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NBC has given a third season order to the “Will & Grace” revival that has performed well for the network this season.

“Will & Grace” has been renewed for an 18-episode third season. The show was already renewed for season two, which will debut in the fall. NBC has upped the season two order to 18 episodes, up from 13. The series — which reunited stars Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally with creators/showrunners Max Mutchnick and David Kohan — hails from Universal Television.

“Will & Grace” is among the more successful of the slew of series reboots in recent years. The show has averaged a solid 9.8 million viewers and 3.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demo in Nielsen’s live-plus-seven ratings since its fall debut in the Thursday 9 p.m. time slot.

“As far as I’m concerned, we can’t get enough of ‘Will & Grace’ and 23 more episodes is music to my ears,” said NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt. “We’re eternally grateful that Debra, Eric, Sean and Megan feel the same way and wanted to keep this good thing going. I’m overwhelmed by the euphoric response the new show has received from the press and the audience, and my hat is off to the unrivaled writing team of Max Mutchnick and David Kohan, as well as the brilliant directing of Jimmy Burrows, for consistently delivering one of the best shows on television.”

The season-three renewal was unveiled as cast and producers gathered Saturday night for a panel session held as part of the Paley Center for Media’s Paleyfest at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre.

SVOD service Acorn TV has ordered a London-set crime drama from Suspects creator Paul Marquess as it ramps up the amount of original shows it commissions.

The digital platform has commissioned London Kills from Marquess’ production company PGMTV. The five-part drama, which will start production in May, will tell the story of a team of top murder detectives and will be shot like a documentary. Each episode will feature a different murder in addition to a serialized story involving the lead detective’s missing wife.

London Kills will launch in the winter. Written by Marquess, who also created iconic British soap Footballers’ Wives, along with Sarah-Louise Hawkins, Jake Riddell, Sally Tatchell and Claire Fryer, it will be distributed internationally by ZDF Enterprise.

It comes after Acorn TV ordered its first original, the second season of British crime drama Agatha Raisin as well as Australian co-production Sando.

Marquess said, “I’m delighted to be making London Kills for Acorn. I’m convinced that London is the perfect backdrop for a contemporary police series. Shane Murphy loved the idea from the first pitch – and he and his team have been brilliantly supportive throughout the process. With acutely drawn regular characters and a variety of compelling murder investigations – as well as an intriguing serial narrative running right through it – London Kills is shaping up to be a sharp, smart, timely procedural drama. We can’t wait to start shooting.”

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Locke & Key gets pilot order from Hulu.


Locke & Key gets another chance at a series after Fox ordered then dropped it a few years ago.



http://tvline.com/2017/04/20/locke-and-key-pilot-order-hulu-carlton-cuse/

The agency, which represents showrunner Cuse and director Andy Muschietti, has been holding screenings for the pilot after Hulu's surprising pass on the beloved comic from IDW Entertainment.

IDW's beloved Locke and Key graphic novel has hit yet another speed bump in its road to the screen.

Hulu has passed on the drama based on Joe Hill's graphic novel from showrunner Carlton Cuse. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that WME, which represents Cuse and hot director Andy Muschietti (It), and IDW Entertainment are holding screenings for the potential series in a bid to find another home for the project.

Sources say Hulu executives, including new chief content officer Joel Stillerman (who launched The Walking Dead on AMC) and senior vp Craig Erwich — who greenlighted the pilot — wanted to pick up the project, but new CEO Randy Freer (who joined in October) had the final say and insisted on bypassing the drama about a mother (Frances O'Connor) who moves her family into a haunted house after the patriarch is brutally murdered. Sources say Freer ultimately did not like the show after Hulu paid to keep the writers room open long after the pilot. Seven scripts have already been completed. Hulu declined comment.

That's when WME came in. The agency teamed with IDW and set up screenings of the pilot for multiple outlets. Co-star Samantha Mathis acknowledged the project was being taken out elsewhere in a recent interview at SXSW, noting Locke and Key was being shopped to "Amazon, Netflix and everyone right now" after Hulu's pass.

The Hulu pass is just the latest obstacle in the title's path to the screen. The horror thriller was originally developed for television at Fox, which went to pilot on a take from Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) during the 2010-11 broadcast season. The drama, from executive producers Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Steven Spielberg and starring Mark Pellegrino, Miranda Otto, Jesse McCartney, Sarah Bolger and Nick Stahl, did not move forward. (It was screened to overwhelming response at Comic-Con.) Universal then grabbed the rights to the comic with Kurtzman and Orsi attached to produce a feature adaptation, which ultimately did not move forward.

Flash-forward to May 2016, when IDW Entertainment CEO Ted Adams and president David Ozer teamed with Circle of Confusion (The Walking Dead) to take a second stab at a small-screen take. The effort was taken out to buyers and landed at Hulu with a pilot order in April 2017, with the streamer edging outlets including Netflix, HBO and FX for the project from showrunner Cuse and Hill attached to pen the script.

Mr E wrote: »

SWAT and seal team renewed.

http://www.tvguide.com/news/swat-seal-team-season-2-renewal-cbs/

smilerf wrote: »

Anybody know what is going on with some shows are they off for Easter or something

Kuva wrote: »

You're 500 million out. All in price for 2 seasons is 500million dolla.

For a prequel... colour me not excited.


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-series-reportedly-will-cost-500-million-2018-03-20

The mooted $1bn (£755m) cost – $250m for the rights, $750m to film six series, making it the most expensive TV show ever – illustrates the scale of Amazon’s ambition and Bezos’s growing frustration with the TV business.

Amazon is developing a series based on the film “A League of Their Own.”

Hailing from writers Will Graham (“Mozart in the Jungle”) and Abbi Jacobson (“Broad City”), the half-hour comedy is said to be not a close adaptation of the Penny Marshall movie starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis, but rather a modern take on the story. It is not expected to feature characters from the original, but will follow a new version of the Rockford Peaches during the first season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1943.

No deals are yet closed for the potential series, which would be produced by Sony Pictures Television, but a mini-writers room is believed to be in place, ready to work on scripts. Representatives for Amazon and Sony declined to comment.

Directed by Marshall and premiering in 1992, “A League of Their Own” was a critical and commercial success. In addition to Davis and Hanks, the film starred Lori Petty, Madonna, and Rosie O’Donnell.

Amazon’s series would not be the first attempt at a television adaptation. A Sony-produced sitcom version starring Sam McMurray and Carey Lowell premiered on CBS in 1993, but managed to last only five episodes.