It’d be hard to overstate the importance of Greg Berlanti to Warner Bros.’ TV fortunes: As the chief architect of almost all of the company’s comic-based projects—including its many DC-branded shows, plus Riverdale—Berlanti has become a huge part of, especially, The CW’s recent gains in approval and appeal. (Dude’s…
Now that it has a name, Warner Bros.’ DC Comics-themed streaming service DC Universe is really starting to come together. We’ve known about the live-action Teen Titans show and the return of animated series Young Justice for about a year now, and since then we’ve heard about a Harley Quinn cartoon, a show set in…
Matt Bomer recently played The Last Tycoon, but that’s not why he recently bought out a screening of Greg Berlanti’s Love, Simon. As Entertainment Weekly reports, the openly-gay actor and his husband, Simon Halls, are hosting a free showing of the coming-of-age and out-of-the-closet story in Bomer’s hometown to boost…
Having conquered the world of television, Supergirl and Riverdale’s Greg Berlanti is making his return to film with Love, Simon, his first feature film as director since 2010's Life As We Know It. Nick Robinson stars as Simon, a 17-year-old boy contemplating coming out as gay while searching for the identity of his…
Just about a month after ABC effectively assassinated The Mayor, star Brandon Micheal Hall has found a new gig. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he has signed on to star in God Friended Me, a CBS drama pilot from CW superhero mastermind Greg Berlanti. The show is about an “outspoken atheist” (played by Hall) who…
Today turned out to be a weirdly good day for TV adaptations of Oscar-nominated noir films; close behind Fox ordering a pilot for a TV series version of Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone, Deadline reports that CBS has granted a pilot order for L.A. Confidential.
Fans of Greg Berlanti’s TV work are no stranger to the supernatural: The Flash’s speed; Arrow’s preternatural archery skills; those Riverdale kids, and their inexplicable ability to say things like “The Black Hood Killer” and “jingle-jangle” with totally straight faces. Now, though, Berlanti’s superpowered Tv empire…
WBTV has suspended co-creator, executive producer, and showrunner Andrew Kreisberg from his duties on The Flash tonight, over multiple allegations of sexual harassment that have been levied against him. This is per Deadline and Variety, both of which are reporting on a statement released by Warner Bros. TV Group…
Good news, Grasshoppers: classic martial arts/Western show Kung Fu might be coming back to TV, with Deadline reporting that superhero TV megaproducer Greg Berlanti is developing a new, female-led version of the David Carradine-starring series. Fox recently acquired the project in a heated bidding war, albeit one…
Greg Berlanti’s Berlanti Productions has a whopping 10 shows currently on the air, including: The CW’s superhero weeklong lineup; that channel’s most popular debut of last year, Riverdale; and NBC’s political drama Blindspot, among others. Berlanti Productions’ latest effort appears to have more in common with the…
Not long after Gossip Girl ended, Penn Badgley swore off acting, telling Wet Paint that there was absolutely nothing that could drag him back to TV. He’s sort of stuck to that promise, returning only for such great television events as The Slap, and the odd movie role. But now he’s heard the siren’s call once more, as …
Deadline reports that ABC has issued a first-season pickup order for Greg Berlanti’s “What if an FBI agent was also a magician?” series, Deception. Jack Cutmore-Scott stars in the show as a stage magician whose career is ruined by scandal, and thus turns to the only place where a disgraced master prestidigitator can…
Greg Berlanti’s TV superhero domain just got a little bit bigger, with Deadline reporting that The CW—which is in a pretty pick-up heavy mood today—has given a series order to Black Lightning. Originally developed for Fox, the series stars Cress Williams as DC hero Jefferson Pierce, a.k.a. the electrically powered…
According to Deadline, Lifetime has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to You, a new drama from CW superhero show mogul Greg Berlanti and The Magicians co-creator Sera Gamble. The show is described as a “psychological thriller drama,” and it’s based on Caroline Kepnes’ novel of the same name. The book is…
Yet another Greg Berlanti series is about to make its way from a foster network to its forever home at The CW, with Deadline reporting that Black Lightning is likely to jump ship from Fox to Berlanti’s personal TV empire. Developed by Salim and Mara Brock Akil, the show is based on DC Comics hero Jefferson Pierce, who…
CW superhero king Greg Berlanti has just sold a show about the other attention-seeking weirdos who do improbable things in capes, with Variety reporting that ABC has purchased a procedural drama about magicians from the Arrow and Flash mastermind. Deception comes courtesy of Chuck writer Chris Fedak, who worked with…
Look out, look out, look out, look out, the plant known as Audrey II is coming to devour mankind once again. According to Deadline, Greg Berlanti is going to direct a reboot of Little Shop Of Horrors for Warner Bros. Deadline’s report says that it will be “a fresh version of the 30-year old Frank Oz-directed film,”…
The first thing to know about Riverdale, the Archie comics series from The CW, is that Archie is having an affair with Mrs. Grundy. That enough should be a good indicator of what Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Greg Berlanti have done to these beloved characters, but now we have a trailer, and it’s confirmation that this…
Greg Berlanti is a busy man. He’s currently responsible the CW’s entire stable of superhero dramas, producing Arrow, Supergirl, The Flash, and Legends Of Tomorrow, as well as the upcoming Archie adaptation Riverdale. He also produces NBC’s Blindspot, and the recently cancelled Mysteries of Laura. And according to The…
Last week, we reported that Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, and Legends Of Tomorrow producer Greg Berlanti was shopping around a new superhero project based on DC’s Black Lightning, and Variety is reporting that Fox has just snatched up the show with a “pilot production commitment”—which is industry talk for “they’re going…
