The EFM (European Film Market) continues to heat up, with another promising project hitting the scene. Will Smith will star in the biggest-budgeted project at the show, Sugar Bandits. With a reported budget that circles $80 million, Sugar Bandits follows “a former Special Forces solider who joins an elite, vigilante squad aiming to wipe out the drug trade in Boston, but soon learns things are not what they seem.”
Sugar Bandits has sat on the Hollywood sidelines with Universal setting director Joe Carnahan on the project. However, it’s now heading to EFM, where filmmakers scope out independent projects. Sugar Bandits is based on the screenplay and novel Devils In Exile by Chuck Hogan, with Smith and Jon Mone producing through Westbrook Studios. Ryan Shimizaki oversees the project, with Stuart Ford joining the production effort through AGC Studios, which is financing the film entirely. Additionally, Richard Abate produces via 3 Arts Entertainment.
Sugar Bandits has sat on the Hollywood sidelines with Universal setting director Joe Carnahan on the project. However, it’s now heading to EFM, where filmmakers scope out independent projects. Sugar Bandits is based on the screenplay and novel Devils In Exile by Chuck Hogan, with Smith and Jon Mone producing through Westbrook Studios. Ryan Shimizaki oversees the project, with Stuart Ford joining the production effort through AGC Studios, which is financing the film entirely. Additionally, Richard Abate produces via 3 Arts Entertainment.
- 2/14/2024
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
ABC’s Freeform is set to drop another comedy series. Titled Unrelated, the show is created by three TV creatives: Ranada Shepard, Casey Johnson, and David Windsor. Shepard is best known for his work on Born Again Virgin, Connecting…, and Besties. Johnson and Windsor, on the other hand, previously worked on shows like This Is Us, The Real O’Neals, and Don’t Trust the B— In Apartment 23. Here’s a description of the storyline, according to Deadline: “Self-absorbed Jesi and conservative, over-achiever Becca go from strangers to sisters when they find out through a genetic testing company that they share the same birth mother in this contemporary ensemble
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- 5/27/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
Exclusive: Meg DeLoatch has left CBS’ The Neighborhood after serving as executive producer and showrunner on the current fourth season, which has wrapped production. Search is under way for a new showrunner of the popular multi-camera comedy, which already has been renewed for a fifth season. DeLoatch will focus on development under her overall deal with The Neighborhood producer CBS Studios.
Family Reunion creator/executive producer DeLoatch joined The Neighborhood last June, replacing series creator/executive producer/showrunner Jim Reynolds, who exited the comedy series, headlined by Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield, at the end of Season 3.
Changes in the show’s writing staff are likely once a new showrunner is named; DeLoatch released all but one of The Neighborhood‘s Season 3 writers when she came aboard.
Comedy veteran DeLoatch created and executive produces the Netflix multi-camera sitcom Family Reunion, for which she has received two NAACP Image Awards...
Family Reunion creator/executive producer DeLoatch joined The Neighborhood last June, replacing series creator/executive producer/showrunner Jim Reynolds, who exited the comedy series, headlined by Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield, at the end of Season 3.
Changes in the show’s writing staff are likely once a new showrunner is named; DeLoatch released all but one of The Neighborhood‘s Season 3 writers when she came aboard.
Comedy veteran DeLoatch created and executive produces the Netflix multi-camera sitcom Family Reunion, for which she has received two NAACP Image Awards...
- 3/26/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Christian James (Cerebrum) is set for a key recurring role opposite Daniel Ezra, Samantha Logan and Michael Evans Behling in CW’s All American.
James will play Wade Waters, full of East Coast privilege, Wade Waters is the arrogant but talented quarterback for Gau (Golden Angeles University). He enjoys his position of power over the freshmen and makes a point to haze them by putting them in uncomfortable situations and using team status to pressure the new guys into questionable choices.
In Season 4, Spencer (Ezra) is back for his senior year at South Crenshaw High with Billy Baker (Tyler Diggs) by his side as the new head coach. With South Crenshaw High saved, and the controversial State Championship behind him, Spencer has his eyes set on the All American game and his future with the NFL, which starts with Toledo State. But first, the Beverly and South Crenshaw students...
James will play Wade Waters, full of East Coast privilege, Wade Waters is the arrogant but talented quarterback for Gau (Golden Angeles University). He enjoys his position of power over the freshmen and makes a point to haze them by putting them in uncomfortable situations and using team status to pressure the new guys into questionable choices.
