Cruel Summer is returning to Freeform as an anthology series. The second season will feature a whole new cast, a new mystery and the show’s third showrunner. Set in an idyllic waterfront town in the Pacific Northwest, the second chapter follows the rise and fall of an intense teenage friendship. Approaching the story from three […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of Today with Hoda & Jenna, has hired seasoned development executive Ben Spector as President of Film and Television as part of her first-look deal with Universal Studio Group, which was announced in February. Spector is coming off a lengthy tenure as President of TV & Film at Eva Longoria’s […]
Snapchat parent Snap said its daily active users jumped 18% last quarter to 332 million, beating Wall Street targets but revenue and fell a bit short. The Santa Monica-based company like its rivals faces ad revenue headwinds from Apple privacy policy changes, macro and supply chain issues and labor costs. Revenue jumped 38% $1.06 billion. […]
EXCLUSIVE: The upcoming pre-Broadway world premiere engagement of A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical in Boston has cast Tony Award nominees Mark Jacoby and Robyn Hurder, and Linda Powell to its cast, producers said today. Jacoby will play the musical icon as he is now, while the previously announced Will Swenson will portray Diamond […]
Ghosts has become a rarity in broadcast television – a new comedy hit. The series, which is based on a BBC series, stars Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar as Samantha and Jay, a young couple who move into a very old house inhabited by lively spirits. The quirky comedy, which is a departure from the […]
CNN+, the news network’s expensive venture into subscription streaming, will shut down at the end of the month. The heavily promoted service launched on March 29, but almost immediately there were reports of lower-than-expected subscription numbers and plans for cutbacks under new CNN parent Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN’s Brian Stelter reported on the planned closure […]
AMC has handed a series order to its Bob Odenkirk-fronted adaptation of Straight Man. The cable network, and its sibling streamer AMC+, is set to launch the series, which is based on Richard Russo’s eponymous novel, next year. It comes a couple of days after the launch of the sixth and final season of Odenkirk’s […]
The 2022 Tribeca Festival announced its lineup of world premieres of new and returning television including ESPN’s The Captain, about iconic New York Yankee Derek Jeter and Amazon Prime Video’s A League of Their Own, inspired by the 1992 film, with Abbi Jacobson. The fest, which unspools June 8-19, announced its film slate earlier this week. The nine series premieres and […]
Aww, a son after his mom’s heart. Sterling K. Brown posted a heartfelt message on Instagram that not only served as an excellent promo for the last few episodes of This is Us, but also was a wake-up call to Emmy voters. It’s time, Brown says, to give co-star Mandy Moore her due. Moore plays […]
EXCLUSIVE: CBS has set up a writers room for drama The Great Game, produced by CBS Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s studio-based Secret Hideout. It will be led by the project’s co-writers/executive producers John Hlavin (The Man Who Fell to Earth) and Matthew Newman (Chicago PD) with the goal of generating multiple scripts for […]
Johnny Depp’s own threatening words about Amber Heard and his substance-abuse issues came back to haunt the actor today in the $50 million defamation trial. As the one-time couple and Rum Diary co-stars battle over domestic-abuse claims by Heard against Depp, the defense team put the spotlight on a series of incendiary, profanity-filled texts from […]
EXCLUSIVE: Eric Fellner, Working Title co-chairman, and the creators of the hit Billy Elliot musical, have given their support to a non-replica production that will run at UK regional theatre, The Curve, Leicester, from July 7. The Curve’s artistic chief Nikolai Foster, who’s also directing the update with Lucy Hind choreographing, met in recent days with […]
EXCLUSIVE: Singapore-based Indian financier Vistas Media Capital has launched a North American division to be run by film industry vet Ben Waisbren. The division will look to originate and underwrite investments in entertainment and IP under the stewardship of North America President Waisbren who has been an executive producer on dozens of studio movies including […]
EXCLUSIVE: Tori Dunlap, host of the Financial Feminist podcast, is relaunching her audio series with a new ad sales partnership deal with AdLarge and new representation. Dunlap has signed with UTA, which brokered the ad deal. The agency will help Dunlap expand her business across speaking engagements, live touring, brand partnerships and more. It comes […]
Luther star Idris Elba will turn hostage negotiator in a tense thriller drama series for Apple TV+. The seven-part Hijack is the first fruit of Elba and his Green Door Pictures’ first-look deal with Apple TV+ struck in July 2020. The multihyphenate will star as Sam Nelson, an accomplished business negotiator forced to use his guile […]
Does it ever feel like those of us in and around Hollywood are at war with the world? We’re certainly fighting with Florida, over gender education—you heard all about it from the Oscar hosts, on Disney-owned ABC. And we’re battling Texas, over abortion. Reese Witherspoon and another hundred stars planted the flag in that one. […]
PBS Boards Adrian Dunbar Detective Drama ‘Ridley’ For North American Distribution PBS Distribution has taken North American rights to upcoming ITV detective drama Ridley, which stars Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar, following a deal with All3Media International. Currently filming in northern England, the show follows retired police officer Ridley who resumes his partnership with former […]
The UK’s TV and film studio boom has stepped up yet another notch with the launch of a 1.3M sqft site in Central Bedfordshire. Home Of Production (HOP) Studios is aiming to start building later this year following a public consultation, and will begin taking bookings from 2024, with owners Quartermaster and VERB planning other […]
NeNe Leakes, a former star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta reality show, has filed a lawsuit claiming its production companies fostered a hostile and racist work environment. Leakes’ lawsuit was filed Wednesday in an Atlanta federal court and reported by the Associated Press. The complaint alleges Leakes complained for years about racist remarks from fellow […]
Hollis Resnik, a Chicago theater legend who made her mark in productions of Follies, Les Miserables, Cabaret and Sunset Boulevard, died Sunday night from heart failure. She was 66. Her death was announced by Rev. Jim Heneghan, a family friend and spokesperson. “She was, for decades, a reigning diva of the Chicago theater,” wrote Tribune […]
SPOILER ALERT: The following story reveals important plot points from the Season 4 finale of FX’s Snowfall. The walls came crumbling down in the Season 5 finale of FX’s Snowfall, setting up an epic sixth and final season. Amid the chaos that bubbled across 10 episodes, Franklin Saint (Damson Idris) is finally declaring war against […]
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Holdings, which made a high-profile purchase of Netflix shares in January after a dip in the stock price, said it sold the stake today, having “lost confidence in our ability to predict the company’s future prospects with a sufficient degree of certainty.” Pershing’s portfolio “requires a high degree of of predictability […]
EXCLUSIVE: After halting production for the past three days, Deadline has learned that Searchlight Pictures has suspended production on their adaptation of Being Mortal, the directing debut of Aziz Ansari starring Ansari, Bill Murray and Seth Rogen. Cast and crew are receiving a letter right now informing them of the decision to suspend production and Insiders say […]
Ralph Kiser, a farmer from Lebanon, Virginia who competed against two of the biggest villains in the history of the CBS franchise has died, according to multiple reports. He was 56. Kiser tried out for the show several times before landing a spot on Season 22 in 2010. Dubbed Survivor: Redemption Island, the cycle featured […]
Sony’s animated sequel to the Oscar winning movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is moving from Oct. 7 this year to June 2, 2023. The news is breaking just before the studio’s presentation at CinemaCon next week. Meanwhile, the pic’s sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Part II, is dated for March 29, 2024. The […]
