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EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon is revisiting one of the signature titles in her acting resume, taking it to a new medium. Witherspoon and her Hello Sunshine company are behind Legally Blonde spinoff TV series inspired by the popular film franchise that are in development at Amazon MGM Studios, sources tell…

Canadian native Stephanie Savage and Rhode Island-born Josh Schwartz know something when it comes to how the young posh set ticks from Orange County, CA to the Upper East Side of New York. And that talent doesn’t end in creating hip TV series which millennials swoon for, i.e. the 92-episode darling T…

In Apple TV+’s City on Fire, which hails from executive producers and showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, a suburban teenager must unravel the mystery of his friend’s murder after she’s shot in Central Park on Fourth of July in 2003. The series, which is set for a May 12 premiere, is…

Apple has given a series order to City on Fire, a drama inspired by Garth Risk Hallberg’s novel of the same name, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl). This marks the first series order to hail from Schwartz and Savage's first look deal with Apple under their Fake Empire Productions banner. Produced…

The CW is building out its “Drew-niverse,” established by the network’s hit series Nancy Drew, putting in development a series based on the classic book series Tom Swift, with a twist. The project, which will feature a Black, gay lead in the title role, hails from Nancy Drew co-creators/executive producers Josh…

Producers of the CW's new series Nancy Drew solved one mystery right off the bat at today's TCA panel: The ghost is real. The ghost is Dead Lucy, who wore the crown of Horseshoe Bay's Sea Queen for just one night in the year 2000 before dying at age 17. Yes, she is not a mere figment of the imagination in the series…

Gossip Girl co-creator Josh Schwartz opened up about the forthcoming reimagining of the CW drama, which last week was ordered to series at HBO Max. He admitted that he and his producing partner Stephanie Savage had no interest in doing a version with the original cast grown up. "Stephanie and I have been talking about…

EXCLUSIVE: A famous teenage sleuth is eyeing a return to TV. The CW has put into development a drama inspired by the classic Nancy Drew mysteries, from Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage’s Fake Empire and CBS TV Studios. Written by Noga Landau (The Magicians), the untitled project is centered on 18-year-old Nancy Drew…

In a week that sees Marvel's The Punisher and Warner Bros' Justice League debuting on the small and big screens, respectively, the November 21 launch of Marvel's Runaways is a refreshingly different and successful take on the super-powered genre. As you would expect with Jeph Loeb and the Marvel TV team bringing…

Leading TV producer Aaron Kaplan (Life In Pieces, Santa Clarita Diet) is giving back to his alma mater, USC. Kaplan, President and CEO of Kapital Entertainment, has created First Jobs, a program which gives recent Cinematic Arts graduates their first paid entry-level jobs in the entertainment industry. Kaplan, a…

The CW is returning to the primetime soap arena in a big way, taking a shot at rebooting one of the iconic series in the genre, the Aaron Spelling-produced Dynasty. The network has put in development the high-profile project, which hails from the duo behind one of the CW’s biggest soaps, Gossip Girl creators Josh…

Actor-writer Josh Gad (Angry Birds) is set to star and co-write, Josh Schwartz is attached to co-write and showrun and Seth Gordon is expected to direct Toy Wars, a limited drama series in development at Amazon, which follows the real-life battle between American toy giants Hasbro, the company behind GI Joe…