunner

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 23, 2013 @ 9:17am PDTTags: Adele Lim, Big Deals TV, CW, Star-Crossed
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Adele Lim (Private Practice, One Tree Hill) has signed an overall deal with CBS TV Studios. Under the pact, she will serve as executive producer/co-showrunner on the studio’s new CW drama series Star-Crossed (previously Oxygen) alongside the project’s writer-executive producer Meredith Averill. Star-Crossed chronicles the epic romance between a human girl and an alien boy when he and eight others of his kind are integrated into a suburban high school. Also executive producing the series are Josh Appelbaum, Andre Nemec, Scott Rosenberg, Richard Shepard and Bryan Furst. Star-Crossed marks WME-repped Lim’s return to the CW and CBS Studios where she served as co-executive producer on Life Unexpected. Her credits also include Life On Mars, where she worked with Applebaum, Nemec and Rosenberg, and One Tree Hill.

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CW Expands Streaming To Apple TV And Renames Digital Studio

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 10:32am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, CW, CW Seed, Mark Pedowitz

Like most other broadcasters this upfront week, CW execs today urged advertisers to consider the network’s involvement with digital platforms — and announced that its streamed shows, now available on Windows and Xbox, will also work with Apple TV. … Read More »

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CW To Air Young Hollywood Awards Aug. 1

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday May 8, 2013 @ 2:21pm PDTTags: CW, Young Hollywood Awards

May 8, 2013 (Los Angeles, CA) -– The 15th Annual Young Hollywood Awards” celebrating emerging young talent will partner with The CW Network to broadcast this year’s Red Carpet event on Thursday, August 1 (8-10 PM). The announcement was made today by Jay Penske, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Penske Media Corporation (PMC), owner and Executive Producer of the award show [and Deadline Hollywood], and Mark Pedowitz, President, The CW. The 15th Annual Young Hollywood Awards will be held in Los Angeles, and the host and nominees will be unveiled in June. Read More »

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ABC Pilot ‘Big Thunder’ Finds Lead, CW’s ‘Oxygen’ & ABC’s ‘Influence’ Add To Casts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 9:21pm PSTTags: ABC, Big Thunder, CW, Oxygen
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UPDATED: Irish actor Ed MacLiam (EastEnders) has been cast as the lead of ABC’s drama pilot Big Thunder. Also cast in the pilot, written by Jason Fuchs, directed by Rob Bowman and executive produced by Melissa Rosenberg, is Twilight‘s Alex Meraz, reuniting with the movie franchise’s writer, Rosenberg. Additionally, Ruth Bradley and Resident Evil‘s Spencer Locke have been added to the project, based on Disney’s roller coaster ride. It centers on Dr. Grant Carson (MacLiam), a brilliant, late 19th century New York doctor. He and his family are given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relocate to a frontier mining town run by a powerful but mysterious tycoon, but quickly realize that not everything in Big Thunder is as it seems. Meraz, repped by Innovative and Leverage, plays a handsome Shoshone tribesman. Irish actress Bradley, who played the female lead in ABC/ABC Studio’s pilot Beauty And The Beast last season, plays Nora, a nanny with a dark, hidden past. The casting stems from her talent holding deal with ABC and ABC Studios. Locke, repped by APA, Jaymee Locke and Scott Whitehead, plays Lizzie, Carson’s beautiful and brilliant teenage daughter. Bradley is with Anonymous Content and UK’s Hamilton/Hodell. Read More »

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Isaiah Washington To Co-Star In CW’ ’100′, Michael Michele In Fox’s ‘Delirium’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 12:00pm PSTTags: CW, Delirium, Isaiah Washington, The 100
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Grey’s Anatomy alum Isaiah Washington is returning to series television with a co-starring role in the CW pilot The 100, based on Alloy’s books. Set 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization, it revolves around … Read More »

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Matt Lanter Set As Male Lead In CW Pilot ‘Oxygen’, ‘Bad Management’ Adds To Cast

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 5, 2013 @ 5:30pm PSTTags: Bad Management, CW, Matt Lanter, Oxygen
Nellie Andreeva

