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The NBC series “The Hunting Party“ kicks off with an immediately intriguing hook in its first episode, setting the world’s most terrifying killers free when a top secret, high tech prison is hit with a massive explosion. Post-prison break, each episode chronicles the hunt for a different killer, with the debut season of the series wrapping up on NBC just a few weeks ago.

Variety reports today that “The Hunting Party” will return for Season 2.

In the series, which also streams next day on Peacock, “a small team of investigators are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

Melissa Roxburgh, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Josh McKenzie, and Sara Garcia star.

JJ Bailey created the series and showruns alongside Jake Coburn.

From Universal Television, “The Hunting Party...

NBC has picked up freshman drama series The Hunting Party, starring Melissa Roxburgh, and Brilliant Minds, headlined by Zachary Quinto, for a second season. Both are part of the network’s September-October fall schedule unveiled today. Brilliant Minds, from Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Prods, is staying in the post-The Voice Monday 10 Pm slot while The Hunting Party, from Universal Television, is moving to Thursdays 10 Pm.

Besides the five Dick Wolf series, The Hunting Party and Brilliant Minds are the only other current NBC series to make it to next season amid a bloodbath at the broadcast network which canceled a slew of scripted series in anticipation of NBA’s arrival on the schedule next fall.

This is a changing of the guard in NBC’s scripted lineup as all four non-Wolf returning scripted series are from this season’s freshman class, The Hunting Party, Brilliant Minds and comedies St.

Jake Coburn, co-showrunner, writer, and executive producer on NBC’s The Hunting Party, has signed an overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Under the terms of the agreement, Coburn will write, develop, and produce projects across all platforms and continue his Season 1 duties on The Hunting Party, which was renewed for a second season.

The JJ Bailey-created series is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

The Hunting Party stars Melissa Roxburgh as FBI Special Agent Rebecca “Bex” Henderson, Nick Wechsler as Oliver Odell, Patrick Sabongui as Ryan Hassani, Josh McKenzie as Shane Florence, and Sara Garcia as Jennifer Morales.

In addition to his credits on the NBC freshman series,...

J.J. Bailey’s The Hunting Party, whose 10th and final episode drops April 7 on NBC, follows the aftermath of an explosion at The Pit, a top-secret black site prison where the worst serial killers in the United States have been stashed and experimented on for unknown amounts of time.

The explosion sets dozens of killers free, changed in surprising ways by their incarceration but just as deadly. Criminal profiler Rebecca “Bex” Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) is asked to lead a team to round up the killers, including her former partner Oliver Odell (Nick Wechsler), CIA agent Ryan Hassani (Patrick Sabongui), and Pit prison guard Shane Florence (Josh McKenzie), before all hell literally breaks loose.

At WonderCon, alongside other press members at several roundtable interviews, The Direct’s Jeff Ewing interviewed Roxburgh, McKenzie, Weschler, Sabongui, creator J.J. Bailer, and producer Jake Coburn about the process of designing deplorable killers, character secrets,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for The Hunting Party Season 1 finale “Jenna Wells.”] The Hunting Party fans are going to need a second season after that wild finale! (The NBC drama has yet to be renewed.) The Season 1 finale ended with Oliver (Nick Wechsler) seemingly dying in Bex’s (Melissa Roxburgh) arms, the reveal that Shane’s (Josh McKenzie) mother is a former inmate, Colonel Lazarus (Kari Matchett), who graduated, Hassani (Patrick Sabongui) shot and hospitalized (and the reveal his wife is dead), and some answers about what was happening in the Pit (some of the inmates were given a drug that served as an empathy modulator). Below, executive producers JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn break down the finale and tease what could be coming in a second season. Is Oliver dead? JJ Bailey: You have to wait until Season 2 to get the answer. What can you say about his fate? Bailey: The moment that...

