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The £750M ($950M) UK film studio backed by James Cameron and other big names has been denied planning permission. Buckinghamshire Council backed a recommendation from its planning officers that Marlow Film Studios‘ plans be refused. Campaign groups had previously argued that the plans for the Marlow quarry area were inappropriate and the development has proved

Survivor just wrapped its 46th season but it still has the capacity to whip up viewers — too much, apparently. On Thursday, the show posted a rare behave! message to its 583,000-plus followers on Instagram, asking them to remember that these are “real people” playing the game, not paid actors. “One of the best things

EXCLUSIVE: The life story of video gaming’s original rock star is coming to the screen. John Romero is known as the godfather of first-person shooter and for his pioneering work on titles including Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Quake. The book telling his life story is now being worked up as both a doc and a

Netflix is bolstering its entertainment formats unit with a big new music competition series. The streamer has ordered Building The Band (w/t) as it shifts its focus away from cable-esque fare to competing with the major broadcast networks for the next The Voice or American Idol. Check back tomorrow for an interview with new Netflix

Netflix is putting toxic masculinity under the comedy microscope. The streamer has ordered Maschi Veri, an eight-part comedy series from Italy in which four alpha male friends in their forties find themselves facing their own prejudices and the paradigms of toxic masculinity in a world that is moving towards social and gender equality. Without losing

For Australian Vietnamese actor Hoa Xuande, the Vietnam War was a compilation of incredibly sad yet impactful stories shared by family members that up until recently, he didn’t fully understand. But since joining the cast of the HBO miniseries The Sympathizer, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Xuande wishes

EXCLUSIVE: is developing a TV adaptation of Stephen Lloyd Jones’ The String Diaries with Geek Girl producer RubyRock Pictures and Sony Studios. RubyRock boss Zoë Rocha revealed the early-stage project to Deadline alongside an adaptation of Justin Somper’s Vampirates book series, while lifting the lid on Netflix‘s upcoming Geek Girl adaptation. Lightfoot, who show-ran Apple TV+’s

Jimmy Kimmel shared on social media that his son underwent a third open heart surgery over the Memorial Day Weekend. The late-night talk show host dedicated a message to his son, family, and everyone involved in Billy’s surgery. “This weekend, our boy Billy had his third (of three, we hope) open heart surgery,” Kimmel shared

Ted Sarandos opens up about a comment he made in the early days of Netflix and reveals why he’s not interested in the breaking news business. In a new interview, the Netflix CEO said he would take back a 2012 quote in which he compared his platform to HBO. “I said we’re going to become

Johnny Wactor, a General Hospital actor, has died. He was 37. A law enforcement source says three suspects were trying to steal the catalytic converter from Wactor’s vehicle. When he confronted them, the suspects shot him and fled the scene. Wactor was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead upon arrival. The

Seinfeld actor Michael Richards has revealed that a former co-star nearly quit the hit show after failing to appear in an episode in Season 3. Richards, who played Kramer in the NBC comedy, has written a memoir, in which he recounts that neither he nor Jason Alexander (who played George Costanza) were required for an

Popular UK anchor Eamonn Holmes will reportedly use his live TV show on Monday morning to address his marital split from wife and longtime co-presenter Ruth Langsford. The Sun on Sunday newspaper reported yesterday that it had the exclusive statement from the popular pair, confirming they were to separate after 14 years’ marriage. The statement

Scott D. Pierce, who wrote about television for more than 30 years as a critic for The Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News, died today at 64. His death was confirmed. by his partner Rob Sonoda, but no cause was given. Pierce started his as a TV critic on March 31, 1990 at the

Caleb Carr, whose bestselling 1994 novel The Alienist made the author a household name and was adapted into a 10-episode limited series on TNT, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Cherry Plains, New York. He was 68. His death was announced by his brother Ethan Carr to The New York Times. Carr was

Kids only seemed to want to watch one show on Netflix in the latter half of 2023. The streamer’s latest data dump – read more here – reveals that episodes of Moonbug Entertainment‘s CoComelon were watched more than 200 million times from July to December, with all eight seasons appearing in the top 100. The

Remember when HBO licensed those originals to Netflix last year? Well, it’s finally time to see if the move paid off for Netflix, as the streamer just released another round of data that encapsulates all viewing on the platform from July to December 2023. That includes shows like Insecure, Band of Brothers, The Pacific and

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