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CAA Signs ‘The Killing’ Star Mireille Enos

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 10, 2011 @ 11:09am PDTTags: CAA, Gangster Squad, Mireille Enos, The Killing, World War Z
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EXCLUSIVE: Mireille Enos has signed with CAA. She was with Innovative Artists. Enos got her big break when she was cast as the lead on AMC’s drama series The Killing, a role that earned her a Primetime Emmy nomination. Since then, Enos has landed her first lead role in a studio feature, Paramount Pictures’ Brad Pitt starrer World War Z, which she just wrapped. She is now filming Gangster Squad opposite Josh Brolin and will next begin production on the second season of The Killing. Enos, who previously had a recurring role on HBO’s Big Love and was nominated for a Tony in 2005 for Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?, continues to be repped by manager Howard Green and attorney Mitch Smelkinson.

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BBC Slashes Budget By $1B a Year, Cuts 2,000 Jobs, Scales Back U.S. Imports

By TIM ADLER in London | Thursday October 6, 2011 @ 3:33am PDTTags: BBC, Mad Men, Mark Thompson, The Killing

The BBC has slashed its budget for foreign TV imports such as AMC’s Mad Men and Danish thriller The Killing, which was a hit for the broadcaster. Budget cuts announced this morning mean that talent may also quit for rival … Read More »

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ProSieben’s Red Arrow Acquires 51% Of Mikkel Bondesen’s Production Company

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 7:20am PDTTags: Burn Notice, Fox TV Studios, Fuse, Matt Nix, Mikkel Bondesen, The Good Guys, The Killing
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ProSiebenSat.1´s production and distribution company Red Arrow Entertainment Group has acquired a majority stake in manager/producer Mikkel Bondesen’s U.S. production company Fuse. The Denmark-born Bondesen launched his U.S. production company in 2005. Its credits include USA’s Burn Notice and … Read More »

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EMMYS: Drama Series Writers Handicap

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday September 18, 2011 @ 8:31am PDTTags: 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, D.B. Weiss, David Benioff, Friday Night Lights, Game of Thrones, Jason Katims, Mad Men, Matt Weiner, The Killing, Veena Sud

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s 2011 Emmy coverage. Here’s his scorecard assessing the Outstanding Drama Series Writer race.

Matthew Weiner, Mad Men (AMC)
“The Suitcase”
Why He Was Nominated: What, are you kidding? Weiner has been nominated for 18 of these things and come out on top eight times, including winning both as producer and writer for Mad Men the last three years running. He also took the prize as a producer for a little show called The Sopranos in both 2004 and 2007. The fact that Weiner has personally earned 10 nominations for Mad Men during the past three years alone is a bit astonishing, particularly when you consider that AMC wasn’t on the Emmy map at all until Weiner arrived.
Why He Has To Win: It would take almost an act of God to keep Weiner from taking both the series and writing trophies for a fourth consecutive year, in part because the Mad Men episode for which he’s nominated — “The Suitcase” — is considered both a tour de force for star Jon Hamm and one of the show’s best hours, period. And that’s saying something. The hour was essentially a writing showcase for Weiner and an acting workshop for Hamm and co-star Elisabeth Moss. Cue the bandwagon.
Why He Can’t Possibly Win: That Mad Men is nominated twice here has the possibility of splitting the vote. There’s also the school of thought that the late momentum for Friday Night Lights could carry Jason Katims (nominated for the series finale) to an upset victory. Or, you know, the sun may not rise tomorrow. Anything is possible. Read More »

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EMMYS: Drama Series Director Handicap

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday September 18, 2011 @ 7:49am PDTTags: 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Martin Scorsese, Neil Jordan, Patty Jenkins, The Borgias, The Killing

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s 2011 Emmy coverage. Here’s his scorecard assessing the Outstanding Drama Series Director race.

Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire (HBO)
“Pilot”
Why He Was Nominated: What, are you kidding? Had Martin Scorsese not been nominated for having directed the pilot of HBO’s Prohibition-themed mob epic Boardwalk Empire, the embarrassment would have been never-ending. The legendary director has eight Oscar nominations (and a lone win in 2007 for The Departed) to his credit along with three Emmy noms (including three this year). Most important, he’s Martin Scorsese. That’s really all you need to know.
Why He Has To Win: For so many reasons. Start with the fact that, of Scorsese’s five previous Emmy noms, he won none. There’s an oversight that the TV Academy seemingly needs to correct. He’s coming off of a DGA Award triumph for Boardwalk. He’s a universally revered filmmaker and human being. And the competition, while it includes a fellow Oscar winner, isn’t overwhelming. Of course, even if it were, it wouldn’t matter. As one series director told me, “There are a lot of things I can imagine, but Martin Scorsese losing here isn’t one of them.”
Why He Can’t Possibly Win: This would only be possible had Scorsese’s name inadvertently been omitted from the voting ballot. There is a slight possibility that the Boardwalk vote could be split given the fact there are a pair of nominees, but probably not. The fact the series premiere happened a year ago also could lose him a few votes. But not many. Read More »

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EMMYS: 2011 Drama Series Overview

By NELLIE ANDREEVA AND MICHAEL AUSIELLO | Friday June 24, 2011 @ 11:39am PDTTags: 2011 Emmy Contenders, Big Love, Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire, Covert Affairs, Dexter, Emmy Outstanding Drama Series, Friday Night Lights, Fringe, Game of Thrones, Grey's Anatomy, House, Justified, Mad Men, Men of a Certain Age, Parenthood, Shameless, Sons of Anarchy, Southland, Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, The Closer, The Good Wife, The Killing, The Walking Dead, White Collar

This year’s Emmy race for Outstanding Drama Series will continue cable’s dominance in this most prestigious category. Cable claimed 10 of the 13 nomination spots over the past two years, and 13 of 19 since 2008. By contrast, cable earned a mere nine nods combined in the seven years between 2001 and 2007 when the networks still ruled. The shift from broadcast is so extreme in 2011 that CBS’ The Good Wife is considered the only network series with a solid shot to earn its second nomination in as many years. (Though not in that league, NBC/DirecTV’s Friday Night Lights, NBC’s Parenthood, and CBS’ Blue Bloods deserve consideration while ABC has entered a rebuilding phase.) The sad reality is that the broadcast networks, which just signed a new eight-year deal with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to carry the Emmys, are facing a possible first-ever shutout from the top drama series category. That’s because of the continuing strength and ambition of programming on cable — in particular, HBO in a return to form, and AMC still on a roll.

HBO’s Prohibition-era hourlong Boardwalk Empire drew the most critical attention this Emmy season because of its pedigreed producer team, headed by the legendary Martin Scorsese and creator/showrunner Terence Winter, a Sopranos alum. How interesting that the pay channel’s expensive serial will compete against another period drama from that other Sopranos alum Matt Weiner. AMC’s first acclaimed original series, Mad Men, has won this category three years running and is bidding this year to be the first series to win four in a row since NBC’s The West Wing (2000- 2003). Though the frontrunner, Mad Men could be hurt by a long hiatus.

AMC has seized the mantle from HBO as TV’s preeminent quality-drama purveyor with a pair of newcomers that could crack the series field this year: the zombie-themed hour The Walking Dead, and the dark murder mystery The Killing. Even though two-time category nominee Breaking Bad is not eligible for 2011, AMC could still land three nods, becoming the first network in 10 years to do so in this category, after NBC scored the hat trick in 2001 with The West Wing, ER, and Law & Order. No cable network has ever managed the feat to date.

