EXCLUSIVE: Days of our Lives is saying goodbye to Ron Carlivati. The head writer for the last seven years has left the Peacock sudser and is being replaced by Paula Cwikly and Jeanne Marie Ford. The changes are effective immediately. Episodes written by Carlivati will air through April of 2025 due to the show’s unique tape-to-air […]
CBS’ Young Sheldon spinoff Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage has cast Jessie Prez and Dougie Baldwin in series regular roles. The series follows Georgie (Montana Jordan) and Mandy (Emily Osment) as they raise their young family in Texas while navigating the challenges of adulthood, parenting and marriage. Prez is Ruben, a long-time employee at McAllister’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: Conversations over the tightening of protocols on ABC’s Dancing With the Stars are taking place in the wake of this week’s Strictly Come Dancing scandal, Deadline has been told. A spokesman for BBC Studios said “new measures being introduced in the UK” will contribute to an “ongoing dialogue” around international versions of the show, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Married actors Harry Hadden-Paton and Rebecca Night on Friday morning announced the launch of Symphony Films, a new production company that they’ve co-founded. Based out of London, the company will be active across a variety of genres, in both film television, pursuing projects that embody the values of diversity, inclusion, sustainability and equality. Symphony […]
In January 2023, Deadline reported that Snowpiercer‘s completed fourth and final season would not run on TNT as part of content tax write-offs by the network’s parent Warner Bros. Discovery and that producer Tomorrow Studios was shopping the new season, along with potential prequel and sequel. Almost a year and a half later, Season 4 […]
Mayor Adams and top New York City officials said emergency services, hospitals, traffic lights, water systems, public transportation and other key functions are running after a massive overnight cyber disaster triggered inadvertently by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike. An update the firm sent to clients around the world was corrupted, freezing many systems and computers running Microsoft […]
NBCUniversal has wrapped its upfront sales process, reporting “modest growth across its portfolio” driven by sports, Peacock and digital platforms. The Comcast-owned media giant doesn’t break out specific figures for ad revenue, but the upfront marketplace overall is worth about $17.5 billion, according to a recent estimate by eMarketer. Ad dollars are continuing to migrate […]
Phillip Noyce’s 2002 drama Rabbit-Proof Fence will have a 4K remastered cut premiere at the Smith Rafael Film Center on Saturday, July 27 at 7PM. Rabbit-Proof Fence tells the true story of three mixed-race Aboriginal girls—Molly Craig, her sister Daisy Kadibill, and their cousin Gracie Fields—who, after being forcibly removed from their mothers in 1931, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Li Jun Li (Wu Assassins) is set as a series regular opposite Nicolas Cage in Spider-Noir, the upcoming MGM+ and Prime Video live-action series based on the Marvel comic Spider-Man Noir. From executive producers/co-showrunners Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot and Sony Pictures Television, Spider-Noir tells the story of an aging and down-on-his-luck private investigator […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hoof Dreams, a documentary that delves into the world of equestrian Eventing and the quest for gender equality in Olympic sports, is getting a theatrical release. The doc, which is directed by Jessie Deeter, who produced HBO’s Elizabeth Holmes docuseries The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley and is working on a film […]
JULY 19 QUESTION 1: What is the first Basic Cable series to win the Emmy for Outstanding Drama? ANSWER: Mad Men which premiered on AMC on this day, July 19, 2007. The series, which ran for 7 seasons, went on to win the Drama Series Emmy for each of its first four seasons and is […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Fahey (Lost), William Forsythe (Raising Arizona) and Nicky Whelan (Halloween 2) are among cast joining Mark Pellegrino in upcoming dramedy crime series A Motel. Also joining are Thomas Ian Nicholas (American Pie), Niko Foster (MR-9: Do or Die), Nolan River (Old), Charlene Amoia (How I Met Your Mother), Luke Edwards (True Detective), Kelly Reiter (Deadlock) […]
