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Lex Scott Davis has joined the cast as a series regular in CBS’ drama pilot based on Antoine Fuqua's "Training Day." This will be at least the 3rd cop movie with a black lead that CBS has considered turning into a weekly TV series - "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Rush Hour" are the other 2. Of course we know that the network would eventually pass on the "Beverly Hills Cop" TV series which was to star Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley's son (although a pilot was produced); the "Rush Hour" series, on the other hand, was ordered and is set to debut this year, as a mid-season replacement. Per CBS' press release, the "Training Day"...

This will be at least the 3rd cop movie with a black lead that CBS has considered turning into a weekly TV series - "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Rush Hour" are the other 2. Of course we know that the network would eventually pass on the "Beverly Hills Cop" TV series which was to star Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley's son (although a pilot was produced); the "Rush Hour" series, on the other hand, was ordered to series and is set to debut this year, as a mid-season replacement. The network (maybe the *whitest* of the so-called Big Four - ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC) has now officially given a pilot order to a "Training Day" TV series...

This will be at least the 3rd cop movie with a black lead that CBS has considered turning into a weekly TV series - "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Rush Hour" are the other 2. Of course we know that the network would eventually pass on the "Beverly Hills Cop" TV series which was to star Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley's son (although a pilot was produced); the "Rush Hour" series, on the other hand, was ordered to series this year, as a mid-season replacement in early 2016. Jon Foo and Justin Hires are replacing Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in the roles of Lee and Carter from the original movie franchise.  The network (maybe the *whitest* of...

Barry Sonnenfeld is poised to direct Fox‘s half-hour pilot Dead Boss, from Wbtv and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. An adaptation of the BBC3 series, Dead Boss is a comedic mystery that finds overachiever Helen Stephens (Jane Krakowski) wrongfully convicted of murdering her boss and forced to rely on her train wreck of a sister (Justine Lupe) to prove her innocence. This marks a reunion for Sonnenfeld and Kaplan — Sonnenfeld directed former agent Kaplan’s first pilot as a producer, ABC comedy Funny In Farsi. The Man In Black helmer most recently directed the CBS’ Beverly Hills Cop pilot last season.

The Shield mastermind Shawn Ryan is staying put at Sony Pictures Television. The prolific producer has inked a new three-year overall deal with the studio, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Ryan, who most recently developed Beverly Hills Cop for CBS and had ABC's Last Resort canceled after one season, has been with the studio since he moved from 20th Century Fox in 2011. Ryan has several projects currently in development for the 2014-15 TV season. Among them are a 1950s Hawaii-set drama at Fox with Justin Lin and Davey Holmes attached and an ABC drama, for which

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Shawn Ryan has re-upped his three-year overall deal at Sony Pictures TV with a new three-year pact set to begin in June when the current one is up. Since moving to Sony in 2011 after more than a decade at 20th Century Fox TV, Ryan co-created and executive produced ABC drama series Last Resort and wrote/executive produced the studio’s Beverly Hills Cop pilot for CBS last season. He has two drama projects with significant commitments at the broadcast networks: an untitled 1950s Hawaii put pilot at Fox, which he is co-writing with Davey Holmes, with Justin Lin directing; and an ABC drama with Last Resort co-creator Karl Gajdusek, which has a sizable penalty. Ryan also has projects in the works on cable, including a mining town drama at HBO and FX limited series Mad Dogs, based on the British black comedy/psychological thriller miniseries. The Shield creator, repped by Wme,...

Exclusive: Last Resort creator/ executive producer Karl Gajdusek and executive producer Shawn Ryan are teaming up for another drama series project. In a competitive situation, the project, titled Freedom, has landed at ABC, the network behind Last Resort, with a sizable penalty. Sony Pictures TV, where Ryan’s MiddKidd Prods. is based, produces. Based on an original idea by Gajdusek who will write the script, Freedom is the story of a group of brilliant, eclectic, freethinking Ivy League students who help create “Freedom,” the next resistance movement to government and corporate powers modeled after hacker collectives like Anonymous or Wikileaks that are now dominating the public’s attention. Gajdusek and Ryan executive produce with MiddKidd’s Marney Hochman. Kajdusek, repped by Verve and Management 360, recently sold sci-fi drama project The Spark to HBO. On the feature side, he co-wrote Oblivion, has the upcoming Pierce Brosnan thriller November Man and...

