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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.

Starring Stephen Amell, Josh McDermitt, Lex Scott Davis and Bryan Greenberg, “Suits L.A.” follows ​​Ted Black (Amell), a former federal prosecutor from New York, who 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 for his entire career. Surrounded by a stellar group of characters who test their loyalties to both himself and each other,...

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...

NBC has picked up its two outstanding pilots to series, the hourlong Suits: L.A., starring Stephen Amell, and Grosse Pointe Garden Society. However, it has not been determined yet whether any of them will premiere during the 2024-25 seasons.

NBC already has two new drama and two new comedy series set for next season, dramas Brilliant Minds and The Hunting Party which, like Grosse Pointe Garden Society, originated as a writers room commission in February 2023, as well as comedies St. Denis Medical and the Reba McEntire-led Happy’s Place.

Along with the pickups, NBC has released first-look images for Suits: L.A. and Grosse Pointe Garden Society. You can see them below.

As Deadline reported last month, both pilots had come in solid and looking good for an order.

With a globally recognizable title thanks to Suits‘ recent Netflix success, offshoot Suits: L.A. had been considered a strong proposition from the moment it was announced.

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,...

As Hollywood starts to slow down ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, broadcast networks have some unfinished business — making decisions on several pilots ordered earlier this year. With development no longer confined within the bounds of the traditional TV cycle that comes to an end at the May upfronts, networks are taking longer to produce and evaluate pilots before deciding their fate. Here is where the Big 4 stand heading into the summer.

ABC has two new drama series for next season, High Potential and Dr. Odyssey — both on the fall schedule — and no new comedies. That will change as the network has two multi-camera pilots, Shifting Gears, starring Tim Allen and Kat Dennings, and Forgive & Forget, headlined by Ty Burrell. Both are considered very strong contenders.

Shifting Gears is ahead of Forgive & Forget timeline-wise; a cut was delivered and seen this week, I hear. Meanwhile, Forgive & Forget is taping today.

NBC dropped some good news to take us into the weekend.

The network unveiled its 2024 fall schedule, highlighting fan-favorite franchise dramas, two nights of laughs, huge unscripted hits and the biggest and best live specials and holiday programming.

If that seems like a mouthful, the details will probably help you see what’s what.

Fall Season

Three new series are set to premiere in the fall, including the drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto and inspired by the true story of a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist, Oliver Wolf, and his team of interns as they explore the last great frontier — the human mind — while also grappling with their own relationships and mental health.

St. Denis Medical, which stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Allison Tolman, and David Alan Grier and is from co-creators Justin Spitzer and Eric Ledgin, brings the laughs with a mockumentary about an underfunded, understaffed Oregon hospital where the dedicated doctors...

NBC’s schedule for the 2024-25 season doesn’t look that different from its current lineup: The Voice on Monday and Tuesday nights, the three Chicago dramas on Wednesday and Law & Order shows on Thursday.

It’s a business-as-usual lineup — but after last year’s strikes-affected schedule and the numerous disrpuptions of the pandemic year of 2020-21 still relatively fresh, that’s a good thing.

“Basically, it was just where do we put our sophomore shows and our our new shows on schedule?” Steve Kern, senior vp program planning and scheduling at NBC Entertainment, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. “Our wish was to have two comedy blocks on the fall schedule, and we were fortunate to have enough comedies to do it this year.”

NBC will have four comedies on the air in the fall — the first time that’s happened since the pre-pandemic season of 2019-...

Exclusive: Nancy Travis and Felix Avitia are set as the final two series regulars in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC‘s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. They join previously announced Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb, Ben Rappaport, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge and Aja Naomi King

The drama follows four members of a suburban garden club — Birdie (Fumero), Alice (Robb), Brett (Rappaport) and Catherine (King) — all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.

Travis plays Patty, Doug’s (Hodge) overbearing mother and Alice’s (Robb) nightmare mother-in-law. She is a social climber dying for a grandchild and has no problem getting into Alice and Doug’s business about why they’re taking so long.

Avitia portrays Ford, Joel (Davis) and Misty’s son. An uninspired student with no direction,...