Bex (Melissa Roxburgh) and Oliver (Nick Wechsler) have a history in The Hunting Party, not just as work partners but also as lovers. Even so, viewers shouldn’t expect romance or rekindled affection between the two, who will supposedly remain professional. Still, considering their history, showrunners JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn shed more light on the dynamic of their relationship; maintaining romance is not essential given the show's setup. During a set visit at which Collider's Samantha Coley was in attendance, Bailey said:

“There's a little more of like a mentor-mentee relationship from the past that we explore sort of crossed some lines that maybe got uncomfortable just before sort of their big blow up, but we sort of found that you know it wasn't a needed romantic relationship where we landed with that."

Before Bex split with the FBI, she worked on a case with Oliver, who, as...

[Warning: The following post contains Major spoilers for The Hunting Party Season 1 Episode 7 “Mark Marsden.”] What exactly was happening in Silo 12?! The latest episode of The Hunting Party saw Bex (Melissa Roxburgh), Oliver (Nick Wechsler), and Hassani (Patrick Sabongui) investigate the silo that was breached before the blast at the Pit. There, they find the aftermath of a massacre (bodies were removed), with blood stains all over a board room of sorts — with a window into a room where the inmates appear to have been taken to be experimented on for others to witness. Meanwhile, Shane (Josh McKenzie) has been pretending to be the son of a Pit scientist, Dr. Dulles (Matt Frewer), to visit him at a senior living facility, only for his real daughter to enter the picture. Below, showrunner Jake Coburn unpacks the Silo 12 mystery and teases how the season ends. Oliver says that he got a call of a breach at Silo 12 before the blast.

NBC’s new series The Hunting Party melds a lot of TV genres into one high-concept hour. A drama about intelligence officers tracking down serial killers who’ve escaped from a secret government prison, it straddles the line between procedural and serialized mystery over the course its 10-episode first season.

“We really connected when we first met over wanting to do a procedural that felt a bit different,” says creator and co-showrunner JJ Bailey, who met fellow showrunner Jake Coburn on a “creative blind date” set up by Universal Television. “We love big serialized mysteries, but we also wanted to do a big week-to-week cases.”

Starring Melissa Roxburgh as an FBI special agent who shares a personal history with many of these criminals, each episode of the first season finds her character track down a different killer — sometimes creeping out the actress in the process. And while the writers have...

NBC's new crime drama series, The Hunting Party, did not have a strong debut with critics. However, after getting lambasted in most reviews, the series drew some praise from audiences.

On Rotten Tomatoes, The Hunting Party initially debuted with a harsh, rare score of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. That number has since risen to 11%, getting minimal praise from critics as nearly every review is negative. The bright side is that the audience score is vastly different, ranking much higher at 70%. While critics are slamming the show for its "predictability" and "generic action" sequences, many viewers are comparing the show to Criminal Minds, seeing great potential in the series' future.

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DeWanda Wise will star in “Killer Bee,” an adaptation of the upcoming graphic novel from David Crownson that Tommy Oliver’s Confluential Films will produce for the screen. Confluential, an award-winning, Black-owned and Black-founded film, television, and documentary production company, will co-finance the action film.

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Like many procedural dramas, The Hunting Party centers on crimes or problems being introduced, investigated, and solved by a law enforcement agency, which in this case is the FBI. However, there are a few things that set this 2025 series apart from the rest, making it unique to an extent. Created by JJ Bailey, who executive produces alongside Jake Coburn, The Hunting Party debuted on Sunday, January 19 and stars Melissa Roxburgh in the lead as Bex, Nick Wechsler, Patrick Sabongui, Sara Garcia, and Josh McKenzie.

After countless months of eager anticipation, The Hunting Party finally made its debut on NBC with an explosive pilot that introduced Melissa Roxburgh as FBI Special Agent Rebecca "Bex" Henderson. Fans still have a long way to go with the series, as it's expected to end its first chapter later in April with Episode 10. In the meantime, you can get a look behind the scenes of the procedural thanks to co-showrunners JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn’s insightful chat with Collider’s Samantha Coley and other journalists during a visit to the set.

