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The crime, mystery, and thriller New York Times bestselling novels focus on Metropolitan Police Department detective and father Alex Cross as he faces threats to his family and the city of Washington, D.C. The book series, which is ongoing, currently consists of 29 books. It’s not known yet which specific novels would be adapted for the series.

The project hails from Amazon Studios, Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Television. James Patterson and Bill Robinson will executive produce for James Patterson Entertainment. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross will executive produce for Skydance.

The character Alex Cross has previously been featured on the big screen. Morgan Freeman starred as the character in 1997’s Kiss the Girls and 2001’s Along Came a Spider. Tyler Perry played the title character in the 2012 reboot film Alex Cross, a loose adaptation of Cross.

Variety was first to report the project.

Langdon follows the early adventures of famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, who must solve a series of deadly puzzles to save his kidnapped mentor and thwart a chilling global conspiracy.

Take The Nanny and The Partridge Family and, ahem, smash them together and that’s Katharine McPhee‘s TV comeback vehicle in a nutshell.

TVLine has learned that Netflix has placed a 10-episode, straight-to-series order for Country Comfort, a new multi-cam sitcom starring McPhee as a modern-day, country-tinged version of Fran Drescher’s iconic au pair. Despite the familiar premise, and the fact that Country Comfort hails from longtime Nanny EP Caryn Lucas, the project is not a reboot of CBS’ classic Fran Drescher comedy.

The series finds Smash and Scorpion vet McPhee playing Bailey, a down-on-her-luck country singer who takes a job as a nanny for a rugged cowboy (played by Take Two‘s Eddie Cibrian) and his five children. “With a never-give up attitude and loads of Southern charm, this newbie-nanny is able to navigate the family dynamics and be the mother figure they’ve been missing,” per the official logline. “To her surprise, Bailey also gets the band she’s been missing in this musically talented family who help get her back on the road to stardom.”

The ensemble also includes Ricardo Hurtado (School of Rock) as well as relative newcomers Jamie Martin Mann, Pyper Braun, Shiloh Verrico and Griffin McIntyre

On The Verge centers around four L.A. moms, one of them played by Delpy, facing challenges with their marriages, careers, family, who are all fighting to be authentic to themselves, to take risks, and to leave whatever it is that is no longer working for them. These characters choose to make this point in their life an opportunity for reinvention, an opportunity to finally create a life of true meaning for themselves.

Delpy executive produces with Nick Hall (The Romanoffs, Looking). Filming is slated to begin in May in Los Angeles.

Epix’s noir drama series Perpetual Grace, LTD will not be renewed for a second season but will get a proper ending. We have learned that the premium network is planning a short limited run as a followup to the first season of the Ben Kingsley and Jimmi Simpson-fronted drama. Talks are still in early stages, with the exact number of episodes TBD, sources stress.

While received very well by critics and fans, with 88% fresh rating from critics and 89% from viewers on Rotten Tomatoes, the off-beat series did not find wide enough audience.

According to sources, Epix brass have remained high on the show, and while they felt the drama had run its course, given that it ended on an unresolved note, the network wanted to give its story closure.

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Country Comfort

Katharine McPhee Nanny-esque Sitcom Snags Netflix Series Order



https://tvline.com/2020/01/30/katharine-mcphees-country-comfort-sitcom-netflix-nanny/

Chris Pratt is eying a return to television as the star in and executive producer of The Terminal List, a TV series based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel.

Written by DiGilio and directed by Fuqua, The Terminal List is a conspiracy thriller that combines elevated action with deep psychological questions about the cost of pushing our nation’s highest trained operators too far. The series follows Reece (Pratt) after his entire platoon of Navy SEALs is ambushed during a high-stakes covert mission. Reece returns home with conflicting memories of the event and questions about his culpability. However, as new evidence comes to light, Reece discovers dark forces working against him.

Five years after checking out of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, Patrick Dempsey is eyeing a TV comeback in another hourlong drama — this time at CBS.

