Nellie's insightful analysis and thorough coverage of TV deals, pilot season, markets and executives makes her one of the most respected journalists covering the television business today. Before joining Deadline in 2010, Nellie worked for 10 years at The Hollywood Reporter where she covered TV for the trade's online and print editions. Before that, she worked as a journalist covering television and radio for Investor’s Business Daily. Nellie’s interest in the television industry extends back to her homeland of Bulgaria, where she first became a journalist and then a producer, writer and director for Bulgarian National Television.
EXCLUSIVE: CBS has assembled an all-star, all-female creative team for Cold Shoulder, a cop drama from two former broadcast network toppers-turned-producers, Nina Tassler and Gail Berman, Little Women producer Denise Di Novi, Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante and former CSI: New York showrunner Pam Veasey.
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Daybreak,Netflix’s post-apocalyptic dramedy starring Matthew Broderick, will not be getting a second season. Series co-creator/executive producer Aron Eli Coleite revealed the news of the series’ cancelation on Twitter. It comes a month and a half after Daybreak launched on Oct. 24.
“No one is as heartbroken as we…
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman are no longer proceeding with development of Ghost Ship, a TV series about the 2016 fire that broke out in a former warehouse that had been converted into an artist collective, claiming the lives of 36 people.
The project was announced last Tuesday as part of a development slate the…
EXCLUSIVE: Disney-owned ABC has put in developmentEpic, a romantic anthology series from former Once Upon a Time writer Brigette Hales, series’ creators/executive producers/showrunners Eddy Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, their Kitsis & Horowitz Productions and ABC Signature Studios.
Epic is a romantic anthology series set…
The classic 1989s buddy cop comedy feature Turner & Hooch is getting a TV series treatment for Disney+. I have learned that the Disney streaming platform is working on a Turner & Hooch TV series adaptation from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix and 20th Century Fox TV where Nix is under an overall deal.
Details about the…
Another veteran HBO senior communications executive is leaving the premium cable network. Mara Mikialian, who currently serves as SVP of Media Relations, has decided to depart HBO after a 36-year tenure. Her last day will be Jan. 13.
Mikialian’s departure follows the exits of her long-time colleagues, Nancy Lesser…
ICM Partners has received an investment from New York-based private equity firm Crestview Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the agency confirmed the ICM partnership will maintain majority ownership, with Crestview Partners becoming a minority owner. According to sources, Crestview paid about $150…
EXCLUSIVE: Sixteen-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg is the subject of Greta (working title), an original documentary that will premiere on Hulu in 2020. The documentary is produced by Cecilia Nessen and Frederik Heinig via B-Reel Films and directed by Nathan Grossman.
The logline: In August 2018, Thunberg, a…
Amid the countdown to the Season 2 premiere of You on Netflix, there is more potential good news for fans of the Penn Badgley drama, created/executive produced by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble.
The latest round of California tax credit winners were revealed this morning, and a third season of You was awarded $7.213…
The Dec. 7 edition of Saturday Night Live, with Scarlett Johansson in her sixth turn as host and musical guest Niall Horan, drew a 4.0 Live+Same Day household rating in the 44 local metered markets and a 1.7 adults 18-49 rating in the 25 markets with local people meters. That was off in households and even in the…
Two years afterSaturday Night Live skewered Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movies in a cut-for-time sketch, NBC’s program this holiday season aired a new parody of Hallmark’s signature franchise.
In fact, tonight’s skit was somewhat of a sequel to the 2017 sketch, featuring some of the same Hallmark Christmas movie…
Saturday Night Live is a topical program, and this week Avengers: Endgame supervillain Thanos dominated pop culture after President Donald Trump tweeted a campaign video featuring him as Thanos using his reality-warping snap to turn leading Democratic lawmakers into dust.
With Thanos in the headlines and a real…
