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Who could forget Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Emmy acceptance speech last year, where she sang a rousing celebration of her womanhood and artistry, followed by these words: “To anyone who has ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t, come true, I am here to tell you this is what believing looks like,

EXCLUSIVE: The sun is setting on Sky’s Spanish crime drama A Town Called Malice after just one season. Sky has this week informed producers Vertigo Films and Rogue State of its decision to cancel the show, which has come as a surprise to some given preparations were underway for Season 2. Penned by Bulletproof co-creator and The

Big improvements to New York’s film and and television production incentives, included in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal are still in place as lawmakers reached a handshake deal today, according to people familiar with the bill. The legislature is expected to vote formally next week to approve the budget. As Deadline has reported, the incentives

EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s Thunderbird Entertainment has optioned New York Times bestseller Mad Honey. The Vancouver-based producer is planning to turn Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan’s novel into a premium TV series. The novel focuses on themes of young love, teen angst and parental grief, interwoven with murder and high-intensity courtroom drama. The story follows a

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details for this week’s episode of The CW’s The Flash. Barry enlisted the help of an old friend to save the day on Wednesday’s episode of The Flash. The episode starts out on a positive note when Team Flash throws a surprise birthday party for Barry, but things go terribly

Jens Richter has added commercial duties to his Fremantle International CEO role. He’s been named CEO of Commercial and International — a post giving him responsibility for all commercial activity, including the digital, social and FAST channel businesses. RTL-owned Fremantle is working towards a revenue target of €3B ($3.3B) by 2025, and digital represents one

The Cinema Audio Society has set its key dates for the 2023-24 awards season. The 60th annual CAS Awards will be presented live and in-person on Saturday, March 4. The venue is TBA. The nominations covering film, TV and products for production and post-production will be revealed on January 9. See the full timeline below. RELATED: CAS Awards: ‘Top

EXCLUSIVE: In a nod to the current renaissance of the late 1990s “tuner” street car culture, Warner Bros. Discovery’s MotorTrend TV has given a green light to new original series Super Street Garage. The upcoming series is based on Super Street Magazine, founded in 1996, which documented the import car movement in North America. Hosted

The Directors Guild said today that it supports the WGA in its ongoing negotiations for a new film and TV contract. The WGA’s contract expires on May 1, and the DGA will begin bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for its own contract on May 10. The DGA’s contract expires June

Disney is initiating the second and largest round of its planned layoffs Monday and expects to reach 4,000 of its projected 7,000 staff cuts by Thursday. A staff memo from Disney Entertainment Co-Chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden (read it below) delivered the news, indicating that affected workers would be notified from now through Thursday.

As Comcast manages through the shocking and abrupt exit of NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, the company has put senior exec Mike Cavanagh at the controls on an interim basis. Cavanagh, who was promoted last October to president of Comcast, will play a central role in guiding the executive changeover and trying to keep NBCU on

British Oscar nominee Lesley Manville has slammed on-screen violence, particularly that against women. Manville, who has a lead role in Amazon Prime spy thriller Citadel, told the UK’s Guardian newspaper she had no plans to watch such a show herself: “I can’t watch violence. I don’t watch any.” (Manville added here that she had yet

Ryan Reynolds celebrated his soccer club Wrexham winning and getting promoted from the National League to League Two. The team is highlighted in the FX docu-series Welcome to Wrexham and this 3-1 win of the Welsh soccer club over Boreham Wood will undoubtedly be part of the upcoming season. Wrexham leveling up was even celebrated

Matthew Rhys has added his name to the long list of British actors who, despite their best endeavours, would not be Bond.  The star of Perry Mason and The Americans told The Times of London that he managed to royally mess up his meeting with 007’s producers, back when they were looking for a replacement

The late-night television sector will be the first to get hit if there’s a writers’ strike and its stars are bracing themselves for impact. The nightly talkshows – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show as well as

Freevee’s new series Jury Duty is gearing up for its finale on Friday, and executive producer Nicholas Hatton and star James Marsden spoke with Deadline about all that went into creating the docu-style comedy with no one finding out. An exclusive featurette for Jury Duty can be found above. Across 8-episodes, the series chronicles the