In Season 4, Spencer (Ezra) is back for his senior year at South Crenshaw High with Billy Baker (Tyler Diggs) by his side as the new head coach. With South Crenshaw High saved, and the controversial State Championship behind him, Spencer has his eyes set on the All American game and his future with the NFL, which starts with Toledo State. But first, the Beverly and South Crenshaw students...
- 2/18/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dave and Pitch alum Meagan Holder has joined the lead cast of Fox’s upcoming musical drama Monarch. She will appear opposite Susan Sarandon, Albie Roman, Anna Friel, Trace Adkins and Beth Ditto.
Created by Melissa London Hilfers, Monarch is described as a Texas-sized, multigenerational musical drama about America’s first family of country music, the Romans. The Romans are headed by the insanely talented, but tough as nails Queen of Country Music Dottie Cantrell Roman (Sarandon). Along with her beloved husband, Albie (Adkins), Dottie has created a country music dynasty. But even though the Roman name is synonymous with authenticity, the very foundation of their success is a lie. And when their reign as country royalty is put in jeopardy, heir to the crown Nicolette “Nicky” Roman (Friel) will stop at nothing to protect her family’s legacy, while ensuring her own quest for stardom.
Holder joins the cast as Kayla Taylor-Roman.
Created by Melissa London Hilfers, Monarch is described as a Texas-sized, multigenerational musical drama about America’s first family of country music, the Romans. The Romans are headed by the insanely talented, but tough as nails Queen of Country Music Dottie Cantrell Roman (Sarandon). Along with her beloved husband, Albie (Adkins), Dottie has created a country music dynasty. But even though the Roman name is synonymous with authenticity, the very foundation of their success is a lie. And when their reign as country royalty is put in jeopardy, heir to the crown Nicolette “Nicky” Roman (Friel) will stop at nothing to protect her family’s legacy, while ensuring her own quest for stardom.
Holder joins the cast as Kayla Taylor-Roman.
- 9/14/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox has put in development Every Other Weekend, a half-hour single-camera comedy from Adrienne Carter (Everybody Hates Chris), Will Packer Media and Fox Entertainment’s Sidecar Content Accelerator.
Written by Carter, Every Other Weekend follows four single moms who try to reclaim their fun, sexy selves two weekends a month after discovering that their custody weekends are in sync.
Carter executive produces with Will Packer and Sheila Ducksworth for Will Packer Media. SideCar Content Accelerator is the studio.
Every Other Weekend is inspired by Carter’s three-episode web series Every Other Weekend, executive produced by Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) and starring Carter, Ryan Michelle Bathé (This is Us) and Kimberly Hébert Gregory (Vice Principals).
Carter was a writer-producer on Everybody Hates Chris and also wrote on the TV shows Eve and NBC’s Las Vegas as well as the TV One comedy Born Again Virgin. She also wrote and directed Hysterical Pregnancy,...
Written by Carter, Every Other Weekend follows four single moms who try to reclaim their fun, sexy selves two weekends a month after discovering that their custody weekends are in sync.
Carter executive produces with Will Packer and Sheila Ducksworth for Will Packer Media. SideCar Content Accelerator is the studio.
Every Other Weekend is inspired by Carter’s three-episode web series Every Other Weekend, executive produced by Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us) and starring Carter, Ryan Michelle Bathé (This is Us) and Kimberly Hébert Gregory (Vice Principals).
Carter was a writer-producer on Everybody Hates Chris and also wrote on the TV shows Eve and NBC’s Las Vegas as well as the TV One comedy Born Again Virgin. She also wrote and directed Hysterical Pregnancy,...
- 11/19/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Real O’Neals co-creators Casey Johnson and David Windsor have come on board Freeform’s upcoming multi-camera comedy series Besties as co-creators, writers, executive producers and showrunners. They will co-create and write the series alongside original co-creator/executive producer Ranada Shepard through ABC Signature, the cable/streaming division of ABC Studios.
Freeform in May announced a straight-to-series order for Besties, which was to be created and executive produced by Kenya Barris, creator of the cable network’s breakout single-camera comedy series Grown-ish, and Born Again Virgin creator Shepard. In light of Barris’ exit from his ABC Studios deal for a pact at Netflix, he will no longer be involved as a writer but will remain an executive producer.
Here is a more detailed logline for the series from the one announced in May: Self-absorbed Jesi and conservative, over-achiever Becca go from strangers to sisters when they find out...
