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Kiefer Sutherland Signs On For More ’24′, New Limited Series Is A Go At Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday May 13, 2013 @ 5:28am PDTTags: 24, Big Deals TV, Fox, Howard Gordon, Kiefer Sutherland
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24 Kiefer Sutherland ReturnsJack Bauer is back! I’ve learned that, after marathon negotiations, Kiefer Sutherland has closed a deal for a new installment of 24 on Fox. With him on board, I hear Fox has greenlighted the real-time drama as a limited series and will announce it during its upfront presentation today. The continuation is a brain child of longtime 24 showrunner Howard Gordon, now executive producer of Showtime’s Homeland. His 20th Century Fox TV-based Teakwood Lane will co-produce the new 24 alongside original series producers Imagine TV and 20th TV, with Imagine’s Brian Grazer returning as executive producer. This will mark Fox’s second event series under the network’s push into that arena, joining the just-greenlighted M. Night Shyamalan’s Wayward Pines starring Matt Dillon.

Related: ’24′ Eyes Return As Limited Series On Fox

CAA-repped Sutherland most recently starred on the Fox/20th TV drama Touch. The original 24 was created by Joel Surnow and Bob Cochran, who executive produced with Gordon, Brian Grazer, Sutherland, Evan Katz and Tony Krantz. At the 2006 Emmys, the show won five awards, including best drama series and best actor in a drama series for Sutherland.

Related: Fox 2013-14 Schedule

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FX Orders Drama Pilot From ‘Homeland’s Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff, Craig Wright

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 10, 2012 @ 9:30am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Craig Wright, FX, Howard Gordon, Tyrant
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FX has given a pilot order to Tyrant, a drama from Homeland executive producers Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff, Six Feet Under alum Craig Wright and 20th Century Fox TV’s Fox 21. Tyrant, casually referred to as “reverse Homeland“, was created by Raff, creator of the Israeli drama Prisoners Of War on which Showtime’s Homeland was based. Tyrant, developed by Gordon and Wright, tells the story of an unassuming American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Raff wrote the pilot script, which hails from Teakwood Lane, Gordon’s 20th TV-based production company. “The brilliant and wholly original concept just blew us all away,” FX’s EVP Nick Grad said. “It’s pretty amazing when you read a script and can instantly imagine it becoming one of the best shows on television.”

Gordon, Raff and Wright are executive producing in association with Keshet Broadcasting, the Israeli company behind Prisoners Of War, which also co-produces Homeland. Wright is set to serve as showrunner if Tyrant goes to series. For Wright, the project stems from the overall deal he inked with Fox 21 in August. Production on the pilot is tentatively slated to begin in spring 2013. Read More »

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Crime Drama From ‘Homeland’ Duo Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa Gets Pilot Production Commitment At CBS

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 4, 2012 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon
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Homeland co-creators and executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa just landed a pilot production commitment at CBS to go with the two Emmys they won 10 days ago, including best drama series. CBS has handed out the big penalty to Anatomy Of Violence, a drama from 20th Century Fox TV and Gordon’s studio-based Teakwood Lane. It will be co-written by Gordon and Gansa in a followup to them co-penning the pilot for Homeland based on Gideon Raff’s Israeli series, which earned them an Emmy for best drama writing. Inspired by the soon-to-be-published non-fiction title The Anatomy Of Violence: The Biological Roots Of Crime by Adrian Raine, the CBS drama centers on a female FBI agent who starts working with a mysterious psychiatrist with whom she shares a past connection. Gordon and Gansa will executive produce, with Teakwood’s Hugh Fitzpatrick co-executive producing.

Anatomy Of Violence extends Gordon and Gansa’s successful reunion as writing partners. As referenced in Gansa’s Emmy acceptance speech, the two started off as a writing team before splitting up while working on The X Files. Years later, Gordon, as showrunner on 24, hired Gansa, and the two restarted their writing partnership with Homeland. Read More »

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Howard Gordon’s Company Sells Fourth Project – Action Thriller Drama At Fox

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 6:02pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Howard Gordon, Showtime
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Howard GordonAs he heads into Emmy weekend where he hopes to repeat his 24 success with hot new Showtime drama Homeland, Howard Gordon has sold the fourth project through Teakwood Lane, the 20th Century Fox TV-based production company he launched in July.