NBC is putting viewers on The Hunting Party earlier than expected! Find out when the new thriller now airs!

With the winter break done, it’s time for the networks to get going again with new episodes. That includes the typical midseason series, which means a few new shows will be launched.

The Hunting Party is among them, as NBC had scheduled the new thriller to premiere Monday, Feb. 3, at 10/9c. However, per Deadline, the show will now premiere on Sunday, Jan. 19, at 7/6c on NBC. It’ll then be available to stream on Peacock the next day.

Why has NBC moved up the premiere date of The Hunting Party?

The reason for the change is that Sunday will have NBC airing a highly anticipated NFL divisional playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Los Angeles Rams. That game will start at 3/2c and be followed by the nightly news.

Melissa Roxburgh will be tracking down criminals a little earlier on NBC’s The Hunting Party.

NBC has moved up the premiere date of the upcoming crime drama, TVLine has learned: It’ll now debut this Sunday, Jan. 19 at 7/6c on NBC, following the NFL divisional playoff game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the winner of tonight’s Vikings-Rams game. An encore episode will air Monday, Feb. 3 at 10 pm, the show’s original premiere time slot, with new episodes following Mondays at 10 pm after that.

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The Hunting Party is gathering a little early.

NBC is moving up the premiere of its new prison drama series, which stars Manifest’s Melissa Roxburgh.

The show, which comes from creator JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn, who both serve as showrunners, was set to premiere on Monday February 3 at 10pm. It will now premiere after the NFL divisional playoff game (and the news) on Sunday January 19 at 7pm Et/Pt.

That game, which kicks off at 3pm Et, is set to be between the Philadelphia Eagles and the winner of tonight’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota Vikings.

It will then be repeated in its original premiere timeslot.

The Hunting Party follows a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

The Hunting Party just dropped its first trailer that hints at the action coming for this new NBC thriller!

Midseason always brings some big new shows with NBC often giving us some crime thrillers. That includes The Hunting Party, which is slipping into a new timeslot on Mondays in February with The Voice as a lead-in. It looks to be a spin on the classic setup of a group of law enforcement agents hunting criminals.

The trailer sets up the premise of “The Pit,” a top-secret underground prison home to the worst criminals and killers on Earth. A massive explosion rips through the facility, allowing scores of the inmates to break free. Former government operative Rebecca “Bex” Henderson is recruited to lead a team to track the fugitives down. The reason she’s called on is because the prison is so secret that the government can’t even acknowledge there...

Manifest‘s Melissa Roxburgh stars in NBC’s new midseason crime drama The Hunting Party. Debuting on February 3, 2025 at 10pm Et/Pt, the new series finds Roxburgh leading a team who’ve been charged with finding escaped murderers.

Season one also stars Nick Wechsler (Shades of Blue) as Oliver Odell, Patrick Sabongui (The Flash) as Ryan Hassani, Josh McKenzie (La Brea) as Shane Florence, and Sara Garcia (Ride) as Jennifer Morales. JJ Bailey created the series and serves as a writer, executive producer, and co-showrunner with Jake Coburn.

Thor Freudenthal directs and executive produces, with Keto Shimizu writing and executive producing.

Poster for ‘The Hunting Party’ (Photo by: NBCUniversal)

NBC offers this description of the new series:

“This dynamic and suspenseful thrill ride of a crime procedural follows a small team of investigators led by former FBI profiler Rebecca ‘Bex’ Henderson (Roxburgh). They’ve been assembled to track down and...

NBC launched the first teaser trailer for its prison drama, The Hunting Party, and we’re pretty excited about it.

It’s got a great cast and looks like the action-packed drama will keep viewers on the edge of their seats.

Who doesn’t love a good thriller?

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Manifest actress Melissa Roxburgh leads The Hunting Party as Bex Henderson, a former FBI agent in charge of the mission to recapture the fugitives who escaped a top-secret prison break.

This suspenseful prison drama follows Bex’s team of investigators as they track down these dangerous serial killers who have just escaped from the Pit, a top-secret government prison that’s not supposed to exist.

