In her television series acting debut, supermodel Bella Hadid has joined the upcoming third season of Hulu comedy Ramy in a recurring role. Details of her character and storyline are being kept under wraps for now. Stay tuned. The Peabody Award-winning Ramy, starring Ramy Youssef, hails from The Carmichael Show creators Jerrod Carmichael and Ari […]
The entire NCIS franchise will be returning for the 2022-2023 broadcast season. CBS has renewed flagship NCIS for a milestone 20th season, which would tie Gunsmoke as the third-longest-running U.S. primetime drama series only behind Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order. It also has picked up its top freshman drama NCIS: Hawai’i for […]
Film Independent today announced that the seventh triennial Sloan Film Summit will take place from April 8-10 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Returning after a pandemic-imposed break, the 2022 Summit will celebrate the nationwide Sloan Film Program, bringing together over 150 writers, directors and producers, as well as working scientists and […]
NBC is making its summer reality plans. The network today set premiere dates for a quartet of unscripted series: America’s Got Talent, American Ninja Warrior, the NBC return of Who Do You Think You Are? after a decade and the new competition show Dancing with Myself. Season 17 of summer juggernaut America’s Got Talent will […]
EXCLUSIVE: Vivian Bang, the co-writer and star of the Sundance Film Festival debut White Rabbit, has boarded the New Line ensemble comedy The Parenting for HBO Max. She joins Brian Cox, Edie Falco, Lisa Kudrow, Dean Norris, Nik Dodani, Brandon Flynn and Parker Posey in the Craig Johnson directed, Kent Sublette scripted movie. In the pic, a young couple, Rohan […]
The CW continues to expand its scripted acquisition slate with the addition of Canadian drama series Family Law, a one-hour legal drama, from Entertainment One. A premiere date is TBD. Created, written and executive produced Susin Nielsen, Family Law, stars Jewel Staite (Firefly) and Emmy and Tony nominated Victor Garber (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow), along […]
Premature filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green is set to helm Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), Participant and MACRO’s feature movie ’68 inspired by the true story of Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos. The track athletes from San Jose State rose to become Olympic medalists and activists at the 1968 Games in Mexico City. That’s where they both […]
Sony Pictures Classics announced today that its golf film The Phantom of the Open, starring Academy Award winner Mark Rylance, Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins and BAFTA Award nominee Rhys Ifans, will open in New York and Los Angeles on June 3, with a wider release in additional markets set for the following weeks. The […]
EXCLUSIVE: Time Studios has entered a shopping agreement with Niki Russ Federman and Josh Russ Tupper, fourth-generation members of the Russ family who now own its iconic New York culinary brand Russ & Daughters, to develop a scripted series examining its history and the family behind it. The project marks Time Studios’ first under its […]
EXCLUSIVE: After a turn on HBO’s In Treatment, and starring opposite Dwayne Johnson in Warner Bros/DC’s Black Adam, Quintessa Swindell is ascending to the lead role in Spyglass Media Group’s rock climbing thriller Deadpoint, Deadline can tell you first. The story follows a young woman who sets out to complete the treacherous mountain climb that claimed […]
EXCLUSIVE: Social media phenom Noah Beck is set to make his feature acting debut in The QB Bad Boy and Me, an upcoming romantic comedy produced by Creator+ and Wattpad Webtoon Studios. The film is based Tay Marley’s Wattpad novel of the same name, which has registered over 30 million reads on the digital platform, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Fox (Mank), Perri Camper (American Soul), Nefetari Spencer (South Side), Tiffany Yvonne Cox (Good Trouble) and Shannon Kane (Terror Lake Drive) are set for key recurring roles opposite Emayatzy Corinealdi in Disney’s Onyx Collective series Reasonable Doubt to stream on Hulu. The legal drama hails from writer/executive producer Raamla Mohamed (Scandal); executive producer […]
Netflix is partnering with sporting events organizer A.S.O. on a documentary series about the 2022 Tour de France cycling race. With the participation of France Télévisions and produced by Quadbox, the series will follow the journey of eight teams taking part in the most world’s most challenging bike race. The eight episode documentary will hone […]
EXCLUSIVE: Iraqi American actor and model Alexander Uloom has signed with LA-based Hyperion Talent Agency, LA and Middle East production and management company House of M, and U.S. law firm Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson and Christopher. Uloom, who is set to star in upcoming MBC Iraq series Broken Diamond (Almas Maksur), broke out in the Middle East […]
Blue Finch Barbarians Sales UK sales and distribution outfit Blue Finch Films has struck some key territory deals on Barbarians, the directing debut of British filmmaker Charles Dorfman, who also penned the script. The film has sold to the Middle East (Front Row), Scandinavia (NonStop Entertainment) and will join the Sky Original film line-up on […]
SPOILER ALERT! Do not read unless you’ve watched the season finale of Bel-Air on Peacock. It took a few seasons before fans met Will Smith’s dad Lou in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air (played by Ben Vareen). But Peacock’s Bel-Air — like it’s already demonstrated in its first 10 episodes — is nothing like the […]
Nordic Entertainment (NENT) Group is to be paid around $64M in damages from TV2 Danmark over an ad rebate dispute, settling a case that has been dragging for more than 15 years. The settlement of 600M Swedish Krona, which Deadline has converted into dollars using a currency converter, is higher than NENT’s annual operating income […]
Minnie Driver has taken to social media to call out the Academy for its lack of action after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday. Writing on Twitter, Driver said that she and other Academy member had received a notice stating the org was investigating the incident further. Yesterday, the awards body […]
EXCLUSIVE: Indonesian media company SinemArt has set Indian writer and director Anubhav Chopra as the lead scribe on its upcoming web series Dirty Laundry. A room staffed with local Indonesian writers is now being assembled for the project, which is a crime/action drama. Plot details are being kept under-wraps. Chopra’s credits include being the co-creator […]
The UK TV industry has attracted stinging criticism from special interest groups and trade bodies after only one of 12 nominated Directors at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards was female. The We Are Doc Women collective, which is currently calling for broadcasters to bring in a 50% gender quota for directors on factual shows, said […]
Mip TV is just around the corner and, as ever, the content will be king. Deadline takes you through 12 of the best formats and factual shows set to light up the Croisette as the market returns in-person for the first time in three years. Read on for the best-in-class non-scripted projects heading to France […]
Sundance Now has dropped the first trailer for Ten Percent, the UK remake of hit French comedy Call My Agent! in what looks to be a fairly faithful and quite fun adaptation. Sundance Now and AMC+ will premiere the first two episodes on April 29 in the U.S., with the rest of the season following […]
Oscar-winning producer Joseph Patel has shared his experience from Sunday night, accepting the award for Best Documentary Feature in the immediate aftermath of Will Smith slapping presenter Chris Rock across the face. In a long Twitter thread, the Summer Of Soul (Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised…) producer called Smith’s actions “selfish,” but […]
While Will Smith issued a public written apology to Chris Rock on Instagram following his on-stage attack at the Oscars, it appears that he has not done it in person yet and the two have not spoken since the incident. “I haven’t talked to anyone despite what you may have heard,” Rock said during the […]
Despite losing 2-1 to Costa Rica, the US will be in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. The draw for who they play will take place on Friday at noon ET on FS1 and Telemundo. The 32 teams that have qualified will be split into four brackets as determined by their FIFA World Rankings released […]
