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ABC‘s biggest 2026-2027 pickup news is coming a week after the network unveiled its fall schedule last Tuesday: Grey’s Anatomy is getting a new spinoff co-created by the original series’ creator/executive producer Shonda Rhimes.

ABC has given a straight-to-series order to the untitled medical drama, co-created, written and executive produced by Rhimes and Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Meg Marinis, from Shondaland and 20th Television.

It is described as an edgy drama about a team at a rural West Texas medical center — the last chance for care before miles of nowhere. >>>Fourth Series In Franchise

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL

Andy Garcia Says He Pitched Cannes Competition Title ‘Diamond’ To HBO & Other TV Networks Before Adapting The Story For Cinemas: “Nobody Bought It”

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Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Bitter Christmas’ Cannes Press Screening Interrupted By Medical Emergency

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Hot Package - Warner Bros’ new label Clockwork has beaten out rivals to take The Brigands of Rattlecreek off the table in a North American deal pegged in the mid-teen millions. The studio was in exclusive negotiations for the movie, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Austin Butler, and a deal is all but done. >>>Park Chan-Wook Directing

Waving Goodbye To Warner - Longtime Warner Bros production veteran Kevin McCormick is departing the studio for a producing deal on the lot that encompasses both movies and stage productions. First up for him: Warner Bros’ reboot of The Bodyguard. >>>Will Remain Involved In Stage Adaptations

Memorial Day B.O. - Lucasfilm/Disney’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu won’t open as low as Warner Bros’ Furiosa did two years ago at this time with a $32.3M four-day. The new hope is that the pic from director Jon Favreau, co-written with EP Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, will meet or exceed its $80M four-day tracking in North America. >>>Will Families Show?

'Mandalorian' Review -The Mandalorian and Grogu is basically The Wonder Years version of Bobba Fett, Jabba the Hutt and Yoda. But is the younger audience going to stay with the franchise when they’re old enough to choose movies of their own? Next year, the original Star Wars turns 50 – and it’s showing its age. >>>Damon Wise's Take

Boxing Clever? - Sylvester Stallone's Balboa Productions is teaming with Channing Powell (Tales of the Walking Dead) to develop a series adaptation of the 4MK books by J.D. Barker. Set in Chicago, Barker’s novels follow Detective Sam Porter as he hunts the elusive Four Monkey Killer, a murderer who has terrorized the city for years. >>>Powell Will Showrun

It Starts On The Page - Ira Parker may have had his Game of Thrones training on House of the Dragon, but HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was his first time in charge of a Westerosi story and a unique challenge in the franchise’s canon. >>>Read The Script

 Deadline Studio @ Prime Experience - As Prime Video rolled out its latest series and movies at the Prime Experience event, Deadline was on hand to interview stars from the likes of Bait, The Boys and The Night Manager. >>>Riz Ahmed's Take

Q&A

Bafta and Palme d’Or-winning director Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O’Brien were in Cannes for the Cinéma de Plage screening of a remastered 4K version of Spanish Civil War drama Land and Freedom, which originally premiered at the festival in competition in 1995.

Talking ahead of the screening, Loach told us the conflict still resonates with the Left to this day as the first international fight against fascism. He added it also holds abiding lessons around the perils of infighting and the determination of conservative powers to quash socialist ideals, as evidenced by the non-interference stance of the U.S. and the UK, which he said was a form of tacit support for Franco.>>>The Deadline Interview

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"It’s a brand-new medium" - Sphere Studios head Carolyn Blackwood on how the company is repackaging IP for its unique theaters.

RENEWALS, CANCELLATIONS & PICKUPS

‘The Vampire Lestat’ Bites Into Aftershow For AMC+

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Amazon MGM Studios and New Regency are filling the roster of eponymous Mr. and Mrs. Smiths for Season 2 of the Prime Video spy drama series. Francesca Scorsese (We Are Who We Are) will star as Jane Smith in the new season of Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

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Rhea Seehorn (Pluribus) has joined the cast of Running, a new feature film from director Gavin O’Connor and writer Bill Dubuque. Hailing from Apple Studios, the film is produced by Makeready along with Nike Films.

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Jennifer Beals (Book of Boba Fett) has joined the cast of Bishop, Prime Video‘s upcoming thriller drama series from co-creators Little Marvin and Tony Saltzman, Vertigo, and Amazon MGM Studios.

