There has been a change of plans for the FBI spinoff with a CIA twist in the works at CBS. Originally announced as a planted spinoff, the project, tentatively titled FBI: CIA — a title we hear is expected to change — was to be introduced in an episode of the mothership series this spring serving as a backdoor pilot.
According to sources, that is no longer happening. But the new spinoff could still join the mothership on the 2025-2026 schedule with a straight-to-series order. Casting negotiations for the male lead continue, we hear. (So far, FBI is the only series from the procedural franchise set for next season after securing a three-year renewal last spring; offshoots FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International are coming to an end in May.)
Written by Dick Wolf, FBI: Most Wanted showrunner David Hudgins, Nicole Perlman and former CIA officer David Chasteen, the proposed offshoot centers on a dedicated, strait-laced FBI agent and a street-smart CIA agent who are part of a new, clandestine task force charged with solving and preventing domestic terrorism in and around New York City. >>>Original Plans |
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Baldoni Calls Out NYT - Going full anti-MSM, Justin Baldoni is determined that the New York Times will not get itself dismissed from the It Ends with Us star and director’s sprawling $400 million and counting legal brawl with Blake Lively. >>>TMZ Story Complicates Matter
The 'Idol' Remaker - After supplying the 2023 fall box office with $261 million via his Taylor Swift: Eras Tour concert film, Sam Wrench is now set to direct a redo of the 1980 United Artists feature film The Idolmaker for Amazon MGM Studios. The remake of Taylor Hackford’s first film will rep Wrench's narrative helming debut. >>>Jason Katims Scripting
Lili Reinhart's 'Fake Wedding' - Riverdale star Lili Reinhart is attached to and will produce Amazon MGM Studios' Fake Wedding under her Small Victory’s first-look deal there. Pic follows two broke singles who throw a fake wedding to cash in on the registry and the very real problems the make-believe couple encounters. >>>Auctioned For Low Six Figures
'Fire Country' Duo Gets First-Look Deal - Joan Rater and Tony Phelan, co-creators and executive producers of CBS’ popular drama Fire Country and its upcoming spinoff series Sheriff Country, have signed a first-look producing deal with the studio behind the franchise, CBS Studios. >>>Renewed Relationship With Studio
Deadline's Global Breakouts: 'Supporting Actor' - In Finland, Nelonen’s Supporting Actor has been breaking records for the commercial broadcaster. With shades of some of the biggest American hits of the past two decades, this one about a cursed supporting artist could be ripe for an international remake. >>>A Finnish 'White Lotus'
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There’s something strange going on within the residence of The White House. A lot of nervous aides, relatives and members of staff are wondering what’s happening in the private quarters of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But this has nothing to do with President Trump and his family, some of whom may or may not live with him at The White House. This is The Residence, Netflix’s latest murder mystery starring Uzo Aduba as Cordelia Cupp, the world’s greatest living detective and an avid birder. “It’s not a hard comedy but I really wanted to have fun with it,” creator Paul William Davies tells Deadline. In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the series’ premiere on Thursday, March 20, Davies explains how he got involved in the project, which is loosely inspired by Kate Andersen Brower’s The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, how he figured out who the killer should be, why Detective Cupp is an avid birder and how the show dealt with the death of cast member Andre Braugher. >>> Read The Interview |
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Following her comeback role in awards-season contender The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson has found her next feature project: Kornél Mundruczó’s drama Place to Be. The pic from the filmmaker of the Oscar-nominated Pieces of a Woman also stars Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi.
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Catherine Tate, the British comedy queen and actress best known for Doctor Who, The Office and her scorching eponymous television show, will top the bill at this year’s London Palladium Pantomime, Sleeping Beauty.
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After winning practically every single award out there for his turn in The Penguin, Colin Farrell is looking to get back in business with DC, potentially starring in the title role of Luca Guadagnino's Sgt. Rock.
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Star Wars vets Daisy Ridley and Alden Ehrenreich are starring in Donald Petrie’s Philippines-set romantic comedy The Last Resort, which Asia Pacific Films is producing and financing.
Chris O’Donnell has joined the cast of ABC's 9-1-1: Nashville in a series regular role. He will star as Captain Don Sharpe, a rugged fire captain and rodeo rider who runs Nashville’s busiest firehouse with his beloved son.
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The Pearl and the Onion, a scripted podcast from Fresh Produce Media, will feature Veep’s Anna Chlumsky and Blindspotting’s Jasmine Cephas Jones. It comes after Fresh Produce renewed its first-look deal with Audible at the end of 2023.
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Steve Buscemi is hosting Big Time, an original true-crime podcast series from Apple that explores audacious crimes including fake kidnappings, elaborate robberies, and even stolen sharks.
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Oval Office Reunion - Donald Trump celebrated St. Patrick's Day with Conor McGregor, his wife Dee Devlin and their children, Elon Musk and onetime Apprentice producer Mark Burnett, now U.S. special envoy to the UK. |
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