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Bex and her team will be back chasing escapees from The Pit in the 2025-26 TV season. NBC has renewed The Hunting Party for a second season. The show's first season of 10 episodes finished airing a month ago.

A procedural crime drama series, The Hunting Party TV show was created by JJ Bailey and stars Melissa Roxburgh, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Josh McKenzie, and Sara Garcia. In the story, a small team of investigators is assembled to track down and recapture the most dangerous killers in United States history. More dangerous than ever, they've all just escaped from The Pit, a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist. The team includes FBI Special Agent Rebecca "Bex" Henderson (Roxburgh), CIA Agent Ryan Hassani (Sabongui), Army Intelligence officer Jenifer Morales (Garcia), and prison guard Shane Florence (McKenzie). Oliver Odell...

The NBC series “The Hunting Party“ kicks off with an immediately intriguing hook in its first episode, setting the world’s most terrifying killers free when a top secret, high tech prison is hit with a massive explosion. Post-prison break, each episode chronicles the hunt for a different killer, with the debut season of the series wrapping up on NBC just a few weeks ago.

Variety reports today that “The Hunting Party” will return for Season 2.

In the series, which also streams next day on Peacock, “a small team of investigators are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

Melissa Roxburgh, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Josh McKenzie, and Sara Garcia star.

JJ Bailey created the series and showruns alongside Jake Coburn.

From Universal Television, “The Hunting Party...

The Hunting Party concluded its final season at the end of April, and NBC has finally decided on the future of the series. The network has ruled that The Hunting Party, which is streaming on Peacock, has been renewed and will receive a second season. The Hunting Party premiered alongside other shows such as original dramas Suits: LA and Grosse Pointe Garden Society, and it was the strongest performer of the bunch, which was enough to earn it another season. The Hunting Party debuted with a shocking 0% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and it finished its first season with an 18% but an 81% rating from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. After receiving only 10 episodes in Season 1, The Hunting Party Season 2 will move to an 18-22-episode season, and it's expected to be released later this year or early 2026.

Melissa Roxburgh stars in the lead role of Rebecca Henderson in The Hunting Party.

NBC has been on a massive cancellation spree in the last few days. Some of its massive franchises escaped the axe, but not all.

However, it looks like NBC isn't placing all its bests only on its veteran franchises likeLaw & Orderand Chicago. Although fan-favorite shows likeNight Courtor Lopez vs. Lopez didn't score a return, two new shows will be a part of the 2025-2026 season. Per Deadline, The Hunting Party, starring Melissa Roxburgh, and Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto, will both return for Season 2. They were the only shows outside the Dick Wolf universe to score a renewal.

Brilliant Minds, from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Prods, will return to its same slot on Monday at 10 Pm for the September-October fall schedule. Meanwhile,The Hunting Party, which comes from Universal Television, will move to Thursdays at 10 Pm.

Both shows were saved by consistency, as they had steady viewership numbers since its release,...

NBC has picked up freshman drama series The Hunting Party, starring Melissa Roxburgh, and Brilliant Minds, headlined by Zachary Quinto, for a second season. Both are part of the network’s September-October fall schedule unveiled today. Brilliant Minds, from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Prods, is staying in the post-The Voice Monday 10 Pm slot while The Hunting Party, from Universal Television, is moving to Thursdays 10 Pm.

Besides the five Dick Wolf series, The Hunting Party and Brilliant Minds are the only other current NBC series to make it to next season amid a bloodbath at the broadcast network which canceled a slew of scripted series in anticipation of NBA’s arrival on the schedule next fall.

This is a changing of the guard in NBC’s scripted lineup as all four non-Wolf returning scripted series are from this season’s freshman class, The Hunting Party, Brilliant Minds and comedies St.

Jake Coburn, co-showrunner, writer, and executive producer on NBC’s The Hunting Party, has signed an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Under the terms of the agreement, Coburn will write, develop, and produce projects across all platforms and continue his Season 1 duties on The Hunting Party, which was renewed for a second season.

The JJ Bailey-created series is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

The Hunting Party stars Melissa Roxburgh as FBI Special Agent Rebecca “Bex” Henderson, Nick Wechsler as Oliver Odell, Patrick Sabongui as Ryan Hassani, Josh McKenzie as Shane Florence, and Sara Garcia as Jennifer Morales.