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An elite task force of investigators has its hands full when an off-the-books max-security prison sees a massive breach, leading to the escape of the most notorious convicts. In a first teaser for NBC’s forthcoming crime procedural, The Hunting Party, Melissa Roxburgh’s ex-fbi agent Rebecca Henderson must spearhead a search to round up the escaped criminals.

Set to a haunting rendition of Blondie’s “One Way Or Another,” the new look at the high-concept drama — due for release Feb. 3 with next-day streaming — previews “The Pit,” an underground panopticon-like hexagonal structure, described in a voiceover as a “a classified prison home to the most violent and dangerous criminals the world has ever known.”

Following a blast of mysterious origins, Rebecca (“Bex”) must track down the inmates, leading a team to uncover the origins of the explosion and the reasoning behind it. The jam-packed 30-second first-look...

NBC today announced its 2025 midseason premiere dates, including the new dramas Suits LA, from creator Aaron Korsh, The Hunting Party, starring Melissa Roxburgh (Manifest), and Grosse Pointe Garden Society, a soapy mystery from Jenny Bans and Bill Krebs. The schedule also includes the 10-part special event nature documentary The Americas, narrated by Tom Hanks with music by Oscar winner Hans Zimmer.

Returning to the NBC lineup is the three Chicago series, TV’s highest-rated drama franchise. The Windy City trifecta begins on Wednesday, Jan. 8, with Chicago Med at 8 p.m., followed by Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D.

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Legal dramas are going to be leading NBC’s winter lineup. The midseason schedule for the network is finally here, and it includes a premiere date for the highly anticipated “Suits” spinoff “Suits: L.A.” as well as the return of “Law & Order.”

All series will air on NBC and will be available to stream on Peacock a day after their premiere.

Looking ahead to this upcoming season, the network’s Monday night lineup will start with the return of Zachary Quinto’s “Brilliant Minds” on Jan. 6, 2025. Starting on Feb. 3, “The Voice” will then return with a new season. This time around, Adam Levine, Kelsea Ballerini, John Legend and Michael Bublé will serve as the season’s coaches. It will then be followed by the series premiere of “The Hunting Party.”

Described as a “high-concept crime procedural” from co-showrunners JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn, the drama follows a small team...

Exclusive: Nick Wechsler (Revenge) is set as a series regular in NBC‘s new drama series The Hunting Party, joining previously announced Melissa Roxburgh, Patrick Sabongui, Sara Garcia and Josh McKenzie. Additionally, Kyra Leroux (Riverdale) joins the series in a recurring role.

Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Wechsler will play Oliver Odell. Bex’s former partner in the FBI and the love of her life, Oliver Odell is a charming, brilliant and often reckless profiler whose career at the bureau, and whose relationship with Bex, ended in disgrace.

Leroux recurs as Samantha Henderson. Precocious, funny and winning, Samantha is...

NBC has always been known for crime procedurals, so it's no surprise they have given another one a series order.

The Hunting Party is a new crime procedural set to premiere at midseason in 2025.

It's a high-concept procedural that promises intrigue and action with a list of well-known actors. Here is what we know about the series so far.

What is The Hunting Party?

The Hunting Party is a crime procedural about a team of investigators who track down and capture dangerous killers who have recently escaped from a top-secret prison that's not supposed to exist.

Crime procedurals have become the most popular Primetime television, so The Hunting Party should fit right in.

NBC is one of the networks launching the most new scripted content. In the fall, the network plans to air a medical drama, Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto from Star Trak, and a medical mockumentary called St. Denis Medical,...

La Brea alum Josh McKenzie is set as a series regular in NBC‘s new drama series The Hunting Party, joining previously announced Melissa Roxburgh, Patrick Sabongui and Sara Garcia, Deadline has confirmed.

Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

McKenzie will play Shane Florence. Selfless, sincere and charismatic, Shane is a former soldier in Iraq and a prison guard at a highly classified facility.