NBC’s Revolution in Season 2 will shed some light on a whole other area of Rachel’s backstory with the introduction of her father, to be played by 7th Heaven patriarch Stephen Collins. (Was Treat Williams unavailable? Do you think the two actors keep a scorecard?)

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Rachel’s pop “brings an entirely new perspective on her, her upbringing,” exec producer Rockne S. O’Bannon shared at Comic-Con, as reported by TVGuide.com. “He’s a very important part of the world we got to inhabit in the first part of the season.

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The pilot of the Beverly Hills Cop TV show has been turned down by another network. But there's another movie in the works instead...

It's been a little while now since there was news of the planned TV show of Beverly Hills Cop. It was being devleoped by the genius behind The Shield, Shawn Ryan, and a pilot had been made, that put Percy Jackson's Brandon T Jackson centre stage.

However, Ryan has now posted an update on his Twitter page, and for fans of Beverly Hills Cop, it sounds a bit two steps forward, two steps back. The two steps back come with the news that "efforts to land Beverly Hills Cop pilot at another network have failed", with Ryan declaring "this iteration is dead for now".

On the upside? Ryan's subsequent Tweet revealed that the pilot of Beverly Hills Cop "tested so...

"Beverly Hills Cop: The Series" is officially dead, but "Beverly Hills Cop 4" has come back to life.

"The Shield" and "Last Resort" creator Shawn Ryan's attempt to revive the Bhc franchise as a TV series hit a snag back in May when CBS passed on the already produced pilot.

Ryan has since been trying to shop the pilot around to other networks, but admitted yesterday on Twitter that those efforts have been for nought. It has, however, had an unexpected side effect. Ryan tweets:

"Sad to report that efforts to land Beverly Hills Cop pilot at another network have failed. This iteration is dead for now. Good news for fans of franchise is that the pilot tested so well, it has caused Paramount to put another #Bhc movie into development."

No further details were on hand about the movie and whether the series pilot star Brandon T. Jackson...

Shawn Ryan's Beverly Hills Cop is officially dead. The showrunner took to his Twitter page Friday to announce that efforts to shop the pilot, which CBS passed on in May, have not been successful. "Sad to report that efforts to land Beverly Hills Cop pilot at another network have failed. This iteration is dead for now," he wrote. "Good news for fans of franchise is that the pilot tested so well, it has caused Paramount to put another #Bhc movie into development." Additional details were not yet available about a potential Paramount movie. Photos: The Faces of Pilot Season

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Season 3 of "Hawaii Five-0" looked for all the world that it was going to end with a few unanswered questions, but well short of the cliffhangers that have marked the close of the first two seasons.

Yes, Kono, Adam and Doris McGarrett are on their way to China at the end of Monday's (May 20) episode, and Doris and Steve still haven't talked about what the heck is up with her and Wo Fat. But had it ended there, we would still konw that Kono is in the clear and promising to return, that Danny and Gabrielle end up back in each other's arms and that Charlie is going to be Ok.

And Doris? Well, CBS didn't pick up "Beverly Hills Cop," so Christine Lahti might be available to return. And besides, maybe Wo Fat will just tell Steve what the deal is ...

And then we get to that final scene.

NBC has renewed "Community" for a fifth season, making it and "Parks and Recreation" the only returning comedies on the network's 2013 - 2014 schedule. "Community" wrapped its fourth season on Thursday. In pilot news, CBS has decided not to pick up the "Beverly Hills Cop" series, starring Brandon T. Jackson and produced by Shawn Ryan ("The Shield"). Sony and Paramount are said to be shopping the project to other networks.

Exclusive: Christine Lahti will star with Katie Holmes in Mania Days, the Paul Dalio-directed indie that will be produced by Spike Lee. Lahti will play the mother of Holmes’ character. Lahti recently shot the pilot Beverly Hills Cop for Shawn Ryan at CBS and she will next be seen opposite Nick Nolte, Kristen Wiig, Hailee Steinfeld and Guy Pearce in the Liza Johnson-directed Hateship, Courtship, and opposite Juno Temple in the Tony Aloupis-directed Truck Stop. She is repped by ICM and Management 360.

