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EXCLUSIVE: Charmed is the latest scripted series whose restarted production has been disrupted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Filming on the CW drama has been paused for a day Wednesday as an individual from the production has tested positive for COVID-19, Deadline has learned. CBS Studios, which is behind Charme…

CBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS. The program, designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast TV…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer, motivational speaker and bestselling author DeVon Franklin (Breakthrough) is expanding his work in television, signing an overall deal with CBS TV Studios. Franklin serves as president and CEO of the Franklin Entertainment production company, which has a multi-year first-look film deal with…

Christina Applegate, who plays Jen Harding on Netflix’s comedy mystery series Dead to Me, said during the series’ panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television livestream that she was gobsmacked when creator-showrunner Liz Feldman told her of the left turn the series was taking in Season 2. The plot twist in question…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer-producer Gracie Glassmeyer has set two high-profile comedies in development under her overall deal with CBS Television Studios, both with Jennie Snyder Urman’s Sutton Street Productions, which also is based at CBS Studios. They are Here She Lies, a single-camera dark comedy starring and executive…

Clyde Phillips is getting back in business with Showtime. The former Dexter and Nurse Jackie showrunner has signed a joint overall deal with the premium cable network and CBS Television Studios. Under the pact, Phillips will develop projects for both entities that can air on platforms within or outside the ViacomCBS…

EXCLUSIVE: Indie film producer and financier Low Spark is moving into television with the launch of a new TV division, which has struck a first-look deal at CBS Television Studios. Low Spark Television is a division of Low Spark Entertainment, the Cleveland, Ohio and Los Angeles based parent company of Low Spark…

CBS Television Studios and the Television Academy Foundation have a prime directive: a partnership to launch a unique Star Trek internship program in 2020 that will reflect the franchise's core values of inclusion and diversity. The program for undergraduate and graduate students is called the "Star Trek Command…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Silverman and Howard Owens' Propagate Content has set a spate of new local format deals for hit groundbreaking series Jane The Virgin in Korea, Egypt, Greece, Israel and China. Cyrus Farrokh, who is the growing content creator and distributor's International President, is running point. Propagate reps…

The CW has put in development American Fighter, a drama from writer Tory Walker (I Am Elizabeth Smart), Jeffrey Kramer’s Juniper Place Productions and CBS Television Studios, where Juniper Place is under a deal. Written by Walker, American Fighter revolves around JoJo Raines, who has a dead end life in a dead end…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Television Studios entered the animated series arena a couple of years ago when The Late Show with Stephen Colbert producers had an idea to spin off the animated President Donald Trump segments into a show. Our Cartoon President on Showtime became Late Show producer CBS TV Studios’ first animated…

EXCLUSIVE: The United States Diplomacy Center at the U.S. Department of State, CBS Television Studios and Revelations Entertainment today announced the donation of sets and prop material from the CBS Television Studios show Madam Secretary, created by Barbara Hall, to the nation's first-ever museum and educational…