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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

The 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will take place on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The joint announcement was made by Fox, whose turn is to carry the ceremony this year, and the TV Academy. The three-hour telecast, expanding Fox’s two-hour primetime, will air 8 PM-11 PM EST live coast-to-coast from the

Disney CEO Bob Iger shook up the entertainment industry and Wall Street last month when he declared to CNBC at Sun Valley that linear television may be non-core and that he’s looking for partners for ESPN as the company pivots to streaming. He’s still all in on filmed entertainment, television content studios and theme parks.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh Produce Media, the podcast company behind series such as Jon Hamm-fronted The Big Lie, is launching a new dystopian sci-fi series starring Helen Hunt, Beau Bridges and Julia Rehwald. The company is behind Alethea, which comes from Mark Henry Phillips, who worked on Serial, which debuts on Amazon’s Audible. Alethea, which drops on

James Holzhauer is taking aim at Jeopardy! producers after they announced that Season 40 of the show would continue amid the writers strike. The Jeopardy! champion took to social media to call out producers of the game show after Michael Davies revealed on the Inside Jeopardy! podcast that the new season would recycle questions and

The CW is starting to resemble Fox, according to Perry Sook, CEO of the network’s parent, Nexstar Media Group. “If you think about it, over time, with the same number of hours of weekday programming and its growing live sports portfolio, The CW is increasingly looking like Fox,” Sook said on the company’s quarterly earnings

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Monday’s episode of ABC’s The Bachelorette. Charity Lawson’s quest to fall in love has officially left the United States…for Fiji! If all goes according to plan, Charity will be getting engaged in just a few short weeks. Last week, she met the families and narrowed down her final

Dennis Miller, who took the helm of The CW after Nexstar Media Group bought majority control of it last fall, has been re-upped as president of the broadcast network through 2027. With a background in media and venture capital, Miller has steered The CW through a period of transformation and financial overhaul. Nexstar has pledged

“We kind of live in Candy Mountain on Foundation, because visual effects have such an important role in the show,” said VFX supervisor Chris MacLean at Apple TV+ and Deadline’s Visual Effects + Screen event. MacLean has been with the series for over four years, back when he was working on the first season. “When

Lesli Linka Glatter has been re-elected president of the Directors Guild of America by acclamation of the delegates at the DGA’s Biennial National Convention in Los Angeles. “I am thrilled to say we are as strong and united as ever before,” she said. “Together, we will continue our shared fight — along with SAG-AFTRA and the

Sharon Farrell, whose long career included star turns in film, television, and on Broadway, died May 15 in Orange County. Her death at 82 was only recently discovered by relatives, who posted the news to Facebook, but they were unsure of the cause. Farrell had an extensive resume, but is best remembered for the film

Matthew Broderick has enjoyed a career lasting 40 years on stage, screen and now TV, but he accepts the headline of his legacy will always be “Ferris Bueller.” The star of new Netflix drama Painkiller, a six-part series exploring the US opioid crisis in which he plays former president of Purdue Pharma Richard Sackler, told

Riley Keough, the grandchild of Elvis Presley, today was named the sole trustee of the estate of her late mother, Lisa Marie Presley. The appointment was approved during a hearing Friday before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lynn Healey Scaduto. Priscilla Presley had filed a petition to challenge the validity of her late daughter Lisa Marie’s will

AMC Networks CEO Kristin Dolan offered a wish for labor peace, but she also said the dual WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes wouldn’t begin to threaten the company’s programming supply until “well into 2024.” Speaking on the company’s second-quarter earnings call with Wall Street analysts, Dolan said the company is well-positioned to weather the strikes. The

Hollywood’s potential misuse of artificial intelligence is a “deadly cocktail” and a “poison” that needs to be strictly regulated, SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher said in the guild’s latest strike podcast. AI isn’t new. It’s been used on countless films and TV shows when it was known as computer generated imagery (CGI). But Generative Artificial Intelligence