EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Reyes (How I Met Your Father, American Gods) has been tapped as a lead opposite Jared Padalecki in the CW’s Walker. Reyes, who has joined the cast as a series regular, will first appear in the next episode, “Nudge”, slated to premiere March 3. Reyes succeeds Lindsay Morgan who exited Walker earlier this […]
“Are you sure you’re ready?” So begins a new promo of Fox’s upcoming spring premiere of drama series 9-1-1. Season 5 picks up following the fall finale where Eddie (Ryan Guzman) was at a crossroads and his future with the 118 was unclear. In the series’ return, Athena (Angela Bassett), Bobby (Peter Krause) and the […]
Britney Spears has landed a multimillion-dollar book deal with publisher Simon & Schuster. The big bucks pact came together over the past few months, Deadline has confirmed from sources close to the situation. According to the New York Post‘s Page Six, the deal is priced at $15 million, and will cover topics including her professional […]
Neil Cavuto returned to the anchor chair on his Fox Business Network show “Cavuto Coast to Coast” on Monday for the first time since January 10, saying he had been battling Covid pneumonia which put him in intensive care. It was previously unknown why he had been away. “I did get Covid again…but a far, […]
England is just three days away from ending virtually all Covid restrictions as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveils his Living With Covid plan to the nation. Coming almost two years after the first lockdown, the plan’s headline is that people will no longer have to self-isolate if they test positive from Thursday February 24 […]
Jane Marczewski, the singer known as Nightbirde who found fame on America’s Got Talent last year and chronicled her battle with breast cancer on social media, died Sunday of the disease. She was 31. The Zanesville, OH, native earned a judges’ standing ovation and the NBC show’s sought-after Golden Buzzer with her audition performance of an original song, […]
For Ruben Fleischer, Uncharted was two years in the making. But the feature take of the Sony PlayStation game has been in the works since 2008 with several directors attached, from David O. Russell and Neil Burger to Travis Knight and Shawn Levy to name just a few. It just so happened that Fleischer’s schedule timed […]
Donald Trump’s new social media platform Truth Social has launched on the U.S. Apple app store. Truth Social became available to download shortly before midnight Eastern Time and was automatically downloaded to Apple users who pre-ordered the app. Some users reported attempting to download and receiving the message: “Due to massive demand, we have placed […]
The Weeknd will headline The Weeknd x The Dawn FM Experience, an immersive music special on Prime Video, on Saturday, February 26. According to Amazon’s announcement, the special expands his album Dawn FM “into a mesmerizing visual, creating a theatrical performance event that will envelope audiences in its unnerving and moody world.” The special will […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hallmark veteran Lacey Chabert is expanding her relationship with parent company Crown Media Family Networks. Chabert has signed an exclusive multi-picture overall deal with Crown Media, under which she will headline and executive produce movies and develop other content for Hallmark Channel and other Hallmark platforms over the next two years. “Lacey’s warmth, talent, […]
Anil Kapoor Thriller Lands At Netflix Netflix has taken rights on revenge thriller Thar, which stars Anil Kapoor and Harsh Varrdhan Kapoor in the story of a man who embarks on a journey to avenge his past. The project marks the directorial debut of Raj Singh Choudhary, who also wrote the screenplay. Fatima Sana Shaikh […]
The first ever Sands: International Film Festival, set to be held in Scotland’s St Andrews, has revealed its line-up. Running March 25-27, the program will consist of nine fiction and non-fiction features, including a mystery film not yet announced. On the list is documentary Long Live My Happy Head, from Leith-based filmmaking duo Will Hewitt […]
Andrew Neil Handed Channel 4 Politics Show Andrew Neil, the British news heavyweight who launched GB News last year before leaving within weeks, is to host a Sunday night political show on Channel 4. Sunday Politics with Andrew Neil (working title) will see the ex-BBC presenter and founding Sky Chairman interview high-profile politicians and newsmakers, accompanied […]
EXCLUSIVE: The UK government is “monitoring what further action is needed” to help commercial insurers return to market and provide commercially viable rates when the £500M ($680M) Film & TV Production Restart Scheme ends on April 30. A spokesman for the UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) department told Deadline the government is keeping […]
Coming off a three-month break, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver wasted no breath in his ninth season opener and devoted almost a half-hour to one of the most controversial topics swirling around schools today: the education of critical race theory. For the uninitiated, critical race theory (CRT) refers to a body of legal scholarship […]
Jamal Edwards, an English music entrepreneur known for founding SBTV, a YouTube music channel dedicated to breaking emerging artists in the UK, died Sunday at the age of 31. Edwards’ company confirmed his death to the BBC. No other details have been released about his death. Edwards was born in Luton in 1990 and was […]
On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 58 new deaths from Covid-19, along with 2,780 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases reported today may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s tallies bring the County to a total of 30,356 deaths and 2,782,953 positive cases. 1,391 County residents […]
A 911 call for help from the home of HBO’s The White Lotus star Alexandra Daddario resulted in the arrest of a Colorado man carrying a handgun. The Saturday incident involved the arrest of David Adam Cako, 24, who was charged with carrying a concealed weapon after a handgun was found in his vehicle, police said. LAPD […]
Volatile Michigan men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard potentially faces a suspension or firing for punching a Wisconsin assistant coach today during the postgame handshake line. Howard swiped at Wisconsin assistant Joe Krabbenhoft’s face, igniting a brawl that included coaches and players. The 15th-ranked Wisconsin Badgers beat unranked Michigan, 77-53. This isn’t Howard’s first such incident. […]
The National Basketball Association’s annual all-star game today had an unexpected surprise in the pre-game – a new trailer for the upcoming The Batman release. Broadcaster Brian Anderson was giving a regular transition to a commercial break when the video board outside Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland advertising the All-Star Game began behaving strangely. It […]
Neon’s standout romance about a young woman in Oslo churning though career choices and boyfriends passed $1 million this weekend on 265 screens, up from 49. With marketing in high gear and strong word of mouth, the Oscar Best International Feature nominee will continue to expand next week. Worst Person grossed $500,299 for three days […]
