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EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights has hired Passion Distribution’s Claire Douglas as part of a rejig of its marketing and comms team that sees Andrew Dickens taking over the division. Douglas, who had led UK distributor Passion’s PR and marketing efforts for nearly nearly a decade, joins Banijay Entertainment‘s sales division as Communications Manager. She exited Passion

A Nurse Jackie sequel series, originally set at Showtime, is now in development at Amazon MGM Studios, with Edie Falco set to star, Deadline has confirmed. As we previously reported in 2023, the potential sequel series from Lionsgate Television, producer of the original series, was in development at Showtime. Showtime‘s linear network, which launched more

CBS’ Super Bowl LVIII and Disney+/ESPN+ animated Toy Story Funday Football were the top scorers with three wins each at the 45th annual Sports Emmy Awards, which were handed out tonight at Frederick P. Rose Hall in Manhattan.  Four other programs tied with two statuettes apiece at the ceremony hosted by The Kid Mero: NFL Networks’ perennial

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Season 3, Part 1 of Netflix‘s Bridgerton. Bridgerton fans were more than ready to see Penelope and Colin’s love story unfold in Season 3 of the Netflix series, but little did they know that Polin wouldn’t be the only courtship in the Bridgerton household this season. Audiences were

Netflix and Working Title have found their Harry Hole. German-Norwegian actor Tobias Santelmann will play the lead in the Jo Nesbø adaptation, which will be officially titled Jo Nesbo’s Detective Hole. Santelmann is joined by Joel Kinnaman (Altered Carbon, The Suicide Squad) playing Tom Waaler and Pia Tjelta (Made in Oslo, State of Happiness) as Rakel Fauke. The casting has been

“I was a bad student of classical piano because I would start changing stuff, so I think in that sense I was always kind of ‘composing’ when I was a horrible student,” jokes composer Takeshi Furukawa. “For classical music, you have to be faithful to the composer’s intent… and I was not that.”  Based on

John Oliver trolled Donald Trump on Last Week Tonight after the former POTUS said he had created a new nickname for corn. The HBO late-night show host dedicated Sunday’s episode to corn and noted the way politicians pander to the corn farmers. “There is a long history of American politicians being weird around corn,” Oliver

Jerry Seinfeld‘s Saturday night comedy show in Norfolk, Virginia was interrupted several times by at least one Pro-Palestinian protester. The incident was the second protest of a Seinfeld event this month. Earlier, protesters walked out of a commencement speech Seinfeld gave at the graduation ceremony for Duke University. Both protests were rooted in Seinfeld’s staunch

There are a plenty of longtime Saturday Night cast members, yet there were no big exits — or hints of departures — on tonight’s Season 49 finale of the venerable NBC late-night program. No SNL veterans were tearing up at the end of their sketches like Kate McKinnon did in the 2022 finale, it was

Kim Zimmer portrayed Reva Shayne on the CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light from 1983 to 1990, returning in 1995 until the show’s final episode on Sept. 8, 2009. In 2006, a storyline had Shayne diagnosed with breast cancer. Now, Zimmer faces the same crisis in real life. “I was diagnosed with breast cancer on

Forget the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Bill Maher spent the first segment of Friday’s Real Time asking about a cultural battle – the feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar. To explain the war of words, Maher brought in Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Vanderbilt University and author of the book Unequal:

Now that the upfronts are over, it’s time to hand out much-deserved accolades to those who made this year’s presentations truly unforgettable. Just remember, everyone’s a winner here. But these folks made the week extra special in New York. Most Ominous Overture: Kelly Clarkson kicking off a week of upfronts that used to be the

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ Hotstar isn’t done with the Criminal Justice franchise just yet — in fact, it might only just be getting started. We can reveal the streamer has ordered a fourth season of the Hindi-language series, which is from Applause Entertainment and was originally based on the 2008 BBC series of the same name. Peter

EXCLUSIVE: Wedding bells will be ringing in the Season 5 finale of CBS‘ FBI: Most Wanted and everyone is invited. Deadline has your first-look at the festivities airing on May 21 and teasers from series star Edwin Hodge and showrunner David Hudgins below. In the episode titled “Powderfinger,” written by Hudgins and Wendy West, The

There won’t be a dry eye in the station, and not because of spray from a hose. Chicago Fire original cast member Eamonn Walker is stepping away from his series regular duties on the hit NBC series after 12 seasons portraying boss Wallace Boden. His finale is next Wednesday, and the promo for his farewell promises a lot of emotion.

