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Reality star and restaurateur Lisa Vanderpump is closing her Pump restaurant in West Hollywood, California.  “It’s with heavy hearts that we announce that the lease at Pump restaurant is expiring, and we will be closing its doors on July 5th, after 10 years of beautiful evenings under our olive trees,” reads the statement posted on

EXCLUSIVE: India’s Screenwriters Association (SWA) has expressed support for the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike and asked its members to down tools on U.S. films and series.  The SWA, the country’s major industry guild for writers with more than 57,000 members, emailed its membership on Thursday night to explain the WGA’s reasons for calling

Updated with details of LA meeting… On the second day of the Writers Guild of America’s first strike in 15 years, the guild is holding big meetings on both coasts with members to detail how they got here, what’s going on, and what’s next. Picket lines broke up earlier Wednesday as the WGA East met

Allison Holker Boss, the widow of The Ellen DeGeneres Show deejay Stephen “tWitch” Boss, says she’s speaking out about her husband’s suicide to raise awareness about mental health and “hopefully to make people feel comfortable asking for help.” Holker Boss, in her first major TV interview since her husband’s death in December, sat down with

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Stewart is the latest star to cancel promotional duties as part of the writers strike. The comedian has pulled an FYC event for his Apple series The Problem with Jon Stewart next week as the fallout from the strike continues. Stewart was set to take part in a conversation about the second season

EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s Crave has struck a multi-year licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) for the likes of Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, the DC Universe and HBO content. New shows from soon-to-rebrand WBD streamer Max will launch on Crave in Canada, extending a licensing agreement that has been in place since 2019 and including

Award-winning writer-directors Neil Druckmann and Craig Mazin joined the Deadline FYC House event on Friday to discuss their HBO record-breaking drama, The Last of Us. Based on the video game series co-created by Druckmann, the TV series takes place two decades after modern civilization collapsed from exposure to a deadly mutable fungus. The story follows

Jock Zonfrillo, the MasterChef Australia judge and award-winning Scottish chef, has died unexpectedly aged 46. His family confirmed he passed yesterday in a statement: “With completely shattered hearts and without knowing how we can possibly move through life without him, we are devastated to share that Jock passed away yesterday. “So many words can describe

The main cast of Yellowstone was notably missing from the PaleyFest and star Kelly Reilly is clearing things up. Reilly took to Instagram to share a photo with co-star Brian Cox on the set of a new project she is working on. One of Reilly’s followers took the opportunity to ask her why she was

Victoria Grace, who plays Wendy Shin on Days of Our Lives, is withdrawing her nomination from the Daytime Emmys. Grace scored a nod in the Outstanding Younger Performer in a Daytime Drama Series category but was mistakenly submitted in the category. According to official rules for the Daytime Emmys, performers must be “no older than

Sunny Hostin is reacting to the fiery column former The View co-host Meghan McCain posted airing out her grievances from her time on the daytime talk show. While promoting her new book Summer on the Bluffs: A Novel on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, a fan asked Hostin for her thoughts on McCain’s column. “Oh,

Hank Azaria has previously expressed his regret for playing the character Apu in The Simpsons, with a stereotypical Indian accent.  Now he has revealed that he was “afraid” to appear in the 2017 documentary The Trouble With Apu, where Indian comedian Harry Kondabolu called out all the problems with the depiction, including the real life

Who could forget Sheryl Lee Ralph’s Emmy acceptance speech last year, where she sang a rousing celebration of her womanhood and artistry, followed by these words: “To anyone who has ever had a dream and thought your dream wasn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t, come true, I am here to tell you this is what believing looks like,

EXCLUSIVE: The sun is setting on Sky’s Spanish crime drama A Town Called Malice after just one season. Sky has this week informed producers Vertigo Films and Rogue State of its decision to cancel the show, which has come as a surprise to some given preparations were underway for Season 2. Penned by Bulletproof co-creator and The

Big improvements to New York’s film and and television production incentives, included in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal are still in place as lawmakers reached a handshake deal today, according to people familiar with the bill. The legislature is expected to vote formally next week to approve the budget. As Deadline has reported, the incentives

