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After airing just four episodes, NBC announced on Tuesday that its freshman drama series “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” will be moving from Sunday nights to Fridays at 8:00 p.m. Et/Pt, beginning Friday, April 4.

The series follows four members of a suburban garden club who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.

Episodes five and six are set to continue airing on Sunday nights for the remainder of the month (March 23 and March 30 at 10:00 p.m. Et/Pt) with the seventh episode serving as the first in the show’s new timeslot.

“Dateline NBC” will replace the series on Sundays beginning Sunday, April 6.

To date, the pilot episode of “Grosse Pointe Garden Society...

NBC is making a scheduling change, taking new drama Grosse Pointe Garden Society out of its Sunday 10 Pm slot and putting it at 8 Pm Fridays, beginning April 4. The decision comes three episodes into Grosse Pointe‘s run.

The swiftness of NBC’s action is understandable as Grosse Pointe has been drawing very low linear ratings, with the series sitting at the bottom of all of the network’s series in both total audience and adults 18-49, averaging just over a million viewers in Live+ Same Day the last two weeks.

While a move to the low-trafficked Friday night for a new broadcast series would’ve meant a certain death back in the day, the rules are different in the streaming age.

With its serialized mystery-themed storytelling, Grosse Pointe, from the Good Girls duo of Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs, was always considered better suited for streaming. As Deadline reported last year,...

A midstream scheduling change is a rarity for networks in recent years, but one is happening at NBC.

The network will move its first-year drama Grosse Pointe Garden Society from Sunday to Friday nights starting April 4. The show will take the 8 p.m. spot currently occupied by Happy’s Place; the Reba McEntire-led comedy finishes its season March 21. Episodes of Dateline will take over the 10 p.m. Sunday slot after Grosse Pointe Garden Society moves.

The change in nights is meant to help Grosse Pointe Garden Society get some more eyes to its on-air showings. The series, which follows members of a suburban garden club whose lives become entangled with scandal and secrets — and a murder — has found some traction streaming on Peacock, but its on-air viewing has struggled some.

Through its first three episodes, Grosse Pointe Garden Society has averaged a scant 1.29 million same-day viewers, making it NBC’s lowest on-air performance this season.

“Grosse Pointe Garden Society” is on the move.

NBC is moving the drama series from its current Sunday night timeslot to Fridays at 8 p.m. Et/Pt beginning April 4. “Dateline NBC” will take over the Sunday 10 p.m. slot.

The move does not bode well for the future of “Grosse Pointe,” as a move to Fridays midway through a freshman season typically indicates a show is destined for cancellation. NBC has been successfully programming comedies on Friday nights of late, however, with the Reba McEntire multi-cam “Happy’s Place” recently earning a Season 2 renewal. The season finale of that show is set to air on March 21.

Still, despite relatively solid reviews, “Grosse Pointe” has failed to make a major impact in the broadcast ratings. Per NBC, the pilot has grown to a 1.21 rating in the adults 18-49 demo and 6.6 million total viewers across all platforms since it originally debuted on Feb.

How do you make your garden grow and thrive? According to NBC’s trailer for Grosse Pointe Garden Society, something has to die for flowers to blossom. And in NBC’s new drama, it seems that the dead thing providing the garden its nutrients is a human body.

The series follows four members of a suburban garden club who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief, and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about,” reads NBC’s synopsis. “As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.”

The drama stars Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) as Birdie, Aja Naomi King (How to Get Away with Murder) as Catherine, Ben Rappaport (Law & Order: Svu) as Brett, and AnnaSophia Robb (Rebel Ridge) as Alice. Season one’s cast also includes Alexander Hodge (Insecure) as Doug,...

New Amsterdam alum Jocko Sims is back at NBC with a recurring role on the upcoming drama series Grosse Pointe Garden Society. Also recurring on the twisty, soapy mystery series from Good Girls‘ Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs are Saamer Usmani (Three Body Problem), Josh Ventura (Till) and Nora Zehetner (Grey’s Anatomy).

