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Darlene Hunt Inks New Overall Deal With Sony TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday April 3, 2013 @ 4:43pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Darlene Hunt, Sony Pictures TV, The Big C
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: As her comedy-drama The Big C recently wrapped its four-season run on Showtime with a miniseries-style final installment, the series’ creator/executive producer Darlene Hunt is staying in business with its studio Sony Pictures TV. Hunt has signed a new two-year, seven-figure overall deal with Sony TV, where she has been since the 2010 launch of The Big C and under an overall deal since 2011. In addition to her work on The Big C, Hunt has been developing for Sony and sold a comedy to CBS this season. She also stepped in to help on the studio’s NBC series Save Me earlier this year as a showrunner. Hunt, repped by UTA, Mosaic and Joel McKuin, is also an actress and has been recurring on NBC’s Parks And Recreation.

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‘Save Me’ Showrunner Alexa Junge Exits, Darlene Hunt In Talks To Replace Her

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 11, 2013 @ 2:01pm PSTTags: Alexa Junge, Darlene Hunt, NBC, Save Me
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has hit the pause button on midseason comedy series Save Me starring Anne Heche after two episodes for a major behind-the-scenes changeover. Alexa Junge, who joined the project after the pilot as executive producer/showrunner, is out. Production on the series has been put on hold while a new showrunner is put in place. I hear talks are underway with The Big C creator/executive producer Darlene Hunt to take over the reins of the show, produced by Sony TV and Original Film. The single-camera comedy, created by John Scott Shepherd, stars Heche as a woman who lets herself — and her marriage — go until she undergoes an “awakening” that transforms her spiritually and physically into a desirable and outspoken woman who just might be channeling god.

Save Me has not been scheduled, allowing NBC to take time and re-examine the series’ creative direction. The project has been a favorite of the network’s brass from the get-go, and I hear they are very invested in the show. Save Me was originally developed by NBC’s head of comedy Tal Rabinowitz while she was SVP comedy at Sony TV. It was initially set up at Showtime just as current NBC entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt was leaving the pay cable network in 2010. Save Me was the second pilot greenlighted by NBC last season, only behind comedy Go On. Read More »

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CBS Buys Single-Camera Comedy From ‘The Big C’ Creator Darlene Hunt

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 22, 2012 @ 9:09am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, CBS, Darlene Hunt, Sony Pictures TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: As her Showtime comedy series The Big C is heading into its four-hour final installment, Darlene Hunt has lined her next series project, a comedy for CBS, which she will executive produce with Josh Berman. The network … Read More »

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EMMYS: ‘The Big C’s Jenny Bicks

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 18, 2011 @ 3:36pm PDTTags: Darlene Hunt, Showtime The Big C

Jenny Bicks, formerly a writer on HBO’s long-running Sex And The City and creator of ABC’s short-lived Men In Trees, is the cancer survivor who runs The Big C, created by Darlene Hunt. It stars Laura Linney as a teacher, wife, and mother living … Read More »

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‘The Big C’ Creator Darlene Hunt Signs Overall Deal With Sony Pictures TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday April 1, 2011 @ 6:57am PDTTags: Darlene Hunt, overall deal, Sony Pictures TV, The Big C
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: The Big C creator/executive producer Darlene Hunt has signed a two-year overall deal with the series’ producer Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, part of the new breed of “showveralls,” writer-comedian-actress Hunt will continue on The Big C, … Read More »

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