EXCLUSIVE: Canada’s Thunderbird Entertainment has optioned New York Times bestseller Mad Honey. The Vancouver-based producer is planning to turn Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan’s novel into a premium TV series. The novel focuses on themes of young love, teen angst and parental grief, interwoven with murder and high-intensity courtroom drama. The story follows a

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details for this week’s episode of The CW’s The Flash. Barry enlisted the help of an old friend to save the day on Wednesday’s episode of The Flash. The episode starts out on a positive note when Team Flash throws a surprise birthday party for Barry, but things go terribly

Jens Richter has added commercial duties to his Fremantle International CEO role. He’s been named CEO of Commercial and International — a post giving him responsibility for all commercial activity, including the digital, social and FAST channel businesses. RTL-owned Fremantle is working towards a revenue target of €3B ($3.3B) by 2025, and digital represents one

The Cinema Audio Society has set its key dates for the 2023-24 awards season. The 60th annual CAS Awards will be presented live and in-person on Saturday, March 4. The venue is TBA. The nominations covering film, TV and products for production and post-production will be revealed on January 9. See the full timeline below. RELATED: CAS Awards: ‘Top

EXCLUSIVE: In a nod to the current renaissance of the late 1990s “tuner” street car culture, Warner Bros. Discovery’s MotorTrend TV has given a green light to new original series Super Street Garage. The upcoming series is based on Super Street Magazine, founded in 1996, which documented the import car movement in North America. Hosted

The Directors Guild said today that it supports the WGA in its ongoing negotiations for a new film and TV contract. The WGA’s contract expires on May 1, and the DGA will begin bargaining with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for its own contract on May 10. The DGA’s contract expires June

Disney is initiating the second and largest round of its planned layoffs Monday and expects to reach 4,000 of its projected 7,000 staff cuts by Thursday. A staff memo from Disney Entertainment Co-Chairmen Alan Bergman and Dana Walden (read it below) delivered the news, indicating that affected workers would be notified from now through Thursday.

As Comcast manages through the shocking and abrupt exit of NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell, the company has put senior exec Mike Cavanagh at the controls on an interim basis. Cavanagh, who was promoted last October to president of Comcast, will play a central role in guiding the executive changeover and trying to keep NBCU on

British Oscar nominee Lesley Manville has slammed on-screen violence, particularly that against women. Manville, who has a lead role in Amazon Prime spy thriller Citadel, told the UK’s Guardian newspaper she had no plans to watch such a show herself: “I can’t watch violence. I don’t watch any.” (Manville added here that she had yet

Ryan Reynolds celebrated his soccer club Wrexham winning and getting promoted from the National League to League Two. The team is highlighted in the FX docu-series Welcome to Wrexham and this 3-1 win of the Welsh soccer club over Boreham Wood will undoubtedly be part of the upcoming season. Wrexham leveling up was even celebrated

Matthew Rhys has added his name to the long list of British actors who, despite their best endeavours, would not be Bond.  The star of Perry Mason and The Americans told The Times of London that he managed to royally mess up his meeting with 007’s producers, back when they were looking for a replacement

The late-night television sector will be the first to get hit if there’s a writers’ strike and its stars are bracing themselves for impact. The nightly talkshows – The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Daily Show as well as

Freevee’s new series Jury Duty is gearing up for its finale on Friday, and executive producer Nicholas Hatton and star James Marsden spoke with Deadline about all that went into creating the docu-style comedy with no one finding out. An exclusive featurette for Jury Duty can be found above. Across 8-episodes, the series chronicles the

Station 19 is set to hit its 100th episode in the 2023/24 season after ABC renewed the first-responders drama series for a seventh season. The network has also confirmed that Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige will serve as showrunners and exec producers after Deadline revealed that Krista Vernoff was stepping down from Station 19 and Grey’s

Doctor Who is headed to the Swinging 60s. The BBC has in the past few minutes teased a first-look image of Ncuti Gatwa’s 15th Doctor with companion Ruby (Millie Gibson) as filming continues on the new series. The pics come one day after the BBC similarly unveiled a first-look of RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Jinx