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EXCLUSIVE: The BBC wants to overhaul how it awards salary rises to its highest-paid employees and presenters, Deadline understands. Sources said the British broadcaster wants to stop top earners from receiving automatic annual pay increases and instead hand them raises based on their performance. The BBC wants to make the change as it grapples with

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the first episode of HBO‘s limited series The Sympathizer, which premiered on April 14. “All right, see you stateside,” says Robert Downey Jr’s Claude quips with some gallows humor to Hoa Xuande’s The Captain near the end of the first episode of HBO’s The Sympathizer as communist North

Two months after revealing its Korean slate for 2024, Disney+ has unveiled another series from the country. Titled Low Life, the show will premiere on the platform next year and Hulu in the U.S. The series will star veteran actor Ryu Seungryong (Moving) and Yang Sejong (Doona!). Set in 1970s Korea, the story follows a

Star and executive producer David Oyelowo and Lawmen: Bass Reeves creator, showrunner and executive producer Chad Feehan said Reeves’ family values were what made him stand out. Oyelowo plays Reeves, a U.S. Marshal after the abolition of slavery. “The way in for a global audience should be not just appealing to the sensibility of people

Shonda Rhimes has made more than her share of era-defining TV drama, but there is one British classic she reveals she wishes she had made herself. Rhimes, the creator of Bridgerton which returns for a third season on Netflix in May, told The Times of London she enjoys watching other TV shows including Succession, Beef

Bill Pullman thinks he was the last person on earth who hadn’t heard of Alex Murdaugh, the personal injury attorney who was found guilty in the double homicide of his wife, Maggie, and son Paul. Fortunately for the veteran actor, there was gobs of video to help him prepare for his role in Murdaugh Murders:

The creator of Bluey has revealed he was inspired by a handful of other shows when drawing up plans for his TV canine phenomenon. Joe Brumm recently spoke to Deadline about the future of the show, which was Disney+’s most-streamed title of 2023 with almost 44 billion minutes of the 145 available eps watched, according

Daniel Mays remembers Michael Douglas and Timothy Van Patten, the respectively star and director of new Apple TV drama Franklin, bursting into song whenever he appeared on set. It came about because during the Franklin shoot in Paris, director Nicholas Hytner asked Mays to star at London’s Bridge Theatre as good old reliable Nathan Detroit in an immersive production

Conan O’Brien has been on the campaign trail for his Max show Conan O’Brien Must Go, but during his latest promo stop, the comedian turned his attention to his paymasters. Appearing on YouTube phenomenon Hot Ones, the former The Tonight Show host embarked on a spicy wing-fueled rant about Warner Bros. Discovery’s rebrand of streaming

Showtime’s standalone app will disappear on April 30. “This app will shut down on 4/30/2024,” reads Showtime’s home page. “Paramount+ is the new streaming home for SHOWTIME. Get the Paramount+ with SHOWTIME plan. Try 7 days free, then $11.99/month. Get started at Paramountplus.com” it said, with a button to try it for free.” The service

EXCLUSIVE: Zig Zag, the 25-year-old UK producer behind shows including Fox‘s I Wanna Marry Harry, is shutting its production arm after being hit by the unscripted commissioning drought. Zig Zag is putting Zig Zag Productions Limited into insolvency as part of a financial restructuring that has resulted in six employees being made redundant. The company,

EXCLUSIVE: Audiences seem to have enjoyed 9-1-1 paying homage to The Poseidon Adventure. Bobby and Athena’s three-episode cruise ship disaster came to a dramatic conclusion during the March 28 episode which, after seven days of multi-platform viewing, became the series’ most-watched telecast in more than 2 years. According to Disney, the episode drew 10.72M viewers

Michael Douglas and the cast of Franklin touched down in Cannes today with a message. Speaking to press ahead of the world premiere screening of the series at Canneseries on Wednesday evening, the actor said the Apple TV+ period drama is a great reminder of “how fragile democracy is and how generous France was.” The

3 Body Problem spent another week atop Netflix‘s TV charts. The drama series from Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss with Alexander Woo, drove another 8.3M views from April 1 to 7. That’s quite a bit down from last week’s more than 15M views but still enough to land it at

Producers in Southeast Asia are facing a very different, much quieter landscape to the one in front of them just 12 months ago, as U.S. players rein in their spending to appease shareholders, and neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan and India draw attention. Southeast Asia, which at one point was considered a key growth

