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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

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

The 2024 Oscars ceremony is days away, and details about the show, the nominees and who may win are coming into focus. Read on below for answers to all your questions about the 2024 Academy Awards. When Is The 2024 Oscars? The ceremony takes place on March 10 this year at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m.

The upcoming sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox & Warner Bros. Discovery has found its boss. The service, which doesn’t have a name yet, has appointed Pete Distad, a former Apple and Hulu exec as CEO. The streamer was revealed last month and is set to launch later this fall. Distad, who most recently served

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

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+.

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

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

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

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+,

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from Monday night’s episode of The Bachelor. In the opening teaser for tonight’s episode of The Bachelor, we’re met yet again with the clip we’ve been wondering about all season. As he returns to his room post-date during Fantasy Suites week, Joey finds a note tucked into his hotel

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

It was summer 2024 clash of the titans when Barbie and Oppenheimer were scheduled to open on the same day. There were reported overtures from the two producing teams but no one blinked, each film staking its claim on the July 21 release date. What followed was nothing short of extraordinary, with Barbie and Oppenheimer

Cat Deeley, longtime presenter of So You Think You Can Dance, has revealed details of her experience being caught up in a Los Angeles shopping mall shooting scare that made her want to leave her home in Hollywood and return to live in the UK. The Sun newspaper reports that Deeley, about to take over

Jennifer Holland is making DC fans happy after revealing when Peacemaker Season 2 will start filming. After a fan asked Holland on social media if a second season of the John Cena-starring Max series was happening, the star dropped the positive news. “Yessss we start filming this summer! It’s gonna be so gooooood,” Holland replied

While Drive to Survive has sped to a successful six seasons on the Netflix platform and been given credit for a surge in interest in motor racing, particular in the US, the same production team has stumbled to a halt with the tennis world, and now The Times of London reports that documentary series Break

David Alan Grier’s illustrious and varied career began with big dreams from a youth sitting in front of a television in Michigan and absorbing classic film. Grier next stars in The American Society of Magical Negroes, a sharp satirical comedy fable written and directed by Kobi Libii. He began his career on the stage, playing

Francesca Orsi Wins Series Mania Award HBO programing boss Francesca Orsi is to be awarded Series Mania’s Woman In Series Award and will take the stage with Bad Wolf CEO Jane Tranter at the Lille confab later this month. Orsi, whose slate has included the likes of The Last of Us, The White Lotus and

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a big winner for Prime Video. The series debuted on February 2 and since then has collected more than a billion viewing minutes across its eight episodes, particularly impressive because of its overlap with the Super Bowl hoopla. The showing by Prime backs up its recent streaming hit with Reacher,

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

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

BBC Studios is increasing its debt facility by £250M ($318M) — a move that closely follows the acquisition of BritBox International, its biggest ever single transaction. The agreement with a consortium of commercial banks brings the debt facility to £600M, up from £250M in 2022, the Financial Times reported. A plan to invest heavily in

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

France’s Canal+ has upped a buyout offer for African TV and streaming giant MultiChoice to around $1.77B. Vivendi-owned Canal+ is already MultiChoice’s biggest single shareholder, and last month had an earlier offer rejected on grounds it significantly undervalued the African company. The new mandatory offer stands at around 125 South African rand per share ($6.60),

Season 2 of House of the Dragon will premiere on HBO/Max in June, said JB Perrette, head of global streaming & games for Warner Bros. Discovery. Speaking at a media conference Q&A today, he said its one of a handful of HBO tentpole series set to contribute to a turnaround at the media giant after

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

Refresh for latest: American Cinema Editors is handing out the 74th Eddie Awards tonight, and Deadline is posting the winners as they are announced. Nina West is hosting the ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall. Check out the list below. Vying for the marquee Best Edited Film prize for theatrical dramas are Anatomy of a Fall,

Sydney Sweeney couldn’t host Saturday Night Live without an appearance from Glen Powell. Luckily, there were two. The first came during Sweeney’s monologue, when she jokingly addressed rumors that she and Powell, her co-star in the rom-com Anyone But You, were romantically involved, despite her being engaged. She spoke lovingly about her fiancé and asked

Bravo has finally set the premiere date for The Real Housewives of Dubai Season 2, which will start on June 2nd. The long-awaited second season of the series will drop two years after the first season. BravoCon attendees in November 2023 were treated to a viewing of the second season’s first episode. Season 2 of

On the one side, you have an atheist and avowed bachelor. On the other, a psychologist who thinks family and faith are the keys to progress from our current problems. Those polar opposites made for some intense sparring on Friday’s Real Time, as Bill Maher faced off aganst a fiesty Dr. Phil McGraw, author of