Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Salli Richardson-Whitfield, the Eureka and I Am Legend star turned director, has signed an overall deal with HBO.Richardson-Whitfield has struck a two-year deal with the premium cable network to develop projects.
She has also come on board to direct and exec produce a handful of major titles for the WarnerMedia-owned company.She will be an exec producer on Julian Fellowes’ upcoming drama series The Gilded Age, in addition to directing four episodes, and will also direct two episodes of Adam McKay’s upcoming untitled Lakers project, which is based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s.
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