And then there’s Showtime, whose Dexter is in the running for its fourth consecutive Outstanding Drama nomination, along with first-season Shameless. FX is pushing its increasingly buzzed-about Western, Justified and, to a lesser extent, Sons Of Anarchy. TNT wants attention for The Closer, Men Of A Certain Age, and Southland. USA is pressing Covert Affairs and White Collar. Here’s our assessment of the chances for this year’s drama series in alphabetical order: Read More »

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EMMYS: 10 Dramas Pick Best Episodes

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 10:37pm PDTTags: 2011 Emmy Contenders, Boardwalk Empire, Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, House, Justified, Mad Men, The Good Wife, The Killing, The Walking Dead

Drama series producers agonize over their selection of up to six episodes for 2011 Emmy nomination consideration. Here’s insight from Deadline TV Contributor Diane Haithman into why these particular episodes were thought to impress Emmy voters:

BOARDWALK EMPIRE – PILOT EPISODE
Story line: It is January 1920, on the eve of Prohibition. Atlantic City’s treasurer Enoch “Nucky”Thompson … Read More »

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‘The Killing’ Inches Up In Season 1 Finale; ‘Diva’ Dips Slightly In Viewers, Up In Demos

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 20, 2011 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: AMC, Cable Ratings, Drop Dead Diva, Drop Dead Diva Ratings, Lifetime, The Killing
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UPDATE, 1 PM: AMC’s The Killing closed out its freshman season with 2.3 million viewers tuning in for the finale last night. That was up from the two most recent episodes, which averaged 2 million and … Read More »

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AMC Renews ‘The Killing’ For Season 2

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday June 13, 2011 @ 12:14pm PDTTags: AMC, The Killing, TV Renewal
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UPDATE, 2 PM: AMC officially announced the second-season renewal of The Killing with a 13-episode order. Release below:

PREVIOUS, 12 PM: With solid ratings and strong critical acclaim, AMC’s The Killing has been a shoo-in for a second-season renewal. I hear that is now a reality. While not a breakout hit of the size of The Walking Dead, murder mystery The Killing has defied the common downward ratings trajectory for a heavily serialized drama by keeping its ratings steady while garnering cult following and major awards attention. The series’ first-season finale airs this Sunday. An adaptation of the Danish series Forbrydelsen, The Killing is produced by Fox TV Studios. Veena Sud penned the adaptation, which stars Mireille Enos. With the renewal of The Killing, 4 of AMC’s 5 series so far have gone to second season. The only one that didn’t was Rubicon.

New York, NY – June 13, 2011 – AMC announced today the renewal of “The Killing” for a 13-episode second season. From writer, executive producer and series showrunner Veena Sud (“Cold Case”), season one premiered on Sunday, April 3 to 2.7 million total viewers. The series currently reigns as the second highest premiere season for an original drama in AMC history.  “The Killing” is based on the successful Danish television series “Forbrydelsen” and is produced by Fox Television Studios and executive produced by Mikkel Bondesen (“Burn Notice”) for Fuse Entertainment.  Season one’s finale premieres Sunday, June 19 at 10pm EST.

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CABLE RATINGS: Solid Numbers For ‘Sam Axe,’ ‘Lemonade Mouth,’ ‘Storage Wars,’ More

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 18, 2011 @ 5:03pm PDTTags: Cable Ratings, Lemonade Mouth, Storage Wars, The Killing
Nellie Andreeva

On a very competitive night, with NBA playoffs and baseball luring male viewers, the premiere of USA Network’s Burn Notice movie prequel, Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, did OK, drawing 3.6 million viewers, 1.4 million of them in the adults 18-49 demographic. Also last night, A&E’s unscripted series … Read More »

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Cable Ratings: ‘Khloe & Lamar’ Starts OK, ‘Merlin’ Ends Solid, ‘Killing’ Holds Up Well

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 11, 2011 @ 5:20pm PDTTags: AMC, AMC Ratings, Cable TV Ratings, E!, Khloe & Lamar, Merlin, Syfy, The Killing, TV, TV Ratings
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The series premiere of Khloe & Lamar on E! last night drew almost 2.6 million total viewers. The show, starring Kardashian and L.A. Lakers forward Odom, fell short of the recent debut of Kourtney & Kim Take New York, which logged a record 3 million total viewers, but was in … Read More »