Action thriller Vigilant, written by Max Landis (Chronicle), which went to Fox in a script deal with penalty, is a “superhero” origin story told through the unlikely POV of a brilliant 20-year old woman who is also a social outcast. After an honorable veteran detective is brutally coerced into working for the corrupt head of Internal Affairs, the detective’s daughter plans her revenge by meticulously constructing a fictional vigilante persona to take on the criminal elements within the police department and the city. Gordon, Landis and Teakwood’s Hugh Fitzpatrick executive produce. Read More »

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Shaun Cassidy & Howard Gordon Adventure Drama Lands At Fox As Put Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 14, 2012 @ 1:08pm PDTTags: Fox, Howard Gordon
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EXCLUSIVE: Invasion creator Shaun Cassidy has teamed with Homeland executive producer Howard Gordon for a drama series that has received a put pilot commitment at Fox. Described as an adrenalized, dysfunctional family adventure series, the untitled project centers on two former CIA operatives — now married with teenagers — who are forced to face their past when their identities are exposed and they’re nearly killed. Now they’ll need to start over, under new cover, this time with their children in on the secret as they tackle cases, come together as a family, and elude those who would rather see them dead. Cassidy will write the script and executive produce with Gordon through his Teakwood Lane. 20th Century Fox TV, where Teakwood Lane is based, produces. Read More »

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2ND UPDATE: TNT Picks Up ‘Legends’, ‘Trooper’ And ‘King & Maxwell’ To Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 11:40am PDTTags: Howard Gordon, Jerry Bruckheimer, Shane Brennan, TNT
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2ND UPDATE 11:40 AM: TNT went for a trio of heavy TV hitters with its pilot pickups today, greenlighting Howard Gordon‘s Legends, Jerry Bruckheimer‘s Trooper and Shane Brennan‘s King & Maxwell. All three were … Read More »

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‘Homeland’ Duo Howard Gordon & Alex Cary To Adapt Icelandic Legal Drama For NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 7, 2012 @ 10:28am PDTTags: Alex Cary, Howard Gordon, NBC
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EXCLUSIVE: With Homeland, based on an Israeli series, enjoying critical and commercial success, series executive producer Howard Gordon is taking on adapting another international format. Gordon and fellow Homeland executive producer Alex Cary have teamed for Ritter, a character-driven legal drama inspired by the 2009 Icelandic series Réttur. The project has landed at NBC with significant penalty.

Written by Cary, Ritter, described as “Jerry McGuire in a law firm,” centers on a seasoned lawyer with an unorthodox approach who demonstrates his personal contempt for the law by using it as a blunt instrument. Gordon’s pod, Teakwood Lane, is producing with 20th Century Fox TV, where both Gordon and Cary are under deals. The two will executive produce with Teakwood Lane’s head of TV Hugh Fitzpatrick, as well as Rob Golenberg and Alon Aranya of Scripted World. Read More »

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Futuristic Thriller Drama From Howard Gordon & Josh Friedman Lands At NBC

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 30, 2012 @ 9:16am PDTTags: Howard Gordon, Josh Friedman, NBC
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EXCLUSIVE: Homeland executive producer Howard Gordon and writer Josh Friedman have teamed for a high-concept drama project, which has landed a rich premium script deal at NBC. The untitled project, … Read More »

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‘Homeland’ Producer Howard Gordon Notes “Stirrings” On ’24′ Movie: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 30, 2012 @ 6:36pm PDTTags: 24, Homeland, Howard Gordon, Showtime, TCA, TCA Wrap-Up

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TV coverage.

Claire Danes Damian Lewis Homeland TCAAt today’s TCA panel on Showtime‘s Homeland, co-creator and executive producer Howard Gordon was asked about another on-again, off-again project: Whether there is still a chance of a 24 movie. He says yes — possibly. “My understanding of that is, having gone quiet in a way that I didn’t think boded well for that, there’s been some stirrings recently, so I think it’s something everyone’s gunning for,” said Gordon, also an executive producer of 24. “As far as whether my work on [Homeland] will impede that — not at all. There’s a script that’s been written, and I think the issues now are more about the director’s schedule and Kiefer’s [Sutherland] schedule.”