The Hunting Party, which received a straight-to-series order, is executive produced by Bailey and Jake Coburn who are writing and co-showrunning together. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.

McKenzie is coming...

“La Brea” star Josh McKenzie is returning to NBC. Variety has learned exclusively that the actor has joined the network’s upcoming drama series “The Hunting Party.”

The show was picked up to series back in February. McKenzie will star alongside previously announced cast members Melissa Roxburgh (herself an alumna of NBC’s “Manifest”), Sara Garcia, and Patrick Sabongui.

The logline for the series states it is “a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

McKenzie will star as Shane Florence, described as “Selfless, sincere and charismatic. Shane is a former soldier in Iraq and a prison guard at a highly classified facility.”

McKenzie played Lucas Hayes throughout “La Brea’s” three season run at NBC.

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Exclusive: Patrick Sabongui (The Flash) and Sara Garcia (Ride) are set as series regulars, joining Melissa Roxburgh in NBC’s new drama series The Hunting Party.

Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Garcia will play Jennifer Morales. A bright and natural optimist despite her tough upbringing, Jennifer is an intel officer and major in the Army.

Sabongui portrays Ryan Hassani. Rugged and world-worn but with a casual air, Hassani is a CIA agent tasked with managing the crisis.

The Hunting Party, which received a straight-to-series order, is executive produced by Bailey and Jake Coburn who are writing and co-showrunning together.

Manifest alum Melissa Roxburgh is heading back to NBC, having nabbed a leading role in the network’s upcoming drama The Hunting Party.

First ordered to series in February, the “high-concept crime procedural” follows an assembled team of investigators who are tasked with tracking down and capturing the country’s most dangerous killers, all of whom have just escaped from a “top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist,” per the official logline.

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Melissa Roxburgh has been cast in a lead role of the upcoming NBC drama series “The Hunting Party,” Variety has learned.

The series was originally announced at NBC back in February. It is described as a crime procedural about “a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

Roxburgh will star as Rebecca “Bex” Henderson. The character is described as “Shrewd, steadfast and obsessively curious, Bex is an ex-fbi agent recruited to an elite government task force due to her reputation as a savvy profiler who’s caught some of the world’s most dangerous serial killers.”

The role marks a starring role return to NBC for Roxburgh, as she is best known for her starring role in the supernatural drama series “Manifest.

Manifest star Melissa Roxburgh is returning to NBC as a lead of the network’s new drama series The Hunting Party.

Created by JJ Bailey who wrote the pilot episode, The Hunting Party is a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Roxburgh will play Rebecca “Bex” Henderson. Shrewd, steadfast and obsessively curious, Bex is an ex-fbi agent recruited to an elite government task force due to her reputation as a savvy profiler who’s caught some of the world’s most dangerous serial killers.

The Hunting Party, which received a straight-to-series order, is executive produced by Bailey and Jake Coburn who are writing and co-showrunning together. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group,...

The Hunting Party from JJ Bailey is headed to NBC. The network announced the drama series order on Wednesday.

Bailey signed an exclusive deal with Universal Television in 2022 to develop and produce projects across all platforms, with Hunting Party first on the list. He developed the show with The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn. Bailey previously created two projects that went to pilot at NBC.

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NBC has given a series order to “The Hunting Party,” a high-concept crime procedural from JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn, with both serving as executive producers, writers and co-showrunners.

Created by Bailey, who also wrote the pilot script, “The Hunting Party” follows a small team of investigators who work together to track down and capture the most dangerous killers the country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio behind the series, which isn’t surprising as Bailey has an overall deal there while Coburn has a first-look deal.

The order for “The Hunting Party” comes as NBC has already ordered three other pilots for next season, including “Suits: LA,” an untitled Reba McEntire-led comedy and more recently, a pilot for “Grosse Pointe Garden Society” from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.

NBC is siccing The Hunting Party on some VIP prison escapees.

