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Arcane became the first streaming show to win Best Animated Program at last year’s Emmys. But it’s going to be another year before viewers can enjoy the second season of the Riot Games adaptation. Season 2 of the show, which was created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee, will premiere in November 2024. That would

EXCLUSIVE: Priscilla Parish has quietly stepped down as the head of drama at BBC Studios after four years. Parish joined the BBC’s commercial production unit in October 2019 from Line of Duty and Bodyguard producer World Productions. Her departure was not announced by BBC Studios, but the company confirmed the news to Deadline. Her replacement

EXCLUSIVE: Four years after his fourth acclaimed comedy special The Great Depresh premiered on HBO, comedian Gary Gulman has set his latest, Born on Third Base, to debut on Max. Directed and produced by James Webb (Mark Normand: Soup to Nuts), his new hour will debut on the streaming platform this December. In Born on

Deadline may receive commission from some products and services linked in this post. The third GOP primary debate of the 2024 presidential election season is Wednesday, November 8, beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT in Miami. It will air live on NBC, in Spanish on Universo, and livestream on Peacock via NBC News Now.

Firefighters continue to battle a stubborn fire at a hangar at the former Tustin Air Base today where many film and TV series have been shot. Fire crews responded after 1:30 a.m. and found massive flames ripping through the roof of the wooden building, according to the Orange County Fire Authority. Pieces of the roof

2nd UPDATE, EXCLUSIVE, 10:29 PM: SAG-AFTRA and the studios have finally called it a night on the latest talks in search of a new three-year contract. In the past 30 minutes or so, the actors union and the AMPTP ended a long bargaining session that started this afternoon. The thinking is they will resume negotiations

Fox has set an early 2024 premiere date for its new game show The Floor, hosted and produced by Rob Lowe. The Floor, from Big Brother and The Voice creator John de Mol, will launch Tuesday, Jan. 2 at 9 PM on Fox. The Floor is a physical, trivia quiz show that sees 81 contestants face

As Kelsey Grammer says in his 2020 low-budget action movie Money Plane, “Whatever you want to wager on, the money plane has you covered. You want to bet on a dude f*cking an alligator? Money Plane.” Somehow, John Oliver, on his latest episode of HBO‘s Last Week Tonight, managed to use the film to highlight

Erika Jayne is about to get her own documentary. Bravo has ordered “Erika Jayne: Bet It All on Blonde” for a spring 2024 premiere. The two-part documentary follows the star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as she prepares for her Las Vegas residency.  “I’m excited because it’s the runup to my show ‘Bet

Lala Kent is teasing the new season of Vanderpump Rules in the aftermath of Scandoval. After Bravo announced at BravoCon that the reality series would be returning in January, Kent is hinting at what the show will look like in Season 11. “The new season is going to be a lot of things in one

EXCLUSIVE: The Daytime Emmy-winning drama series The Bay will release eighteen all new episodes daily this month and in December. The series is an independent multi-camera drama and is produced under a non-struck SAG-AFTRA contract which has allowed the series to continue production and self distribute new content. The final four new episodes of season 7 will air Popstar! TV starting November 14 at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m.

“Western civilization is what gave the word every goddamn liberal precept to adore,” Bill Maher thundered during his “New Rules” editorial on Friday’s Real Time. He went on to list religious freedom and other benefits. So, Maher contended, citing a recent statement from President Joe Biden, “The world would be a better place if we

BravoCon has officially started and Andy Cohen dropped the news during the “Ask Andy” panel that all future Bravo reunions will stream on Peacock uncensored. During the first panel of the three-day event in Las Vegas, Cohen talked about the success that the uncensored versions have had among viewers. “Every reunion is going to be

He’s always on country music fans’ minds, and now they’ll have a chance to celebrate him. Willie Nelson’s 90th Birthday Celebration concert special was announced tonight during Nelson’s appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The two-hour show will air Sunday, Dec. 17 on CBS at 8:30 PT/ET on CBS, with streaming live and

Canadian comedy Letterkenny is coming to an end. The series will wrap with its upcoming 12th season on Hulu, which will drop all six episodes on December 26, it was announced Thursday. The series, which also streams on Canadian platform Crave, will premiere with all episodes on December 25. Created by and starring Jared Keeso,