In addition to his credits on the NBC freshman series,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Hunting Party Season 1 finale “Jenna Wells.”] The Hunting Party fans are going to need a second season after that wild finale! (The NBC drama has yet to be renewed.) The Season 1 finale ended with Oliver (Nick Wechsler) seemingly dying in Bex’s (Melissa Roxburgh) arms, the reveal that Shane’s (Josh McKenzie) mother is a former inmate, Colonel Lazarus (Kari Matchett), who graduated, Hassani (Patrick Sabongui) shot and hospitalized (and the reveal his wife is dead), and some answers about what was happening in the Pit (some of the inmates were given a drug that served as an empathy modulator). Below, executive producers JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn break down the finale and tease what could be coming in a second season. Is Oliver dead? JJ Bailey: You have to wait until Season 2 to get the answer. What can you say about his fate? Bailey: The moment that...

Bex (Melissa Roxburgh) and Oliver (Nick Wechsler) have a history in The Hunting Party, not just as work partners but also as lovers. Even so, viewers shouldn’t expect romance or rekindled affection between the two, who will supposedly remain professional. Still, considering their history, showrunners JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn shed more light on the dynamic of their relationship; maintaining romance is not essential given the show's setup. During a set visit at which Collider's Samantha Coley was in attendance, Bailey said:

“There's a little more of like a mentor-mentee relationship from the past that we explore sort of crossed some lines that maybe got uncomfortable just before sort of their big blow up, but we sort of found that you know it wasn't a needed romantic relationship where we landed with that."

Before Bex split with the FBI, she worked on a case with Oliver, who, as...

NBC’s new series The Hunting Party melds a lot of TV genres into one high-concept hour. A drama about intelligence officers tracking down serial killers who’ve escaped from a secret government prison, it straddles the line between procedural and serialized mystery over the course its 10-episode first season.

“We really connected when we first met over wanting to do a procedural that felt a bit different,” says creator and co-showrunner JJ Bailey, who met fellow showrunner Jake Coburn on a “creative blind date” set up by Universal Television. “We love big serialized mysteries, but we also wanted to do a big week-to-week cases.”

Starring Melissa Roxburgh as an FBI special agent who shares a personal history with many of these criminals, each episode of the first season finds her character track down a different killer — sometimes creeping out the actress in the process. And while the writers have...

NBC's new crime drama series, The Hunting Party, did not have a strong debut with critics. However, after getting lambasted in most reviews, the series drew some praise from audiences.

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Hunting Party initially debuted with a harsh, rare score of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. That number has since risen to 11%, getting minimal praise from critics as nearly every review is negative. The bright side is that the audience score is vastly different, ranking much higher at 70%. While critics are slamming the show for its "predictability" and "generic action" sequences, many viewers are comparing the show to Criminal Minds, seeing great potential in the series' future.

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Like many procedural dramas, The Hunting Party centers on crimes or problems being introduced, investigated, and solved by a law enforcement agency, which in this case is the FBI. However, there are a few things that set this 2025 series apart from the rest, making it unique to an extent. Created by JJ Bailey, who executive produces alongside Jake Coburn, The Hunting Party debuted on Sunday, January 19 and stars Melissa Roxburgh in the lead as Bex, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Sara Garcia, and Josh McKenzie.

After countless months of eager anticipation, The Hunting Party finally made its debut on NBC with an explosive pilot that introduced Melissa Roxburgh as FBI Special Agent Rebecca "Bex" Henderson. Fans still have a long way to go with the series, as it's expected to end its first chapter later in April with Episode 10. In the meantime, you can get a look behind the scenes of the procedural thanks to co-showrunners JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn’s insightful chat with Collider’s Samantha Coley and other journalists during a visit to the set.

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The Hunting Party is a police procedural mystery crime drama series created by JJ Bailey. The NBC series follows Rebecca “Bex” Henderson, an FBI Special Agent who is recruited to lead a small team of investigators to hunt down and capture some of the most dangerous killers in the world after they escape from a top-secret prison. The Hunting Party stars Melissa Roxburgh, Patrick Sabongui, Sara Garcia, Josh McKenzie, and Nick Wechsler. So, if you loved the thrilling mystery, dangerous criminal cases, and compelling characters in The Hunting Party, here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Bex and her team have a lot of dangerous felons to track down on NBC's The Hunting Party series. Will the ratings be strong enough for the Peacock Network to keep them on the job? Will The Hunting Party be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned.

