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TLC is seeing some renewed interest in Sister Wives. Season 18 of the stalwart series documenting the lives of a polygamist family debuted on August 20, delivering the highest ratings the show has seen in a decade. The Season 18 premiere drew a 2.5 rating among women 25-54 and a 1.6 among all adults 25-54,

The Late Late Show with James Corden showrunner Ben Winston has revealed how unexpected impacts of the labor strikes cost his production company an unscripted series greenlight. In a wide-ranging interview with Richard Bacon at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Winston said he believed effects of the actors and writers strike were now filtering into unscripted

Happy Valley, Succession and The Traitors were the big winners at the Edinburgh TV Festival Awards on a strong night for the BBC and Channel 4. After having her next BBC project unveiled earlier in the day, Sally Wainwright’s smash hit Happy Valley took home Best Drama, with Succession winning Best International Drama and the

The cost of British comedy is just getting more expensive — news that doesn’t make great reading for the UK’s comic talent base. Budgets for UK comedy shows are now closer to drama budgets than entertainment, with prices rising quickly in the past few years due to inflation, according to BBC Studios Comedy boss Josh

A League Of Their Own co-creator Will Graham is sharing his thoughts publicly for the first time since it was revealed Friday that the series’ Season 2 renewal had been reversed and the show was ending. Graham made clear his disappointment, but vowed to continue to try to find a new home for the beloved

Just hours after the studios and streamers made public their latest “comprehensive package” towards a deal with the striking WGA, the guild has responded – and its seems the AMPTP and top CEOs may have strategically overplayed their hand. In fact, 113 days into the scribes strike, talks may have broken down altogether — again.

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Shane Gillis will make his Netflix debut Sept. 5 with a stand-up special dubbed Beautiful Dogs.  Filmed earlier this year in Virginia during his Shane Gillis Live tour, Beautiful Dogs is a follow-up to Gillis’ 2021 YouTube special Shane Gillis: Live in Austin. It went on to garner more than 13 million views. Gillis also plays

Netflix has renewed Indian cop drama Khakee: The Bihar Chapter for a second season and struck a wider creative partnership deal with the show’s creator, Friday Storytellers. The first season of Khakee was among Netflix India’s top ten shows for more than five months after launching in November last year. The series, set in Bihar’s

SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland has acknowledged “significant economic consequences” impacting workers around the world due to the strikes, while the boss of British Equity said his union is prepared to enter disputes if U.S. producers try to recast roles with UK actors. Speaking on a webinar alongside Equity boss Paul Fleming and broadcasting union Bectu chiefs,

Jane Curtin is reflecting on her early work on Saturday Night Live and is saying that watching it now she doesn’t find it very funny. “We were sent the five-year compilation video of Saturday Night Live’s first five years a few years ago, and I gave one to my daughter,” she recalled in an interview

“A League of Their Own” creator Abbi Jacobson is furious at the cancellation of her show. Prime Video is not moving forward with the previously ordered second — and final — season of comedy-drama A League Of Their Own, cocreated and starring Jacobson, Deadline has learned. The series was a reimagining of the 1992 film, A League

Lionel Messi has taken the Inter Miami soccer team to win the Leagues Cup trophy in a dramatic penalty shootout against Nashville SC. Messi has only played with the MLS team for six games and has led the club to victory. Inter Miami FC have become unbeatable and their win at the Leagues Cup final

The power of a single vote was on full display yesterday in Nashville, where actor and stuntman Bill “Bilbro” Yarbrough defeated his nearest rival by a single vote to win a seat on the guild’s national board of directors. The voting there also shows the power of apathy, with only 213 (15%) of the Nashville

After four straight days of bargaining, the Writers Guild said tonight that it will meet again next week with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. “Last Friday, 102 days after they walked away from the bargaining table and put us out on strike, the AMPTP offered responses to our proposals in all work

Steve Martin and Martin Short hosted the highest rated episode of Saturday Night Live’s Season 48 in December. After highlighting how often they’ve each hosted – Martin 16 times and Short three times – and a bit of nostalgia when Martin showed a photo of him with John Belushi, Dan Akroyd and Mick Jagger, the