Grosse Pointe Garden Society, which earlier today released a first trailer, follows four members of a suburban garden club — Birdie (Melissa Fumero), Catherine (Aja Naomi King), Brett (Ben Rappaport) and Alice (AnnaSophia Robb) — who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.

Sims plays Catherine’s (King) husband Tucker. He’s entitled, self-serving, dismissive and prioritizes everything above his wife. Usmani plays Gary,...

We’re getting the first look at Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC’s upcoming drama series from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television.

“Here’s what they don’t tell you when you join a garden club,” begins a sneak peek trailer. “To make something grow, something has to die.” Segue to “I can’t believe we’re burying a body.”

Written by Bans and Krebs, Grosse Pointe Garden Society follows four members of a suburban garden club — Birdie (Melissa Fumero), Catherine (Aja Naomi King), Brett (Ben Rappaport) and Alice (AnnaSophia Robb) — who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret – a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above.

Alexander Hodge, Nancy Travis, Matthew Davis and Felix Wolfe also star.

Grosse Pointe Garden Society is taking root amid murder and mayhem.

NBC on Friday released the first trailer for the forthcoming drama, which premieres Sunday, Feb. 23, at 10/9c. (People was the first to report the news.) In the series, a group of suburbanites reveal the first rule of their local gardening club: Everyone must have each others’ backs. Shouldn’t be too hard, in theory, except that Grosse Pointe Garden Society looks like it’s dealing with homicide, arson and more seedy misbehavior. (Oh my!)

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On Friday, NBC officially handed series orders to “Suits L.A.” and “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” two of the highest-profile dramas it had in development.

The network did not reveal when either show would premiere, particularly whether they might air at some point during the upcoming 2024-2025 broadcast season. The network already has dramas “Brilliant Minds” and “The Hunting Party,” as well as comedies “St. Denis Medical and “Happy’s Place” set to air next season.

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NBC is getting its hands good and dirty with a series order for Grosse Pointe Garden Society, a new drama about the scandalous goings-on of a suburban garden club, TVLine has learned.

Written by Jenna Bans (Desperate Housewives, Scandal, Good Girls) and Bill Krebs (No Tomorrow, Good Girls), the series focuses on four very different members of the titular garden club who “get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom,” per the official synopsis.

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It’s official: “Suits” is back. The spinoff, “Suits: L.A.,” led by Stephen Amell, has received a series order pickup by NBC.

Produced by UCP and Hypnotic, original show creator Aaron Korsh returns as writer and executive producer.

Per the official logline, “Suits: L.A.” follows Ted Black (Amell), “a former federal prosecutor from New York, has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles. His firm is at a crisis point and to survive he must embrace a role he held in contempt his entire career. Ted is surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both Ted and each other while they can’t help but mix their personal and professional lives.”

Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis and Bryan Greenberg also star. David Bartis, Doug Liman, Gene Klein and Victoria Mahoney executive produce. Mahoney also directed the pilot.

The original “Suits” aired on...

The world of Suits is officially getting larger.

NBC has given a series order to Suits: LA, a spinoff of/companion show to the former USA Network series-turned-streaming juggernaut. The network has also picked up Grosse Pointe Garden Society, a murder mystery from the team behind Good Girls.

NBC hasn’t scheduled either show yet, but it’s conceivable they could be ready for the second half of the 2024-25 season. Crime drama The Hunting Party is currently the only midseason scripted series on tap for the network.

Like its predecessor, Suits: LA comes from creator Aaron Korsh. After Suits became a massive streaming hit last year, Korsh and Universal Studio Group’s UCP, which produced the original series, began developing a second show set in the same world — though not featuring any characters (at least at the outset) from the New York-set Suits. NBC ordered a pilot for the show in February,...

AnnaSophia Robb has been cast in a lead role of the NBC drama pilot “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” Variety has learned.

NBC ordered the pilot back in February. The logline states, “Four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.”

Robb will star as Alice, described as “your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams are crashing down on her. She’s a longtime member of the Grosse Pointe Garden Society.”