A procedural crime drama series, The Hunting Party TV show was created by JJ Bailey and stars Melissa Roxburgh, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Josh McKenzie, and Sara Garcia. In the story, a small team of investigators are assembled to track down and recapture the most dangerous killers in United States history. More dangerous than ever, they've all just escaped from The Pit, a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist. The team includes FBI Special Agent Rebecca "Bex" Henderson (Roxburgh), CIA Agent Ryan Hassani (Sabongui), Army Intelligence officer Jenifer Morales...

All things being equal, you’d never want to live anywhere near a supermax prison, but there are few patches of narrative real estate more beloved by broadcast television.

It’s easy to understand why. Your typical supermax prison — or any prison or facility that creators can claim is packed with the worst and most notorious of criminals — is like a concrete-encased cornucopia of procedural plotlines just waiting to break out.

It’s the fodder for much of Prison Break, as well as the third season of Heroes, the brief run of Alcatraz and just about any Batman story connected to Arkham Asylum. With some twists and variations, it’s the seed that germinated in several of NBC’s most successful shows of the ’10s, including The Blacklist and Blindspot — shows that made promises in their pilots that a weekly string of the worst villains imaginable were connected through a...

Melissa Roxburgh, famous for her role as Mick Stone on Manifest, is stepping into a new spotlight. Her upcoming NBC crime drama, The Hunting Party, has had its premiere date moved up, catching attention with its fast-approaching debut.

Roxburgh, who also appeared as Lieutenant Ellen Grier in Quantum Leap and Dr. Dory Shaw in Tracker, will lead this series as her first main role since Manifest.

According to TVLine, The Hunting Party will now premiere its first episode on Sunday, January 19, at 7 p.m. Et. This early preview will be followed by the show’s regular slot, with an encore presentation on Monday, February 3, at 10 p.m. Et. After that, new episodes will air weekly on Monday nights. NBC seems to be banking on this strategy to build early momentum for the series.

The series, created by JJ Bailey, who is also working on Getaway, follows Roxburgh’s character Bex Henderson.

Manifest star Melissa Roxburgh's upcoming NBC crime drama The Hunting Party has gotten its premiere bumped up, with a release date that's approaching very quickly. Roxburgh is best known for her role as Mick Stone on the cast of Manifest, a passenger on Flight 828 that disappears then reappears five and a half years later. Since then, she's also appeared as Lieutenant Ellen Grier in a guest appearance on NBC's Quantum Leap, while also showing up as Dr. Dory Shaw in CBS' Tracker. The Hunting Party will be her first main role after her previous NBC series.

Now, TVLine has confirmed the premiere date for The Hunting Party has been moved up, with the Roxburgh-led series now set to premiere its first episode on Sunday, January 19 at 7 p.m. Et. This will be followed by an encore presentation on Monday, February 3 at 10 p.m. Et, the show's actual time slot.

Melissa Roxburgh will be tracking down criminals a little earlier on NBC’s The Hunting Party.

NBC has moved up the premiere date of the upcoming crime drama, TVLine has learned: It’ll now debut this Sunday, Jan. 19 at 7/6c on NBC, following the NFL divisional playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the winner of tonight’s Vikings-Rams game. An encore episode will air Monday, Feb. 3 at 10 pm, the show’s original premiere time slot, with new episodes following Mondays at 10 pm after that.

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The Hunting Party is gathering a little early.

NBC is moving up the premiere of its new prison drama series, which stars Manifest’s Melissa Roxburgh.

The show, which comes from creator JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn, who both serve as showrunners, was set to premiere on Monday February 3 at 10pm. It will now premiere after the NFL divisional playoff game (and the news) on Sunday January 19 at 7pm Et/Pt.

That game, which kicks off at 3pm Et, is set to be between the Philadelphia Eagles and the winner of tonight’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings.

It will then be repeated in its original premiere timeslot.

The Hunting Party follows a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

The Hunting Party just dropped its first trailer that hints at the action coming for this new NBC thriller!

Midseason always brings some big new shows with NBC often giving us some crime thrillers. That includes The Hunting Party, which is slipping into a new timeslot on Mondays in February with The Voice as a lead-in. It looks to be a spin on the classic setup of a group of law enforcement agents hunting criminals.

