EXCLUSIVE: Ian Gelfand, who served as showrunner on Bravo's The Valley: Persian Style and exec produced Summer House, and Matt Nagorner, who was previously head of talent, unscripted television at Warner Horizon, have set up a new shop. The pair are launching IM Trying Productions as a joint…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Hull, who serves as showrunner for Netflix's upcoming Harlan Coben adaptation I Will Find You, is launching a new production company. Hull is launching StoryMath with Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, who created CBS' God Friended Me. This comes after Hull signed with…

EXCLUSIVE: Jupiter Entertainment, the company behind Oxygen's long-running true-crime series Snapped, is moving into the soccer world. The company, run by President Patrick Reardon, has struck a first-look deal with Kickback Soccer Media, to develop and produce original soccer-focused series and…

EXCLUSIVE: Campfire Studios has been front and central of the true-crime boom of recent years with documentaries including Netflix's Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, My Father, The BTK Killer, The Menendez Brothers and American Murder: Laci Peterson. But the company, founded by Jiro Dream…

And the Emmy goes to … any number of late-night shows. The TV Academy yet again has made changes to the late-night and variety categories at the Emmys, merging the two starting this year and introducing a new system that could see multiple shows win an Emmy. The move, which was just voted…

American Idol's move to a new night seems to have paid off. The ABC talent contest scored its biggest season debut in four years with 5.9M total viewers and a 0.54 rating point among adults 18-49, per Nielsen's live+same day preliminary ratings. This was up from 4.49M (0.45) last year. It…

Netflix's reboot of Star Search won't be worrying the broadcast networks after all, it seems. The talent competition failed to hit Netflix's global top 10 charts in its first week and it scored fewer than 2.3 million views on the service with its opening two episodes. The show was…

The Late Show is coming to an end, and the goodbye party now has a date. The Stephen Colbert-hosted late-night show will end on Thursday, May 21, Deadline has confirmed. CBS always said that the series, which has been running since 1993, was going to end in May after it emerged the franch…

Chris Sanagustin, who was most recently President of Pine Tree Entertainment, the production company founded by The Big Bang Theory co-creator Bill Prady, has a new job. Sanagustin has been named Head of Current Programming at A+E Studios. Reporting to Tana Jamieson, Co-Head and EVP…

EXCLUSIVE: Bunim/Murray Productions, the company behind series such as MTV's The Challenge and Hulu's Vanderpump Villa, has a new Vice President. The Banijay Americas label has promoted Nikki Cameron to VP, Development. She was previously Director of Development, a position she held since…

John Oliver is back with more ludicrous observations and laughs next month. HBO has set the return of his Last Week Tonight as it also prepares to launch new late-night series Neighbors. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will return for Season 13 on February 15. There's nothing unusual…

EXCLUSIVE: All3Media's push to bolster its U.S. business is continuing. The British production group has struck a deal to bring over documentary producer Barnicle Brothers. It marks the latest step in its unscripted strategy in the States, which follows the launch of Inner Drive Entertainme…