CBS has released videos teasing what’s ahead from various new shows including Matlock, NCIS: Origins, and the new Big Bang Theory/Sheldon Universe prequel series, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage. Learn more about the shows below. MATLOCK (Thursday, 9:00 PM) Matlock—a reimagination of the classic TV series of the same name— stars Kathy Bates as the […]
CBS is bringing back Hollywood Squares. The network announced Thursday that the reboot of the classic game show will launch in January, kicking off the midseason broadcast schedule. Drew Barrymore is set to be the famed “center square” answering questions for the contestants. Hollywood Squares involves two contestants who play tic-tac-toe to win money and […]
CBS has ordered its first new series for the 2025-26 broadcast season. The network has given a green light to Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country, headlined by Morena Baccarin. The series order was announced Thursday during CBS’ presentation in Los Angeles. In Sheriff Country, Baccarin stars as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s […]
No second chances are coming for So Help Me Todd, CSI: Vegas and NCIS: Hawaii. But good news for CSI fans: there is another iteration in active development. While speaking to reporters Thursday about the fall season, CBS bosses George Cheeks and Amy Reisenbach acknowledged their “embarrassment of riches” when it came to new and […]
CBS today became the first broadcast network to present its fall schedule. And, in line with CBS’ new strategy for long-term development and planning, the network announced its schedule for the entire 2024-25 season. It is contingent on IATSE making a new deal with the studios to avoid a strike. At the unveiling of the […]
Tom Selleck may have warned CBS earlier this year that there are an “awful lot of people” who aren’t ready to say goodbye to Blue Bloods, but there are no plans to extend the police procedural beyond its 14th and final season. During a press conference Thursday to discuss the fall schedule, Entertainment President Amy […]
EXCLUSIVE: Paul Walter Hauser is having quite a week. After being tapped for the role of Captain Ed in the untitled Naked Gun reboot from Paramount Pictures, as we were also first to report, we now hear the actor has come aboard Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four. For now, Hauser’s role in the superhero flick […]
Deadline’s Most Valuable Blockbuster tournament is back. While studios during Covid wildly embraced the theatrical day-and-date model when cinemas were closed, they soon realized there’s nothing more profitable than a theatrical release and the downstreams that come with it. If anything, theatrical is the advertisement for a movie’s longevity in subsequent home entertainment windows. Entering the conversation […]
EXCLUSIVE: Following a competitive auction that saw several studios chasing the package, A24 has landed the action thriller Onslaught with Adam Wingard on board to direct. The film is reuniting writers Wingard and Simon Barrett and returning to Wingard’s roots where they made a name for themselves with films like You’re Next and The Guest.. […]
Rounding out the series regular cast of the Ryan Murphy ABC drama series Dr. Odyssey is Sean Teale (Skins, Reign). He joins previously announced stars Joshua Jackson, Don Johnson and Phillipa Soo. As with any Ryan Murphy series, no details about the premise are being revealed. As the title suggests, Dr. Odyssey is believed to be a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Having found success on so many fronts throughout her career, former UFC champion and WWE star Ronda Rousey has now found a new challenge to tackle and that is the role of screenwriter. Sources tell Deadline, Rousey has closed a deal to adapt the script for her own biopic at Netflix that would be […]
Louis Leterrier (Fast X) will direct and produce 11817, a sci-fi horror film scripted by Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying) that is being presented to buyers at Cannes by Rocket Science. The film watches as inexplicable forces trap a family of four inside their house indefinitely. As both modern luxuries and life or death […]
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Garcia is set for a key role opposite Billy Bob Thornton in the Paramount+ drama Landman from Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace. Garcia will play Galino, an extremely capable, powerful and practical man. Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern-day tale of fortune seeking in the world of oil rigs. Based on the 11-part podcast Boomtown, the […]
A+E Networks executive David Bank has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer. Bank, a former Wall Street analyst who previously was EVP, Chief Strategy & Corporate Development Officer at the company, is succeeding Art Vomvas. After stepping in over the past year as interim CFO, Vomvas is retiring after a nearly three-decade tenure on the A+E Networks’ […]
EXCLUSIVE: New Line’s horror thriller Weapons has rounded out its cast with the addition of Benedict Wong (3 Body Problem), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), and Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives). As previously announced, Josh Brolin, Julia Garner and Alden Ehrenreich will lead the cast. Pic’s plot and all roles are under wraps. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Josh Swindell, a former pro skater who is set to be the central subject of a forthcoming skating biopic from MindRiot Entertainment, has signed with The BKS Agency in London. The agency will handle Swindell’s literary representation and they are currently out to publishers with Swindell’s memoir, which is the basis of MindRiot’s biopic. […]
Saturday Night Live is closing out Season 49 with two three-peats. After Dua Lipa pulls double duty on May 4, Maya Rudolph will host the sketch comedy show for the third time on May 11. Vampire Weekend will make its fourth appearance as musical guest. On May 18, Jake Gyllenhaal will return to host the […]
The Robin Wright (House of Cards)-led The Girlfriend has been ordered to series at Prime Video with Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon), Laurie Davidson (Mary and George), and Waleed Zuaiter (Gangs of London) also set to star. The series, to be directed by Wright, is based on Michelle Frances’ novel of the same name. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Peele‘ s Monkeypaw Productions is getting back on the documentary horse and is using his movie Nope as inspiration. The Get Out filmmaker is producing a documentary series that dismantles the whitewashed mythology of the cowboy for Peacock. Produced through his Monkeypaw Productions label, Peele is producing the untitled series with Universal Television […]
Universal Pictures has tapped renowned British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (All of Us Strangers) to write and direct a Leonardo da Vinci film based on Walter Isaacson’s bestselling 2017 biography of the artist, Deadline can confirm. Based on thousands of pages from Da Vinci’s notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, the biography looks […]
Lifetime has set the premiere date and unveiled a trailer for The Life and Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, a two night documentary event that sheds new light on her life on the eve of the 30th anniversary of her tragic and untimely death. The two-part documentary will air June 1 and June 2 at […]
Jessica Casano-Antonellis, a former exec at Disney+, Hulu and Vimeo, is returning to the streaming sector as the head of communications for the new sports-centric service coming from ESPN, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. As SVP of Communications, Casano-Antonellis will head up all communications efforts for the joint venture, which does not yet have a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Bob Odenkirk action film Normal, which WME Independent launched at EFM, has pre-sold to distributors globally since launching at the EFM earlier this year. The territories and respective distributors include the UK (Sky), LATAM/Italy/Portugal/Spain (Vertice), Eastern Europe (M2 Films), France (Metropolitan), Germany (Leonine), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Greece (Spentzos), Turkey (BG Film), Middle East (Grand Entertainment […]
Two-time Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins is attached to star as baroque composer George Frideric Handel in a new feature titled The King of Covent Garden. Embankment Films has launched global pre-sales on the pic. Pitched by the filmmakers as “a powerfully majestic celebration of genius breaking all the rules to create an anthem inspiring […]
EXCLUSIVE: British comedian Dane Baptiste has been dropped by his agencies and “apologised profusely” via a statement after making an antisemitic death threat towards a female colleague, which has been reported to the Met Police. Baptiste is no longer represented by Insanity Group and DLT Entertainment-owned Gag Reflex, both of which had repped him up […]
