‘Manifest’ Making Deals With Cast & Writers As Series Gets Closer To Resurrection At Netflix

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Encouraging news for Manifest fans: The missing-plane drama is inching closer to a deal for a new home two months after its cancellation by NBC.

I hear producing studio Warner Bros TV is in the home stretch of complex negotiations with Netflix about a Season 4 order for the series, which has been topping the streamer’s viewership charts since June.In anticipation of a pickup, WBTV has started negotiations with the cast and has been making “if-come” offers to writers — both writers who had worked on the show, created/executive produced by Jeff Rake, and new ones — for Season 4, sources said.

NBCUniversal, which made a spirited effort to get the show back on NBC or Peacock, is no longer in the running, I hear. Reps for WBTV, Netflix and NBCU