Freeform in May announced a straight-to-series order for Besties, which was to be created and executive produced by Kenya Barris, creator of the cable network’s breakout single-camera comedy series Grown-ish, and Born Again Virgin creator Shepard. In light of Barris’ exit from his ABC Studios deal for a pact at Netflix, he will no longer be involved as a writer but will remain an executive producer.
Here is a more detailed logline for the series from the one announced in May: Self-absorbed Jesi and conservative, over-achiever Becca go from strangers to sisters when they find out...
- 10/29/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: We’ll be seeing much more of Cecile Horton in the upcoming season of the CW’s The Flash. Danielle Nicolet, who has recurred heavily during the past two seasons, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming fifth season.
Nicolet’s Horton is the district attorney of Central City and love interest to Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), whose mind-reading superpowers arose when she became pregnant. She was introduced in a two-episode arc at the end of Season 1 before returning as a recurring character at the beginning of the third season. Nicolet has appeared in a total of 20 episodes of The Flash so far.
Based on the DC characters, The Flash is executive produced by Greg Berlanti, showrunner Todd Helbing and Sarah Schechter. The series is produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Nicolet, who starred as Jenna in Born Again Virgin, most recently appeared on...
Nicolet’s Horton is the district attorney of Central City and love interest to Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), whose mind-reading superpowers arose when she became pregnant. She was introduced in a two-episode arc at the end of Season 1 before returning as a recurring character at the beginning of the third season. Nicolet has appeared in a total of 20 episodes of The Flash so far.
Based on the DC characters, The Flash is executive produced by Greg Berlanti, showrunner Todd Helbing and Sarah Schechter. The series is produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.
Nicolet, who starred as Jenna in Born Again Virgin, most recently appeared on...
- 6/13/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Frances Conroy is mixing it up with the Bluths: The Six Feet Under actress will guest-star during Season 5 of Arrested Development (debuting Tuesday, May 29 on Netflix).
Per EW.com, Conroy will play Lottie Dottie — yes, that’s right — a district attorney who is prosecuting the case involving the disappearance of Liza Minnelli’s Lucille 2.
Conroy’s recent TV credits include American Horror Story, The Mist, Casual and How I Met Your Mother.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* Freeform has given a series order to the multicam sitcom Besties, from Kenya Barris (black-ish) and Ranada Shepard (Born Again Virgin...
Per EW.com, Conroy will play Lottie Dottie — yes, that’s right — a district attorney who is prosecuting the case involving the disappearance of Liza Minnelli’s Lucille 2.
Conroy’s recent TV credits include American Horror Story, The Mist, Casual and How I Met Your Mother.
Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…
* Freeform has given a series order to the multicam sitcom Besties, from Kenya Barris (black-ish) and Ranada Shepard (Born Again Virgin...
- 5/15/2018
- TVLine.com
Following the breakout success of Kenya Barris’ Grown-ish, Freeform has ordered a second comedy series from the Black-ish creator, this time multi-camera. The pickup is part of the upfront announcements by Freeform which is sharing an upfront presentation with sibling ABC this season.
Created by Barris and Born Again Virgin creator Ranada Shepard, Besties explores friendship, identity, race, and class as two lifelong best friends use each other to get through some of the toughest challenges that they will ever face – figuring out who they are and who they want to be.
Barris and Shepard executive produce via ABC Signature Studios, the cable/streaming arm of ABC Studios where Barris is under an overall deal. (He has been in talks to exit his pact.)
The series order for Besties comes exactly a year after Freeform picked up the pilot for Grown-ish, a spinoff from Black-ish originally developed and ordered by ABC,...
Created by Barris and Born Again Virgin creator Ranada Shepard, Besties explores friendship, identity, race, and class as two lifelong best friends use each other to get through some of the toughest challenges that they will ever face – figuring out who they are and who they want to be.
Barris and Shepard executive produce via ABC Signature Studios, the cable/streaming arm of ABC Studios where Barris is under an overall deal. (He has been in talks to exit his pact.)
The series order for Besties comes exactly a year after Freeform picked up the pilot for Grown-ish, a spinoff from Black-ish originally developed and ordered by ABC,...
- 5/15/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Diana DeGarmo and Ace Young, former American Idol contestants and real-life couple, have signed on to star in Hit Her With The Skates, the musical that premiered at New Jersey’s Hamilton Stage last season and is eying an Off Broadway production for the fall.
