Jean Smart To Star In End-Of-Life Limited Series In Works At Her SmartAngel...
EXCLUSIVE: Jean Smart (Hacks) is developing a limited series about the relationship between a grandmother and her grandson in the final months of her life, which the Emmy winner will star in and...
View ArticleHollywood Contraction: Actors Struggle To Find Jobs As TV Castings Dry Up
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...
View Article‘The Last Of Us’ Co-Creator Craig Mazin Extends Overall Deal With HBO & Max
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...
View ArticleAmazon Insists “No Changes” Coming To Freevee Despite Reports Of Potential...
Amazon is pushing back against recent industry chatter and a new press report indicating that it is planning to shut down Freevee. “There are no changes to Freevee,” a company spokesperson said in a...
View ArticleNetflix Hires Jeff Gaspin As VP Unscripted Series In Coup For Streamer
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...
View ArticleSean Perry’s 2500 Media Sets Executive Team
2500 Media, the Los Angeles-based production company founded by former WME non-scripted packaging agent and partner Sean Perry, has named its senior management team. Perry launched 2500 Media early...
View Article‘Virgin River’ Prequel About Mel’s Parents In Works At Netflix As Season 6...
EXCLUSIVE: It’s double dose of good news for Virgin River fans. Netflix is looking to expand the Virgin River world with a spinoff series, Deadline has learned. Meanwhile, Season 6 of the romantic...
View Article‘Suits: L.A.’: Josh McDermitt Joins Stephen Amell In NBC Pilot
EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead alum Josh McDermitt is set as a lead opposite Stephen Amell in NBC drama pilot Suits L.A., a new extension of the Suits universe from Aaron Korsh, creator and writer of the...
View ArticleVerve: The Culture Shift That Led To CEO Bill Weinstein’s Ouster
In 2010, Endeavor lit agents Bill Weinstein, Adam Levine and Bryan Besser left in the wake of the WMA merger to launch a new agency built on a different, client-first approach to representation and a...
View ArticleFox Orders Presentation For ‘The Kumars’ Revival & Script From ‘Workin’ Moms’...
EXCLUSIVE: The Kumars are plotting a return — this time on American television. Fox has ordered a presentation for multi-camera comedy Meet The Kumars, a followup to the award-winning 2001 BBC series...
View ArticleNicole Brydon Bloom, ‘This Is Us’ Alum Gerald McRaney Among 5 Cast In Dan...
EXCLUSIVE: Another This Is Us alum is joining series creator Dan Fogelman’s new Hulu drama. Gerald McRaney, who played the beloved Dr. K on the NBC family show, has been tapped for a recurring role on...
View Article‘Blue Mountain State’ Sequel Series With Alan Ritchson Being Shopped
Cult college football series Blue Mountain State is making a comeback. A sequel to the 2010 comedy recently hit the TV marketplace, with Reacher’s Alan Ritchson set to reprise his role as Kevin “Thad”...
View Article‘The Foundation’ Replaces Line Producer, Brings Skydance EP To Set Ahead Of...
Foundation, the Apple TV+ series from Skydance TV, is making more changes ahead of resuming production on its upcoming third season following a delay due to budgeting/physical production issues. As...
View Article‘The Last Of Us’ Star Pedro Pascal Gives Season 2 Update After SAG Awards...
Last weekend, Pedro Pascal won the fan vote to take the Male TV Star of the Year trophy at the People’s Choice Awards for his role as Joel in HBO’s The Last Of Us. Six days later, he won the vote of...
View ArticleShane Gillis Has Donald Trump Impersonation Face-Off With James Austin...
Shane Gillis is known for his Donald Trump impersonations on stage, and he brought the character to his hosting debut on Saturday Night Live. In a parody of a movie trailer for “White Men Can Trump...
View ArticleWiip Acquires Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ YA Novel ‘Little White Lies’ For TV...
EXCLUSIVE: Having successfully adapted The Summer I Turned Pretty books into the popular Prime Video YA series, Wiip is aiming to do the same with another YA title. The independent studio has acquired...
View ArticleA3 Alum Doug Fronk Joins Gersh As SVP & TV Lit Agent
EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has hired veteran TV lit agent Doug Fronk as SVP and an agent in its Television Literary department. Fronk spent the past three years at A3 as a Partner and Head of Television...
View ArticleEugene Levy Joins ‘Only Murders In The Building’ Season 4 As Recurring
Hulu’s Only Murders In The Building continues to assemble an all-star Season 4 cast, with Emmy winner Eugene Levy as the latest addition. In his first TV acting role since Schitt’s Creek, Levy is set...
View Article‘Harry Potter’ Series Closing In On Writer As Names Of The 3 Finalists Emerge
EXCLUSIVE: And then there were three. As Deadline reported exclusively earlier this month, the field of writers in the running to adapt JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books into a live-action series for Max...
View ArticleUniversal TV’s Erin Underhill On Studio Procedurals’ Strong Return, Renewal...
Absence does make the heart grow fonder as viewers have welcomed the return of the broadcast scripted series after a long delay due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Ratings have been strong all...
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