Robb’s recent credits include Season 1 of “Dr. Death” at Peacock as well as both “The Act” and “Little Fires Everywhere” at Hulu. Her other TV credits include “Mercy Street” and “The Carrie Diaries.” In features, she has starred in projects like “Lansky,” “Words on Bathroom Walls,” “Soul Surfer,” “The Way Way Back,” and “Bridge to Terabithia.

Maggie Kiley is attached to direct and executive produce the NBC drama pilot “Grosse Pointe Garden Society,” Variety has learned exclusively.

The pilot was ordered at NBC in February. It hails from writers and executive producers Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.

Kiley has previously directed episodes of NBCUniversal shows like “Dr. Death” for Peacock and “Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story” for USA Network. Her other TV directing credits include shows like “American Horror Story,” “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin,” “Riverdale,” “Keep Breathing,” and the upcoming series “American Sports Story.”

She made her feature directorial debut with “Brightest Star” starring Chris Lowell and Allison Janney. She also directed the award-winning short film “Some Boys Don’t Leave” starring Jesse Eisenberg. She is currently attached to direct Kat Wood’s upcoming film “Enigma.”

Kiley is repped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.

“Grosse Pointe Garden Society” was originally put into development...

NBC has ordered a drama pilot from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.

The project is titled “Grosse Pointe Garden Society.” The official logline reads, “Four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.”

Bans and Krebs serve as writers and executive producers on the pilot. Bans will executive produce under her Minnesota Logging Company banner along with Casey Kyber. Universal Television, where both Bans and Krebs are under overall deals, will produce.

“Grosse Pointe Garden Society” was originally put into development at NBC back in 2022, while the network opened a writers’ room for the series in 2023.

Bans is best known for creating the NBC series “Good Girls,” starring Christina Hendricks, Retta, and Mae Whitman. The show aired for four seasons at the broadcaster. Bans’ other credits include creating the ABC...

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...

NBC is adding to its pilot roster with a drama from Good Girls executive producers Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.

Like Good Girls, the new project from the pair, titled Grosse Pointe Garden Society, will focus on a group of women caught up in a crime — murder, in this case. The show’s logline reads, “Four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.”

The pilot is the second at NBC in as many years for Bans and Krebs. In 2023 the network ordered a pilot from the pair for a Murder, She Wrote-esque mystery drama starring Good Girls lead Retta, but it ended up not moving forward. The two first worked together on ABC’s 2016 drama The Family before teaming on Good Girls, which ran for four seasons on NBC...

Exclusive: The Good Girls reunion of Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Retta is not happening — at least not at NBC. The network has passed on the untitled drama pilot (fka Murder by the Book), starring Retta and written and executive produced by Bans and Krebs. The studio behind the pilot, Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is expected to shop it.

The untitled Bans/Krebs project was one of two NBC drama pilots ordered this pilot season. The other, fka as Wolf, starring Zachary Quinto, remains in contention, I hear. A decision is expected in the next week as options on pilot casts are up June 30.

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Jenna Bush Hager, “Bel-Air” showrunner Carla Banks Waddles, and “Good Girls” creator Jenna Bans are teaming to adapt Diane Marie Brown’s debut novel “Black Candle Women” into a television series at Universal Television.

Hager, the co-host of “Today with Hoda & Jenna,” previously announced “Black Candle Women” as her March pick for her book club #ReadWithJenna. Waddles will write and executive produce the series. Bans and Casey Kyber of Minnesota Logging Company will executive produce along with Hager and Ben Spector of Thousand Voices. Waddles is under an overall deal at Utv, as is Bans, while Hager is under a first-look deal with Universal Studio Group. Usg’s Creative Acquisitions and IP Management team, led by Jordan Moblo, was said to be instrumental in securing the rights to the novel.

“I am thrilled that my book will not only be adapted but also be in such incredibly talented hands,...

