BBC drama boss Lindsay Salt has candidly floated the notion that the industry has moved from “peak TV to peak caution,” as she details an ambition to “help reshape the drama landscape at a critical time.” Addressing producers and press for the first time since taking on the nation’s biggest drama commissioning job, Salt reflected […]
The BBC has unveiled its biggest drama slate in years featuring a TV version of James Graham play Dear England starring Joseph Fiennes from The Crown producer Left Bank, Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood’s debut writing project and a Rebecca Hall-starrer from Poor Things maker Element. Unveiled at a glitz London do for press […]
EXCLUSIVE: Days after CEO Bill Weinstein separated ties with Verve, lit agents Devon Schiff, Matthew Doyle and Jake Dillman are also leaving the agency, sources tell Deadline. While not confirmed, sources believe the three agents will be joining Weinstein at a new shop he is planning to open up. No details have been disclosed about […]
EXCLUSIVE: Even after landing one of the highly-coveted roles in Marvel’s new Fantastic Four movie, Joseph Quinn isn’t done setting up a very robust film slate as sources tell Deadline he is in talks to join A24’s new untitled war pic that Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland are co-directing. Charles Melton is also on board […]
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Barbie, a cultural phenomenon that became 2023’s highest-grossing film at $1.45 billion worldwide. It’s also got eight Oscar nominations, including for Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach’s screenplay, which AMPAS put in the Adapted category despite other bodies — including the Writers Guild — […]
Kelly Rowland is on a press tour promoting her Netflix film Mea Culpa and was asked about Beyoncé’s new country album and the possibility of a Destiny’s Child reunion. Rowland and her Mea Culpa co-star Trevante Rhodes stopped by radio station V-103 Atlanta for an interview on The Big Tigger Morning Show with Jazzy McBee […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has found its new unscripted chief. The streamer has hired Jeff Gaspin as VP Unscripted Series after a search for a high-profile figure to lead its burgeoning reality business. It comes after Deadline revealed that Jenn Levy left the company last month and Brandon Riegg, who is VP Nonfiction Series, to whom Gaspin […]
The FBI franchise helped CBS hold on to its linear ratings crown for the second consecutive week. FBI, FBI: International and FBI: Most Wanted helped CBS average 5.68M viewers across primetime on Tuesday night, retaining 92% of its season premiere viewership from last week and helping the network win every half-hour on the night. The […]
The strike-delayed nominations for the 2024 Writers Guild Awards are out. Check out the list below. In a flipping of the script, the WGA Awards will be held on April 14 – more than a month after the Academy Awards. Here are the nominees for the 2024 Writers Guild Awards: SCREENPLAY NOMINEES ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Air, Written by Alex Convery; […]
EXCLUSIVE: Winter State Entertainment and AimForKnowledge are teaming up to produce a documentary based around What to Say When You Talk to Your Self, the bestselling self-help book from Shad Helmstetter, Ph.D. Published in over 74 countries worldwide, with millions of copies sold since 1986, Helmstetter’s book introduced the concept of self-talk, and how our […]
EXCLUSIVE: Craig Mazin, co-creator, writer, director and executive producer of HBO’s breakout new drama series The Last Of Us, has re-upped his exclusive television deal with the network and sibling streamer Max for an additional four years. No one is commenting but I hear the premium pact is in the eight figures. That should not […]
Director Ethan Coen going solo, and collaborating on the script this time without brother Joel, but his wife Tricia Cooke instead, delivers a disposable but not entirely unentertaining lesbian-centered crime caper comedy, Drive-Away Dolls that with its raunchy sex and vivid violence is more an affectionate tribute to hard R drive-in B movies that might […]
EXCLUSIVE: Quiver Distribution has acquired North American rights to A Bit of Light, the second feature helmed by Stephen Moyer, on the heels of 2018 family drama The Parting Glass. Starring Moyer’s wife and True Blood co-star Anna Paquin, as well as Ray Winstone (The Departed), the film is an adaptation by Rebecca Callard of […]
In some ways, Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s biggest non-superhero movie, was a product of the pandemic. Until the winter of 2020, the director had been loyal to Warner Bros., and their logo was to be found on every film that Nolan either wrote, directed or produced. While he was never formally tethered to that studio, Nolan […]
If Greg Davies was running TV, new comedy shows would get a two-season order. The comedian and writer, who fronts fronts the hit series Taskmaster in the UK and writes and stars in sitcom The Cleaner for the BBC, was asked what he would change about the business during a the closing session of the […]
Jimmy Kimmel hints that he might be retiring from late-night TV as soon as his contract is over at ABC. In a new interview, the comedian opened up about feeling like his time to leave Jimmy Kimmel Live! is coming up. “I think this is my final contract,” Kimmel told the Los Angeles Times. “I […]
EXCLUSIVE: As production is about to begin on 3000 pictures adaptation of Klara and the Sun directed by Oscar winner Taika Waititi, Natasha Lyonne and Simon Baker have rounded out the cast, led by Jenna Ortega playing the titular character. Academy Award nominated actress Amy Adams, Mia Tharia and Aran Murphy also star in the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jillian Bell (Brittany Runs a Marathon), Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth), Damon Wayans Jr. (Players) and Brianne Howey (Ginny & Georgia) have signed on to star alongside Amy Schumer in Kinda Pregnant, the comedy that Tyler Spindel (The Out-Laws) has been set to direct for Netflix and Happy Madison. Written by Julie […]
EXCLUSIVE: Management firm Range Media Partners has continued to expand with the addition of Becky Astphan, Allegra Salke-Hussey, Melissa Mondello, and Colleen Bailey to its staff. Astphan will serve as a Manager in Comedy, with Bailey to serve as an Account Executive in Brand Marketing, adding expertise in product placement and marketing promotions. Salke-Hussey and […]
Echo and Reservation Dogs standout Devery Jacobs will be honored at this year’s ATX TV Festival with the 2024 Breakthrough Award. The award is given to a creative “whose voice has made a distinct impact on the current moment in TV and whose work exemplifies the emotional, entertaining, and artistic possibilities of the medium”, the […]
Apple is pushing further into sports, introducing Apple Sports, a free app for iPhone with real-time scores and stats, and the ability to tap through for live games on Apple TV. It’s available to download in the App Store in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada starting today. “We created Apple Sports to give sports […]
Editor’s Note: Deadline is launching a new series, Hollywood Contraction, which examines the toll the job losses caused by the ongoing industrywide cost-cutting has had on different sections of the entertainment community, starting with actors. Most of the college-bound aspiring actors from the high school class of 2020 received their acceptance letters in the first […]
Memoirs of Hadrian, a seminal novel about the life and death of a Roman emperor, is becoming a TV series. The 1951 novel, which explores the life of Hadrian from his childhood through his ascent to leading the Roman Empire. It will be written and scripted for TV by Strega Prize winner Francesco Piccolo, who […]
Moonbug Entertainment, the CoComelon producer owned by Candle Media, has appointed Courtney Holt as the company’s first Global Head of Music and Strategic Audio Initiatives. Holt will oversee Moonbug’s music label via alliances with partners and strengthened ties with established and emerging artists. He will also be responsible for the international expansion of the audio […]
Colossal Biosciences, the company bringing wooly mammoths and other extinct species back to life, and production partner Teton Ridge Entertainment are teaming with acclaimed filmmaker James Reed on a multiyear docuseries. Reed – the Oscar-winning director of My Octopus Teacher – and producing partner Matt Houghton will executive produce the de-extinction series through Reed’s Underdog […]