Related: Intrigue Behind Stopping The Ticking Clock On ’24′ Movie

After the panel, which also included executive producer Alex Gansa and series stars Claire Danes, Damian Lewis and Morena Baccarin, Gordon also had a comment about the failure of the NBC series Awake, on which he was also an executive producer. “I knew it was a very steep challenge,” he said.

But back to Homeland, whose new season will open with two episodes shot in large part in Israel, standing in for Beirut. Aside from questions about the development of the lead characters, questions arose about whether Danes’ pregnancy would affect production. “We’re about midway (through Season 2), we’re shooting Episode 6; this hasn’t run into any interference,” Danes said. She added that the physicality of her role had her a “little concerned” at first, but “it’s proven to be a non-issue. All is well and Carrie remains fervently nonpregnant.”

Related: Comic-Con: ‘Homeland’ Heading Back To Middle East For Season 2 Read More »

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Howard Gordon Launches Production Company Based At 20th Century Fox TV

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 25, 2012 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Big Deals TV, Howard Gordon
Nellie Andreeva

Homeland co-creator/executive producer Howard Gordon has launched Teakwood Lane, a production company housed at 20th Century Fox TV where the former 24 showrunner has spent nearly his entire career. The pod deal for Teakwood Lane replaces Gordon’s overall deal at the studio. Gordon continues as an executive producer on the critically-praised Homeland alongside co-creator/showrunner Alex Gansa, and will focus on developing and overseeing new series for all the networks, both broadcast and cable. In addition to continuing to create shows of his own, Gordon has hired Hugh Fitzpatrick as Head of Television for Teakwood Lane, and he will be charged with managing the company’s development slate. Read More »

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EMMYS: Showtime’s ‘Homeland’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday June 2, 2012 @ 6:17pm PDTTags: Alex Gansa, Emmys, Homeland, Howard Gordon

Diane Haithman contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage.

If critical acclaim carries weight at Emmy time, then Showtime’s Homeland, developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa — also producers of Fox’s Emmy-winning drama 24 — is sure to make a showing when the 2012 Emmy nominations are announced on July 19th. The conspiracy thriller stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a bipolar CIA agent with suspicions bordering on paranoia about the loyalties of a Marine returning home from eight years as an Iraq POW (Damian Lewis as Sgt. Nicholas Brody). Among the reviews that earned it a sterling 91 score (out of 100) on metacritic.com was this New York Times review: “Carrie is hard to like, but Homeland is almost impossible to resist.”

And if the show were to win the Emmy for best dramatic series, it would be the first ever drama or comedy series win for Showtime, confirms David Nevins, entertainment president for the pay cable channel. “We’ve had nominations, but we haven’t had a win,” Nevins says, referring to such series nominees as the multi-year drama nominee Dexter and the comedies Nurse Jackie and Weeds. “It would be a breakthrough for the network. It’s nice to be nominated, but a win marks a new threshold.”

That being said, Nevins insists that he didn’t have Emmy® in mind when Gordon and Gansa – who based the series on Gideon Raff’s Israeli series Hatufim (Prisoner of War) and remain part of the series’ team of executive producers – brought the project to him.
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Howard Gordon On ‘Homeland’, The ’24′ Movie And What’s Wrong With Television

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 1, 2012 @ 12:30am PSTTags: 24, Homeland, Howard Gordon

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This is a very good time to be Howard Gordon. At the same time he published his second novel in as many years — the acclaimed Hard Target, released in January — he’s the toast of television … again. Less than two years after serving as an executive producer on 24, he’s co-creator and exec producer of the first-year Showtime drama Homeland. The series just took home two Golden Globes — for top drama and lead drama series actress Claire Danes — as well as a pair of WGA Awards and the AFI honor for TV Program of the Year. All of that, plus Gordon is helping to ramp up the coming 24 feature and has another series premiering tonight at 10 on NBC: the midseason drama Awake starring Jason Isaacs. Gordon took time out from his insane schedule to speak with Deadline Hollywood about the insta-classic that is Homeland, how writing novels is different from crafting TV, and why he’s often mistaken for being a hardcore political conservative (blame his friend Joel Surnow).

