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EXCLUSIVE: Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay is hoping to make a television series about Los Angeles’ first Black mayor, Tom Bradley. DuVernay would like to adapt an upcoming book by The Tipping Point author Malcolm Gladwell on the city’s longest serving mayor, who was in charge of the city between 1973 and 1993. DuVernay revealed her

Irish Film & TV Academy Names Rising Star Nominees The Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) and Screen Ireland (Fís Éireann) have unveiled the four Rising Star nominees ahead of the IFTA Awards Ceremony on February 14 in Dublin. They are Say Nothing and Masters of the Air actor Anthony Boyle, writer/director Aislinn Clarke (Fréwaka,

Disney+ is set to premiere its new Marvel animated series Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man on January 29, and the show’s star recently expressed his biggest fear about the show. Hudson Thames voices Peter Parker in the animated series and, in a new interview, said he was worried the show would “be annoying and woke.” “I

BFI chair Jay Hunt has warned the British film and TV industry to avoid becoming “complacent” as she cites concerns over “very protectionist language around Hollywood” from the new Donald Trump administration. Delivering an impassioned plea for continued investment in the sector, Hunt said her “biggest concern” is that the £4.2B ($5.2B) local industry begins

Lionsgate today filed an amended registration statement incorporating the latest comments fomr the Security and Exchange Commission, moving it a step closer to the planned separation of Lionsgate Studios and Starz. The joint proxy is expected to be declared effective by the SEC soon, at which point the company led by CEO John Feltheimer will

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has committed to airing tonight’s Wynne Evans series despite the Strictly Come Dancing star being forced to apologize over the weekend due to an inappropriate remark made while on the Strictly live tour. Evans, who is best known in the UK as the opera singer from the Go Compare adverts, is hosting

Now in its eight season, S.W.A.T. is the second longest-running scripted series currently on CBS. The network has not announced it as a final season. “It’s been called the final season the last three or four seasons, hasn’t it?,” S.W.A.T. executive producer Ryan quipped during a Deadline interview about the second season of his hit

Timothée Chalamet followed in Ryan Gosling’s footsteps by struggling not to laugh through sketches during his third time hosting Saturday Night Live. The writers of the NBC late-night program didn’t do him any favors with characters and situations that were pretty out there. There was no Beavis & Butt-Head-magnitude breakdown but there were a lot

Dark Horse Comics has dropped Neil Gaiman, cancelling his Anansi Boys comic series, in the wake of sexual assault allegations brought against the author. The publisher posted to X Friday night writing, “Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works. Confirming that the ‘Anansi Boys’ comic

Mid-Century Modern co-creator Max Mutchnick has revealed how the late Linda Lavin’s character Sybil Schneiderman will be written off the upcoming Hulu comedy series. The news comes almost a month following the death of the veteran stage and TV actress last December. Her PR representative told Deadline that she died unexpectedly of complications from recently

EXCLUSIVE: Ulrich Thomsen (Counterpart, The Blacklist) has been tapped to recur in the HBO, WBTV and DC Studios series Lanterns as DC supervillain Sinestro. The series follows new recruit John Stewart (Aaron Pierre) and Lantern legend Hal Jordan (Kyle Chandler), two intergalactic cops drawn into a dark, earth-based mystery as they investigate a murder in

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix‘s Africa content team has reshuffled with ex-Amazon exec Kaye-Ann Williams brought in to oversee TV and movies as Tendeka Matatu exits. Williams takes on the newly-created Director of Scripted Content role and will focus on local productions, overseeing a team that develops and creates African original films and series. She joins after a

SZA will join Kendrick Lamar for his performance at Apple Music‘s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show. The artists will take over the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on February 9 to perform during halftime of the NFL championship. “Everything is smooth. I’m on the field right now,” Lamar says while on a call in the

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC‘s natural history chief is swapping commissioning for program-making by taking up a newly-created role at the fabled BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU). Sreya Biswas, whose credits include Planet Earth III, Asia and Kingdom, will become NHU Director of Programmes over the summer. She will continue to deliver BBC projects for the

Just when the winds seemed to be dying down, a new blaze has erupted in fire-ravaged Los Angeles. Dubbed the Hughes Fire, the wildfire broke out around 10:30 am and went from 50-100 acres to 500-1000 acres at noon to more than 5,000 acres by 1 p.m. That’s according to local TV outlets, all of