The trailer sets up the premise of “The Pit,” a top-secret underground prison home to the worst criminals and killers on Earth. A massive explosion rips through the facility, allowing scores of the inmates to break free. Former government operative Rebecca “Bex” Henderson is recruited to lead a team to track the fugitives down. The reason she’s called on is because the prison is so secret that the government can’t even acknowledge there...

Manifest‘s Melissa Roxburgh stars in NBC’s new midseason crime drama The Hunting Party. Debuting on February 3, 2025 at 10pm Et/Pt, the new series finds Roxburgh leading a team who’ve been charged with finding escaped murderers.

Season one also stars Nick Wechsler (Shades of Blue) as Oliver Odell, Patrick Sabongui (The Flash) as Ryan Hassani, Josh McKenzie (La Brea) as Shane Florence, and Sara Garcia (Ride) as Jennifer Morales. JJ Bailey created the series and serves as a writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner with Jake Coburn.

Thor Freudenthal directs and executive produces, with Keto Shimizu writing and executive producing.

Poster for ‘The Hunting Party’ (Photo by: NBCUniversal)

NBC offers this description of the new series:

“This dynamic and suspenseful thrill ride of a crime procedural follows a small team of investigators led by former FBI profiler Rebecca ‘Bex’ Henderson (Roxburgh). They’ve been assembled to track down and...

NBC launched the first teaser trailer for its prison drama, The Hunting Party, and we’re pretty excited about it.

It’s got a great cast and looks like the action-packed drama will keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

Who doesn’t love a good thriller?

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Manifest actress Melissa Roxburgh leads The Hunting Party as Bex Henderson, a former FBI agent in charge of the mission to recapture the fugitives who escaped a top-secret prison break.

This suspenseful prison drama follows Bex’s team of investigators as they track down these dangerous serial killers who have just escaped from the Pit, a top-secret government prison that’s not supposed to exist.

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An elite task force of investigators has its hands full when an off-the-books max-security prison sees a massive breach, leading to the escape of the most notorious convicts. In a first teaser for NBC’s forthcoming crime procedural, The Hunting Party, Melissa Roxburgh’s ex-fbi agent Rebecca Henderson must spearhead a search to round up the escaped criminals.

Set to a haunting rendition of Blondie’s “One Way Or Another,” the new look at the high-concept drama — due for release Feb. 3 with next-day streaming — previews “The Pit,” an underground panopticon-like hexagonal structure, described in a voiceover as a “a classified prison home to the most violent and dangerous criminals the world has ever known.”

Following a blast of mysterious origins, Rebecca (“Bex”) must track down the inmates, leading a team to uncover the origins of the explosion and the reasoning behind it. The jam-packed 30-second first-look...

NBC has announced when The Hunting Party will be on TV, but is it a bad time slot for the new crime drama?

NBC has just announced its winter/spring 2025 schedule, with a mix of new and returning shows. Among them is the new crime thriller The Hunting Party. Created by JJ Bailey, the series focuses on a pack of cops, federal agents, and investigators brought in when a jailbreak occurs at a high-security prison. The catch? The prison is so ultra top-secret that the government doesn’t even acknowledge it exists or who was held there. That means the team can’t rely on help from other agencies while also wondering who they’re really working for.

The show is set to debut Monday, Feb. 3 at 10/9c. That seems like a good entry for the new thriller, yet the question is whether this is a good place for this drama or not.

NBC today announced its 2025 midseason premiere dates, including the new dramas Suits LA, from creator Aaron Korsh, The Hunting Party, starring Melissa Roxburgh (Manifest), and Grosse Pointe Garden Society, a soapy mystery from Jenny Bans and Bill Krebs. The schedule also includes the 10-part special event nature documentary The Americas, narrated by Tom Hanks with music by Oscar winner Hans Zimmer.

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Legal dramas are going to be leading NBC’s winter lineup. The midseason schedule for the network is finally here, and it includes a premiere date for the highly anticipated “Suits” spinoff “Suits: L.A.” as well as the return of “Law & Order.”

All series will air on NBC and will be available to stream on Peacock a day after their premiere.

Looking ahead to this upcoming season, the network’s Monday night lineup will start with the return of Zachary Quinto’s “Brilliant Minds” on Jan. 6, 2025. Starting on Feb. 3, “The Voice” will then return with a new season. This time around, Adam Levine, Kelsea Ballerini, John Legend and Michael Bublé will serve as the season’s coaches. It will then be followed by the series premiere of “The Hunting Party.”