DEADLINE: How is writing books different than writing for TV?
GORDON: When you’re writing a novel, you’re still telling a story. But you’re telling it very differently. It’s a craft like anything else. I’m still probably on the early part of the learning curve. I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what’s great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor. In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination. In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one. Read More »

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NBC’s Midseason Drama ‘Awake’ Stops Production To Work On Scripts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 26, 2011 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Awake, Howard Gordon, Kyle Killen, NBC
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Five episodes into its 12-episode midseason order, NBC’s drama series Awake is temporarily shutting down production to allow writers to catch up on scripts. The unplanned hiatus, which is expected to last a couple of weeks, is being done upon … Read More »

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TCA: The 9/11 Anniversary And The Killing Of Bin Laden Makes ‘Homeland’ Timely

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 4, 2011 @ 10:37am PDTTags: 9/11, Claire Danes, Damian Lewis, Homeland, Howard Gordon, Showtime, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA.

Is it mere coincidence that Showtime is unveiling the heavy-duty psychological thriller series Homeland the night of Oct. 2, a scant three weeks after the landmark 10th anniversary of 9/11? In a … Read More »

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Pilot Rarity: Laura Allen Promoted To Female Lead On NBC’s ‘REM’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 21, 2011 @ 7:30pm PDTTags: Howard Gordon, Kyle Killen, Laura Allen, NBC, Pilot, REM
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A week ago, Terriers co-star Laura Allen got good news when she was cast in a supporting role on NBC’s drama pilot REM. Today, which happens to be her birthday, she got even better news – in a pilot rarity, … Read More »

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Jason Isaacs To Star In NBC Pilot ‘REM’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday February 20, 2011 @ 3:42pm PSTTags: Howard Gordon, Jason Isaacs, Kyle Killen, NBC REM, REM, REM Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
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EXCLUSIVE: One of the hottest actors this pilot season, Jason Isaacs, is off the market. After fielding more than half-dozen offers, Isaacs has settled on the lead role in NBC’s drama pilot REM, from Lone Star creator Kyle Killen and … Read More »

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Claire Danes Eyes Showtime Pilot Lead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday November 16, 2010 @ 4:30pm PSTTags: Cable TV, Claire Danes, Claire Danes Homeland, Homeland, Homeland Casting, Howard Gordon, Michael Cuesta Homeland, Showtime Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Claire Danes is in talks for the female lead in Showtime’s drama pilot Homeland. The psychological thriller, from former 24 executive producer/showrunner Howard Gordon, would mark Danes’ first series gig since her star-making turn on ABC’s My So-Called Life 15 years ago, which earned her a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination. Michael Cuesta (Dexter) is directing Homeland, which is produced by Fox 21. Based on the Israeli format Hatufim aka Prisoners of War, it tells the story of an U.S. Marine Sergeant Scott Brody who is recovered during a drone strike 10 years after going missing during the invasion of Baghdad. It centers on Carrie Anderson – the role that Danes would play – a smart, driven and iconoclastic CIA case officer who tracks down threats to homeland security coming from the Middle East. Read More »

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NBC Picks Up CIA Drama From Mark Bomback And Howard Gordon

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday September 20, 2010 @ 3:46pm PDTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, Howard Gordon, Mark Bomback, NBC Pilots, TV, TV Development
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EXCLUSIVE: Former 24 exec producer and showrunner Howard Gordon is going for a trifecta this development season with a third major sale in the past week, this time to NBC. The network has given a put pilot commitment to drama Legends, which will be written by feature scribe Mark Bomback. Gordon is executive producing along with Bomback and Jonathan Levin. Legends, produced Read More »

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David Nevins On The Move At Showtime: Picks Up Thriller From Howard Gordon

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday September 19, 2010 @ 8:00pm PDTTags: Ben Affleck, Cable TV, David Nevins, David Nevins Showtime, Fox21, Homeland David Nevins, Howard Gordon, Showtime Homeland, Showtime Pilot
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In its first major development decision since taking the programming reins at Showtime as entertainment president, David Nevins is close to greenlighting his first pilot, a psychological thriller, from former 24 executive producer/showrunner Howard Gordon. Ben Affleck, hot off the No.1 opening of his crime caper The Town, is circling to direct. He has read the script and is very interested contingent on availability. If dates could be worked out, this would mark Affleck’s TV directorial debut. Read More »

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