Universal Television is developing a series adaptation of Diane Marie Brown’s debut novel Black Candle Women with Jenna Bush Hager, who has a first-look deal with Universal Studio Group, under her production banner Thousand Voices. Hager is teaming with Bel-Air showrunner Carla Banks Waddles and Good Girls creator Jenna Bans, both of whom have overall deals with Utv, for the project.

Waddles is set to write and executive produce the adaptation. Bans will executive produce through her production banner Minnesota Logging Company, along with the company’s Head of Television Casey Kyber. Hager will also executive produce with President of Thousand Voices, Ben Spector.

Black Candle Women introduces four generations of Montrose women—Augusta, Victoria, Willow—who have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them.

Exclusive: Elizabeth Yu and Hilda Martin have been added to the cast of the upcoming NBC drama pilot from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs formerly known as Murder by the Book.

Starring Retta, the story will follow a big city Instafamous book reviewer who takes a page from the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.

Martin will play Young Hazel, while Yu will portray Young Maggie. Young Maggie and Young Hazel are big murder mystery book nerds and best friends, spending time having fun, reading and sleeping over at each other’s houses. Eventually, Maggie’s murder will send Hazel on her own hunt for a killer.

They join a cast that includes Tituss Burgess, Tommy Dewey and Siobhan Williams.

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The untitled project, which landed a pilot order in January after...

Exclusive: Another Good Girls alum has joined NBC’s Jenna Bans/Bill Krebs (fka Murder By The Book) drama pilot. Michael Weaver has been tapped to direct the pilot from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans under her Universal Television-based production banner Minnesota Logging Company. Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs will pen the script with Bans.

Starring Retta, the story will follow big city Instafamous book reviewer takes a page from the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.

The project, which had received a put pilot commitment in September, reteams Good Girls alums Retta, Bans, Krebs and Weaver, who served as director and executive producer on all four seasons of NBC’s crime comedy-drama.

Murder by the Book hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, under the Minnesota Logging Co. production banner.

Exclusive: Tituss Burgess, Tommy Dewey and Siobhan Williams have been cast in NBC‘s upcoming drama pilot from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans and executive producer Bill Krebs.

The pilot, which was previously titled Murder By the Book, stars Retta as Hazel, a big city Instafamous book reviewer who takes a page from the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.

Burgess will play Andre, Hazel’s loveable, charming and directionless younger brother. For the time-being, he’s Hazel’s publicist/manager/hype-man because he’s been fired from every other job he’s ever had.

Dewey will play Pete, a cheerful homicide detective who somehow has a gorgeous second home overlooking the bay on a government salary. Williams joins as Lori, an employee at the bookstore who proves to be an invaluable, if sometimes off center,...

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.

NBC is hosting an unofficial Good Girls reunion as the network orders Murder by the Book‘s pilot led by former series star Retta. The pilot order reteams Retta with Good Girls duo Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs, both serving as writers and executive producers on the drama. The crime-centric series follows a big city “Instafamous” book reviewer who takes a page from the murder mystery books she reviews to become an unlikely detective. (Credit: Danielle Levitt/NBC) Taking her sleuthing skills to a seaside town, Retta’s character uncovers shocking truths along the way. Along with starring in the series, she serves as an executive producer alongside Bans, Krebs, and Casey Kyber. The show hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, and is produced by Minnesota Logging Company. As viewers will recall, Retta previously played Ruby in Bans and Krebs’ Good Girls, which followed three suburban...

“Good Girls” and “Parks and Recreation” star Retta is headed back to NBC.

“Murder By the Book,” a new crime drama series that stars and is executive produced by Retta, has been ordered for a pilot pickup at NBC.

The official logline from NBC reads as follows: “A big city Instafamous book reviewer takes a page from the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.”

Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs will serve as writers and executive producers, while Casey Kyber joins as an executive producer.

The series hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, with Minnesota Logging Company joining as the production company.

In addition to her role as Donna Meagle on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” Retta is also known for her role as Ruby Hill on NBC’s “Good Girls,” and has...

The creator and one of the stars of Good Girls are reuniting at NBC.

