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EXCLUSIVE: Showtime and BET Studios announce the development of The Book of Jose, a pilot about hip hop star Joseph "Fat Joe" Cartagena. Cartagena (Happy Feet, Empire) will executive produce alongside pilot script writer Jorge A. Reyes (Queen of the South, Kevin Hill), and Kenya Barris (Black-ish, We The People). The B…

Showtime has given a green light to Seasoned, a half-hour comedy pilot starring real-life husband and wife Mandy Patinkin (Homeland) and Kathryn Grody (The Lemon Sisters). Co-created and co-written by writer-director Ewen Wright and their son Gideon Grody-Patinkin, Seasoned is a scripted comedy inspired by the…

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime is developing The Whites, a crime drama limited series starring and executive produced by Ethan Hawke. Written by Tony Award-winning playwright and prolific screenwriter Jez Butterworth (Ford v. Ferrari, Spectre), the series is adapted from Richard Price's novel of the same name. The Whites is a…

Bill Cosby has dismissed W. Kamau Bell, director of the Showtime documentary series We Need to Talk About Cosby, as a "PR hack." But The Cosby Show star and accused serial rapist appears to be in a small minority. No less an institution than the New York Times has declared Bell's series "a model of how to engage…

No stranger to hot takes, Paul Schrader has a new target in his sight: his own movie. To be more exact, an upcoming television adaptation for his 1980 movie. Showtime released a trailer earlier this week for American Gigolo, starring Jon Bernthal, Gretchen Mol and Rosie O’Donnell. The director of the original…

After working together on Shrill and The Republic of Sarah, composers Anna Waronker and Craig Wedren were looking for something new and creepy. When the chance to score Showtime’s Yellowjackets came to them, the duo immediately jumped on it. Both Waronker and Wedren were in bands before they started to work together…

Yessss! Showtime has set a summer premiere date for NYC Point Gods, a feature-length documentary on the enduring impact of New York City point guards who honed their craft on the city's playgrounds and high school gyms in the 1980s and '90s. The pic from Showtime Documentary Films and Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s…

Showtime announced the new half-hour anthology series Spotlights: A Showtime Short Film Series premiering Sunday, June 12. All 5 episodes will be available on streaming and on-demand for Showtime subscribers and will also air weekly on Sundays at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT. Watch the trailer above. Produced for Showtime by Jax…

Fleabag and Stranger Things star Brett Gelman is to lead Entitled, a Showtime/Channel 4 series about an American widower who must get to know his British wife’s estranged family in their crumbling gothic mansion in the English countryside. Airing next year, Gelman will play Gabe in the eight-part series from the BBC’s…

After its November 14 premiere, Yellowjackets captivated an audience for 10 weeks with its blend of horror, drama and possible supernatural mystery. The series has became the second-most streamed series on the Showtime platform. That makes it a perfect candidate to launch It Starts On the Page, Deadline’s annual…

EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has announced a new date for the third-season return of City on a Hill starring Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge. The series that also stars Jill Hennessy, Lauren E. Banks and Matthew Del Negro will premiere on Sunday, July 31 at 10 p.m. Eight, one-hour episodes are planned. Watch the new trailer…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: Production on Showtime’s drama series American Gigolo has been paused again, this time for at least two weeks, as the series’ co-executive producer David Bar Katz has exited the Paramount TV Studios-produced series. His departure comes three weeks after the Paramount network and TV studio severed tie…