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There’s no enthusiasm by Larry David for March Madness, as he revealed today on Roku‘s The Rich Eisen Show. “Can I make an admission here This tournament – how much can I follow in sports? I’m supposed to know who’s on Drake? I mean, it’s crazy. Crazy! Is that Valparaiso? I know names on Valparaiso?

The boss of one of the world’s biggest TV distributors has predicted streamers will return to commissioning originals in bulk once they “break even.” Cathy Payne, who runs Big Brother and Black Mirror seller Banijay Rights, said there is “no doubt” the deep-pocketed U.S. giants are currently ordering less originals, preferring to strike alternative deals

A federal court on Wednesday granted Nexstar’s motion to dismiss DirecTV’s antitrust claims. Cablefax reported the court ruled there was a lack of antitrust standing. DirecTV claimed Nexstar violated federal antitrust law by engaging in an illegal conspiracy with partners Mission and White Knight to manipulate, raise, and fix prices of retransmission consent fees. DirecTV

Just days after Richard Simmons alarmed fans with a misguided “I’m dying” Facebook post – he isn’t – the former fitness guru now says he has recently been treated for skin cancer, specifically the burning off of a basal cell carcinoma on his face. Basal cell carcinoma is the most common form of skin cancer

Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are husband and wife, and despite being married since 2022, the couple still used an intimacy coordinator on the set of the series A Gentleman in Moscow. McGregor revealed in a recent interview why having an intimacy coordinator on the set was important while filming sex scenes for the

EXCLUSIVE: Isaach De Bankolé (Godfather of Harlem), Phoebe Fox (The Great), Silvia Dionicio (Wu-Tang: An American Saga), and Coral Peña (For All Mankind) are the newest recurring cast members set for HBO‘s Untitled Brad Ingelsby Task Force Project (working title). De Bankolé will play Father Daniel Georges, the oldest and best friend of lead Mark

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from The Bachelor: Women Tell All. A Q&A with Joey is below. A potential engagement is just around the corner for Season 28 Bachelor Joey Graziadei — and there’s still so many questions to be answered. What is Kelsey’s note all about? Who gets sent home after fantasy suites?

Editor’s note: This is the latest installment in the Deadline series Hollywood Contraction, which examines the toll the job losses caused by the ongoing industrywide cost-cutting has had on different sections of the entertainment community. LinkedIn is usually used by professionals for networking with people in their field, posting updates when they get a new

The Step by Step cast reunited at 90s Con on Sunday and remembered the late Suzanna Somers. Patrick Duffy, Staci Keanan, Angela Watson, Christine Lakin, Christopher Castile, Jason Marsden and Sasha Mitchell honored their late co-star, who died in October following a breast cancer diagnosis. “Suzanne gave the most beautiful, thoughtful gifts and she was

EXCLUSIVE: More citizens will head to the polls this year for elections than any other in history, and the political fever has reached Series Mania. This year’s event in Lille, France contains four political dramas in competition — not surprising given almost 50% of the world will vote for new leaders in more than 64

UPDATED with Night 2 winners: HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show was named Outstanding Variety Show, DC Young Fly of Celebrity Squares was named Outstanding Host and Issa Rae of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance on night 2 of the NAACP Image Awards. The winners in the mostly TV categories

The prestigious 80-year-old Al-Ahram Studio in Cairo‘s Giza district has been destroyed in a fire early on Saturday morning that took six hours to extinguish. Countless Egyptian films and television series were produced there. The fire burned everything inside and spread to nearby buildings. The fire broke out hours after the filming for Al-Moalem, a

The 2024 Oscars ceremony is days away, and details about the show, the nominees and who may win are coming into focus. Read on below for answers to all your questions about the 2024 Academy Awards. When Is The 2024 Oscars? The ceremony takes place on March 10 this year at 4 p.m. PT/7 p.m.

The upcoming sports streaming service from ESPN, Fox & Warner Bros. Discovery has found its boss. The service, which doesn’t have a name yet, has appointed Pete Distad, a former Apple and Hulu exec as CEO. The streamer was revealed last month and is set to launch later this fall. Distad, who most recently served

In her Season 20 preview for Deadline, new Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Meg Marinis called it “back to basics,” and the season premiere, which she wrote, offered just that. In a return to Grey’s early years, the episode ended with Bailey retaking charge of the interns. The opener started with the surgical interns facing the music

We’re getting the first look at André Holland as Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton in Apple’s upcoming limited series The Big Cigar (See photo above). The six-episode limited drama series is set to premiere globally May 17 with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Friday through June 14, on Apple TV+.

