Station 19 is gearing up to premiere its seventh and final season tonight and showrunners Zoanne Clack, MD, MPH and Peter Paige have tips for viewers that echo the passionate fans trying to save the show. “They gotta watch,” Paige told Deadline during a recent chat when asked what else fans can do. Added Clack, […]
Ned Benson’s The Greatest Hits is a poignant exploration of grief, memory and the transformative power of music, marking his foray into magical realism. At its core, this film, brought to life by a vibrant cast including Lucy Boynton, David Corenswet, Retta, Justin H. Min and Austin Crute that delves deep into the psychological intricacies […]
Bluey and Young Sheldon are still going back and forth on the Nielsen streaming charts. For the week of February 12 to 18, it was Bluey that prevailed with just under 1.2B viewing minutes, thanks to the 2-11 crowd, which made up about half of the audience. According to Nielsen, Bluey‘s 10 new episodes are […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cait Ferrera has been promoted to manager at Artists First. She will continue to work out of their New York offices. Ferrera began at Artists First in NYC, working for Randi Michel in April 2018. She was promoted to Theater Coordinator in August 2021. In that time, Ferrera has become a fixture in the […]
Random House will publish a memoir by Wicked director Jon M. Chu this summer. Titled Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen, the book, co-authored with Jeremy McCarter, will be released July 23. An announcement by Random House today says, “With striking candor and unrivaled insights, Chu offers a firsthand account of the collision […]
EXCLUSIVE: Andrea Savage and Joey Slamon, the duo behind TruTV’s romantic comedy series I’m Sorry, are reteaming to write an untitled irreverent Sony feature comedy. Savage is looking to direct. Pic follows two bridesmaids at destination wedding in a far-off overseas location who both hate their best friend’s fiancé. They make some questionable choices in […]
Nearly 60 years after the release of “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy),” Paul Simon still cringes at the song. The 1966 Simon & Garfunkel classic features “a line that I hate,” the singer-songwriter told Stephen Colbert on Wednesday at the DGA New York Theater. “As it’s coming up, I’m thinking, ‘Here it comes, […]
By now the inspiring story of Sir Nicholas Winton and the 669 children he saved from near certain death at the hand of the Nazis on the eve of World War II in Europe has been well told in books, documentaries, television programs, a 60 Minutes segment, and many other ways. Even a myth of […]
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Irby (Barry, Mayans M.C.) has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners for representation. Irby is coming off two hit shows that ended their runs in 2023, FX’s Mayans M.C. and HBO’s Barry. In the Kurt Sutter and Elgin James-co-created motorcycle drama Mayans. M.C., Irby played the series regular role of Obispo ‘Bishop’ Losa across […]
The FCC passed new rules that will require cable and satellite providers to clearly disclose the “all in” price of subscriptions in promotional materials. “The advertised price for a service should be the price you pay when your bill arrives,” FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said. “It shouldn’t include a bunch of unexpected junk fees that are […]
Ron Nyswaner, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind films including Philadelphia and The Painted Veil and most recently the Matt Bomer-starring Showtime miniseries Fellow Travelers, is receiving this year’s Walter Bernstein Award from the Writers Guild of America East. The honor will be bestowed April 14 at the WGA Awards’ East Coast ceremony in New York, which […]
EXCLUSIVE: Actor Omar Epps has signed with Independent Artist Group for representation. Recently starring in three seasons of Starz’s hit crime drama Power Book III: Raising Kanan, which is coming back for a fourth, Epps is otherwise perhaps best known for starring alongside Hugh Laurie across all eight seasons of Fox’s acclaimed medical drama House. […]
Netflix has become the latest home for the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The streamer has struck a multi-year deal with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to air the event. Last year, the event aired on CNN and before that PBS aired it for over 20 years. Comedy Central hosted […]
With Love, the new action movie from Universal and 87North starring Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, will be released in theaters on Feb. 7, 2025. 87North has been behind such Uni action movies as Nobody, Violent Night, Atomic Blonde and this summer’s The Fall Guy which won over SXSW audiences in its world premiere on Tuesday night as […]
EXCLUSIVE: Up-and-coming comic Preacher Lawson has announced that his second special, My Name Is Preacher, will debut on YouTube on March 18th. Check out a trailer above. Marking his follow-up to 2019’s Get to Know Me, which released on BET+ and later Prime Video, My Name Is Preacher sees the comedian discuss everything from his […]
Hillary Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda will host a Broadway fundraiser for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign next month that will feature a performance of Suffs: The Musical. The musical, which Clinton is co-producing, focuses on the women’s suffrage movement. The musical originated at the New York Public Theater and is set to start Broadway previews on […]
ABC is piloting a new Alzheimer’s comedy starring and exec produced by Ty Burrell. Deadline revealed that the multicamera project was in the works a year ago and the project, which comes from Punky Brewster duo Eugene Garcia-Cross and Robin Shorr, is now moving forward. It is the latest pilot order for the Disney-owned network; Deadline revealed […]
The final season of Snowpiercer has finally found a home. The fourth season of the sci-fi drama will air on AMC after the company acquired the rights to the Tomorrow Studios-produced series. It comes after TNT scrapped the show last year as part of a wider Warner Bros. Discovery content write down strategy. Deadline revealed […]
Black Mirror is returning to the USS Callister, the setting of one of its most highly-regarded episodes. Netflix confirmed Season 7 of Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones’ anthology today and delivered a teaser that will delight fans. “USS Callister will return… Robert Daly is dead, but for the crew of the USS Callister, their problems […]
Netflix has pulled the curtain back on a slate of UK unscripted originals, including reality competition series Bear Hunt, starring Bear Grylls and Holly Willoughby. Announced at the Next on Netflix showcase in London, Bear Hunt (working title) will feature survival expert Grylls preying on an unlikely group of British celebrities in the Central American […]
A splashy Netflix UK scripted slate features a historical series about the Guinness brewery from Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and the latest ‘one-shot’ offering from Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne and Philip Barantini. The prolific Knight is penning House of Guinness [working title] from long-time producing collaborator Kudos. The show will tell the story of […]
EXCLUSIVE: CESD Talent Agency is expanding its Emerging Talent Division with the hires of Domina Holbeck and Sloane Fitzgerald, both formerly with A3. Holbeck joins CESD as Senior VP and Head of its L.A. Emerging Talent Department, and Fitzgerald joins as Emerging Talent agent. Their new roles are effective immediately. Holbeck moves to CESD from […]
Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell have revealed they both said “absolutely not” when first asked to play Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew in Netflix feature Scoop. Speaking via video link at the See What’s Next Netflix event in London, Sex Education star Anderson said she thought she would “undoubtedly fail” if she took on the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has greenlighted Black Rabbit, a limited series headlined and executive produced by Jason Bateman and Jude Law in their first on-screen pairing. Cleopatra Coleman (Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire), Amaka Okafor (Bodies), Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London) and Dagmara Dominczyk (Succession) have joined the cast of the one-hour drama, […]
Fifty Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan will play identical twins in a Netflix drama out of the UK. Unveiled at a Next on Netflix event this evening in London, The Undertow is a crime noir series that will see the Irishman take on the dual roles of identical twins Adam and Lee. Suffocating in […]