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Exclusive: Mark Kimsey and Roger Birnbaum’s Electromagnetic Productions are developing the feature film, Inconceivable.

The film, written by Lauren Black, is a gripping thriller about 38-year-old college professor Sydney Drake, who is determined to obliterate any obstacle in her quest to conceive. She finds an unlikely mark in an unsuspecting student that she drags into her increasingly unhinged journey as a decades-old secret entwining their pasts threatens to blow up both their lives.

Along with Birnbaum and Kimsey, James Deutch from Emp will produce with Colleen Camp, Jonathan M. Black, Lauren Black and their companies Colleen Camp Productions and Chair 10 Productions.

“I didn’t become a mother until I was nearly 40. For most of my adult life, I was perpetually single and never in a place to have a baby on my own. All the while, the question nagged at me: What if I waited too long?” said screenwriter Lauren Black.

Unscripted veterans Chris Culvenor and Paul Franklin, most recently Endemol Shine's Svp of Development and Evp of Programming, have formed Eureka, a production company in partnership with FremantleMedia. The duo has worked together for a decade, including a stint at FremantleMedia Australia. They've developed, adapted and produced franchises such as MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, The Biggest Loser, The Voice, Fake Off, The Apprentice, Restaurant Startup, The Face, Project…...

The third season of CNBC's Restaurant Startup TV series premieres Wednesday, January 6, 2016, at 10:00pm Et/Pt. Now, CNBC has released a sneak peek at the third season. Watch it, below.

Restaurant Startup features restaurateur and TV personality Joe Bastianich, chef/restaurateur Tim Love, and chef/restauranteur Antonia LoFaso. Restauranteur and hospitality consultant Elizabeth Blau appears in three episodes of season season.

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Roast from Los Angeles presents their culinary concept to investors Joe Bastianich and Tim Love on tonight’s episode of “Restaurant Startup” on CNBCThis week, investors Joe Bastianich and Tim Love hear from restaurateurs who want to expand their reach and revenue by opening a second location. Roast is a Los Angeles deli where everything on the menu is roasted to perfection – including their signature sliders. Over Easy Omaha is a popular chef-driven breakfast café owned by an ex-stockbroker turned restaurateur. Which concept has better profit potential? And will it be enough to earn a deal from one or both […]...

Start sharpening your knives now, unknown culinary pros: Bravo Media has renewed cooking competition “Top Chef” for Season 13.

The next wave comes to a simmer — and TV sets — in fall 2015. Meanwhile, its open casting call for talent kicks off on Feb. 3 in Nashville and Seattle.

Also Read: Neil Patrick Harris Tests Top Chefs, Emmy Acting Nominees Toast Each Other (Photos)

A day later, Part 2 of the three-part Season 12 finale from Mexico will air. On it, the remaining three chefs take a surprise visit to the lush organic farm, Purisima de Jalpa on the outskirts of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico,...

CNBC’s “Restaurant Startup” is not another cooking competition, host and investor Tim Love told reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena on Thursday.

“Restaurants are a marriage of two things: art and commerce. It’s the hardest things to put together,” he said. “It’s the sexiest and crappiest investment on the planet.”

In its second season, the series follows Love and Joe Bastianich as they vie against each other to invest their own money in food concepts. Each week, two teams compete and try to sway both restaurateurs. Bastianich, former judge on Fox’s “Masterchef,...

A cook has left the kitchen. Joe Bastianich made headlines in November when he announced he was leaving MasterChef and its spinoff MasterChef Junior after starring in both as a judge since the original Fox series' debuted in 2010. "After several gratifying years as a judge on MasterChef and MasterChef Junior, I have decided not to return for a sixth season," Bastianich said on his Facebook page. And now, Bastianich is once again speaking out on leaving Gordon Ramsay and Graham Elliot behind.  At the panel for Restaurant Startup, which just returned to record-high ratings in its second season, at the 2015 Winter TCA Press Tour on Friday,...