Hulu has greenlighted Phony, a comedy pilot starring and executive produced by Connie Britton, from Drew Goddard’s Goddard Textiles and 20th Television. Written, directed and executive produced by Nick Paley (Marcel The Shell With Shoes On), Phony is a comedic coming-of-age mystery about a…

Drew Goddard, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Martian who also directed The Cabin in the Woods, has been set to write and direct a new Matrix movie at Warner Bros. The franchise’s original co-scribe and co-director Lana Wachowski is executive producing. It’s still early days in regards…

EXCLUSIVE: The cameras will soon start rolling on the highest-profile French series to be remade in the U.S., ABC’s High Potential, with the show’s seller believing this latest remake will catapult it to “global brand” status. High Potential was recently taken from pilot to series in the U.S.…

EXCLUSIVE: The Flight Attendant star Deniz Akdeniz has been cast as a series regular opposite Kaitlin Olson and Daniel Sunjata in ABC's character-based procedural drama pilot based on TF1's popular detective series HPI (High Intellectual Potential), from top TV and film writer Drew Goddard and ABC…

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star and Hacks standout Kaitlin Olson has been tapped as the lead of ABC character-based procedural drama pilot based on TF1's popular detective series HPI (High Intellectual Potential), from top TV and film writer Drew Goddard and ABC Signature, where Goddard and…

FX is staying in the animated comedy game and has ordered a pilot for a new project from Drew Goddard. Goddard has created The Trenches, an animated half-hour about a modern family of monster hunters, and will write the pilot episode. It forms part of the Daredevil creator's massive overall…

ABC has given a pilot order to a character-based procedural drama from top TV and film writer Drew Goddard (Daredevil, The Martian) and ABC Signature, where Goddard and his Goddard Textiles are based. As Deadline reported exclusively last week, the project, based on TF1's popular detective series HIP…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC is developing a character-based procedural drama from top TV and film writer Drew Goddard (Daredevil, The Martian) and ABC Signature, where Goddard and his Goddard Textiles are based. I hear the project, based on TF1’s popular detective series HIP (High Intellectual Potential), has been a standout…

EXCLUSIVE: In a six-way bidding war, Hulu has landed Phony, a half-hour project from Marcel the Shell with Shoes On co-writer Nick Paley. Hulu would not comment, but I hear the project, which has been laid off at ABC Signature, has received a script-to-series commitment with a big, high-six/low-seven-figure…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation with multiple bidders, ABC Signature, a division of Disney TV Studios, has acquired the rights to develop The Tiger’s Wife author Téa Obreht's bestselling new novel Inland for television. The project will be executive produced by Drew Goddard and Sarah Esberg under Goddard’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Two of the slew of high-profile overall deals signed recently by 20th Century Fox Television, with writer-director Drew Goddard and actress-producer Octavia Spencer, are migrating to ABC Studios, I have learned. The move follows the recent appointment of 20th TV President of Creative Affairs Jonnie…

Sarah Esberg, a longtime producer and executive with Brad Pitt’s Plan B, has been tapped as president of Drew Goddard’s newly formed Goddard Textiles production company as part of a significant deal with 20th Century Fox TV. Former Daredevil and The Defenders executive producer Goddard inked a major multi-year…