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NBC shows “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.” have been renewed for another season.
“Fire” will be returning for its fifth season while “P.D.” is getting its fourth.
NBC will premiere its latest spinoff “Chicago Med” on November 17.
Olivia Munn is on board to exec produce “a female sportscaster-centric series” for The CW.
According to Variety, “the untitled project is set in 1974 and revolves around a young journalist who gets hired by an ambitious New York news programming chief as a publicity stunt to be one of the first female on-air sports reporters. She has to learn to navigate gender politics in front of and behind the camera at a time when women were literally not even allowed in the press box.”
Ted Humphrey penned the script.
Jada Pinkett Smith’s legal drama “Murder Town” has landed a put pilot at ABC.
“Pinkett Smith will star as a beautiful and complicated prosecutor who makes history as Wilmington, Delaware’s first African-American District Attorney. She finds herself confronted by old loyalties and loves, a shocking revelation about her murdered husband and a polarizing, racially-charged case that threatens to burn her and her city to the ground” (via Variety).
Barry Schindel wrote the pilot based on an original script by Rob Fresco.
Schindel, Pinkett Smith and Miguel Melendez will exec produce. Overbrook Entertainment will produce with A+E Studios.
