Greg Berlanti Flashes Through Pilot Season, How Trends Affect the Way Hollywood Does Business, TV Casting for 10/08/14

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Uber-Producer Greg Berlanti Flashes Through Pilot Season and Divulges What He’s Learned from Reinventing His Career

The Writer-Producer-Director has carved out a nice corner of the medium with character-driven dramas through his Warner Bros.-based Berlanti Productions. (SSN)

AwesomenessTV’s Carter Hansen and Others Talk Pinpointed Targeting, YouTube Celebs and How Trends Affect the Way Hollywood Does Business

The rise of technology, the phasing out of Baby Boomers as targeted consumers, and a generation of millennials with an increasingly DIY attitude and the ability to consume content in more ways than ever, continues to affect the entertainment industry. (SSN)

TV Casting for 10/08/14: Peter Fonda to Guest on ‘The Blacklist,’ and Dana Delany to Recur on ‘Comedians’

The Walking Dead’s Sarah Wayne Callies gets a gig on a new USA pilot, Michael Rispoli will get a spot in the High Castle, and Longmire’s Bailey Chase heads to Chicago Fire. (SSN)

TODAY’S HEADLINES

Comcast Shareholders Approve Proposed Merger with Time Warner

At a special meeting, held today in Philadelphia, 99 percent of shareholders voted on the pact, which is currently valued at over $45 billion, and would give the new Comcast the most control over how content is distributed to a wide range of U.S. homes. (VAR)

‘Fury’ Producer Teams With Merced Capital for a New, $500 Million Film Slate

Production-financing veterans Bill Block and Kevin Frakes will produce “filmmaker and star-driven” projects over the next three to five years. (DH)

When It Comes to the ‘Ghostbusters’ Reboot, Who Ya Gonna Call? Katie Dippold!

Writer of The Heat will re-team with director Paul Feig to co-write the female-led version, intended to start a whole new series. (HV)

First Look: George Clooney in ‘Tomorrowland’

The newly married star is a man out of time in Brad Bird’s new sci-fi fantasy adventure, directed by Brad Bird and written by Damon Lindelof. (EW)

Kerry Washington Will Be Asking Audiences ‘Is He The One’

Romantic comedy about a bride on her wedding day and which of her three suitors she’s marrying is the Scandal star’s first cinematic leading role in a dozen years. (WAH)

Evidently, It’s Not Actually Possible to Keep Jay Leno Off TV

The comedian and longtime Tonight Show host is closing in on a deal to host a primetime, car-centric show for CNBC. (THR)

That Big Nude Scene for Cersei in Season Five of ‘Game of Thrones’ Cost HBO 200K

Aside from extras, more crew, security and so on, there was also the little matter of the Croatian government getting in the way. (MF)

What ‘The Flash’ Gets Right About Superheroes

Neither it, nor its predecessor, Arrow, ignores the moral and emotional difficulties that their characters face: In truth, these challenges are what end up powering the storytelling. (HUFFPO)