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Laura Dern (Jurassic World Dominion) and Liam Hemsworth (Poker Face) have signed on to star in the film Lonely Planet, which Susannah Grant (Unbelievable) is writing and directing for Netflix. Lonely Planet is billed as a love story set in Morocco. Specifics with regard to its plot are being kept under wraps. Grant is…

Showtime has given a pilot order to Coercion, a drama written and to be directed by Susannah Grant (Unbelievable, Erin Brockovich). Sydney Chandler (Don't Worry Darling, Pistol) has been cast as the lead in the project, inspired by the life of Rebecca Bender, a national leader on and survivor of sex trafficking. Wiip…

Susannah Grant, the co-creator of Netflix's Unbelievable and writer of Erin Brockovich, has struck a first-look television deal with Lionsgate. The writer, director and producer will create and produce scripted shows across streaming, cable and broadcast for the Blindspotting and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist…

Captain Marvel star Brie Larson is set to headline and executive produce Lessons In Chemistry, a drama from Unbelievable co-creator Susannah Grant and Aggregate Films, which is set at Apple with a straight-to-series order. Larson is attached as the star/executive producer of another Apple drama, which received a…

Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by ProPublica and the Marshall project, and an episode of the podcast This American Life, limited series Unbelievable follows the true story of a group of sexual assault survivors and the two detectives (Merrit Wever and Toni Collette) who track down their attacker. Danielle…

A four-time nominee at this year's Golden Globes, Netflix's eight-part series Unbelievable gripped and enraged viewers in equal measure, mostly because its tale of injustice is very much rooted in fact. Based on the 2015 ProPublica article "An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, and…

EXCLUSIVE: PEN America is set to honor Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, the writing duo behind the forthcoming award season film A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and the creative team behind the Netflix series Unbelievable at its 2019 LitFest Gala, which will take place on November 1 at the Beverly Wilshire…

Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant had been tapped to direct and executive produce ABC’s Until the Wedding, a romantic drama pilot from writer Becky Mode (Smash), producers Sarah Timberman & Carl Beverly (Elementary, SEAL Team), Alon Aranya (Betrayal, Hostages), Israel's Reshet Media and ABC Studios. Based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given an eight-episode order to Unbelievable, a limited series from Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant, CBS TV Studios, studio-based producers Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Masters of Sex, Elementary) as well as Katie Couric. Co-written by Grant, who will serve as showrunner, Michael…

Susannah Grant is set to receive the WGA West’s 2017 Paul Selvin Award for her Emmy-nominated Confirmation script. The award named for the guild’s late longtime general counsel is being presented for a work that "best embodies the spirit of constitutional rights and civil liberties that are indispensable to the…

A prime Emmy TV movie contender this year for HBO is the recently premiered Confirmation, which details the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas and the firestorm of publicity they received when Anita Hill testified and levied charges of sexual harassment. At Deadline’s recent all-day The…

EXCLUSIVE: David O. Russell is coming to television. ABC has given a straight-to-series 13-episode order to a drama project from the American Hustle writer/director and Erin Brockovich writer Susannah Grant. The series, developed by CBS TV Studios and studio-based Timberman/Beverly,  is an upstairs/downstairs soap set…