Warner Bros. TV Group isn't acting like a studio with an uncertain future. Even as the fate of Warner Bros. Discovery remains up in the air - given the uncertain timeline of a Paramount Skydance acquisition - the studio has been on a development and production spree in recent months.

This summer the division, under chairman Channing Dungey, reupped its megadeal with John Wells - whose hit juggernaut for HBO Max,  The Pitt,  already won four Emmys last weekend and is expected to dominate the drama category at Monday night's main ceremony.

Also, Variety can exclusively reveal that Matt Reeves and his 6th   Idaho production shingle ( The Penguin ) have reupped their overall deal with Warner Bros. TV. Reeves and company first signed on in 2020 to produce all TV projects with the studio. ( Matt has a true knack for getting into the psyche of his characters and he and his team have delivered some of the most compelling, thought-provoking stories over the years,  Dungey says.)

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Other overall deals housed at the company include prolific creators like Greg Berlanti, Bill Lawrence, Chuck Lorre, Mindy Kaling, Lucia Aniello/Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky.

Meanwhile, since January, the studio has landed 12 new series orders - most recently, the long-awaited revival of the  Manifest  franchise at Netflix,  Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery.  Warner Bros. also lined up pickups for scripted series such as the DC-themed true-crime mockumentary  The People v. Gorilla Grodd  at HBO Max; the Brett Goldstein romantic comedy  Escorted  and horror drama  Stillwater  at Prime Video; the reimagined comic  Afterlife With Archie  at Disney+; and sitcom  I Suck at Girls  at Netflix.

Then there are the dozen series that have been renewed in recent months:  The Pitt,   It: Welcome to Derry,   Stuart Fails to Save the Universe  and  Rooster  at HBO Max,  Leanne,   Untamed  and  Running Point  at Netflix,  Shrinking  and  Bad Monkey  at Apple TV, and broadcast hits  Memories of a Killer  (Fox) and  Georgie   Mandy's First Marriage  (CBS). At ABC,  Abbott Elementary,  the No. 1 broadcast comedy in m

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