It’ll be a case of Succession-on-Succession violence at the 74th annual at the DGA Awards. The Directors Guild revealed its TV nominations today, and all five nominees for Dramatic Series are episodes of HBO’s juggernaut starring Jeremy Strong and Brian Cox. On the Comedy Series side, Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso is a triple nominee alongside HBO Max’s Hacks […]
The 32nd Annual Gotham Awards will take place on November 28, with the 2022 Gotham Week set for September 18-23, The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced today. The Gotham Awards are recognized as one of the leading honors for independent film and television, providing early acknowledgement to groundbreaking independent films and television series as […]
Guillermo del Toro, Jane Campion, Nicole Holofcener, Danny Strong, Jeymes Samuel, and Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson are the honorees for screenwriting excellence at the 17th annual Final Draft Awards, which will be presented in a virtual ceremony March 16. Two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker del Toro, whose current film is Nightmare Alley, will be presented with the […]
ViacomCBS has unveiled the lineup of the 15 performers set to perform for its 2022 Showcase. The event, which will once again go virtual, will live stream on Tuesday, Feb. 8 and Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 1 p.m. PT, 4. p.m. PT and 7 p.m. PT. Afsheen Misaghi, Allison Reese, Anna Garcia, Anosh Michael McAdam, […]
John Leguizamo is opening up about his experience climbing the Hollywood ladder, including the modifications he made in his own life to avoid becoming too tan. This as roles for white Latinos continue to dominate in both the big and small screen today, with the industry mostly ignoring those in the community who are mestizo, […]
A&E Network is taking a deep dive into the life of R&B legend Bobby Brown with a two-night Biography event special and new docuseries. A&E will premiere Biography: Bobby Brown, a two-night event which follows the ups and downs of Brown’s journey to pop culture fame, on May 30 and May 31 at 8 PM. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hallmark Channel has begun production on new original movie A Second Chance At Love starring ER alums Gloria Reuben and Eriq La Salle, Alvina August (Nancy Drew) and Jarod Joseph (Rogue). The romantic comedy is slated to premiere Saturday, March 26 at 8 PM on Hallmark Channel. In A Second Chance At Love, on […]
Apple is among three double winners at the 73rd annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards, which the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed today. MPEG and MLB Advanced Media also snagged dual statuettes, and winners also included Netflix, DirecTV, Microsoft and others. See the full list below. The awards will be handed out […]
One of Hollywood’s most powerful and prestigious law firms is expanding its rooster and name. The operation formally known as Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano will now be called Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein Lezcano Bobb & Dang with the addition of two new named partners. Partners at the firm since 2008 and […]
Lionsgate is looking to absorb part of, or all of STX Entertainment, Deadline has learned from sources. STX was recently rescued back in early December from a draconian merger with Eros by Jahm Najafi’s Phoenix-based The Najafi Companies for $173M. As Deadline first reported, that move by Najafi was an interim step on the way […]
Nick Stahl has been cast as a series regular opposite Demián Bichir, in Let the Right One In, Showtime’s vampire drama series, from Away creator Andrew Hinderaker, who serves as showrunner; Seith Mann, who directed the pilot and additional episodes; and Tomorrow Studios. The series also stars Anika Noni Rose, Grace Gummer, Madison Taylor Baez, […]
Musical savant, fashion maven, provocateur, philanthropist. When multi-hyphenate Lady Gaga first added ‘leading actress’ to the list with 2018’s A Star is Born, she was Oscar-nominated. Now, she’s back with House of Gucci. Can Ridley Scott’s film cement her path as a major movie player? Antonia Blyth meets Gaga to dig into the real story […]
EXCLUSIVE: Fremantle and HBO Max Nordic are getting behind the inaugural European edition of The Writers Lab (TWL), the program devoted exclusively to script development for women and non-binary writers over the age of 40. Founded and produced by Elizabeth Kaiden and Nitza Wilon, the lab expanded from the U.S. into the UK in 2021, […]
UPDATE: Xavier Giannoli’s Illusions Perdues (Lost Illusions) leads nominations for the 2022 César Awards, France’s equivalent to the Oscar. The Venice premiere scored 15 mentions, followed by Leos Carax’s Annette, which opened the Cannes Film Festival last year and has 11 nominations. They are followed by Valérie Lemercier’s Aline, the musical dramedy inspired by the […]
It’s a Sin exec Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions has doubled its number of staff, bringing in five individuals including Anansi Boys exec Richard Fee to oversee a slate of new commissions. The ITV Studios-backed Manchester-based indie, which was launched by the Red Production Company founder last year, has signed Fee as Exec Producer alongside Head […]
Disney+ To Launch In 42 Countries Disney+ has moved to the next stage of its rapid international rollout and will launch in 42 countries and 11 territories this summer. Major countries in which the Mouse House’s streamer will launch include South Africa, Turkey, Poland and the United Arab Emirates. Disney+ is also moving to Israel, […]
Peter Robbins, who voiced Charlie Brown in the classic 1960s Peanuts cartoons, has died. The former actor committed suicide last week, his family told San Diego’s Fox 5. He was 65. Robbins (real name Louis G. Nanasi) was born in 1956 in Los Angeles. He began acting in 1963 and was the first to play […]
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s highest-profile opposition figure, perennial thorn in Putin’s side and currently a guest in state prison, gets a vigorous up-close-and-personal look in this eventful, fest-moving, never-a-dull-moment documentary from Daniel Roher. A collaboration between HBO Max and CNN Films, Navalny, provides a sustained look at a good-looking, articulate and seemingly unafraid family man who came […]
While the 7-day average of new Covid cases in the U.S. is trending down, the daily number of new cases topped 1 million for only the second time in the 733 days since the first infection was reported stateside. Monday case numbers posted today by the CDC and Johns Hopkins University came in at 1,140,580 […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following story reveals major storylines from the Season 1 finale of Fox’s Our Kind of People. As Season 1 of Fox’s Our Kind of People comes to an end, answers have arrived regarding many of the show’s biggest mysteries. Mainly: What role did Teddy Franklin (Joe Morton) play in his former lover […]
SAG-AFTRA and the producers of the Super Bowl Halftime Show have worked out an agreement in which “no professional dancers will be asked to work for free” as part of the show, the union said in a statement today. The agreement, which comes after several dancers complained about being asked to work without pay, was […]
Euphoria‘s boasting a different kind of high for HBO this week with the third and latest episode continuing its growing streak. The latest installment of Sam Levinson’s teen drama grew 41% in viewers from the previous week to earn 3.6 million viewers across all HBO platforms, marking series high viewership. On Sunday, the latest Euphoria […]
The season opener of the new United States Football League on Saturday, April 16 will be simulcast on NBC and Fox, the networks said Tuesday, a rare occurrence in the world of sports TV. The eight-team spring pro league’s inaugural game will pit the New Jersey Generals against the Birmingham Stallions, with kickoff at 7:30 […]
Kathryn Kates, a veteran character actress who appeared in such TV series as Orange Is the New Black, Seinfeld and Law & Order: SVU and The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark, has died. She was 73. Her reps at Headline Talent Agency said Kates died Saturday of cancer in Florida. “Kathryn has been our client for […]
Every broadcast season, some of the networks’ pickups are influenced by the recent big breakout hits. On the heels of the blockbuster success of Paramount Network’s ranch drama Yellowstone, NBC has given a pilot order to Unbroken, a drama from New Amsterdam executive producer Shaun Cassidy and Universal Television. Written and executive produced by Cassidy, […]