Paramount Global‘s beleaguered stock faltered Monday as investors fretted over the ongoing talks between controlling shareholder National Amusements Inc. and Skydance Media. As the moon blocked out the sun across a swath of the U.S. in a total eclipse, the stock behaved accordingly, falling almost 8% on heavier-than-average trading volume to finish at $11.06. The

Chris McCausland & Lee Mack Set For Sky Festive Special British comedians Chris McCausland and Lee Mack will front Sky festive special Bad Tidings, about two perpetually feuding neighbors in Northern England who become unlikely heroes after saving their street from notorious burglars with wacky booby traps and British banter. Laurence Rickard & Martha Howe-Douglas

Netflix‘s Selling the OC is returning for Season 3 on May 3 and the trailer previews the upcoming drama that will continue shaking things up on the reality series. The new season of the Selling Sunset spinoff continues with the same cast, including Kayla Cardona, Alexandra Jarvis, Brandi Marshall, Polly Brindle, Alex Hall, Gio Helou,

Aunt Linda returned for some new movie reviews. Kristen Wiig’s angry, middle-aged film critic was back on SNL’s Weekend Update to give her hot take on Barbie and Oppenheimer. Wiig has appeared as Aunt Linda three times before tonight including twice in 2006 and once in 2010, while she was a cast member of the

Lauri Peterson, former star of Bravo‘s The Real Housewives of Orange County, is mourning the loss of her son Joshua Waring. In an emotional tribute shared on social media, the reality TV personality said her son died at the age of 35 on Easter Sunday, March 31, 2024. “It is with a shattered heart that

David Barrington Holt, who was instrumental in development of the ground-breaking Henson Performance Control System, which allowed a single performer to operate complex, computer-driven puppets, died March 13 from cancer complications. His credits included George of the Jungle, The Phantom, Dr. Dolittle, and Scooby-Doo, among other productions. Born in England in June of 1945, he

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has decided not to proceed with a third season of its Quantum Leap reboot starring Raymond Lee. The news comes more than a month after the two-hour Season 2 finale aired Feb. 20. The development is not entirely surprising as the series, from Universal Television, had been on the bubble. That is in

EXCLUSIVE: Taaza Khabar is returning to Disney+ Hotstar for a second season. The Indian action-drama follows a sanitation worker, Vasant Gawde, who realizes he can predict the future and uses it to his advantage to gain power and wealth, but at a cost to his relationships. The Hindi-language show’s title literally translates as “fresh news”

EXCLUSIVE: Sons of Anarchy alum Kim Coates is joining the Season 2 cast of The Walking Dead: Dead City as a new series regular, opposite Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Details are being kept under wraps, but we hear it is a pivotal role. The series also stars Gaius Charles, Mahina Napoleon, Željko Ivanek,

Twofour Hires ‘007: Road To A Million’ Producer & ‘Circle’ Exec UK producer Twofour has made a pair of hires and promoted several execs in and around its senior management. Karen Hudson, whose credits include 007: Road to a Million and The Grand Tour, has been named Head of Production. Dan Gray will be Executive

Matt Bomer is having a great year, one that started with the fall release of Maestro — he stars opposite Bradley Cooper as David Oppenheim, who had an affair with Leonard Bernstein — and now in the acclaimed Paramount+ limited series Fellow Travelers, which is in the heat of the Emmy race and winning praise

Hannah Waddingham credits Game Of Thrones with transforming her career, but she didn’t love everything about filming the epic HBO series. Waddingham played religious zealot Septa Unella in the Thrones franchise and featured in a torture scene, in which Cersei Lannister, played by Lena Headey, poured wine on her face. She told The Late Show

Former Gersh agent Emma Clarke is joining talent management company Currents Management. Clarke, who represents talent including Selling Sunset star Chelsea Lazkani, left Gersh last month, after moving over following the agency’s acquisition of A3 Artists Agency. She is the latest talent agent to move into management. Clarke spent four years at A3 including nearly

The X-Files creator Chris Carter is opening up about the early days of the seminal Fox sci-fi series, and opining on the challenges ahead for Ryan Coogler as he preps a reboot. “No matter what, he’s got a hard job,” Carter told Inverse in a recent interview. “Casting is a hard job. Mounting it is

EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach, the production company behind Starz’s Vida and Facebook’s Sorry For Your Loss, has landed the television rights to Alexandra Tanner’s debut novel Worry. Worry follows two siblings-turned-roommates, one a 28-year-old media employee, navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity. The book has been described as a “Seinfeldian” novel of existentialism and sisterhood.