Exclusive: How To Get Away With Murder alumna Aja Naomi King is returning to broadcast as a lead opposite Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb and Ben Rappaport in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC‘s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

The drama follows four members of a suburban garden club — Birdie (Fumero), Alice (Robb), Brett (Rappaport) and Catherine (King) — all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.

King’s Catherine is an unhappily married mother of two younger children, a realtor and active member of the Garden Society who works off some of her loneliness with a very juicy secret.

The pilot’s series regular cast also includes Matthew Davis and Alexander Hodge.

Maggie Kiley is directing the pilot, which she is executive producing with Bans via her Minnesota Logging Co.

Two more have joined Grosse Pointe Garden Society, the upcoming NBC drama pilot from Jenna Bans (Good Girls, Grey’s Anatomy), Bill Krebs (Good Girls, No Tomorrow) and Universal Television.

Matthew Davis (Legacies, The Vampire Diaries) and Alexander Hodge (Insecure) have been added as series regulars, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Some fun news: TV veteran Malcolm-Jamal Warner is scrubbing in for a guest-starring role on 9-1-1.

The actor will appear in four upcoming episodes of the Ryan Murphy procedural as Amir, a hospital burn unit nurse with ties to Bobby’s (Peter Krause) past, our sister site Deadline reports.

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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.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine alumna Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb (The Act) and Ben Rappaport (For the People) are set as leads in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC’s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

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

Fumero plays Birdie. Entitled, rich, swathed in Chanel, a smoker, a drinker, self-destructive at times, toxic at others, but not without real pain beneath her facade, Birdie is a successful author whose memoir, “Digging for Gold: Dancing Through Divorce,” is a bestseller.

Robb plays Alice, your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams are crashing down on her. She’s a longtime...

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...

“Good Girls” is getting an Arabic version, marking the first international adaptation of the Universal Television show about three moms embarking on a life of crime.

Titled “Lunch Box,” the Arabic “Good Girls” redo features Egyptian stars Ghada Adel, Jamila Awad and Fadwa Abed in the main roles as three women — two sisters and their friend — who, faced with sudden economic hardship, decide to pull an unlikely heist. Just like in the U.S. original, starring Christina Hendricks, Mae Whitman and Retta, they presume this will improve their lives, only to find themselves spiraling deeper into the criminal world.

Egyptian actors Ahmed Wafik, Hesham Ismail and rapper-actor Shahin also star.

The 30-episode “Lunch Box” is being produced by NBCUniversal Formats, which is part of Universal International Studios, and Dubai-and Cairo-based production company S Productions. “Lunch Box” marks their second collaboration after previously teaming up on the Arabic adaptation of comedy...

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 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 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...

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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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NBC earlier this month made calls on its two 2023 comedy pilots, picking up Justin Spitzer’s St. Denis Medical to series and passing on Amber Ruffin’s Non-Evil Twin.

The Bans/Krebs drama follows an Instafamous big-city...

Exclusive: NBC is not moving forward with Non-Evil Twin multi-camera comedy pilot, starring and executive produced by NBCUniversal late-night star Amber Ruffin.

Non-Evil Twin was one of two comedy pilots NBC ordered this pilot season along with the single-camera St. Denis Medical, which was picked up to series last Friday.

There is no decision yet on the two drama pilots, one from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs (fka Murder by the Book) starring Retta; and medical drama pilot Wolf starring Zachary Quinto.

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Freshman drama “Quantum Leap” is taking a quantum leap to Tuesdays, as NBC unveiled a mostly strike-proof fall schedule that features three new series (two dramas and a comedy) and a crowded midseason bench.

The Peacock net’s lineup is heavy as always on football and Dick Wolf: And even more so on the pigskin, as NBC’s new deal to cover Big Ten football kicks in with a new Saturday showcase. But with few changes in store, the network will rely on established series to launch its freshman entries.

NBC will use unscripted mainstay “The Voice” on Mondays to launch the new Jesse L. Martin starrer “The Irrational,” based on author Dan Ariely’s “Predictably Irrational,” at 10 p.m. On Tuesday, the hit “Night Court” revival will continue to lead off the night and help launch the new comedy “Extended Family,” starring Jon Cryer and Donald Faison, and from Mike O’Malley,...