The network announced on Tuesday that it has given a series order to The Hunting Party, a new procedural created by JJ Bailey, who will serve as co-showrunner alongside Jake Coburn (co-creator of NBC’s The Endgame).

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NBC has given a series order to “The Hunting Party,” a drama series from JJ Bailey and Jake Coburn.

Per the official logline, “The Hunting Party” is “a high-concept crime procedural about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

“The Hunting Party” is produced by Universal Television. Bailey, who is under an overall deal at the studio, created the series and wrote the pilot. He serves as co-showrunner and executive producer along with Coburn, who has a first-look deal with Utv.

This is Bailey’s first series order since entering his Utv deal in 2022, though he previously set up drama pilot “Echo” at NBC. Though the series never made it to air, it was set to star “Veep” actor...

NBC has handed a series order to The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural from JJ Bailey, The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. The pickup was teased by Universal TV President Erin Underhill in her Q&a with Deadline about the studio’s drama procedural business.

Created by Bailey, The Hunting Party is about a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Bailey and Coburn will write, executive produce and serve as co-showrunners. Bailey, who wrote the pilot, has an overall deal with Utv. Jake Coburn has a first-look deal with the studio.

The Hunting Party was one of two drama projects NBC commissioned writers rooms for last February. The other, Grosse...

NBC is throwing a Hunting Party.

The network has handed out a series order for the high-concept procedural The Hunting Party, from creator JJ Bailey. The pickup for the drama comes more than a year after NBC opened up a writers room for the project that it describes as revolving around “a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.”

Bailey (Echo) created Hunting Party and is attached to serve as co-showrunner alongside fellow writer and exec producer Jake Coburn (The Endgame). The drama hails from Universal Television, where Bailey is based with an overall deal and Coburn is set with a first-look pact.

NBC has been using a two-pronged development slate since 2020, using both the pilot model as well as...

NBC has given a pilot order to Grosse Pointe Garden Society, a long-in-the-works drama from Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs.

The drama follows four members of a suburban garden club, all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom.

The studio is Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Production company is Minnesota Logging Company. Casey Kyber is a non-writing EP.

Both Bans and Krebs have overall deals at Universal Television.

The project first surfaced early in 2023, when NBC commissioned writers room for it and The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural from JJ Bailey and The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn. The latter revolves around a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a...

Exclusive: NBC has commissioned writers rooms for two hourlong projects, Grosse Pointe Garden Society, from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans and her frequent collaborator, former Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs, as well as The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural from JJ Bailey and The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn. Universal Television, where Bans, Krebs and Bailey are under overall deals and Coburn has a first-look deal, is the studio on both.

Grosse Pointe Garden Society, which had a put pilot commitment, was one of two sales at NBC this development season for Bans and Krebs through Universal TV. Their other script, Murder By the Book, with Good Girls‘ Retta attached to star, was picked up to pilot. It also originally had a put pilot commitment.

NBC has split its drama slate between the two models, with two pilots, Murder By the Book and Wolf, and two writers rooms for a straight-to-series consideration.

Exclusive: Drama writer-producer JJ Bailey is expanding his relationship with Universal Television. Bailey has signed an exclusive overall deal with the studio, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop and produce projects across all platforms. He has set his first project under the deal, The Hunting Party, a high-concept crime procedural which he is developing with The Endgame co-creator Jake Coburn for NBC.

Written by Bailey, The Hunting Party revolves around a small team of investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers our country has ever seen, all of whom have just escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.

Bailey and Coburn executive produce.

Bailey previously created two projects for Utv that went to pilot at NBC, Getaway with Moira Kirland and Echo with Davis Entertainment.

“We are thrilled to officially welcome JJ to the Utv family! ” said Erin Underhill,...

Network: NBC

Episodes: 10 (hour)

Seasons: One

TV show dates: February 21, 2022 -- May 2, 2022

Series status: Cancelled

Performers include: Morena Baccarin, Ryan Michelle Bathé, Costa Ronin, Jordan Johnson-Hinds, Kamal Bolden, Noah Bean, Karl Josef Co, Massiel Mordan, and Mark Damon Espinoza.