Described as a “high-concept crime procedural” from co-showrunners JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn, the drama follows a small team...

Exclusive: Nick Wechsler (Revenge) is set as a series regular in NBC‘s new drama series The Hunting Party, joining previously announced Melissa Roxburgh, Patrick Sabongui, Sara Garcia and Josh McKenzie. Additionally, Kyra Leroux (Riverdale) joins the series in a recurring role.

Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Wechsler will play Oliver Odell. Bex’s former partner in the FBI and the love of her life, Oliver Odell is a charming, brilliant and often reckless profiler whose career at the bureau, and whose relationship with Bex, ended in disgrace.

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NBC has always been known for crime procedurals, so it's no surprise they have given another one a series order.

The Hunting Party is a new crime procedural set to premiere at midseason in 2025.

It's a high-concept procedural that promises intrigue and action with a list of well-known actors. Here is what we know about the series so far.

What is The Hunting Party?

The Hunting Party is a crime procedural about a team of investigators who track down and capture dangerous killers who have recently escaped from a top-secret prison that's not supposed to exist.

Crime procedurals have become the most popular Primetime television, so The Hunting Party should fit right in.

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La Brea alum Josh McKenzie is set as a series regular in NBC‘s new drama series The Hunting Party, joining previously announced Melissa Roxburgh, Patrick Sabongui and Sara Garcia, Deadline has confirmed.

Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

McKenzie will play Shane Florence. Selfless, sincere and charismatic, Shane is a former soldier in Iraq and a prison guard at a highly classified facility.

The Hunting Party, which received a straight-to-series order, is executive produced by Bailey and Jake Coburn who are writing and co-showrunning together. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

McKenzie is coming...

“La Brea” star Josh McKenzie is returning to NBC. Variety has learned exclusively that the actor has joined the network’s upcoming drama series “The Hunting Party.”

The show was picked up to series back in February. McKenzie will star alongside previously announced cast members Melissa Roxburgh (herself an alumna of NBC’s “Manifest”), Sara Garcia, and Patrick Sabongui.

The logline for the series states it is “a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

McKenzie will star as Shane Florence, described as “Selfless, sincere and charismatic. Shane is a former soldier in Iraq and a prison guard at a highly classified facility.”

McKenzie played Lucas Hayes throughout “La Brea’s” three season run at NBC.

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Exclusive: Patrick Sabongui (The Flash) and Sara Garcia (Ride) are set as series regulars, joining Melissa Roxburgh in NBC’s new drama series The Hunting Party.

Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Garcia will play Jennifer Morales. A bright and natural optimist despite her tough upbringing, Jennifer is an intel officer and major in the Army.

Sabongui portrays Ryan Hassani. Rugged and world-worn but with a casual air, Hassani is a CIA agent tasked with managing the crisis.

The Hunting Party, which received a straight-to-series order, is executive produced by Bailey and Jake Coburn who are writing and co-showrunning together.

Manifest alum Melissa Roxburgh is heading back to NBC, having nabbed a leading role in the network’s upcoming drama The Hunting Party.

First ordered to series in February, the “high-concept crime procedural” follows an assembled team of investigators who are tasked with tracking down and capturing the country’s most dangerous killers, all of whom have just escaped from a “top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist,” per the official logline.

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Melissa Roxburgh has been cast in a lead role of the upcoming NBC drama series “The Hunting Party,” Variety has learned.

The series was originally announced at NBC back in February. It is described as a crime procedural about “a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

Roxburgh will star as Rebecca “Bex” Henderson. The character is described as “Shrewd, steadfast and obsessively curious, Bex is an ex-fbi agent recruited to an elite government task force due to her reputation as a savvy profiler who’s caught some of the world’s most dangerous serial killers.”

The role marks a starring role return to NBC for Roxburgh, as she is best known for her starring role in the supernatural drama series “Manifest.

Manifest star Melissa Roxburgh is returning to NBC as a lead of the network’s new drama series The Hunting Party.

Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Roxburgh will play Rebecca “Bex” Henderson. Shrewd, steadfast and obsessively curious, Bex is an ex-fbi agent recruited to an elite government task force due to her reputation as a savvy profiler who’s caught some of the world’s most dangerous serial killers.

The Hunting Party, which received a straight-to-series order, is executive produced by Bailey and Jake Coburn who are writing and co-showrunning together. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group,...

