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Exclusive: Kristin Davis, one of the stars of HBO Max’s upcoming Sex and the City revival, has set up a second series project at the WarnerMedia streamer. HBO Max has put in development Deeds, a half-hour black comedy starring and executive produced by Davis, from Ellen Pompeo’s Calamity Jane.

Written by Michael Davidoff (Working), Deeds is about a desperate realtor (Davis) who embarks on an increasingly dark path when she’s forced to team up with a drug-addicted, sociopathic, young couple who soon discover that in the world of high-end, LA real estate, when it comes to immorality and cutthroat behavior, they’re outmatched.

Pompeo and Laura Holstein will executive produce for Calamity Jane. Dave Fleming also will executive produce.

Davis is set to reprise her role as Charlotte York Goldenblatt opposite Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon in HBO Max’s Sex and the City limited series revival,...

The new family comedy series from BermanBraun, ‘Greetings from Home,’ will have its U.S. premiere tonight on AOL On Relationships and AOL On Parenting. AOL and Vuguru, an independent studio founded by Michael Eisner that develops and finances award winning scripted digital and international platforms, confirmed the news. The 12-epiosde series was written by Bill Rosenthal, Bill Masters and Michael Davidoff, and was directed by Jared Drake. ‘Greetings From Home’ follows career soldier Pete Griffin, played by Dash Mihok, who loses a leg in combat oversees. He’s sent home to work a desk job at the army base near his family’s home. Meanwhile his wife, Patty, an Army nurse, is [ Read More ]

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Michael Eisner’s Vuguru and BermanBraun are partnering on the comedy web series Greetings From Home that launches on AOL on October 1. The 12-episode series is a humorous look at a military dad who’s raising two unruly teens while mom is deployed overseas. It was directed by Jared Drake and written by Bill Rosenthal, Bill Masters, and Michael Davidoff. BermanBraun’s Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun executive produced. Here’s the exclusive trailer:...

Exclusive: Clyde Phillips has signed a new two-year overall deal with Lionsgate Television. Phillips recently joined Lionsgate’s dark comedy Nurse Jackie, and his duties as executive producer/showrunner on the Showtime series will fall under his new pact with Lionsgate, which also covers development. Phillips was already talking to Lionsgate about renewing his overall deal when the opportunity to take over Nurse Jackie came up when original showrunners Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius stepped down. “All the stars aligned,” Phillips said. “I thought Nurse Jackie was really good, and I thought it could be great.” He also liked the prospect of working with Nurse Jackie star/exec producer Edie Falco and the fact that he was not asked to just come in and “babysit” an established series. “I was asked to reboot the show, and that’s a challenge I willingly and happily accept.” Related: Showtime Renews ‘Nurse Jackie...

SyFy apparently has been stashing all the money it makes from professional wrastling since the network announced (I refuse to use the word "unveil," it sounds ritualistic, creepy, and moist) its new lineup, consisting of more original content than they've ever hosted before. Well, they use the hyperbolic "in history" which I just don't think should be used for a network that wouldn't even be able to drink for another three years if it was a person. Let's take a few choice bits from the press release and then flip through the new shows.

The press release starts with: "Continuing the sizzling momentum of the Syfy global brand evolution, which has sparked imagination-driven hit series and double-digit growth in younger, upscale audiences as well as diverse new business ventures..."

Can momentum really sizzle? I mean, strictly from a science point of view, momentum is the product of mass and velocity...

                        

Syfy is growing by leaps and bounds! We reported yesterday about Tommy Lee getting his own show on the cable network and  now we have a whole crap load of announcements. Syfy really is imagining greater and more!

From the Press Release:

Syfy Unveils Largest Original Programming Slate In History Featuring 14 New Series And Events  

Led By Premiere Of Alphas, Four Scripted Series Launch In July - Most Ever In A Single Month 

Unscripted Development Slate Includes Projects With Tommy Lee And Deepak Chopra

 

New York - March 22, 2011 - Continuing the sizzling momentum of the Syfy global brand evolution, which has sparked imagination-driven hit series and double-digit growth in younger, upscale audiences as well as diverse new business ventures, Syfy President Dave Howe today will introduce the largest original programming slate in the channel's 18-year history, highlighted by 14 new original series and events comprising more than 100 hours.

The 2011 Syfy Upfront...

Syfy, which is meeting advertisers today at its upfront presentation in New York, continues to be focused on launching a single-camera comedy series. After developing half-hour projects for the past year, Syfy has narrowed the field for a potential pilot order. It includes supernatural comedy In the Dark, which joins Three Inches, a half-hour version of Syfy's hourlong pilot, and previously announced Me and Lee. In the Dark follows a misfit group of third-tier ghost hunters whose misguided efforts tend to highlight their incompetence rather than paranormal activity. From Universal Cable Prods., In the Dark is being written by Michael Davidoff and Bill Rosenthal, who are exec producing with Dan Taberski through Idiot Box Prods. In Three Inches, professional daydreamer and underachiever Walter Spackman is struck by lightning and develops a unique "super" power -- the ability to move any object using just his mind ... but only a distance of three inches.