Taurean Blacque, the Emmy-nominated actor best known for his role as the perennially behatted Detective Neal Washington on NBC’s influential 1980s hit police series Hill Street Blues, died today in Atlanta following a brief illness. He was 82. His death was announced to Deadline by his family. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery […]
Snap shares plunged after hours Thursday as rocky quarterly numbers spooked the street. Snapchat’s parent company said net losses ballooned to $422 million for the three months ending in June from $152 million last year. Platform policy changes implemented by Apple last year “have upended more than a decade of advertising industry standards” and macroeconomic […]
EXCLUSIVE: Two top supernatural film-to-series franchises are coming together as Buffy the Vampire Slayer alumna Sarah Michelle Gellar has been tapped to star in and executive produce Paramount+’s upcoming Teen Wolf offshoot series, Wolf Pack, from MTV Entertainment Studios. Gellar’s casting will be revealed today during Paramount+’s Teen Wolf: The Movie panel at the San […]
The Broadway musical Beetlejuice has canceled tonight’s performance due to cases of Covid within the company. “We apologize for the inconvenience this causes ticket holders, and appreciate your understanding,” the production posted on Instagram. “The safety of our audiences, cast and crew remains our top priority.” Performances at the Marquis Theatre are scheduled to resume […]
EXCLUSIVE: Happy Endings alum Adam Pally has joined the cast of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s untitled spy adventure Netflix series in a key recurring role. The Skydance TV series, from creator and showrunner Nick Santora, is about a father and daughter who, after learning that they’ve each secretly been working as CIA Operatives for years, realize that […]
After two years of virtual press conferences, the members of the Television Critics Association were no doubt looking forward to returning to in-person sessions at The Langham in Pasadena next week. But promises of a full-blown Press Tour are fading fast. All of Disney’s platforms — ABC, FX, Hulu, Disney+ and NatGeo — are pulling […]
Streaming made up more than one-third of total TV viewing in June, according to Nielsen’s latest monthly snapshot, The Gauge. Accounting for almost 34% of overall viewership, streaming upped its share by six percentage points over the same month in 2021. Cable TV, meanwhile, slumped by five percentage points year-over-year. Even though summer months traditionally […]
The court battle between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard looks to be heating up again. Close to two months after a Virginia jury handed the ex-Pirates of the Caribbean star a big win in his multi-million defamation trial against his ex-wife and Rum Diary co-star, Heard today officially informed the court that she plans to […]
New Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences CEO Bill Kramer will make his international debut at the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival, running from August 31 to September 10. The festival and Italy’s historic Cinecittà studios have extended a joint first-ever official invite to AMPAS under which Kramer will speak at a […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Thing About Harry star Niko Terho has been cast in the upcoming 19th season of ABC’s venerable medical drama Grey’s Anatomy. He is the second new series regular addition for next season, joining recently cast Alexis Floyd. Like Floyd, Terho will play a first-year surgical resident at Grey Sloan. Terho’s Lucas Adams is the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Quentin Plair (The Good Lord Bird) has joined Hulu’s Tiny Beautiful Things as a series regular. Plair will play Danny Kinkade, a creative spirit and musician; bright and level-headed. He’s frustratedly in love with his wife Clare (Kathryn Hahn) and at his wit’s end over her selfish and self-destructive antics. Pushed over the edge, he’s […]
Major producers including Banijay, Bad Wolf, Sid Gentle Films and Element Pictures have taken the “unusual step” of writing to hundreds of crew working on scripted productions urging them to sign up to the new Bectu/Pact TV Drama Agreement or risk “the whole of scripted TV being damaged.” In the letter circulated in the past […]
For countless gay men of a slightly earlier era, the International Male catalogue provided a portal to fashion… and fantasy. Handsome men with chiseled jaws and muscled bods filled the pages of IM, often clad in no more than a skimpy pair of underwear. Straight dudes could ogle the Victoria’s Secret catalogue bursting with “angels” […]
Kwame Amoaku, former director of the Chicago Film Office, is the new deputy commissioner for film at the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, where he’ll be principal advisor on production. A push by Mayor Eric Adams to accelerate the industry’s recovery, and surpass pre-pandemic levels, also includes creating a council of local industry insiders, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has rounded out its series regular cast for Obliterated, its hourlong action comedy series from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald as production gets underway. Terrence Terrell (B Positive), Alyson Gorske (Head of the Class), C. Thomas Howell (Southland), Eugene Kim (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Paola Lázaro (The Walking Dead) and […]
Apple TV+ is busily adding cast to its The Buccaneers-inspired drama series, with Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again‘s Josh Dylan the latest to join alongside Guy Remmers (Lessons), Matthew Broome (Scandaltown) and Barney Fishwick (Living). Deadline revealed Christina Hendricks will play Mrs. St. George in the series adaptation of Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel last week and the […]
The History Channel/A+E Networks has announced a multi-year partnership with the Roybal Film and Television Production Magnet Fund – a fund created by George Clooney, Grant Heslov and CAA’s Bryan Lourd – to support the Roybal Film and Television Production Magnet school in Los Angeles. Paul Buccieri, President and Chairman of A+E Networks Group, has […]
‘Clickbait’ Star Phoenix Raei & Hugo Weaving Set For Australian Mystery ‘The Rooster’ Phoenix Raei (Clickbait) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) have been set to star in The Rooster, a mystery-drama written and directed by actor Mark Leonard Winter. The Rooster follows small-town cop Dan (Raei). When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a […]
With the race to replace Boris Johnson as next UK Prime Minister now down to the final two, bosses at BBC New Broadcasting House and Channel 4 Horseferry Road will be examining former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss’s record on public broadcasting in minute detail. Both broadcasters took a battering from Johnson’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ is entering The Doll Factory. The UK wing of the streamer has ordered an adaptation of the Sunday Times bestselling novel, a dark thriller story of obsession centred around a doll painter and her twin sister. Marcella, Crime and Whistable Pearl indie Buccaneer Media is attached to produce the six-part thriller dramas, which will join the line-up of Paramount+ […]
The UK’s Pinewood studios, home to Disney, Marvel, Jurassic Park and James Bond films, has submitted an application for an £800M ($955M) scheme that would expand the studio by 1.4 million sq ft if accepted. The Pinewood South Studios scheme will deliver 20 purpose-built sound stages as part of an expanded Screen Hub, according to the planning […]
EXCLUSIVE: UK distribution and production company Blue Finch Films has released a first look image for Vancouver-based directorial duo Cody Kennedy and Tim Rutherford’s horror The Last Video Store as it wraps shooting in the Canadian port city of Hamilton. Described as a “love letter to the era of the video store”, the film revolves […]
The center of the sports universe on Wednesday night was the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, where the annual ESPY Awards honored the best moments of sports by the world’s top athletes. Golden State Warrior Steph Curry hosted the awards, also winning a few, including Best NBA player. A total of eight awards were given out during […]
Megan Rapinoe took a brief moment at tonight’s ESPYs during her acceptance speech for Best Play honors to acknowledge the plight of the WNBA’s Brittney Griner, currently being held in Russia on drug possession charges. What was intended as a nice gesture instead blew up the internet, as Rapinoe haters emerged to slag the sentiment […]
Jordan Peele has carved out an impressive niche for himself in horror films, thanks to the success of Get Out and Us, with momentum building for a similar surge on his new film, Nope. But fans ready to anoint him as the Greatest of All-Time (G.O.A.T.) have one person firmly disagreeing – Jordan Peele himself. […]