The musical by Christine Rea and Rick Briskin, directed by Michael Schiralli, had a sold-out run at the Rahway, New Jersey theater last season, getting a boost of attention from critics and ticket sales.
Rea, the creator and lead producer, called DeGarmo and Young “powerhouse vocalists and they’re charming people who will knock the pop/rock vocals out of the park and deliver on the comic, whimsical demands” of the show, a musical in the vein of Grease and Xanadu.
The logline: Set in 1994, Hit Her With The Skates follows pop star Jacqueline Miller as she headlines her first national tour and returns...
The musical by Christine Rea and Rick Briskin, directed by Michael Schiralli, had a sold-out run at the Rahway, New Jersey theater last season, getting a boost of attention from critics and ticket sales.
Rea, the creator and lead producer, called DeGarmo and Young “powerhouse vocalists and they’re charming people who will knock the pop/rock vocals out of the park and deliver on the comic, whimsical demands” of the show, a musical in the vein of Grease and Xanadu.
The logline: Set in 1994, Hit Her With The Skates follows pop star Jacqueline Miller as she headlines her first national tour and returns...
- 4/18/2018
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox has given a put pilot commitment to a single-camera half-hour comedy series starring standup comedian Ms. Pat, which is executive produced by the Empire duo of co-creator/executive producer Lee Daniels and executive producer Brian Grazer. Written by Alyson Fouse (Born Again Virgin), the project, from Imagine TV, Lee Daniels Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV, is based on Ms. Pat's stand-up comedy and upcoming memoir, which tells the story of a most…...
- 8/10/2016
- Deadline TV
Mo McRae (Wild, Murder In The First), Meagan Holder (Born Again Virgin) and The Neighbors‘ alum Tim Jo are set as series regulars opposite Kylie Bunbury and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Pitch, Fox's baseball drama pilot written by Dan Fogelman and Rick Singer and directed by Paris Barclay. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, follows Ginny (Bunbury), a young female pitcher who defies the odds when she becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues. McRae will play Blip…...
- 2/23/2016
- Deadline TV
TV One has announced the return of its hit series "Born Again Virgin." The scripted comedy returns with more dating adventures of three 30-something best friends, on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. A week before that return, tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 25, TV One will run a "Born Again Virgin" marathon (from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Et/Pt). In addition, TV One is also celebrating "Happy Tanks-giving" during the marathon (2-5 p.m. Et/Pt) with special back-to-back episodes featuring Durrell "Tank" Babbs, who plays Donovan. "Born Again Virgin" returns to find that Jenna has miraculously kept busy blogging about her newly adopted sex-fast and has...
- 11/24/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
On the heels of week-to-week ratings gains in the key women 18-34 demo, TV One has ordered a 12-episode second season for scripted comedy series Born Again Virgin for premiere in early 2016. The series follows the exploits of Jenna (Danielle Nicolet), a thirtysomething writer who decides to become celebate after years of unsatisfactory dating. She decides to blog about her newly adopted sex-fast and share the hilarious "sexcapades" of her girlfriends – Kelly (Meagan…...
- 9/8/2015
- Deadline TV
Pushing its way into original scripted programming, TV One will premiere its new scripted comedy, "Born Again Virgin," on Wednesday, August 5 at 10Pm/Et. The series will follow the dating lives of three 30-something best friends - Jenna (played by Danielle Nicolet), a writer who decides to become celibate after a stream of unsuccessful dates and hook-ups leave her wanting more meaningful relationships; and her girlfriends, Kelly (Meagan Holder), a successful publicist with a trail of bad relationships, and Tara (Eva Marcille), a budding actress who lives a celebrity-inspired lifestyle. Joining then is Donovan (Durrell "Tank" Babbs), their "hot...
- 7/27/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Pushing its way into original scripted programming, TV One has announced the debut of its new scripted comedy "Born Again Virgin," which the network will premiere on Wednesday, August 5 at 10Pm/Et. The series will follow the dating lives of three 30-something best friends - Jenna (played by Danielle Nicolet), a writer who decides to become celibate after a stream of unsuccessful dates and hook-ups leave her wanting more meaningful relationships; and her girlfriends, Kelly (Meagan Holder), a successful publicist with a trail of bad relationships, and Tara (Eva Marcille), a budding actress who lives a celebrity-inspired lifestyle. Joining then is Donovan (Durrell...
- 7/10/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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