Station 19 is set to hit its 100th episode in the 2023/24 season after ABC renewed the first-responders drama series for a seventh season. The network has also confirmed that Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige will serve as showrunners and exec producers after Deadline revealed that Krista Vernoff was stepping down from Station 19 and Grey’s

Doctor Who is headed to the Swinging 60s. The BBC has in the past few minutes teased a first-look image of Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor with companion Ruby (Millie Gibson) as filming continues on the new series. The pics come one day after the BBC similarly unveiled a first-look of RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Jinx

The woman tasked with investigating how much the BBC knew about sexual misconduct allegations against former radio DJ Tim Westwood has said she has combed through 50,000 documents in her search for evidence. Gemma White KC, who was appointed last year by the BBC to carry out an independent inquiry into Westwood, said she expects

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has unveiled trailer for Spy/Master starring Happy Valley and God’s Own Country‘s Alec Secăreanu. The Cold War thriller, which was nominated for the first Berlinale TV Series Award, spotlights a week in the life of Victor Godeanu. Victor is the right-hand man and closest advisor to Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu but he

CNN’s Jake Tapper stridently referred to Fox News paying $787.5 million Tuesday to settle a looming legal case about Fox News’ false characterizations of Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment in regard to the 2020 election as “one of the ugliest and most embarrassing moments in the history of journalism.” Tapper had a harder time reading Fox’s

Jeopardy! is officially heading Down Under. The iconic NBC gameshow’s international revival continues apace and Stephen Fry, the host of ITV’s upcoming British version, has been confirmed to helm for Channel 9. Badged Jeopardy! Australia, the Australian version will be filmed in Manchester around the same time as the British version, but feature Australian contestants,

Alexia Nepola and Marysol Patton have a chemistry that is unmatched and has fascinated viewers since The Real Housewives of Miami made its debut in 2011. The reality TV personalities have landed a new podcast called Ay Por Favor (“Oh, please”) that is set to drop starting April 18. “Get ready because we are bringing

The last time the parent company of Warner Bros and HBO promoted the launch of a streaming service, it faced the once-a-century challenge of the coronavirus pandemic. HBO Max debuted in May 2020 — the last of five new multi-billion-dollar streaming entrants hitting the market in a seven-month span — but grand plans for a

Elle Fanning teased the upcoming third season of The Great during her appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event. In the Hulu series, Fanning plays Catherine the Great while Nicholas Hoult plays Peter III of Russia. The third season, which is set to premiere May 12, will revolve around Catherine and Peter working on their

The Sands International Film Festival, Scotland’s burgeoning film event, opened its second edition this weekend with the world premiere screening of Citadel, the much-talked-about Prime Video series from Marvel auteurs Anthony and Joe Russo. Two episodes of varying length, but both well under the hour mark, played as a surprise screening for the packed opening

Ghost co-showrunners Joe Wiseman and Joe Port and stars Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar joined Deadline’s Contenders TV event to talk about conspiracy theories, Samantha and Jay’s relationship, and what’s next for Season 3. The series follows a struggling young couple, Samantha, played by McIver, and Jay, played by Ambudkar, whose dreams come true when

The top four finalists of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Anetra, Luxx Noir London, Mistress Isabelle Brooks, and Sasha Colby, battled tonight with a series of show-stopping song hits in the Season 15 finale. The goal was to win the coveted title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar” and $200,000. Tonight’s program also offered a first look at the

Count actor Elijah Wood among those who are rooting for the new Lord of the Rings movies that are planned. Warner Bros. Pictures and Swedish media company Embracer Group said earlier this year they will produce more films based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Wood, who played Frodo Baggins in the massively successful LOTR Peter

NBCU and Sky owner Comcast has invested in James Murdoch’s Bodhi Tree Systems, which in turn is becoming a key player in a new-look Viacom18. Comcast-owned company NBCUniversal Media has paid an undisclosed amount for a shareholding in Bodhi Tree, which former Fox CEO Murdoch launched with ex-Star and Disney India Chairman Uday Shankar launched