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Tia Mowry (Family Reunion) is reuniting with Lifetime as the star and executive producer of the new movie Single Black Tenant, which will premiere on June 27 as part of the network’s Ripped From The Headlines slate.

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Long Beach native Snoop Dogg is set to return to his roots, starring opposite Nope‘s Brandon Perea in a boxing drama called The Faith of Long Beach.

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Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek) and Theo Rossi (The Penguin) have wrapped lead roles opposite Jenna Laurenzo (Lez Bomb) in her sophomore feature, Maid of Dishonor.

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Michael Chiklis has inked a deal to join Tyrant, David Weil’s culinary thriller for Amazon MGM Studios, led by Charlize Theron, Julia Garner and Demi Moore.

Amazon has announced the cast for Delphi, its new TV series out of the Creed universe, from Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society. Series regulars include Benji Santiago (Broadway’s The Notebook), Juan Castano (Rob Peace), Demián Bichir (Land), André Holland (Love, Brooklyn), Andre Royo (The Punisher: One Last Kill), Sofia Black-D’Elia (Remarkably Bright Creatures), and Victoria Vourkoutiotis (Elsbeth).

The BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing has replaced Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly with not two but three hosts. Love is Blind UK presenter Emma Willis, professional dancer Johannes Radebe and comedian Josh Widdicombe will take the reins of one of the UK’s biggest entertainment shows.

DEVELOPMENT

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$1.98 million  - The Broadway-leading weekly box office take for Every Little Thing ahead of star Daniel Radcliffe’s pending exit.

HIRINGS, PROMOTIONS & EXITS 

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Microseries Firm aTwist Moves Into Unscripted With Josh Silberman, Also Hires Lisa Roos & Jamie Denenberg

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Verve’s Head Of TV Lit Felicia Prinz Transitions To Management, Joins Range As Partner; Range Studios Adds Nishika Kumble

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MORE NEWS

🤝 James Murdoch‘s Lupa Systems media and tech holding company has agreed to acquire New York Magazine, the Vox Media Podcast Network and Vox.com. The New York Times reported the deal is worth more than $300 million.

🏈 Ari Emanuel and Mark Shapiro are set to join the NFL ownership club, acquiring individual minority stakes in the Las Vegas Raiders. 

🗣️ The BBC's new director general has revealed that he plans to use data to improve impartiality, and has warned that iPlayer is not doing a good enough job of showcasing the corporation’s content. In his first address to staff on his second day in office, former Google executive Matt Brittin said that he wanted to use data to build a “sat nav around bias,” according to audio from the all-hands meeting.

🏆 YouTube will partner with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to stream next week’s Sports and News & Documentary Emmys. The Sports Emmys will stream live on May 26, and the News & Documentary Emmys will be shown on May 27-28 on the NATAS YouTube channel.

🏡 Secret Garden, the David Attenborough-fronted natural history series that recently rated big on the BBC, is being pitched into the U.S. as a format. Plimsoll Productions is taking the unusual step of shopping a natural history program to networks.

🧹 A stage adaptation of Lionsgate‘s psychological thriller The Housemaid is in development, the studio announced, with playwright Bekah Brunstetter (The Notebook) attached. The producer is Melting Pot, led by Simon Friend and Hanna Osmolska (Life of Pi). 

📖 Veteran literary scout Philippa Donovan wants to reverse engineer the books-to-screen market through her new business, Two Script Studio. The operation will create ‘reverse adaptations‘ to allow producers and screenwriters to turn screenplays into novels at an early stage of development. Book rights are then pitched to literary agents and publishers to build an audience or developed as underlying IP for the film or TV project.

🗣️ New Channel 4 CEO Priya Dogra has apologized to the women who made “very troubling” rape allegations on Married at First Sight UK, but has stressed the network “cannot investigate the specific allegations against the men.” Dogra, who is just two months into the job, delivered her second statement to press this morning at the Channel 4 Annual Report briefing.

ON THE RADAR

Wed - Television Academy Honors
Thu - Lionsgate earnings; Last episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Fri - Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu opens

Mon - Memorial Day

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In The House - Andrea Denver, Lindsay Hubbard, Austen Kroll and Kyle Cooke at the premiere party for Bravo’s Summer House spinoff In the City.