Like many of its predecessors, including Pinkberry: The Movie, Yom Kippur At Wme and Staff Meeting: The Movie and The Transfer, another department video from the latest Wme quarterly meeting is making the rounds online. It is pilot season-themed and features the head of the agency’s TV department, Rick Rosen, as a boss from hell commandeering his put-upon second assistant (played by Wme client Nelson Franklin) to deliver gifts to all of the agency’s clients with pilot orders to congratulate them on the start of production of their pilots. The gifts’ recipients include Howard Gordon, executive producer of CBS drama pilot Anatomy Of Violence, along with FX’s Tyrant and TNT’s Legends; Shawn Ryan, writer-exec producer of CBS’ Beverly Hills Cop; and Larry Charles, director of ABC’s Mixology. The short film, written by Tony Dodds and directed by Todd Biermann, also features a jab at Jeff Berg...

< Nearly everyone involved in Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief has moved on and grown up a bit-- Logan Lerman warring in last fall's The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Brandon T. Jackson to TV's Beverly Hills Cop TV series and Jake Abel to The Host just last weekend. But the gang's all back, with Nathan Fillion inexplicably added to the mix, for Percy Jackson and the Sea Monsters, whose first trailer just debuted at MTV. When I interviewed Abel about The Host last week it was interesting hearing him admit that the Percy Jackson series is pretty much exclusively for kids at this point, which might be tough for a twenty-something actor making his way in the world but also provides a pretty steady paycheck. And as evidenced by all the work these actors have gotten since Lightning Thief, it's definitely not hurting that they're most recognizable to elementary...

If you barely remember “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” we don’t blame you. It came out over three years ago and raked in only $88 million in the domestic box office, making a large majority of its money in the foreign market. So now we have the sequel, “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters,” which comes out this summer and the first images from the movie have just landed online. Hopefully, viewing these photos will help refresh your memory regarding the franchise. The movie stars Logan Lerman (“Perks of Being a Wallflower”) as well as Stanley Tucci, Nathan Fillion, Missi Pyle, Mary Birdsong, and Brandon T. Jackson (“Tropic Thunder, the new "Beverly Hills Cop"). In 'Sea of Monsters,' Percy Jackson and his friends’ adventures continue as they look for the golden fleece in order to save Camp Half-Blood’s magical borders from sinister foes. Sounds exciting.For those...

Pilot casting season is in full swing and big names announced today include Oscar nominee Rachel Griffiths, Jamie Bell, Emmy winner Christine Lahti, "Heroes" star Greg Grunberg and "Made in Jersey" star Janet Montgomery:

Rachel Griffiths ("Six Feet Under") will star in NBC's summer series "Camp" -- the one-hour summer camp-set dramedy has a 10 episode commitment.

Jamie Bell ("Billy Elliot") has landed the lead in his first TV series: AMC's 1778-set drama pilot "Turn," based on Alexander Rose's book "Washington's Spies."

Janet Montgomery ("Made in Jersey") is set for the female lead in ABC's "Gothica," a contemporary twist on horror mythology that sees journalist Grace Van Helsing (Montgomery) interacting with characters including Dorian Gray and Victor Frankenstein (Tom Ellis).

Christine Lahti ("Chicago Hope") will play the Beverly Hills Police Department Captain in CBS' continuation of film franchise "Beverly Hills Cop," starring Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley's son.

Christine Lahti will co-star opposite Brandon T. Jackson in the CBS drama pilot Beverly Hills Cop. The project, written by Shawn Ryan and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, is a continuation of the movie franchise and centers on Axel Foley’s police officer son Aaron (Jackson), who takes down the criminal elements of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills. Lahti will play Helen, the Captain of the Beverly Hills Police Department. Kevin Pollak, David Denman and Argo‘s Sheila Vand co-star. Lahti has kept a presence on CBS since her Emmy-winning starring turn on Chicago Hope. She has been recurring on Hawaii Five-0 and toplined the network’s 2011 pilot The Doctor. Director-actor Clark Johnson has been cast as a lead opposite John Goodman, Mark Consuelos and Matt Malloy in Amazon Studios‘ comedy pilot Alpha House, written by Garry Trudeau. Alpha House follows four senators (Goodman, Johnson, Malloy, Consuelos) who live...

