EXCLUSIVE: Fox has preemptively bought Magicians, a drama series adaptation of Lev Grossman’s popular fantasy novel, with a script commitment plus penalty. It will be written by X-Men: First Class and Thor co-writers Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz and produced by Michael London (Milk), Shawn Levy and Michael Adelstein. Based on Grossman’s book, which is described as Harry Potter for grown-ups, the one-hour drama follows a group of 20-somethings in New York 
who study magic and have access to a magical world. London had optioned the novel, which was published in 2009, while 21 Laps/Adelstein had a deal with Miller and Stentz, who have extensive TV background having worked on such series as Fringe and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. All joined forces on the series project, which will be executive produced by Miller, Stentz, London, Levy, Adelstein and Becky Clements. Following the success of The Magicians, Grossman wrote a sequel, The Magician King, which was published in August.
Contemporary dramas with fairytale elements are hot for a second consecutive broadcast development season. 
The previous one yielded 2 new series in the genre, ABC’s Once Upon a Time and NBC’s Grimm. This time around, Magicians joins a project from Michael Green, which recently landed a put pilot … Read More
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Bruce Miller Joins Syfy Series ‘Alphas’ As New Showrunner
EXCLUSIVE: Syfy’s drama Alphas is heading into Season 2 with a new showrunner. Bruce Miller has joined the series starring David Strathairn as executive producer/showrunner. He replaces Ira Steven Behr, who is departing after running the series in its first season. Alphas, from BermanBraun, Universal Cable Prods. and co-creators Zak Penn and Michael Karnow, follows a team of ordinary citizens who possess extraordinary and unusual mental skills. It was renewed for a second season earlier this month. Miller will serve as an executive producer on the show alongside Penn and BermanBraun’
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Gossip Girl Clothing Line?
Share..It most likely was inevitable, nonetheless, MyUniqueGiftIdea, is still a bit nonplussed by the latest news. What is the news you ask? Gossip Girl is becoming a clothing line. Gossip Girl, according to Wikipedia is: ‘
Spike TV Renews ‘Bar Rescue’ For Season 2
Spike TV has picked up unscripted series Bar Rescue for a second season with a 10-episode order. The series has grown in the ratings from its July premiere, which drew 742,000 viewers. This past Sunday’
‘Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills’ Season Premiere Solid But Not Huge
Given the intense media coverage of the recent suicide of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills co-star Russell Armstrong, there were high ratings expectations for the Monday season premiere of the Bravo reality series. The second season opener did solid business on a holiday night, drawing 2.2 million viewers. But that was nowhere near a record — it as down 21% from the show’s first season finale. Still, it was up 42% from the series’ debut last year.
Kate Winslet & Evan Rachel Wood @ “Mildred Pierce” Premiere in Venice
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“Mildred Pierce” is a five-part miniseries that first started airing on HBO earlier this year on March 27. All parts have already aired, so you gotta watch the entire series either on Blu-ray or stream at HBO GO. The series stars Kate Winslet in the title role, alongside Guy Pearce and the deliciously pasty Evan Rachel Wood. Here’s more juice:
Mildred Pierce depicts an overprotective, self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband, opening a restaurant of her own and falling in love with a new man, all the while trying to earn her narcissistic daughter’s love and respect.
The plot of the miniseries follows Cain’s original story, dispensing with the murder plotline that was created for the film with Crawford. [Source]
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Stephen Gaghan’s Backstrom Cop Drama Goes To Fox With Put Pilot Commitment
He has been described as a detective version of Dr. Gregory House. Now Evert Backstrom is heading to the same network that houses the brilliant but flawed doctor. After a heated bidding, Fox has landed the TV series adaptation of the Backstrom books by renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson with a big put pilot commitment. I hear every network went after the project, produced by 20th Century Fox TV. The studio won the rights to the books in a bidding war earlier this month for Gaghan, who is under an overall deal at the studio. The project is based on the central character in Persson’
‘Suits’ Showrunner Sean Jablonski To Depart, Creator Aaron Korsh Promoted
There will be a change at the helm of USA Network’s hot new legal drama Suits, which was recently renewed for a second season. Sean Jablonski, who served as executive producer/showrunner for the first season, is leaving. He will be succeeded by the series’ creator Aaron Korsh who is being promoted from co-executive producer to executive producer and new showrunner.
Jablonski was brought in for the series’ launch as Korsh had no producing experience and had only held staff writer jobs on 2 short-lived series, The Deep End and Notes From the Underbelly, before he created Suits. But during the first season, he impressed USA brass with his progress and has been deemed ready to take over the show next season. It is common for TV networks to bring in experienced showrunners for the initial order of a new series until the novice creators learn the ropes. CBS did that with its awards heavyweight The Good Wife, which was run by Dee Johnson for the first 13 episodes, with co-creators Michelle and Robert King taking over after that. Korsh will executive produce Suits alongside Doug Liman and David Bartis.
Little House On the Prairie Star Melissa Gilbert Seeking Divorce from Husband
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Television Actor Michael Showers Body Found Floating in Mississippi River
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Jon Turteltaub Signs ABC Studios Deal
EXCLUSIVE: Jon Turteltaub has signed a two-year overall deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, Turteltaub will develop and produce series projects through his Junction Entertainment banner, which has been run by Karim Zreik and Dan Shotz for more than a decade now. On the TV side, Turteltaub spent the past 5 years at CBS TV Studios, since he directed/executive produced the pilot for the cult CBS/CBS Studios drama series Jericho, which he also executive produced. For the past 4 years, Turteltaub and Junction Entertainment were under an overall deal at CBS Studios where the company developed and produced such series as the CBS horror drama Haper’s Island and, most recently, the upcoming USA Network show Common Law. On the feature side, National Treasure director Turteltaub, repped by WME and David Lonner, most recently directed The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
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Hammond On Emmy's Hottest Races: Comedy – Can 'Glee' Come Back & Will Steve Carell Finally Get Some Emmy Love?
