Sony Pictures Television is expanding its unscripted footprint in a big way. The TV studio has signed an agreement to acquire independent nonfiction production company Industrial Media whose portfolio includes such series as American idol, 90 Day Fiancé, Indian Matchmaking, Selena+Chef and So You Think You Can Dance. Upon closing, Sony Pictures will acquire a […]
Oscarcast producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan have opened the envelope on the first batch of presenters for the 94th Academy Awards. And the Oscar-presenter job goes to … Kevin Costner, Zoë Kravitz, Lady Gaga, Rosie Perez, Chris Rock and Yuh-Jung Youn. “Movies inspire us, entertain us and unite us across the globe,” Packer said. […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Smithsonian Channel and Oprah Winfrey‘s Harpo Productions are partnering on The Color of Care, a new documentary that chronicles how people of color suffer from systemically substandard healthcare in the United States and how Covid-19 exposed the tragic consequences of these inequities. The project premieres on May 1 at 8 p.m. The documentary […]
As former Attorney General William Barr is poised to become the latest Trump administration insider with a tell-all book, NBC News has landed an exclusive interview with plans for a one-hour special on Sunday. Barr told Lester Holt that, in a December, 2020 meeting, he said to Trump that his claims of election fraud were […]
NBC’s Chicago series came out on top once again, in a busy Wednesday primetime slate filled with season finales. Per fast nationals, Chicago Fire and Chicago Med were the highest-rated and most-watched programs of Wednesday evening, respectively. Chicago Med earned a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demo and 6.89 million viewers, slightly down from the […]
Charlie Sheen is heading back to television. The Two and a Half Men star has teamed up with Entourage creator Doug Ellin for a new dramedy series set in Hollywood. Ramble On will star Sheen and Entourage’s Kevin Connolly and Kevin Dillon as themselves about Hollywood veterans looking to reinvent their voices alongside up and […]
Netflix is furthering its push into gaming with the greenlight of Trivia Quest, its first daily interactive trivia series based on etermax’s popular Trivia Crack franchise. Beginning April 1, Netflix will launch one new episode of Trivia Quest daily throughout the month, a total of 30 episodes. Each episode features 24 questions, a mix of […]
William Jackson Harper (Love Life) has joined the cast of Landscape With Invisible Hand, a heightened comedy that Cory Finley (Bad Education, Thoroughbreds) is directing for MGM, Deadline can confirm. He’s set to star alongside previously announced cast members including Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini, Josh Hamilton and Brooklynn MacKinzie. The […]
EXCLUSIVE: Woodman Park Productions, the All3Media-backed production company behind series such as Discovery+’s Battle of the Brothers and CNN’s Declassified, has bolstered its leadership ranks. Whitney White has been promoted to Executive Vice President of the company, having taken over leadership of the company last year. It has also hired Joanne Yang as VP, Development. […]
Tony Walton, one of the most prolific, honored and celebrated designers of sets and costumes on Broadway and in Hollywood, died yesterday, March 2, from complications of a stroke. He was 87. His death was announced on Facebook by stepdaughter Bridget LeRoy, who wrote, “A fond and loving farewell to the most fabulous stepdad and […]
Veteran producer Joel Silver (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Robert Downey Jr. and Susan Downey’s Team Downey and Amazon Studios are partnering to develop a series of feature film and television projects based on Donald E. Westlake’s series of highly popular Parker crime fiction novels, written under the pseudonym Richard Stark. The first project emerging from […]
Longtime Sundance Institute staffer Adam Piron has been named as the Director of its Indigenous Program. Piron will will lead Sundance’s engagement and investment in global Indigenous storytellers, taking over a role that Bird Runningwater left several months ago. While handling his new responsibilities, he will continue to serve as a short film programmer for the […]
Banijay has paused all activity in Russia until further notice. The global producer/distributor has “long historically had deals in-place across Russia,” according to a statement this morning, and it runs a production company in the nation: WeiT Media, which was established in 2009. Weit produces a Russian/Estonian version of The Bridge and the likes of Survivor, Wife […]
ITV Studios has ordered Russian networks TNT and Channel One to take I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and The Voice Kids off air. During their full-year results call this morning, ITV CEO Carolyn McCall confirmed ITV Studios has stopped sales to Russian clients and said consultants have also been withdrawn from these two shows. The Voice Kids has […]
Russian and Belarusian athletes have been banned from the Winter Paralympics in Beijing in a stunning u-turn taken 24 hours after they were given the greenlight to compete, as the invasion of Ukraine enters its second week. Yesterday, the International Paralympics Committee (IPC) said the nations could compete if they played as neutral athletes with […]
EXCLUSIVE: Australia’s Stan and 9Network have commenced production on Bali 2002, based on the terrorist attacks on the nation’s tourist hotspots 20 years ago, with distributor Banijay Rights launching at yesterday’s London Screenings showcase. The show is the first to be co-commissioned between Stan and 9Network and features the likes of Rachel Griffiths (Total Control), Richard […]
Neighbours is to be cancelled after 37 years with producer Fremantle unable to secure an alternative funder for the show. The Australian soap is having its funding pulled by UK broadcasting partner Channel 5 in August and cannot rely solely on investment from Australia’s 10 Peach, which has seen declining ratings in recent years. “Despite an […]
The next phase of ITVs digital strategy is here as the network launches a streaming service called ITVX that will air shows months before they arrive on linear, while posting impressive revenue and profit growth and record advertising spend. Launching later this year or next with both an AVoD and SVoD option, ITVX will kick […]
EXCLUSIVE: Production on Netflix’s Nailed It! Halloween was permanently suspended a day after crew members went on strike to secure a contract with IATSE. The walkout happened midway through filming the eight-episode Halloween arc of Nailed It!‘s seventh season. The union had been picketing the show’s producers, Magical Elves, in the hope of bringing the […]
SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the Season 7 finale of the CW’s Legends Of Tomorrow. The Season 7 finale of Legends of Tomorrow on The CW saw the exit of a longtime cast member. Of course, the series has not yet been renewed for next season, so the departure may not carry the […]
SPOILER ALERTS: Fox and chef Gordon Ramsay have found their first Next Level Chef. Tonight’s winner takes home a $250,000 grand prize, a one-year mentorship from all three judges, and the coveted title.. The latest reality competition in the Ramsay empire aired on Fox. .Next Level Chef is set on a stage more than three stories […]
The only Oscar-nominated documentary without a distributor has finally found a home. HBO Documentary Films has acquired the Academy Award-nominated documentary short, When We Were Bullies, from longtime HBO collaborator Jay Rosenblatt (HBO’s Phantom Limb, Human Remains). The documentary debuts Wednesday, March 30 at 9 ET/PT on HBO, and will be available to stream on […]
Concert promoter Live Nation and streaming service Spotify are the two latest entertainment companies pulling out of further business with Russia. They join music acts, film studios, sports leagues and numerous other businesses in expressing their displeasure with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “Live Nation joins the world in strongly condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following story reveals details of Wednesday’s episode of ABC’s The Conners. The family and their neighbors in Lanford were forced to deal with tragedy in Wednesday night’s episode of ABC’s The Conners in a storyline that echoes the experiences of too many communities across the U.S. In the episode, titled “Triggered,” when a shooting […]
Editor’s note: The Deadline Watchlist is a feature spotlighting small-screen specials, events and can’t-miss episodes of ongoing series each week. 1. The Afterparty Season Finale: Through the first seven episodes of the Christopher Miller created and Phil Lord EP’d murder mystery, Tiffany Haddish’s Detective Danner has been trying to find out who killed the annoying […]