NBC is opening up a new fall comedy block on Tuesday nights and has pushed a couple of its drama series to midseason.

The network unveiled its fall schedule, which sees Jon Cryer’s Extended Family run after Night Court, Quantum Leap moves to Tuesday night, while Found replaces Law & Order: Organized Crime on Dick Wolf’s second night in the fall and La Brea, with its short order season, also pushed to midseason.

There are plenty of strike contingencies built into the schedule, in part as a result of NBC renewing shows early and keeping them in production ahead of the writers walking out.

Jeff Bader, President, Entertainment Program Planning Strategy, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, told Deadline that shows such as Night Court, Quantum Leap, Found, The Irrational and Extended Family will all be on the fall schedule even if there’s an extended strike “because we’re...

NBC will add three new scripted series to its primetime lineup for the start of the 2023-24 season — and since all three began production well before the writers strike, they’ll be ready to go right away even if writers (or other industry unions) are still on strike.

The network has done a significant amount of strike-proofing for its fall slate, such that six of seven nights will feature original programming even if the Writers Guild of America strike delays the usual summertime start of production on returning shows. NBC’s new series — dramas Found and The Irrational and comedy Extended Family — were all picked up outside the traditional development cycle and thus filmed several episodes each before writers struck on May 1. (Found was originally set to premiere in February before being pushed back to fall.) Unscripted shows The Voice and The Wall and sports on Saturday and Sunday nights...

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 has given out a pilot order for a medical drama titled “Wolf,” Variety has learned.

The potential series is inspired by the books “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” and “An Anthropologist on Mars” by Oliver Sacks. Per the official logline, the show “follows a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist and his team of interns as they explore the last great frontier, the human mind, while also grappling with their own relationships and mental health.”

Michael Grassi is attached to write and executive produce the pilot, with Lee Toland Krieger onboard to direct and executive produce. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman executive produce via Berlanti Productions. Henrik Bastin and Melissa Aouate of Fabel Entertainment also executive produce along with Jonathan Cavendish, Andy Serkis, and Will Tennant of The Imaginarium. Warner Bros. Television is the studio. Berlanti Productions, Grassi and Krieger are all under overall deals at Wbtv.

After four seasons on Good Girls and many more seasons before that on Parks And Recreation, Retta may have found a hot new TV project: According to Variety, she’s set to star in a pilot written by Good Girls’ Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs. But, somewhat surprisingly, the show is apparently a drama, despite the fact that…...

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...

Erstwhile Good Girl Retta will channel her inner Jessica Fletcher in Murder by the Book, a new crime drama that just snagged a formal pilot order at NBC.

The potential series, which was put into development last fall, stars Retta as a woman who reviews murder mystery books for a living and puts her expertise to work as she “becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town,” per the official description.

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“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,...

Good Girls reunion alert!

Retta — who costarred with Christina Hendricks and Mae Whitman in the late, lamented NBC dramedy — is set to star in a new NBC crime drama, Murder by the Book, from Good Girls showrunners Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs, according to our sister site Deadline.

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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...

“Good Girls” has been canceled after four seasons at NBC, Variety has learned.

The drama series was the last remaining question mark in NBC’s scripted lineup from the 2020-2021 season. The broadcaster also recently axed the dramas “Manifest,” “Debris,” and “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.” Like “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” and “Manifest,” there had been talks about finding “Good Girls” a new home on a streaming platform, but that move ultimately did not work financially.

There are five episodes remaining of “Good Girls” Season 4, with the show airing Thursdays at 9 p.m. Et. In the season, the Secret Service closes in the main characters’ counterfeit ring. Beth (Christina Hendricks) was struggling to carve out her own criminal path separate from Rio (Manny Montana), using her husband’s spa company, Boland Bubbles, as a front. Ruby (Retta) seemed to have salvaged her marriage after a rocky road, but only time will...

Good Girls’ crime spree is coming to an end.

NBC has canceled the drama starring Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman after four seasons. The show will end after the network airs its five remaining episodes between now and July.