We’ve tackled the hot races in Movie/Minis and Drama series. Now it’s time to laugh. And it is the Big Four Networks who are having the last one.
Comedy is the one place the four broadcast networks reallly shine this Emmy season as they have reversed the drama series trend to cable by nabbing all six off the nomination slots for Best Comedy Series with each net represented in the category. It’s an encouraging trend upward for a format that was almost comatose on the nets just a few short seasons ago, but crafty scheduling including the continued revitalization of
NBC’s once – and now future - ”Must See” Thursday night sitcoms, ABC’s major critical and growing audience smash Modern Family (which won this category in its first season last year) and CBS’ successful switch of The Big Bang Theory to compete on Thursdays means good times for the nets on Emmy night. And then there’s Fox’s Glee in there too. We’ll get to that.
Ballots are due back next Friday August 26th from the select group of Television Academy members voting in this and the other major comedy categories. Here’s a primer for all of you and anyone else trying to figure out where these races are headed.
Best Comedy Series
Despite Steve Carell’s much talked about swan song on The Office and the first ever nod in this category for The … Read More
MTV Renews Comedy Series 'Awkward' For Second Season
MTV has renewed freshman teen comedy Awkward for a second season. The news comes on the heels of the the series, created and executive produced by Lauren Iungerich, hitting a series high 2.0 rating in persons 12-34 last week, up a whopping 21% from the week before. “The show is really resonating with out young audiences, said MTV programming head David Janollari. “What I like about the show is that it first and foremost is a comedy but it’s also not afraid to be honest and emotional. It’s all about the voice of Jenna that Lauren Iungerich so brilliantly created, and with Ashley Rickards, we have an immensely watchable TV star who gives Jenna all the depth and humor and pathos and sympathy we’
MTV Cancels 'Hard Times Of RJ Berger'
It was the first of MTV’s new generation of scripted series. Now The Hard Times of RJ Berger has been canceled after 2 seasons, series co-creator Seth Grahame-Smith tweeted earlier today. The series, which Grahame-Smith co-created with David Katzenberg, launched with 2.8 million viewers last year when it aired after the MTV Movie Awards. Its second season premiere hit a series high of 3.1 million viewers airing behind Jersey Shore. But by the end of the second season run in May, the series’ viewership had dropped below 1 million. RJ Berger, which stars Paul Iacono as a well-endowed high-school student, is the second MTV scripted series to be canceled following the axing of Skins after one season. Teen Wolf has been renewed for a second season, and new comedy Awkward appears a lock for a second-season renewal after hitting a series high in persons 12-34 this week. Coming up is the premiere of Death Valley on August 29 and a post-Video Music Awards sneak of I Just Want My Pants Back, and the October launch of animated comedies Beavis and Butt-head and Good Vibes. The Inbetweeners is in production for a 2012 debut.
Cinemax Prepping Amish Country Series Executive Produced by Alan Ball
After relaunching original primetime programming with 3 action series — Strike Back, The Transporter and The Sector, all done as international co-productions — Cinemax is taking a different approach with another drama project eyed for a series order, Banshee. The project, described as Walking Tall meets History of Violence, did not come to Cinemax via the international co-production route but was developed at sister pay cable network HBO and has Alan Ball attached as an executive producer. According to the LATimes, Banshee, written by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler, is set in a small town in Pennsylvania Amish Country and features an enigmatic 
ex-con/martial arts expert posing as a murdered sheriff who imposes his own brand of justice while also cooking up plans that serve his own interests. Banshee, executive produced by Ball, Tropper, Schickler and Peter Macdissi, is eying a spring start of production. It will not keep Ball away from his hit HBO series True Blood. Ball is already working with the show’s writing staff on scripts for Season 5, whose official pickup is imminent.
FishBowl To Produce Animated Web Series Starring Dave Coulier And Richard Kind
EXCLUSIVE: Vin Di Bona and Bruce Gersh’s FishBowl Worldwide Media has begun production on a pilot episode for The Potts, an original animated web series. The show, whose voice cast includes Dave Coulier and Richard Kind, follows a family in search of fame and fortune who will do just about anything to get on reality TV. David & Goliath founder and Illustrator Todd Goldman and How I Met Your Mother executive producer Chuck Tatham created The Potts, which is being executive produced by DiBona, Gersh and FishBowl EVP Creative Affairs Susan Levison. The series will launch on YouTube where FishBowl’s 2010 Web series CuteWinFail has received 25 million viewers. Talks with additional digital distributors are underway.
20th TV Developing Roseanne Barr Sitcom
After bringing one 1990s ABC sitcom star, Home Improvement’s Tim Allen, back to primetime with a new comedy series, 20th Century Fox TV is looking to do the same for another, Roseanne Barr. The studio has signed a script deal with the former Roseanne star for a half-hour comedy she will co-write with her boyfriend Johnny Argent. The project, titled Downwardly Mobile, will explore the same territory as Roseanne, revolving around an optimistic blue-collar family living in hard times. Search is underway for a showrunner to board the project before it’s taken out to the networks. Barr and Argent are executive producing with Steven Greener who also executive produces Barr’s Lifetime reality series Roseanne’s Nuts.
Season Five to Be Eurekas last
A Syfy representative has told The Hollywood Reporter that the original decision to give ‘