Channel 4 Behind Doc On Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Channel 4 is making a documentary about Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the disgraced rapper who is set to go on trial this year. Lion TV’s Diddy: In Plain Sight will explore the world of Combs, from the highs of his extreme success to his abusive behavior and some

ABC has handed an early Season 2 renewal to its breakout new crime drama High Potential. The light procedural starring Kaitlin Olson joins ABC’s flagship comedy Abbott Elementary in securing a spot on the network’s 2025-26 schedule. High Potential also joins the other standout 2024-25 freshman drama, CBS’ Matlock, in landing an early Season 2

British sitcom star Pauline Quirke will step back from professional duties after being diagnosed with dementia. Her husband, Steve Sheen, released a statement saying the Birds of a Feather actress had been diagnosed with the condition in 2021. The 65-year-old Quirke will now end all professional and commercial activities, Sheen’s statement read. In recent years,

UPDATED with latest: No. 7 Notre Dame will face No. 8 Ohio State in the championship game on Monday, January 20 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT and will air live on ESPN, which is unleashing its Megacast coverage featuring 11 different feeds of the game across the

Prime Video Japan has a new Country Manager in the shape of Keisuke Oishi. Effective today, the former Sony Corp exec will take on the post after rising through the ranks over ten years at Amazon. Oishi will report to Gaurav Gandhi, Vice President of Prime Video for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. He

Veteran ABC News correspondent Elizabeth Nissen died Jan. 7, three days shy of her 71st birthday, at her home in Ann Arbor, Mich., her family announced. Per her former outlet, Nissen enjoyed a storied career in broadcast journalism, which included her coverage on ABC’s World News Tonight during the evening of Princess Diana’s death in

SNL on Saturday took aim at Pop The Balloon Or Find Love, the popular dating show format from You Tube and TikTok that’s spawned memes and gone viral with its love connections gone wrong. For the uninitiated, the format features a bevy of singles holding a balloon they will pop if they don’t like the

Before going toe-to-toe in Wakanda, Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan‘s paths almost crossed in Pine Valley. All My Children casting director Judy Blye Wilson recently recalled hiring Jordan to play Reggie Montgomery on the ABC soap opera back in 2003 after Boseman was fired from the role. “I did cast Boseman, who became very

With The Night Agent returning for its sophomore season, fans can expect plenty more “night action” from its star. Ahead of Season 2 of the conspiracy thriller series, which returns Jan. 23 to Netflix, star Gabriel Basso opened up about taking hits and doing his own stunts as FBI agent Peter Sutherland. “I think that

SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils the first episode of Severance Season 2. Severance creator Dan Erickson knows the context in which Season 2 has been released is important. Season 2 of the Apple TV+ workplace thriller arrived Jan. 17, almost three years after the first season debuted on the streamer Feb. 18, 2022. The first

The PGA Tour said Thursday that its is moving the location of next month’s Genesis Invitational, the annual tour stop at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, CA hosted by Tiger Woods. The move comes after the horrific Palisades Fire that erupted in that community on January 7, killing at least eight and destroying 2,869

Before rising to CEO of Disney, Bob Iger was president of ABC Entertainment from 1989–1992. When he joined in spring 1989, pilots ordered by his predecessor, including David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks, were just getting into production. Iger is credited as one of the project’s champions, helping the pilot get picked up to

Throughout his career, visionary filmmaker David Lynch, whose death was announced Thursday at the age of 78, made 10 features and dozens of short films. He only ever did two TV series (plus a 3-part anthology), but through one of them, Twin Peaks, his impact on the medium was profound. “Even though, he’s probably better

In addition to creating Punky Brewster and co-developing Silver Spoons, comedy writer-producer David W. Duclon, who died Wednesday at the age of 74, worked on a number of hit sitcoms throughout his career. One of them was Family Matters, which he joined at the start of Season 2, staying on as an executive producer for

Lumon Industries employs several thousand workers across the world of Apple TV+’s Severance, created by Dan Erickson and executive produced by Ben Stiller, Adam Scott and more. The catch at Lumon is a surgical procedure called Severance, which aims to create a better work life balance by splitting the work employee into an inner self that