After taking a $9.1 billion write-down on its linear networks business, in part due to the company’s loss of NBA rights, Warner Bros. Discovery is ramping up its investment in programming for TNT.

One week after The CW confirmed that The Librarians: The Next Chapter — its continuation of the TV-movie franchise that begat a four-season TNT series — had been unceremoniously pulled from its fall schedule, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the series has been acquired by TNT, as one small part of the cabler’s mission to beef up its depleted drama slate.

Since the mid-2000s, TNT has been a flagship for fictional series in US cable television. Worldwide successes such as “The Closer”, “Rizzoli & Isles” or “Leverage” all came from the station, which had been writing its way as the motto We know drama.

Without its most valuable asset, the cable network is going back to its roots with inexpensive original series drama.

“TNT has greenlighted four-hour miniseries ‘Debriefing the President’ (working title), about the 2003 interrogation of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, to air in 2025”

EXCLUSIVE: TNT has greenlighted four-hour miniseries Debriefing the President (working title), about the 2003 interrogation of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, to air in 2025. This marks the cable network’s first original scripted order since the 2022 Warner Bros.-Discovery merger.

Debriefing the President is headed to TNT. The four-hour miniseries will be a dramatization of the 2003 interrogation of Saddam Hussein. The program debuts in 2025.

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD)-owned US cable network TNT has ordered a miniseries about former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, marking the channel’s first scripted commission since post-merger restructuring began at its parent company in 2022.

TNT has greenlighted four-hour miniseries Debriefing the President (working title), about the 2003 interrogation of deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, to air in 2025.

Escapade Media has reached a new agreement with StoryFirst for a third series, the fantasy adventure Dancing Daggers.