Sen. Katie Britt may have been the butt of the joke on Saturday Night Live over the weekend but the freshman politician from Alabama found it “awesome” that Scarlett Johansson played her in the Cold Open. While talking with with Sen. Ted Cruz on his podcast Wednesday, Britt said she was “pretty pumped” at the

EXCLUSIVE: Tovah Feldshuh, the multiple Emmy and Tony Award nominee who recently co-starred on Broadway with Lea Michele in the hit musical revival Funny Girl, has signed with Stewart Talent for representation. Feldshuh earned the first of four Tony nominations in 1976 for her performance in Yentl, with subsequent nominations coming in 1979 (Saravá), 1989

Filmmakers and festival attendees are in Austin for the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival to celebrate the convergence of the tech, film and music industries across various programming formats and special events. The fest runs March 8-16. Now in its 31st year, fest-goers can expect red-carpet premieres from Film, TV, Documentary and Spotlight events

EXCLUSIVE: Rob McElhenney has launched More Better Industries, a multi-faceted company which encompasses three dynamic entities: More Better Productions, More Better Advisory and More Better Ventures. He has appointed Jackie Cohn as the head of More Better Productions. She previously ran television at Red Hour where she developed and executive produced Severance for Apple TV+,

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from Monday night’s episode of The Bachelor. In the opening teaser for tonight’s episode of The Bachelor, we’re met yet again with the clip we’ve been wondering about all season. As he returns to his room post-date during Fantasy Suites week, Joey finds a note tucked into his hotel

ZDF Latest To ‘Race Across The World‘ A six-part series based on Studio Lambert’s Race Across the World is set to air on German pubcaster ZDF in spring 2025. Planning is underway for casting and filming is set for the fall, with All3Media’s German producer, Tower, attached to make the show. Kirstin Benthaus-Gebauer will be the

It was summer 2024 clash of the titans when Barbie and Oppenheimer were scheduled to open on the same day. There were reported overtures from the two producing teams but no one blinked, each film staking its claim on the July 21 release date. What followed was nothing short of extraordinary, with Barbie and Oppenheimer

Cat Deeley, longtime presenter of So You Think You Can Dance, has revealed details of her experience being caught up in a Los Angeles shopping mall shooting scare that made her want to leave her home in Hollywood and return to live in the UK. The Sun newspaper reports that Deeley, about to take over

Jennifer Holland is making DC fans happy after revealing when Peacemaker Season 2 will start filming. After a fan asked Holland on social media if a second season of the John Cena-starring Max series was happening, the star dropped the positive news. “Yessss we start filming this summer! It’s gonna be so gooooood,” Holland replied

While Drive to Survive has sped to a successful six seasons on the Netflix platform and been given credit for a surge in interest in motor racing, particular in the US, the same production team has stumbled to a halt with the tennis world, and now The Times of London reports that documentary series Break

David Alan Grier’s illustrious and varied career began with big dreams from a youth sitting in front of a television in Michigan and absorbing classic film. Grier next stars in The American Society of Magical Negroes, a sharp satirical comedy fable written and directed by Kobi Libii. He began his career on the stage, playing

Francesca Orsi Wins Series Mania Award HBO programing boss Francesca Orsi is to be awarded Series Mania’s Woman In Series Award and will take the stage with Bad Wolf CEO Jane Tranter at the Lille confab later this month. Orsi, whose slate has included the likes of The Last of Us, The White Lotus and

Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a big winner for Prime Video. The series debuted on February 2 and since then has collected more than a billion viewing minutes across its eight episodes, particularly impressive because of its overlap with the Super Bowl hoopla. The showing by Prime backs up its recent streaming hit with Reacher,

Channel 4 has hired a Chief Financial Officer amidst its 250-staff layoff program. The network has brought in Lucy Thomas in the expanded CFO role. Deadline revealed that Finance Director Vince Russell was leaving at the end of last year after five years. Reporting to CEO Alex Mahon, Thomas will lead finance across the public