Christine Lahti is staying put at CBS. The actress, who's currently recurring on the network's Hawaii Five-o, has landed the female lead in Beverly Hills Cop, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Story: TV Pilots 2013: The Complete Guide Described as a continuation of the movie franchise, the drama pilot from The Shield's Shawn Ryan centers on Aaron (Brandon T. Jackson), the police-officer son of Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), who takes down the criminal elements of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills while working to escape his famous father's shadow. Murphy will reprise his role as the wisecracking detective in the pilot

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Whoever asked the universe for a Brett Ratner-produced Farmville TV series, your prayers have been answered. Also after the jump: Director Barry Sonnenfeld signs on for Beverly Hills Cop Ridley Scott sets up a Philip K. Dick-based miniseries at Syfy HBO gives pilot order to Damon Lindelof‘s The Leftovers Zombieland casts Maiara Walsh as its new Emma [...]...

"Last Resort" just aired its series finale, and I have a few thoughts on how things ended, and then a long interview with co-creator Shawn Ryan about these 13 episodes — and, at the end, about his "Beverly Hills Cop" pilot for CBS — all coming up just as soon as I ask who Jay-z is... As Ryan explains below, parts of "Controlled Flight Into Terrain" were largely as they were intended to be back when this was just going to be episode 13 out of a hypothetical 22, but large chunks of it were rewritten once ABC told them this...

It's pilot season, which means the broadcast networks are in an order frenzy for episodes of potential new shows for the fall season. While the more covered likes of Shawn Ryan's "Beverly Hills Cop" and Joss Whedon's "S.H.I.E.L.D." are out there in the mix, here's a look at five of the most intriguing projects we hadn't heard of to have gotten orders to far, based on descriptions, what they're being adapted from and who's involved. Some of these will be heading to a TV near you someday -- and some will be lost in limbo forever. The Returned (ABC) Based on a novel by Jason Mott that's due out in September, "The Returned" is a drama being written by Aaron Zelman ("The Killing," "Damages") and produced by Plan B, Brillstein Entertainment and ABC Studios. "The Returned" focuses on residents of a small town as their deceased loved ones come back into their lives,...

Check your tailpipe for bananas now, because CBS on Tuesday ordered a pilot for Shawn Ryan’s Beverly Hills Cop. The network also greenlit a drama pilot from Bones boss Hart Hanson and a sitcom from a Friends producer.

As well-reported last year, the small-screen Beverly Hills Cop stars Brandon T. Jackson as Axel Foley’s police officer son Aaron, who like his dad finds himself walking the Beverly Hills beat. Ryan (The Shield) will pen the pilot, with Marney Hochman as a second Ep.

The drama project Backstrom, written and exec-produced by Hart Hanson, is based on the Swedish book series about an overweight,...

ABC has opted not to give full season orders for its new dramas "Last Resort" and "666 Park Avenue," effectively axing both shows.

Though the network picked up two additional scripts for each show, they've decided not to produce them or further episodes beyond the original thirteen episode order. Both series will be allowed to finish airing their already produced thirteen episodes.

ABC passed on both shows due to underwhelming ratings. 'Resort' was averaging over seven million viewers per episode in its 8pm Thursday timeslot, one of the hardest for the network to fill. Shows like "Missing" and the "Charlie's Angels" reboot have all died in the same timeslot over the past eighteen months.

'666' was pulling in around five million viewers per episode. ABC will likely fill those slots with some of its new mid-season dramas like "Zero Hour," "Mistresses" and "Red Widow."

'Resort' show runner Shawn Ryan is...

True Blood

British actor Rob Kazinsky ("Eastenders," "Pacific Rim") will play the highly charismatic faerie Ben in the upcoming sixth season of HBO‘s vampire drama "True Blood".

The role is a regular and the character takes a liking to Sookie as they and Jason look into the mystery of the Stackhouse parents murders. Kazinsky was famously cast in "The Hobbit" but had to drop out for family reasons. [Source: Deadline]

Big Thunder Mountain

ABC is developing "Big Thunder Mountain", a TV series based on the Old West runaway mine train attraction at Disney Parks worldwide.

Chris Morgan ("Fast & Furious") and Jason Fuchs ("Ice Age: Continental Drift") are penning the script. [Source: The Live Feed]

Beverly Hills Cop

Actor-comedian Brandon T. Jackson ("Tropic Thunder") has closed his deal for the lead role in CBS's "Beverly Hills Cop" reboot. A pilot is expected to score the green light once "The Shield" creator Shawn Ryan delivers his script.