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Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in the Deadline 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. LinkedIn is usually used by professionals for networking with people in their field, posting updates when they get a new
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UPDATED with Night 2 winners: HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show was named Outstanding Variety Show, DC Young Fly of Celebrity Squares was named Outstanding Host and Issa Rae of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance on night 2 of the NAACP Image Awards. The winners in the mostly TV categories
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The prestigious 80-year-old Al-Ahram Studio in Cairo‘s Giza district has been destroyed in a fire early on Saturday morning that took six hours to extinguish. Countless Egyptian films and television series were produced there. The fire burned everything inside and spread to nearby buildings. The fire broke out hours after the filming for Al-Moalem, a
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In her Season 20 preview for Deadline, new Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Meg Marinis called it “back to basics,” and the season premiere, which she wrote, offered just that. In a return to Grey’s early years, the episode ended with Bailey retaking charge of the interns. The opener started with the surgical interns facing the music
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We’re getting the first look at André Holland as Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton in Apple’s upcoming limited series The Big Cigar (See photo above). The six-episode limited drama series is set to premiere globally May 17 with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday through June 14, on Apple TV+.
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Sen. Katie Britt may have been the butt of the joke on Saturday Night Live over the weekend but the freshman politician from Alabama found it “awesome” that Scarlett Johansson played her in the Cold Open. While talking with with Sen. Ted Cruz on his podcast Wednesday, Britt said she was “pretty pumped” at the
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EXCLUSIVE: Tovah Feldshuh, the multiple Emmy and Tony Award nominee who recently co-starred on Broadway with Lea Michele in the hit musical revival Funny Girl, has signed with Stewart Talent for representation. Feldshuh earned the first of four Tony nominations in 1976 for her performance in Yentl, with subsequent nominations coming in 1979 (Saravá), 1989
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Filmmakers and festival attendees are in Austin for the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival to celebrate the convergence of the tech, film and music industries across various programming formats and special events. The fest runs March 8-16. Now in its 31st year, fest-goers can expect red-carpet premieres from Film, TV, Documentary and Spotlight events
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EXCLUSIVE: Rob McElhenney has launched More Better Industries, a multi-faceted company which encompasses three dynamic entities: More Better Productions, More Better Advisory and More Better Ventures. He has appointed Jackie Cohn as the head of More Better Productions. She previously ran television at Red Hour where she developed and executive produced Severance for Apple TV+,
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ZDF Latest To ‘Race Across The World‘ A six-part series based on Studio Lambert’s Race Across the World is set to air on German pubcaster ZDF in spring 2025. Planning is underway for casting and filming is set for the fall, with All3Media’s German producer, Tower, attached to make the show. Kirstin Benthaus-Gebauer will be the
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Channel 4 has hired a Chief Financial Officer amidst its 250-staff layoff program. The network has brought in Lucy Thomas in the expanded CFO role. Deadline revealed that Finance Director Vince Russell was leaving at the end of last year after five years. Reporting to CEO Alex Mahon, Thomas will lead finance across the public
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EXCLUSIVE: NBC is developing Something Wicked, a multi-camera comedy starring June Diane Raphael and written and executive produced by Raphael and Dickinson creator Alena Smith. Something Wicked is described as a comedy with a Bewitched-type premise and an homage to TV sitcom classics. It examines the condition of modern adult womanhood and how even with
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EXCLUSIVE: So long for now to Jodie, an animated film-cum-Daria spinoff that was set to feature Tracee Ellis Ross voicing the main character. The long-gestating project first began as a series that would feature Daria and Jodie, and then was narrowed to just focus on the latter character. In 2020, Comedy Central picked up the adult animated show from
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Ofcom has said it has “significant concerns about GB News’ editorial control of its live output” after rapping the network for Laurence Fox‘s highly misogynistic rant on Dan Wootton‘s show. GB News, which is currently being investigated for around a dozen potential infringements of Ofcom’s code, was found to be in breach of the rules
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