The Hunting Party from JJ Bailey is headed to NBC. The network announced the drama series order on Wednesday.

Bailey signed an exclusive deal with Universal Television in 2022 to develop and produce projects across all platforms, with Hunting Party first on the list. He developed the show with The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn. Bailey previously created two projects that went to pilot at NBC.

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NBC has given a series order to “The Hunting Party,” a high-concept crime procedural from JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn, with both serving as executive producers, writers and co-showrunners.

Created by Bailey, who also wrote the pilot script, “The Hunting Party” follows a small team of investigators who work together to track down and capture the most dangerous killers the country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio behind the series, which isn’t surprising as Bailey has an overall deal there while Coburn has a first-look deal.

The order for “The Hunting Party” comes as NBC has already ordered three other pilots for next season, including “Suits: LA,” an untitled Reba McEntire-led comedy and more recently, a pilot for “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.

NBC is siccing The Hunting Party on some VIP prison escapees.

The network announced on Tuesday that it has given a series order to The Hunting Party, a new procedural created by JJ Bailey, who will serve as co-showrunner alongside Jake Coburn (co-creator of NBC’s The Endgame).

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NBC has given a series order to “The Hunting Party,” a drama series from JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn.

Per the official logline, “The Hunting Party” is “a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

“The Hunting Party” is produced by Universal Television. Bailey, who is under an overall deal at the studio, created the series and wrote the pilot. He serves as co-showrunner and executive producer along with Coburn, who has a first-look deal with Utv.

This is Bailey’s first series order since entering his Utv deal in 2022, though he previously set up drama pilot “Echo” at NBC. Though the series never made it to air, it was set to star “Veep” actor...

NBC has handed a series order to The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural from JJ Bailey, The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. The pickup was teased by Universal TV President Erin Underhill in her Q&a with Deadline about the studio’s drama procedural business.

Created by Bailey, The Hunting Party is about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Bailey and Coburn will write, executive produce and serve as co-showrunners. Bailey, who wrote the pilot, has an overall deal with Utv. Jake Coburn has a first-look deal with the studio.

The Hunting Party was one of two drama projects NBC commissioned writers rooms for last February. The other, Grosse...

NBC is throwing a Hunting Party.

The network has handed out a series order for the high-concept procedural The Hunting Party, from creator JJ Bailey. The pickup for the drama comes more than a year after NBC opened up a writers room for the project that it describes as revolving around “a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

Bailey (Echo) created Hunting Party and is attached to serve as co-showrunner alongside fellow writer and exec producer Jake Coburn (The Endgame). The drama hails from Universal Television, where Bailey is based with an overall deal and Coburn is set with a first-look pact.

NBC has been using a two-pronged development slate since 2020, using both the pilot model as well as...

NBC has given a pilot order to Grosse Pointe Garden Society, a long-in-the-works drama from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.

The drama follows four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.

The studio is Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Production company is Minnesota Logging Company. Casey Kyber is a non-writing EP.

Both Bans and Krebs have overall deals at Universal Television.

The project first surfaced early in 2023, when NBC commissioned writers room for it and The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural from JJ Bailey and The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn. The latter revolves around a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a...

Exclusive: NBC has commissioned writers rooms for two hourlong projects, Grosse Pointe Garden Society, from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans and her frequent collaborator, former Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs, as well as The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural from JJ Bailey and The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn. Universal Television, where Bans, Krebs and Bailey are under overall deals and Coburn has a first-look deal, is the studio on both.

Grosse Pointe Garden Society, which had a put pilot commitment, was one of two sales at NBC this development season for Bans and Krebs through Universal TV. Their other script, Murder By the Book, with Good Girls‘ Retta attached to star, was picked up to pilot. It also originally had a put pilot commitment.

NBC has split its drama slate between the two models, with two pilots, Murder By the Book and Wolf, and two writers rooms for a straight-to-series consideration.

Exclusive: Drama writer-producer JJ Bailey is expanding his relationship with Universal Television. Bailey has signed an exclusive overall deal with the studio, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop and produce projects across all platforms. He has set his first project under the deal, The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural which he is developing with The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn for NBC.

Written by Bailey, The Hunting Party revolves around a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Bailey and Coburn executive produce.

Bailey previously created two projects for Utv that went to pilot at NBC, Getaway with Moira Kirland and Echo with Davis Entertainment.