The number of factual TV shows in the UK directed by women has gone backwards over the past two years despite a weighty campaign to improve gender representation. According to research from the We Are Doc Women campaign, the proportion of UK factual shows directed by women fell slightly to 24% between April 2021 and

After an unprecedented summer of strikes, the ripple effects continue to hit the 2023-24 awards season. In a flipping of the script, the WGA Awards now will be held on April 14 – more than a month after the Academy Awards. In a statement to Deadline, the WGA West and East pointed to their nearly

EXCLUSIVE: Rainbow Rishta, Prime Video India’s doc series about the country’s LGBTQIA+ communities, is being showcased at the Mumbai Film Festival tomorrow. Ahead of that we’ve your first look at the show’s trailer above. The Vice Studios show, directed by Jaydeep Sarkar, follows six stores that encapsulate queer love and experiences of LGBTQIA+ people in

Bill Burr has taken over Netflix for the second week in a row. His directorial debut Old Dads racked up 16.3M views from October 23 to 29, holding onto its No. 1 spot on the English-language Film Top 10. In 10 days, the film has tallied 29.6M views. Meanwhile, Pain Hustlers made its way to

UPDATE, 7:44 PM: Hard to tell if it is going to be a trick or a treat from SAG-AFTRA and the studios this Halloween, but the two sides are set to meet again person on Tuesday. “The committee worked independently today,” the Fran Drescher-run guilds told members Monday evening. “We will be meeting with the

Ed Lammi, Sony Pictures Television’s EVP Production, will be departing at the end of December after a 36-year career at the studio. SPT President Katherine Pope announced Lammi’s retirement in an internal memo. There is no word yet on his replacement. “Throughout Ed’s journey, which began at SPT in 1987 when he joined as vice

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP continued to communicate intermittently Sunday as they close in on possibly reaching a new deal that could end the 108-day strike. “There is a feeling of optimism” a guild source told Deadline today. “Looks like we’re in the final stretch,” a senior studio source added. Both sides expressed confidence a deal

Friends co-creators/executive producers Marta Kauffman and David Crane and the series’ executive producer/director Kevin Bright have issued a statement following the sudden death of star Matthew Perry at age 54. In it, they recall how Perry got the role of Chandler Bing in the audition room, launching decades of collaboration and friendship. “We will always

Hallmark Channel is starting the Christmas season earlier and earlier, launching its Countdown To Christmas movie lineup on Oct. 20 this year, 11 days before Halloween. But should the channel consider expanding its original movie franchise to Halloween, Saturday Night Live has ideas. “We cornered the market on Christmas, why not Halloween, cause the only

John Larroquette, who played Assistant District Attorney Dan Fielding on both editions of NBC sitcom Night Court, remembered his costar Richard Moll today in a tribute on social media. Moll, best known as the towering bailiff “Bull Shannon” on Night Court, died Oct. 26 at his home in Big Bear Lake, Calif. He was 80

How do you deal with a world where finger-pointing, bureaucracy, mob actions and a lack of initiative stall progress? That was the running theme of Friday’s Real Time on HBO, as a downbeat Bill Maher took on a world that was clearly vexing him greatly. The show started out with an appearance by former Democratic

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Freevee has ordered a second season of Tribunal Justice, created and executive produced by Judge Judy Sheindlin. The renewal comes ahead of the December 1 Season 1 finale of the the courtroom program, part of the Justice brand on Freevee anchored by Sheindlin’s other courtroom show for the streamer, the Daytime Emmy-winning Judy

A group of high-profile actors have signed a public letter declaring that they would rather stay on strike rather than accept a bad deal. Thousands of stars including Sarah Paulson, Chelsea Handler, Christian Slater, Sandra Oh, Daveed Diggs, Pedro Pascal and Kal Penn have signed the letter, which is addressed to the SAG-AFTRA Negotiating Committee.

SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP are back at the table today for more talks to resolve the actors strike that has been going on for over 100 days. Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief negotiator at the union, told Deadline that he was “cautiously optimistic” about talks with the studios. Crabtree-Ireland made a quick stop to Paramount where the

Sam Esmail’s years-in-the making adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis became one of the first major casualties of the 2023 Hollywood strikes. Seven weeks into the WGA work stoppage, the UCP studio, where Esmail has been under an overall deal, pulled the plug on the big-budget series, which had been prepping in