TV show description:

A crime thriller series, The Endgame TV show was created by Nick Wootton and Jake Coburn.

The story follows Elena Federova (Baccarin), a recently captured international arms dealer. She's a brilliant criminal mastermind who orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists throughout New York City for a mysterious purpose.

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NBC drama “The Endgame” starring Morena Baccarin and Ryan Michelle Bathé has been canceled after one season, Variety has learned.

Described as “a pulse-pounding high-stakes two-hander,” the series follows Elena Federova (Baccarin), a recently captured international arms dealer and brilliant criminal mastermind who orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists throughout New York City for a mysterious purpose. Her antagonist is Val Turner (Bathé), the principled, relentless and socially outcast FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil her ambitious plan. The heist drama ”reveals how far some people will go for love, justice and the most valuable commodity in the world: the truth,” per NBC.

Along with Baccarin and Bathé,” The Endgame” stars Costa Ronin, Jordan Johnson-Hinds, Kamal Bolden, Noah Bean and Mark Damon Espinoza.

Jake Coburn and Nicholas Wootton co-created the series and executive produce alongside Julie Plec, Emily Cummins, Andrew Schneider and Justin Lin, who also directed the pilot episode.

The Endgame is over.

NBC has canceled the heist drama, which stars Morena Baccarin as criminal mastermind, after one season.

The series comes from Nick Wootton, Jake Coburn, Justin Lin and Julie Plec. Universal TV is the studio.

Written by Chuck and Scorpion exec producer Wootton and Quantico EP Coburn, The Endgame is a high-stakes thriller about Elena Federova, a very recently captured international arms dealer and brilliant criminal mastermind who even in captivity orchestrates a number of coordinated bank heists, and Val Turner, played by Ryan Michelle Bathe, the principled, relentless and socially outcast FBI agent who will stop at nothing to foil her ambitious plan.

Cast also includes Kamal Angelo Bolden, Costa Ronin, Noah Bean, Jordan Johnson-Hinds and Mark D. Espinoza.

Wootton executive produces via his Nicholas Wootton Productions; Coburn, exec produces via his Jake Coburn Productions; Plec exec produces along with Emily Cummins via her My So-Called Company; and Justin Lin,...

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Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not watched “Fairytale Wedding,” the Feb. 28 episode of NBC’s “The Endgame.”

NBC’s new high-octane crime drama “The Endgame” aired its second episode Monday, revealing many more compelling details about its leading ladies — Morena Baccarin’s international arms dealer/crime boss Elena Federova and Ryan Michelle Bathé’s FBI agent Val Turner — than it did in its week-ago series premiere.

In the episode, “Fairytale Wedding,” we saw the titular nuptials go up in flames when the church where Elena and her now-husband Sergey Vodianov (Costa Ronin) were to be wed was blown up with everyone they loved inside. This was our first peek into Elena’s life with Sergey, who is currently presumed dead by Val and the rest of the world — but is actually in an upstate New York prison with Val’s husband, Owen (Kamal Bolden).

“What the wedding...

“9-1-1: Lone Star” has already featured guest appearances by two “Angel” alums, Julie Benz and Amy Acker, during the first few episodes of its currently airing third season. And if showrunner Tim Minear — who was a writer and executive producer on “Angel” and brought in Gina Torres, a vet of the WB series, as a lead on “Lone Star” at the start of Season 2 — is down for it, an actress from one of Minear’s other beloved series would love to make another reunion happen: “Firefly” star Morena Baccarin.

“Oh, that would be fun! I haven’t seen those guys in forever,” Baccarin told Variety Friday, during an interview for her upcoming NBC drama “The Endgame.” “I love Tim. Yeah, I just got to clear my schedule with these guys,” she said, pointing to her new bosses, “Endgame” co-creators and executive producers Nick Wooton and Jake Coburn.

But Wooton was cool with it,...

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