EXCLUSIVE: Grey Sloan is losing a surgical intern. Midori Francis, who has played Mika Yasuda on Grey’s Anatomy for the last two seasons, is departing the medical drama as a series regular, Deadline has learned. According to sources, Francis is in negotiations to return next season to wrap up the story of her character. I

Harry Shearer voices many characters on The Simpsons and was recently replaced as the voice of Dr. Hibbert. In 2020, producers decided to have no longer white actors voice characters of color, a decision which also made Hank Azaria retire from voicing Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. Shearer recently reflected on the change and who inspired Dr. Hibbert’s

TelevisaUnivision said flagship streaming service Vix now has 50 million monthly active users, up 70% over this time last year. Addressing advertisers at its streamlined, 30-minute upfronts presentation, the company also revealed that the previously announced ad-supported tier of Vix would launch on Wednesday. The Mexican-American Hispanic media giant turned HK Hall in New into

Major Indian distribution platform Tata Play will collaborate with Amazon Prime to offer Tata Play Direct-to-Home (DTH) and Tata Play Binge customers access to Prime Video’s content. As part of its DTH and Binge packs, Tata Play will offer Prime Lite subscription as a package option, providing access to Prime Video’s extensive content library, as

Fresh from skewering his employer, Seth Meyers has been rewarded with a new contract at NBC. Meyers will continue to host Late Night with Seth Meyers through 2028 and has extended his overall deal with Universal Studio Group. It comes three years after NBC struck a deal with the former SNL star and head writer

John Oliver took the first part of Last Week Tonight to talk about the Eurovision Song Contest and highlighted the act from Finland, known as Windows95man. The HBO late-night host said the Finland entrant was his “absolute favorite,” who appeared on stage singing “No Rules!” written by Henri Piispanen, Jussi Roine and Teemu Keisteri. Windows95man

Netflix drama Top Boy has beaten off competition from Apple TV+’s Slow Horses to win Best Drama Series at the BAFTA TV Awards. Also competing in the category were the BBC’s Happy Valley and The Gold, but Top Boy walked away with its second award of the night. Earlier in the evening, Jasmine Jobson walked

Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” segment leaned into the brain worm that U.S. presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said got into his head. Sarah Sherman had the honors of dressing up as a worm and took a jab at Vanderpump Rules star Tom Sandoval, who became known as “the worm with a mustache” after

Bert Kreischer made a joke involving his bag of nicotine patches during The Tom Brady Roast. Then it morphed into an accusation about cocaine, he told Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, taking things into dangerous territory. Kreischer had nicotine patches in a can in his pocket, but he was informed by the director of the roast

Eric Schlosser knows food. Not in the way Bobby Flay or Giada De Laurentiis does, but in a scholarly manner that knows its affects on the health of anyone who eats. The author of the classic study Fast Food Nation and an EP on several films, Schlosser came to Bill Maher‘s Friday Real Time as

It’s official, Season 3 of Clarkson’s Farm has broken Amazon Prime Video‘s UK ratings record. The Season 3 premiere of Jeremy Clarkson‘s farming show was streamed by 5.1M viewers over the past seven days, according to Barb, the UK’s official audience research group. This puts the episode nearly a million viewers ahead of the Season

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from the May 11 episode of Young Sheldon on CBS. For fans of The Big Bang Theory, Thursday’s episode of Young Sheldon shouldn’t have come as a huge surprise. With the May 16 series finale only a week away, viewers were waiting for the comedy’s title character to

EXCLUSIVE: A new player — both literally and figuratively — is about to show up at the wedding of Harrison (Josh Swickard) and Brook Lynn (Amanda Setton). Giovanni Mazza is joining the cast as Giovanni Cerullo, a cousin of Brook Lynn who will play the violin at the nuptials that are set to occur the

Sean Viator, a dancer and choreographer who performed on TV shows American Idol and Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga on Netflix, died May 3 at 31, his family announced, No cause was given. Viator received a Bachelor’s degree of fine arts in dance from the University of Arizona, where he graduated summa

Amazon’s Prime Video has set the premiere day for Betty la Fea, the Story Continues, the sequel to the Colombian telenovela that inspired ABC’s, Ugly Betty. The new series will premiere on July 19 in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. Betty la Fea, the Story Continues, will see Ana María Orozco reprise her