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Cable Ratings: Strong Starts For ‘Camelot’, ‘The Killing’, ‘The Kennedys’ & ‘The Borgias’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 4, 2011 @ 1:50pm PDTTags: Cable Ratings, The Borgias, The Kennedys, The Killing
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UPDATED: This past weekend offered a flurry of cable premieres, including The Killing on AMC, The Borgias on Showtime, Camelot on Starz and miniseries The Kennedys on ReelzChannel. The ratings for all four came in strong, with two, The Kennedys and Camelot, setting all-time records for their netw… Read More »

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TV Castings: America Ferrera To Recur On ‘Good Wife,’ Ashley Johnson On ‘Killing’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 12, 2011 @ 12:53pm PSTTags: AMC The Killing, America Ferrera, The Good Wife, The Good Wife Casting, The Killing, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals
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In her first TV series gig since the end of Ugly Betty, the ABC dramedy’s star America Ferrera is set to do an arc on CBS’ legal drama The Good Wife, TVLine reports. The WME-repped actress will play Natalie, a graduate student in whom Eli (Alan Cumming) develops a romantic interest. “We’ve been watching and loving America for years now on Ugly Betty, and it’ll be fantastic to see her take on a completely different role: especially one that puts her across from Alan Cumming,” Good Wife creator-executive producer Robert King said. Read More »

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TCA: AMC’ ‘The Killing’, A&E’s ‘Breakout Kings’ Get Premiere Dates

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 7, 2011 @ 10:25am PSTTags: A&E Breakout Kings, AMC, AMC The Killing, Breakout Kings, Cable TV, Matt Olmstead, Mireille Enos, Nick Santora, TCA, Television Critics Association, The Killing, TV
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At TCA this morning, AMC and A&E announced premiere dates for their upcoming new original scripted series.

AMC’s The Killing, a crime thriller from writer/executive producer/showrunner Veena Sud, which is based on the successful Danish series Forbrydelsen, will debut on April 3 in the Sunday 10 PM time slot. Mireille … Read More »

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It’s Official: AMC Picks Up Crime Thriller ‘The Killing’ To Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 11, 2010 @ 1:01pm PDTTags: AMC, AMC Original Series, AMC The Killing, Cable TV, Mikkel Bondesen, The Killing, Veena Sud
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PREVIOUS: AMC Nears Series Order For ‘The Killing’

The pickup extends AMC’s perfect pilot-to-series ratio, with all 5 of its scripted pilots, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Rubicon, The Walking Dead and now The Killing, gone to series. (Walking Dead’s series pickup came before the pilot was shot.) Here is AMC’s release on the 13-episode pickup for The Killing, which will now be renamed.

New York, NY – August 11, 2010 – AMC announced today a full series order for the pilot that was formerly known as The Killing, from writer and executive producer Veena Sud (Cold Case). Sud has signed on to also serve as the showrunner for the series, which is currently untitled. Set in Seattle, the series is based on the wildly successful Danish television series “Forbrydelsen” and tells the story of the murder of a young girl and the subsequent police investigation. Produced by Fox Television Studios, it is executive produced by Mikkel Bondesen (Burn Notice) for Fuse Entertainment.  Fuse’s Kristen Campo co-produces.  AMC first announced the pilot order in January 2010 with Patty Jenkins (Monster) directing the pilot. Production on the series begins this fall in Vancouver and season one consists of 13, one-hour episodes. The series is slated to premiere in 2011 on AMC.

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AMC Nears Series Order For ‘The Killing’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 4, 2010 @ 11:32am PDTTags: AMC, AMC Pilot, AMC Programming, AMC The Killing, Cable TV, Forbrydelsen, Fox TV Studios, The Killing
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: I hear that AMC is close to picking up drama pilot The Killing to series, which would extend the network’s perfect pilot to series ratio. Based on the successful Danish series Forbrydelsen, The Killing tells the story of the murder … Read More »

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