The hope was that the network and the studio could find a way to return for one more season to close out the story, but they were unable to make the financials work. A contingency plan to move the show to Netflix also did not pan out.

The series will not be shopped elsewhere by studio Universal Television, despite being a decent draw on Netflix, topping its streaming ratings earlier this year.

It marks 4-for-4 cancellations for NBC bubble shows; the network canceled Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and Manifest earlier this month, while Debris was canceled at the end of May.

Cancellations/Renewals Scorecard: TV Shows Ended Or Continuing In 2020-21 Season

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NBC, Fox, ABC and CBS all unveiled their Fall 2021 TV schedules at this week’s “upfront” presentations to advertisers – conducted virtually, due to the pandemic – showing of which new series will be added to lineups and which old favorites are returning. This also meant revealing the broadcast TV shows that won’t be making it back for the 2021-2022 season in the process.

But then there are the straggler series, the ones that networks have yet to make a decision on, even though their slates are set. The reasons behind why a show has yet to be renewed or canceled this late in the season vary, with consideration given to how many episodes it has left to air and headaches over contract negotiations.

Plus, there is the pandemic-related factors to consider.

See below for the list of broadcast TV shows that have yet to be renewed or canceled by the broadcast networks,...

Exclusive: Peacock is circling an anthology series project from Good Girls creator/executive producer/co-showrunner Jenna Bans and her frequent collaborator, the series’ executive producer/co-showrunner Bill Krebs. The streamer is considering a development deal for the project, produced by Universal Television, where Bans is under a deal.

Co-created and executive produced by Bans and Krebs, who also would serve as showrunners, the Untitled Bans/Krebs Anthology Project follows darkly comedic twisted love stories throughout history. The first season, based on the Washington Post article “Flight of the Heart,” explores the true story of Ron McIntosh and Samantha “Dorinda” Lopez, two unlikely criminals who met at the original Club Fed prison in the mid-1980s, fell in love and desperate to be together forever, staged what would become one of the most daring prison escapes in history.

This would mark the first series created/co-created by Bans since Good Girls,...

Exclusive: ABC’s The Rookie has added Jason Canela to its upcoming season three in a recurring role.

Canela will play Cesar Madrigal, the son of criminal royalty who is impetuous, entitled and in line to take over his father’s empire. He will first appear in the upcoming episode titled “Brave Heart.”

Created by Alexi Hawley, The Rookie stars Nathan Fillion as John Nolan, the oldest rookie at the Los Angeles Police Department. The show, which also stars Mekia Cox, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones, Titus Makin, Melissa O’Neil and Eric Winter, is produced by Entertainment One (eOne) and ABC Signature.

Hawley executive produces with Mark Gordon, Nathan Fillion, Michelle Chapman, Jon Steinberg, Bill Norcross and Terence Paul Winter.

Canela, who is also a singer and dancer, made his television debut in Telemundo’s Donta Esta Elisa before appearing in telenovelas Cosita Linda and Ruta 35. He acted in A&e’s The Glades,...

Is Dean Boland becoming Good Girls‘ most sympathetic character?

In Sunday’s episode, viewers were treated to some fresh flashbacks showing us the very early beginnings of Beth and Dean’s relationship. While a charming, younger Dean became a much-needed distraction and support system for Beth throughout her mother’s illness, the present jailbird Dean made the ultimate sacrifice for his wife as he pleaded guilty to the Feds’ charges. After Rio rejected Beth’s request for a bail loan and the ladies’ fall guy plan failed, Dean seemed destined to continue his life behind bars as a wrongfully accused convict.

A roaming pup out for a stroll digs up yet another huge problem for Beth Boland. The canine fetches a dead foot — Lucy’s foot, to be exact — and his owner’s blood-curdling scream is what kicks off Season 4 of Good Girls. If these first few minutes are any indication, it’s going to be a bumpy go for Beth and the ladies this season.

At the end of Season 3 (go here for a refresher), Beth and Dean (Christina Hendricks and Matthew Lillard) were preparing to open Boland Bubbles, a hot tub store that the women are planning to use to wash cash.