Primetime Pilot Panic News

EXCLUSIVE: Ruby Cruz (Castle Rock) has landed the female co-lead opposite Ellie Bamber and Erin Kellyman in Willow, Disney+ and Lucasfilm's upcoming TV series follow-up to the 1988 fantasy movie, with the film's star Warwick Davis reprising his title role, I have learned. She replaced Cailee Spaeny, who had been origin…

EXCLUSIVE: OWN has ordered to series The Kings of Napa, a drama about the power struggle between wealthy siblings in Napa Valley, from Claws executive producer/showrunner Janine Sherman Barrois, Warner Bros. Television and Harpo Films. Sherman Barrois, Michelle Listenbee Brown (Love Is__) and Oprah Winfrey executive…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Fox has landed an hourlong anthology series from 1980s music star Huey Lewis, Hart of Dixie creator Leila Gerstein and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. The project, a co-production of Fox Entertainment and Kapital Entertainment, has received a script-to-series…

Loudermilk has found a new home. Amazon has picked up the praised former Audience Network comedy series starring Ron Livingston. Seasons 1 and 2, which had aired on Audience, will premiere on Prime Video on March 12. A premiere date for the previously unaired third season will be announced soon. This marks a happy…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has set the cast for Adopted, its single-camera comedy pilot co-written and executive produced by Jimmy Kimmel. Series co-creator Shawn Vance (The Green Beret’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse), whose life inspired the series, will star as himself, along with Bruce Campbell (Evil Dead franchise) and Ho…

EXCLUSIVE: Following a lengthy search, HBO Max has tapped newcomer Olivia Goncalves for the lead role in The Gordita Chronicles, its single-camera family comedy pilot from Josh Berman's Osprey Productions, Zoe Saldana's Cinestar Pictures and Sony Pictures TV. Written by Claudia Forestieri and directed by Eva Longoria…

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Sele is set to co-star opposite Brandy, Eve, Naturi Naughton, Nadine Velazquez and Pepi Sonuga in Queens, ABC's hourlong pilot from Zahir McGhee, Sabrina Wind and ABC Signature. In Queens, written by McGhee and directed by Tim Story, four estranged and out-of-touch women in their 40s — Naomi…

EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Catherine Hook and Imani Lewis have been cast as the leads in First Kill, Netflix’s upcoming series executive produced by Emma Roberts. Written by Felicia D. Henderson and best-selling author Victoria "V. E." Schwab, First Kill is based on a short story by Schwab. In it, when it’s time for teenage…

The CW has cast Tony-nominated The Prom star Caitlin Kinnunen and Bella Ortiz as the two leads of its untitled drama pilot executive produced by Jennie Snyder Urman. Written by Claire Rothrock and Ryann Weir and directed by Tessa Blake, the project centers on two millennial nuns – a devout true believer (Kinnunen)…

Judas and the Black Messiah co-star Dominique Fishback is set as a lead alongside Samuel L. Jackson in Apple TV+’s limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. The White Tiger writer-director-producer Ramin Bahrani has signed on to direct and executive produce the six-episode series based on the acclaimed novel by…

Peacock has given a series order to Dan Brown's Langdon (fka Langdon), based on Brown's best-selling thriller novel The Lost Symbol. The Ashley Zukerman-starring Dan Brown's Langdon, produced by CBS Studios, Imagine Television Studios and Universal Television, was originally developed by NBC and was ordered to pilot…

The CW has found its Powerpuff Girls. Chloe Bennet (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Dove Cameron (Descendants) and Yana Perrault (Jagged Little Pill) are set as the leads in the network’s live-action pilot The Powerpuff Girls. Written by Diablo Cody and Heather Regnier and directed by Maggie Kiley based on the original…