The network has given a formal pilot order to Murder by the Book, a mystery drama starring Retta. The project comes from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans and executive producer Bill Krebs. The potential series has been in the works for several months.

The logline for Murder by the Book reads like a bit of a play on Murder, She Wrote. Retta will star as an Instagram-famous, big city book reviewer who takes a page from the mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.

Retta, who signed a holding deal with NBCUniversal a year ago, has a long history with the company. Prior to Good Girls, which ran for four seasons on NBC (and also drew a sizable audience on Netflix), she played...

NBC has given a pilot order to “Murder by the Book,” a drama series starring Retta. The pilot is written by Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.

Per the logline, the series sees an Instagram famous book reviewer take a page from the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.

The project reteams Retta with Bans and Krebs as well as NBC. Retta starred in the NBC crime comedy-drama series “Good Girls,” which Bans created. Krebs served as a writer and executive producer. “Good Girls” ran for four seasons from 2018 to 2021.

“Murder by the Book” hails from Universal Television and Bans’ Minnesota Logging Company production banner. Bans executive produces and writes along with Bill Krebs, while Retta and Casey Kyber are non-writing executive producers.

Along with playing Ruby Hill in “Good Girls,” Retta is best known for playing...

NBC has ordered a pilot for the drama series Murder by the Book from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans under her Universal Television-based production banner Minnesota Logging Company. Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs will pen the script with Bans.

Starring Retta, the story will follow big city Instafamous book reviewer takes a page from the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.

The project, which had received a put pilot commitment in September, reteams Retta with Bans and Krebs after the actress previously starred in all four seasons of NBC’s crime comedy-drama Good Girls.

Murder by the Book hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, under the Minnesota Logging Co. production banner. In addition to starring, Retta will serve as executive producer. Casey Kyber, Minnesota Logging Co.’s Head of Television,...

Exclusive: Good Girls creator Jenna Bans has sold two more hourlong projects to NBC this development season. The network has handed a put pilot commitment to Grosse Pointe Garden Society from Bans and her frequent collaborator and former Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs, and a script commitment to Point Nemo from Heather Mitchell.

Both shows are produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Bans and Krebs are under overall deals.

Bans and Krebs also have crime drama Murder by the Book starring Good Girls‘ Retta in the works at NBC with a put pilot commitment.

Grosse Pointe Garden Society echoes a bit Bans’ hit Good Girls, while Point Nemo is a high-concept drama in the mold of such shows as Manifest, La Brea and Lost.

Written and executive produced by Bans and Krebs, Grosse Pointe Garden Society follows four members of a suburban garden club,...

There’s nothing as tempting as IP: Just ask the studio streaming titans of today, who are diving deep into their film catalogs to reboot and reimagine hit films from decades past.

Just one summer since slasher “I Know What You Did Last Summer” found new life as an Amazon Prime Video series, and it seems that all our favorite “old” movies are finding new life on streamers and networks alike.

CBS announced shortly after canning a slew of shows that a reboot of the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis film “True Lies” will head to the network soon.

NBCUniversal also recently announced on May 12 a “re-framing” of Ben Stiller’s beloved 1994 burnout dramedy “Reality Bites,” which originally starred Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke. The series is set to debut on Peacock, along with a bevy of other Universal titles being transformed for the small screen.

And that’s...

Exclusive: Good Girls star Retta and the series’ creator/executive producer/co-showrunner Jenna Bans and executive producer/co-showrunner Bill Krebs are re-teaming for Murder By the Book, a new NBC hourlong crime drama, which has received a put pilot commitment by NBC. The project comes from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Bans and Krebs are under overall deals, and also stems from Retta’s talent holding deal with NBCUniversal TV & Streaming.

Written and executive produced by frequent collaborators Bans and Krebs, and executive produced by Retta, Murder By the Book follows a big-city Instafamous book reviewer (Retta) who takes a page out of the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.

Casey Kyber, Head of Television for Bans’ Minnesota Logging Company, will also executive produce.

“We learned on Good Girls that Retta can...