EXCLUSIVE: Kira Innes has left J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Productions where she had been for four years, most recently as SVP, Television, Deadline has learned. A rep for Bad Robot declined comment. Innes joined the Warner Bros. Discovery-based company in 2019 as VP, Television and was promoted to SVP two years later, according to her

EXCLUSIVE: Hailing from Scandinavia, producer Cindy Cederlund and actor-writer Stephanie Corneliussen (Mr. Robot) have launched LA-based film and TV production company, Soullanders Entertainment. The company is currently developing six projects, including the series Rogue, a thriller following a young spy who wages war against the world of human trafficking. David Unger’s Artist International Group is

Spoiler alert! Do not read this story unless you’ve seen Wednesday’s season one finale of Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars on Fox. Chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay had a tough decision to make during Wednesday’s finale of Food Stars: should he give his $250,000 angel investment to Malibu’s Pizza Girl? Was the creator of Fat Milk

EXCLUSIVE: Bert, the buzzy, BAFTA-winning director behind shows like Silo and Hawkeye, has signed with Range Media Partners for management. The filmmaker born Amber Templemore is met there by Bertie (aka Katie Ellwood), the other half of her powerhouse partnership Bert & Bertie, who came over to the company in May. “Amber has built a

The options on the cast of ABC’s backdoor pilot The Good Lawyer were up today, which means that by now, the network would’ve made a decision on The Good Lawyer spinoff starring Kennedy McMann and Felicity Huffman. But the fate of the pilot — as well as ABC bubble series The Rookie: Feds and Home

UPDATED with latest additions: SAG-AFTRA, which launched a strike against Hollywood studios on July 14, launched its interim agreements program that allows independent productions with no direct ties to members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to continue filming. The guild has been adding to the list of projects granting waivers since

Among the 18 names listed in the 41-count indictment unsealed by a Fulton County, Georgia D.A. tonight was one not generally associated with Donald Trump and his inner circle: Trevian C. Kutti. While not as familiar to cable news junkies as Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman or Mark Meadows, Kutti is well known in other circles

“The exciting thing about a mystery is that you do a lot of withholding, and in the withholding of information you’re actually drawing the audience closer,” says Only Murders in the Building cinematographer Chris Teague. “It’s that feeling of peering around a corner and seeing something for the first time.” Only Murders in the Building

Apple TV+ has landed a new untitled six-part documentary featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes access to football great Lionel Messi as he arrived in America to play for Major League Soccer and Inter Miami CF, chronicling his debut in Leagues Cup and beyond. The new docuseries will join the previously announced Apple Original documentary that will track

Austin Butler has shared the key piece of advice he received from Tom Hanks, his co-star in last year’s hit biopic Elvis. Butler, who was Oscar-nominated for the title role, told the UK’s Times newspaper that he sat down for dinner with Hanks who told his younger co-star that he needed to dive deep into

The cast of Parks and Recreation reunited on the picket line as the stars and crew members came together to fight for a better contract with the studios. Amid the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the cast of the NBC sitcom was seen outside the Amazon Studios in Culver City. The picketers on the scene included

Jason Momoa continues to engage his social media following about the unfolding disaster on Maui. The Hawaii native has been sharing resources and thoughts on the wildfire devastation on the island, which now has a confirmed death toll of 80 people, with hundreds of buildings destroyed and thousands in emergency shelters. Momoa is urging tourists

Baltimore Orioles play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown is back in the announcer’s booth for tonight’s game against Seattle. He’s returning after being banished since late July for allegedly disparaging remarks about the team. Before his comeback, he issued a statement this afternoon that made things seem like all was forgiven between him and Orioles management. He

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of Thursday night’s Big Brother episode. Big Brother addressed the removal of houseguest Luke Valentine after his use of the N-word during the live feeds Tuesday night. “It has been an emotional 24 hours in the Big Brother house as the houseguests learned that one of their own broke the Big Brother code

Bethany Joy Lenz is working on what promises to be a bombshell memoir, expected to arrive early next year. Lenz is sparing on the details, but says the book will cover her 10 years spent in an unnamed cult, a period which overlapped with her years on the television show “One Tree Hill.” She claims