Matt LanterThat was quick — just a couple of days after the CW made the decision to end 90210 after this season, the network has tapped series co-star Matt Lanter as the male lead in its pilot Oxygen. The CW brass moved very quickly after the 90210 cancellation to offer Lanter Oxygen, and a deal was closed. The project, written by Meredith Averill and directed by Gary Fleder, centers on Emery (Aimee Teegarden), a teen girl who falls in love with Roman (Lanter), an alien boy, one of nine of his kind integrated into a suburban high school. CBS TV Studio is producing. Lanter is with WME and manager Faras Rabadi. Read More »

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CW Pilot ‘The Selection’ Casts Aspen, ‘Reign’ Finds Its Queen

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 4, 2013 @ 12:30pm PSTTags: CBS TV Studios, CW, Reign, The Selection
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Lucien LaviscountIn his first pilot season in the U.S., young British actor Lucien Laviscount (Skins) has landed one of the male leads in the CW reboot of The Selection after arriving in Los Angeles less … Read More »

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Taylor Hackford’s CW Pilot ‘Company Town’ Casts Lead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday February 16, 2013 @ 9:09am PSTTags: CW, Gage Golighty, Taylor Hackford
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EXCLUSIVE: Gage Golightly (Teen Wolf) has been cast as a lead in the CW‘s drama pilot Company Town. Written by Sera Gamble and to be directed by Taylor Hackford, Company Town chronicles the aftermath of a scandal at a Naval base in Virginia, which touches the lives of both civilians and military personnel in the area. The multigenerational, multi-class, family and relationship series centers around two early 20-something women — Krista (Golightly) and Page — who grew up together, were once best friends, but now are on opposite sides of the Townie/Military divide. Krista has always lived a charmed life and is happily engaged to Paul, a lieutenant in the Navy, but begins to show her vulnerable side when Paul gets involved in the scandal. Read More »

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PILOT SEASON: Late Pickups, Early Casting, Where Do Networks Stand & Who Will Rose Byrne Pick?

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 21, 2013 @ 6:16pm PSTTags: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC
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Pilot pickup season finally got in full swing on Friday with seven orders, four at CBS and three at NBC. That is as many as the broadcast networks had ordered since the first of the year combined as network executives are lamenting the fact that scripts are coming in late this season, delaying pilot orders. Pilot casting, on the other hand, has already started. Part frustration over late scripts, part desire to get a jump on talent led to active pilot casting on a half dozen projects last month, before any had been ordered to pilot. The number expanded further in the first two weeks of January. CBS, for instance, did not formally greenlight the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama Hostages to pilot last week until Toni Collette was locked in as the lead. Read More »

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‘Carrie Diaries’ Amy B. Harris On The Importance Of “Being Authentic”: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday January 13, 2013 @ 11:30am PSTTags: AnnaSophia Robb, CW, The Carrie Diaries, the CW

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

The Carrie DiariesThe CW took center stage at TCA in Pasadena this morning with a supersized panel of 9 actors and 4 executive producers representing The Carrie Diaries, the new ensemble Sex And The City prequel that premieres tomorrow night at 8. One obvious question was why this show wound up on CW rather than, say, HBO, the home of its predecessor. “We always felt this was predestined for The CW,” stressed exec producer Josh Schwartz.” Fellow exec producer Amy B. Harris, a Sex And The City staff writing alum who is running Carrie Diaries, related that Warner Bros. originally asked Sex showrunner Michael Patrick King if he was interested in turning writer Candace Bushnell’s book into a series, but he was busy with CBS’ 2 Broke Girls and suggested they approach Harris. “It just felt right in every way for The CW to be the perfect home for it”, she said. It gave us the chance to tell fun, provocative high school stories.” In other words, HBO perhaps would have proved too niche-y and limiting for the soapier series the producers had in mind.  Read More »

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CW Adapts ‘Vanishing Act’ Books As Series From Carol Mendelsohn And Natalie Chaidez

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 12, 2012 @ 5:39pm PSTTags: CW
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: The CW has put in development Jane Whitefield, a drama project based on the Vanishing Act book series by Thomas Perry. Produced by CSI maiden Carol Mendelsohn and written by Natalie Chaidez, Jane Whitefield centers on a quirky young woman in search of her biological parents and her own identity who runs a private investigation/”eraser” company in Portland. CBS TV Studios and studio-based Mendelsohn Prods. produce, with Mendelsohn, Chaidez, Perry, Bob Wunsch and Carol Mendelsohn Prods.’ Julie Weitz exec producing. Read More »

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CW Buys Monster High School Drama From Fake Empire And Catherine Hardwicke

