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Erica Mena will not appear on the next season of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta after she referred to her co-star Spice using a slur during a heated argument. “The ‘Love & Hip Hop’ franchise has never shied away from hard conversations in our community,” the VH1 series official account wrote Saturday in an Instagram

How I Met Your Father EP Craig Thomas bid farewell to his colleagues and supporters today via an X post, noting that cancellations are a part of TV life. Thomas is also is the co-creator of the original series, How I Met Your Mother, which aired on CBS for 9 seasons. Its spin-off lasted two

There will be no third season for How I Met Your Father. Hulu has canceled the Hilary Duff-led sequel series after two seasons, Deadline has confirmed. In How I Met Your Father, written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, in the near future, Sophie (Kim Cattrall) is telling her son the story of how she met his

EXCLUSIVE: Keshet International is doubling down on its German business by launching a standalone scripted arm in the European country. Keshet Germany will launch with a slate that includes another remake of False Flag, the Israeli format that was recently remade by Keshet UK as Suspicion, starring Uma Thurman and Kunal Nayaar. Also on the

A swarm of Supernatural fans joined the picket line at Warner Bros. in Los Angeles on Thursday to catch a glimpse of series creator Eric Kripke as well as the cast and other writers who had reunited in solidarity with the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Other familiar faces included executive producer Rob Singer and

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has added to its UK drama commissioning team by hiring Best Interests EP Toby Bentley from AC Chapter One. Bentley recently joined Anne Mensah’s Sex Education and The Crown division as Manager, UK Series, focusing on overseeing shows coming out of the UK. He reports to Mona Qureshi and is an addition to

While Americans are getting increasingly used to emergency alerts from local police and fire officials, on October 4 at 2:20 p.m. ET they’ll receive something a little different. “THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed,” the alert should read. It will be sent to all consumer cell

EXCLUSIVE: Astonishing stories of female heroism and bravery during World War II is the subject of an upcoming Woodcut Media history series. Channel 4 in the UK and SBS in Australia have pre-bought World War II: Women on the Frontline, which UK indie Woodcut is selling through its sales arm, Woodcut International. The three-part series is

A con man who was convicted twice in New York for bilking victims out of millions of dollars through financial fraud schemes was behind bars today in Los Angeles on charges of running similar scams locally, allegedly luring victims by claiming to be well-connected with big names in Hollywood and the finance world. David Bloom,

EXCLUSIVE: With Mipcom on the horizon, Sweden’s Eccho Rights is building out its sales team by hiring well-respected exec Tess Charman. The Stockholm-based distributor has named former Warner Bros International Television Production, eOne, MGM and Avalon exec Charman as its Director of Sales for Continental Europe. Starting on September 1, Charman will take on European

“My name is Alec Mercer, and I was brought in because I know people and why they do inexplicable things.” So explains Jesse L. Martin’s Alec at the beginning of the first trailer for NBC drama series The Irrational. The Law & Order alum returns to NBC to take on more crime-solving duties, listing “bereavement

Simone Biles just won herself a new national title and made history. The athlete delivered a strong performance at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships in San José, California and scored her eight-national title. “I’ve been doing it for so long, I feel like I don’t think about numbers. I think about my performance,” Biles told NBC

Soccer superstar Lionel Messi sure knows how to make a Broadway entrance. In a game livestreamed in New York’s Times Square, the heart of the theater district, Messi entered Saturday night’s MLS game against The New York Red Bulls in the 60th minute. But 29 minutes later, he scored a goal, his first in the

Arleen Sorkin, known for voicing Harley Quinn across the animated DC Universe, has died. She was 67. DC co-head James Gunn shared the news with a post on Instagram dedicated to the memory of Sorkin. “Rest in Peace, Arleen Sorkin, the incredibly talented original voice of Harley Quinn, who helped to create the character so

Miramax Presents The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today’s great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five questions. This week’s subject is Bill

Coming out of the public relation week from Hell, the studios and streamers are looking for the firm that fought off Pizzagate to help them in the war of words against the striking Writers Guild. After literally and figuratively misreading the room with the release earlier this week of their August 11 proposal to the

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