“We are thrilled to officially welcome JJ to the Utv family! ” said Erin Underhill,...

Exclusive: NBC has opted not to proceed with its drama pilot Getaway. Headlined by Annie Ilonzeh, it starred two leads of recently canceled broadcast series that have since been resurrected, Manifest’s Matt Long and All Rise‘s Marg Helgenberger. Both actors are now available to do other shows, including their old ones, which both have been picked up for 20 episodes. Meanwhile, NBC’s other drama pilot, Dangerous Moms, remains in contention.

I hear Long is in talks about rejoining Manifest as a series regular though it is unclear if a deal will be reached. The missing plane drama was picked up for a fourth season by Netflix in August following its cancellation by NBC.

“I will be back for some of it, we’re just trying to find out the maximum I can do,” Long said backstage at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards last month when he was still attached to Getaway.

Matt Long, Marg Helgenberger, Jasmine Mathews (The Rookie, Sweetbitter) and E.J. Bonilla (Bull, Unforgettable) are the latest additions to Getaway, NBC‘s drama pilot about a destination wedding gone very wrong.

Hailing from The Blacklist EPs John Davis and John Fox and writers JJ Bailey and Moira Kirland, Getaway follows a destination wedding at an isolated luxury resort that quickly spirals into chaos when a group of dangerous criminals takes the island hostage. The small RSVP list of guests, led by a fearless female Army vet (Chicago Fire‘s Annie Ilonzeh), in turn do everything they can to stay alive.

Amid talks about a new season of Manifest, one of the canceled NBC series’ core cast members, Matt Long, has booked a new pilot at the network but fans of the missing plane drama should not be too worried about it. Long, CSI alumna Marg Helgenberger, Jasmine Mathews (The Rookie) and E.J. Bonilla (The Old Man) are set as series regulars opposite Annie Ilonzeh in NBC drama pilot Getaway, from The Blacklist duo John Davis and John Fox and Universal TV, a division of Universal Studios Group.

I hear Long was approached about Getaway after the options on the Manifest cast expired last month and studio Warner Bros. Television ended its efforts to find a new home for the show after conversations with Netflix did not yield an agreement. The series regulars on Manifest are free to take new jobs while talks about a Season 4 of Manifest recently resumed, with...

NBC’s Getaway is rounding out its cast.

Marg Helgenberger (All Rise), Jasmine Mathews (The Tomorrow War), E.J. Bonilla (The Old Man) and Matt Long (Manifest) have joined Annie Ilonzeh in the cast of the network’s drama pilot Getaway, which remains in consideration for midseason.

From The Blacklist exec producers John Davis and John Fox and writers JJ Bailey and Moira Kirland, Getaway follows a destination wedding at an isolated luxury resort that quickly descends into chaos after a group of dangerous criminals takes the island hostage. The small group of guests, led by a fearless female Army vet (Ilonzeh), will do ...

NBC’s Getaway is rounding out its cast.

Marg Helgenberger (All Rise), Jasmine Mathews (The Tomorrow War), E.J. Bonilla (The Old Man) and Matt Long (Manifest) have joined Annie Ilonzeh in the cast of the network’s drama pilot Getaway, which remains in consideration for midseason.

From The Blacklist exec producers John Davis and John Fox and writers JJ Bailey and Moira Kirland, Getaway follows a destination wedding at an isolated luxury resort that quickly descends into chaos after a group of dangerous criminals takes the island hostage. The small group of guests, led by a fearless female Army vet (Ilonzeh), will do ...

Annie Ilonzeh is set as the lead in NBC drama pilot Getaway, from The Blacklist duo John Davis and John Fox and Universal TV, a division of Universal Studios Group.

Written and executive produced by JJ Bailey (Echo) and Moira Kirland (Madam Secretary), Getaway centers on a destination wedding at an isolated luxury resort that quickly descends into chaos after a group of dangerous criminals takes the island hostage. The small group of guests, led by a fearless female Army vet (Ilonzeh), will do everything they can to stay alive.

Ilonzeh’s Tessa Carrillo is a physically tough Army medical vet who at 18 put her career dreams on hold after her parents died to take care of her younger sister, Grace. Although the siblings are now on different paths, with Grace marrying a political scion, Tessa is attending her wedding in the hopes she can relax and reconnect with her sister.