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday September 12, 2012 @ 3:45pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Catherine Hardwicke, CW, Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage
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Stephanie Savage Josh Schwartz Copeland PrepJosh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who are behind the CW‘s departing drama Gossip Girl, have set up another drama project at the network that take place in an elite school. The high-concept … Read More »

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Another Wonder Woman Show In The Works

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 6:29pm PDTTags: CW, Wonder Woman
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Warner Bros. TV is taking another stab at a live-action series based on the DC character of Wonder Woman. This time, it is via the most popular approach for rebooting (comic) book franchises at the moment: going back to … Read More »

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CW On ‘Beauty & The Beast’ Reboot: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 30, 2012 @ 3:42pm PDTTags: Beauty and the Beast, CW

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s TV coverage.

The CW isn’t the kind of network that might have a propensity to assault its audience with ugly characters, which is why some were puzzled when it picked up a reboot of the 1980s CBS drama Beauty And The Beast for fall. But those attending TCA and have watched the pilot quickly learned that the home of Gossip Girl and young adults with flawless skin hasn’t deviated much from its focus on the physical. In fact, with stars Kristin Kreuk and hunky New Zealand native Jay Ryan, it was difficult to tell during a morning panel which of the two was supposed to be the beast. It more closely resembled Beauty and the Beef. The only real physical tipoff that something might be amiss with Ryan’s character Vincent is a small scar on his cheek. When this was pointed out to the show’s producers, they stressed that, well, the guy’s beastliness is supposed to be more…internal. “When we were first thinking about this, it was about the beast in our lives”, said exec producer Jennifer Levin, “and most of the beasts in our lives don’t look like an actual beast. They might be charming. There’s something that might draw us to them. So there is that thing of what happens when you do fall in love with a beast, which is what we related to much more than somebody who obviously was beastly from the outside. It was more beastliness that was on the inside. That was more interesting to us”. Read More »

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The CW Eyes Sleepy Hollow Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 20, 2012 @ 3:29pm PDTTags: CW, Sleepy Hollow
Nellie Andreeva

Sleepy Hollow CW TV SeriesEXCLUSIVE: The Headless Horseman is making a splash at the onset of this year’s broadcast development season. The CW is in talks for Sleepy Hollow, a drama series project from Missing writers Patrick … Read More »

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CW To Broadcast Performances From iHeartRadio Music Festival

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 18, 2012 @ 6:00am PDTTags: Clear Channel Communications, CW

CW iHeartRadio Concert BroadcastThe two-hour show on October 1 will kick off CW‘s 2012 fall season. The broadcast will be built around performances from Clear Channel‘s two-day concert event in Las Vegas on September 21-22. CW will decide … Read More »

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Comic-Con: Joss Whedon Says His ‘Dr Horrible’ Web Series To Air On The CW

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 6:53pm PDTTags: Comic-Con Wrap-Up, CW, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon‘s web series Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is coming to the CW next year, the director of Marvel’s The Avengers director said this evening at Comic-Con. He did not say when the series would air, nor whether … Read More »

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Comic-Con: Kelly Hu Cast As China White In CW’s ‘Arrow’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday July 13, 2012 @ 4:58pm PDTTags: Arrow, CW

Arrow executive producers announced that Kelly Hu (X2: X-Men United, The Vampire Diaries) will guest star in the upcoming CW drama series as villain China White. Marc Guggenheim,… Read More »

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The CW Sets October Fall Premiere Dates

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 11:14am PDTTags: CW, Mark Pedowitz
Nellie Andreeva

CW Fall 2012 ScheduleAs it promised at its upfront presentation in May, the CW will premiere its fall lineup in October, starting the Tuesday after the official premiere week. The network will roll out its fall schedule over two weeks, from October 2 through October 19. When the CW made the original announcement, the network’s president Mark Pedowitz explained the decision with the desire to wait until viewers have sampled the new offerings on the other broadcast networks. But that probably won’t be the case exactly as NBC and Fox both unveiled staggered fall launches that span from mid- August-mid September to mid-late October. (CBS, which usually sticks to the premiere week tradition, is yet to announce its fall launch dates.)  Here is is the CW’s fall premiere schedule:

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2

8-9 PM  HART OF DIXIE (Season Premiere)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3

9-10 PM  SUPERNATURAL (Season Premiere) Read More »

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