Peacock is bringing another fan-favorite title to television with a series adaptation of the 1994 film, Reality Bites. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show based on the Gen-x classic will see original screenwriter Helen Childress return to pen the updated story. As fans will recall, the 1994 movie featured Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, and Ben Stiller among others. In Peacock’s iteration, the story is centered on a driven and idealistic Lelaina Pierce along with her three best friends as they leave for college and try their hand at “adulting.” The action is once again set in the 1990s as the world is on the brink of major changes. The friends struggle to hold onto who they are along with holding onto each other. (Credit: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection) Childress will also serve as an executive producer alongside Janna Bans, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Danny DeVito, and Casey Kyber. Similar to Childress,...

Exclusive: Heather Mitchell (Scandal), Good Girls creator Jenna Bans and her Minnesota Logging Co. have come on board a one-hour drama in the works at Fox based on Joshilyn Jackson’s bestselling suspense novel Never Have I Ever.

The project, from Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson’s Appian Way and Universal Television, which co-produces with Fox Entertainment, was originally set up at the network last development season with Nurse Jackie co-creator Liz Brixius as writer and executive producer.. It is now being redeveloped with Mitchell writing and executive producing and Bans executive producing.

In the untitled Heather Mitchell/Jenna Bans project, which has a script commitment with penalty, Amy Whey is living the life of an average-if-unfulfilled housewife in suburban Florida when a grifter named Roux drifts into town… and wastes no time infiltrating the network of local women. When Roux learns that Amy’s the Big Fish she needs for her last big score,...

Exclusive: Following the surprise cancellation of Good Girls, NBC is back in business with Good Girls creator/executive producer Jenna Bans on another dark, thriller dramedy about female friends from Universal Television.

NBC is developing Redrum, written, directed and executive produced by Nzingha Stewart based on her original idea, and executive produced by Bans through her production banner, Minnesota Logging Company. Good Girls executive producer Carla Banks-Waddles, who has NBC/Utv drama pilot At That Age, serves as executive producer and showrunner. Minnesota Logging Co.’s Head of Television Casey Kyber executive produces. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, where Bans and her company are based, is the studio.

The project was sold to NBC before the network’s decision last month to not renew Good Girls for a fifth season.

Redrum is described a sexy, swampy dark dramedy/thriller about two best friends — Jess and Sadie – who...

Exclusive: In a competitive situation, Peacock has landed for development What She Said, an hourlong series from Erika Green Swafford (New Amsterdam) and Good Girls creator Jenna Bans. The project hails from Universal Television and BuzzFeed Studios and stems from Green Swafford and Bans’ overall deals and BuzzFeed’s first-look pact with the studio, part of Universal Content Studios.

Written and executive produced by Green Swafford, What She Said is inspired by Bim Adewunmi’s 2018 BuzzFeed News story “Meet the Women Who Are Building a Better Romance Industry”. It explores self-love, society’s beauty standards, and challenges the old, predominantly white narratives of who gets to fall in love. With romance novels at its spine, this series will lean into the wish fulfillment and sexiness that are the hallmarks of the romance industry and highlight the awkwardness, emotionality, and psychology of finding the courage to embrace your full self out in the real world.

Exclusive: Casey Kyber has left 20th Century Fox TV, where she served as VP of drama development, to join Jenna Bans’ production banner, Minnesota Logging Company, as Head of Television. The hire is part of a ramp-up of Minnesota Logging Co. into a full-fledged pod under the new overall deal Good Girls creator/executive producer Bans recently signed with the studio behind the popular NBC series, Universal Television.

“I’m so excited to partner with Casey,” said Bans. “She brings years of experience, impeccable taste and shares my love for unconventional, character driven stories. We feel really lucky to get to bring our vision to life with Pearlena, Erin, Brittany and the rest of our friends at Universal.”

Kyber joins Bans after two decades at 20th Century Fox TV, most recently as VP of Drama Development, a position she held since March 2016. During her tenure, she helped to develop a broad range of series,...