TVLine has learned that Dempsey has been tapped to star in Ways & Means (fka The Whip), a politically-themed drama from Without a Trace EP Ed Redlich that has just scored a CBS pilot order. The potential series finds the erstwhile McDreamy playing a powerful Congressional leader who, after having lost faith in politics, finds himself working secretly with an idealistic young Congresswoman from the opposing party to subvert the hopelessly gridlocked system he helped create. Together, they’ll attempt to save American politics (provided they don’t get caught).

Redlich is co-writing the script with noted GOP political consultant Mike Murphy, and the duo will serve as EPs alongside Denise Di Novi, Tom Lassally and former CBS president Nina Tassler. Joannie Burstein is a Co-EP.

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Ray Donovan Cancelled

https://tvline.com/2020/02/04/ray-donovan-cancellation-ending-season-8-showtime/

Deadline understands that the project is being lined up for British pay-broadcaster Sky and discussions are underway with the Comcast-backed company with a view to turning the book into a four-part drama.

Sony-owned Left Bank is the latest producer to give The Fear Index a crack; nine years ago Fox 2000 and Chernin Entertainment teamed on a deal for the film rights to the book, which was first published in 2011, with Paul Greengrass attached to direct.

The book, which was published by Penguin Random House, is set on May 6 2010, the date of the British general election and the 36-minute flash crash, the trillion-dollar stock market crash. Set in the office of Hoffmann Investment Technologies, a fictional hedge fund in Geneva, it follows founder Dr. Alex Hoffmann, an American expat physicist, who stays out of the public spotlight, but within the secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich he is a legend.

Amazon Studios has acquired to develop for a one-hour drama The Dark Corners of the Night, based on the third novel in Edgar-winning author Meg Gardiner’s UNSUB series. The book The book will be released February 18 by Blackstone Publishing. The series features a young FBI agent pursuing other UNSUBs. That’s short for Unknown Subjects, the FBI’s name for an unknown serial killer.

Larry Trilling, executive producer and showrunner of Amazon’s Billy Bob Thorton TV series Goliath will serve as executive producer and showrunner of UNSUB. Shane Salerno (Avatar sequels, James Comey mini-series) will executive produce through The Story Factory. The first two books in the UNSUB series were previously set up at CBS Television Studios.

Parenthood and Gilmore Girls alumna Lauren Graham is set to play the lead in and co-executive produce The Mighty Ducks TV series, based on the ’90s hit film franchise, which has gotten an official 10-episode order at Disney+

Sky has commissioned Tin Star producer Kudos to make an eight-part drama about a woman who flees across Europe after killing her estranged father in a drug-fuelled rage.

Written by Ben Chanan, who penned BBC One’s Holliday Grainger spy drama The Capture, You follows Tara O’Rourke and her closest friends as they go in search of her long-lost mother.

Based on the Zoran Drvenkar novel of the same name, they navigate awkward romances, an unwanted pregnancy and try to escape the attentions of O’Rourke’s gangster uncle, Reagan, after stealing his drug stash. All the while, the specter of a mythical serial killer known as The Traveller inches ever closer.

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‘The Capture’ Writer Ben Chanan Adapts Zoran Drvenkar’s Drug-Fuelled Murder Novel ‘You’ For Sky



https://deadline.com/2020/02/the-capture-writer-ben-chanan-pens-you-sky-1202858117/

British actress Riann Steele (Holby City) has been cast as the female lead opposite Jonathan Tucker in Debris, NBC’s sci-fi drama pilot from Almost Human creator J.H. Wyman and Legendary Televisio

Written by Wyman, Debris is said to be in the vein of The X-Files and Men in Black. In it, two agents from two different continents and two different mindsets — CIA’s Bryan Beneventi (Tucker) and MI6’s Finola Jones (Steele) — must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.

Steele’s Finola Jones is a classic rule follower, an agent with MI6 who is partnered with Bryan Beneventi to investigate strange occurrences.