Evan Gershkovich, The Wall Street Journal reporter arrested last year in Russia, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison on what the U.S. says are trumped up espionage charges. The guilty verdict and sentencing were announced this morning. According to the Journal, Gershkovich was sentenced to a high security penal colony. “This disgraceful, sham […]
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography is about to begin in Vancouver, Canada, on Timeless Pictures and Hallmark’s fifth installment of the Curious Caterer Mysteries series. Curious Caterer: Drumstick Drama will be in production for three weeks starting July 28 with returning cast including Nikki Deloach (Love And Other Drugs) as Goldy Berry, Andrew Walker (Steel Toes) as […]
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a trailer for The Divided Island, a doc about the ongoing ‘Cyprus problem’ that is set for a UK cinema release on November 1. Directed by Turkish Cypriot Cey Sesiguzel, and co-produced by Greek Cypriot Andreas Tokkallos, the film aims to bring an unbiased and shared understanding of a complex issue that divides their […]
Sharon Stone appeared at the Taormina Film Festival today, during a press conference held at the luxe San Domenico Palace (where season 2 of The White Lotus was partially filmed). Stone is in the hilltop Sicilian town to accept the Golden Cariddi for Lifetime Achievement later this evening. In a wide-ranging discussion, the Oscar nominee […]
EXCLUSIVE: Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty star Star Delante Desouza has signed with UK agency Chalcot Square Arts and Media Management for talent representation. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Desouza began his career after being mentored and coached by the late actor Robert F. Chew (The Wire). He went on to study at the […]
EXCLUSIVE: New Zealand psychedelic comedy movie The Paragon has landed North American distribution. Music Box Films and Doppelgänger Releasing have acquired the pic, which stars Benedict Wall, Florence Noble, and Jonny Brugh (Thor: Love and Thunder, What We Do in the Shadows). From writer-director Michael Duignan, the quirky saga follows Dutch, an angry former tennis […]
Germany’s Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg Names New Boss Influential German funding body Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is getting a new Managing Director. Sarah Duve-Scmid will succeed Kirsten Niehuus in the middle of next year. Duve-Scmid was previously a deputy board member and head of funding at the Leiterin der Förderabteilung bei der Filmförderanstalt (Federal Funding Agency). She was also […]
Hello again, it’s Insider time. Jesse Whittock here with the latest news and views from the international TV and film worlds. Let’s begin. Sign up here. Emmys: Noms & Numbers Om, nom nom: It was another excellent Emmys nomination day for acting and producing talent outside of the U.S. on Wednesday. Shōgun, via an American production, topped […]
EXCLUSIVE: British producer OR Media, which has made shows for the Saudi state broadcaster and BBC, along with Tom Hollander-starring docu-feature Path of Blood, has laid off 14% of its workforce and failed to pay freelancers to the tune of what sources estimate could be hundreds of thousands of pounds. Deadline has spoken with half […]
EXCLUSIVE: The producers of a buzzy Edinburgh Festival play about J.K. Rowling’s trans views are preparing for protests ahead of the show opening next month. Penned by Joshua Kaplan, a Hollywood writer whose credits include HBO’s Tokyo Vice, TERF imagines a confrontation between Rowling and the stars of Harry Potter over her views on transgender […]
Studiocanal is moving into the Big Apple. The Paris-based production-distribution house will launch an office New York City, with Anne Chérel promoted to Chief Commercial Officer to oversee the base. Studiocanal, which is in throws of making Paddington in Peru, already has an office in LA and a stake in Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman’s […]
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has found the actor set to play President Garfield’s daughter in upcoming biographical series Death By Lightning produced by Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. British up-and-comer Laura Marcus (The Serpent Queen) will portray Mollie Garfield opposite Michael Shannon, who leads as the 20th POTUS. The series from Mike Makowsky […]
Jim Carter, who famously played Carson the master butler on Downton Abbey, clearly was taken by the leading artist giving a terrifically moving performance as Dolly Gallagher Levi upon the London Palladium stage. “That’s my wife,” he declared during the interval. Indeed it was. Imelda Staunton was creating a gold-standard portrait of the meddlesome fixer at the heart […]
