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A group of the biggest Danish production companies have penned an open letter to Netflix, Viaplay and other major streamers urging them to recommission local content or risk “a decimation of half the industry” after estimating the sector will lose up to 1.5B DKK ($200M). Following the collapse of negotiations with the Create Denmark union

CNN on Thursday denounced the Nicaraguan government after the network’s Spanish-language service CNN en Español was taken off the air there late Wednesday. The feed was removed at 10 p.m. local time, CNN said. The feed went dark as the network showed footage of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy giving his video address at this week’s

Kate Ward, Vice Studios Global President and the boss of Pulse Films, has joined BBC Studios to oversee factual. The signature hire was unveiled this afternoon and will see Ward take over from Tom McDonald, who departed to Nat Geo earlier this year. Ward will oversee a portfolio that includes the prolific Natural History Unit,

EXCLUSIVE: A key Arrowverse villain is heading to Central City. Richard Harmon (The 100) has been been tapped to recur as Owen Mercer (aka Captain Boomerang) in the upcoming ninth season of CW’s The Flash. Per the CW’s description, a comic book favorite, a new post-Crisis Captain Boomerang has recently been released from Iron Heights

Leaving Neverland creator Dan Reed and Four Hours at the Capitol director Jamie Roberts have opened up about obtaining footage from the Taliban for upcoming HBO/BBC feature doc Escape from Kabul Airport.  Unveiled at last month’s Edinburgh TV Festival, the landmark doc, which launches later today on HBO and BBC Two, tells the inside story of a

EXCLUSIVE:  Tyner Rushing (Under the Banner of Heaven, The Terminal List) has joined the upcoming fourth season of Apple TV+’s space drama series For All Mankind, created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, as a new series regular. Produced by Sony Pictures Television, Season 4 is currently in production. For All Mankind

Brian Reich, a veteran comedy writer known for his work on Late Night With Conan O’Brien where he created such memorable characters as Masturbating Bear and Pimpbot 5000, died Sept. 12 in Los Angeles. He was 53. Reich, born April 5, 1969, was a Harvard Lampoon alum. His first job out of college was as

Eugenio Derbez is developing the workplace comedy series They Came At Night with ViX+ under the first-look deal between 3Pas Studios and TelevisaUnivision. They Came At Night is inspired by true events and it gives a behind-the-scenes look at the group of underdogs who went on to create the critically acclaimed Spanish version of the 1930

By one estimate, as many as 4 billion people could be watching as the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II takes place on Monday, September 19 beginning at 11 a.m. BST (3 a.m. PT). As many as 750,000 people are predicted to travel to London for the state funeral and pay their respects as the

Miriam Lucia is one of the industry’s busiest intimacy coordinators. Recent credits include HBO shows House Of The Dragon, The White Lotus season 2 and The Nevers, and movies Catherine Called Birdy and Gareth Evans’ Havoc. She is currently working on Emerald Fennel’s new feature for Amazon, Saltburn, starring Rosamund Pike, Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan. We spoke to

Kandi Burruss has been a staple on The Real Housewives of Atlanta since joining the Bravo franchise for its second season. With Season 15 ahead, the Grammy-award winner is teasing she’s returning which would make her the longest-running housewife across all franchises. While making an appearance on Amazon Live, Burruss was asked about her seat at the

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details & exclusive behind-the-scenes looks from the fourth episode of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which dropped on September 15. A new episode of Inside the Ring will drop every week of Season 1 of Rings of Power. Check out past episodes here. “There

Dynasty, the CW’s reboot of the beloved ABC sudser from the ’80s, came to an end Friday night after five seasons. Here, showrunner Josh Reims talks about what he really wanted to do in the last episode, and how odd it was that ratings for the sudser were never really discussed. DEADLINE: Did you have

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic released a trailer today for its new documentary The Flagmakers, and announced that NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo has come on board as an executive producer of the film that’s expected to be a strong awards contender. The short film, directed by Oscar winner Cynthia Wade and Sharon Liese, takes viewers inside an

Major British broadcasters have been engaged in a fierce stand-off with UK newspapers over the rights to the live coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral, Deadline can reveal. The BBC is producing the bulk of the live feed of the funeral and is footing most of the bill, while ITV and Sky has also invested

EXCLUSIVE: CBS won’t be heading back into the Panamanian jungle. Deadline understands that celebrity-competition series Beyond the Edge has been canceled after one season. The show, which premiered in March 2022 and ran through May, followed Survivor and was in a slot that previously featured Tough as Nails and The Amazing Race, but it struggled to break

HBO Max To Build ‘The Bridge’ In Hungary HBO Max’s Hungarian arm will run a local version of Banijay survival format The Bridge. The format tasks bringing contestants together to build a 250-metre-long bridge to an island for the chance to win a large cash prize, and this latest deal marks its sixth international adaptation.

Andy Samberg has found his voice cast for animated comedy series Digman! Tim Robinson, star of oddball Netflix sketch comedy I Think You Should Leave, is one of six cast in the series, which also includes Mitra Jouhari (Three Busy Debras), Dale Soules (Orange Is The New Black), Guz Khan (Our Flag Means Death), Melissa

Australia’s Nine Network has ordered a local version of Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars and a two-part drama event series based on the late cricket maverick Shane Warne. Both shows were presented at Nine’s Upfront today. Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars is the latest adaptation of celeb chef and present Ramsay’s cooking competition format, which All3Media International sells

The Chernin Group and Night, Inc. are launching Night Capital, a new investment company with commitments of $100 million, to acquire established consumer-facing companies in partnership with leading talent. Alexandra Moore, a former executive from Amazon who focused on mergers and acquisitions, will lead Night Capital as its founding managing director. TCG has also invested

EXCLUSIVE: UK pay TV service Sky cut portions of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver yesterday evening over tongue-in-cheek comments related to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Angered viewers took to social media to question why two segments had been dropped from the British version of the HBO satire show, which followed the UK royal’s passing last

Here’s a first trailer for the frightening-sounding — and looking — Netflix sci-fi anime horror series Exception, which debuts on October 13. News breaking today also reveals music Academy Award winner Ryuichi Sakamoto will feature in the space saga. The synopsis for the series, which is from Tatsunoko Production and Studio 5, reads: “In the far

British broadcasters are reviewing their TV schedules daily in the lead up to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II next Monday, striking a balance between tribute programing and some shows that were previously due to air. Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday aged 96 and the country is in mourning, with tributes pouring in from across

Disney’s movie and television studios including Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Studios, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, 20th Century Studios and Disney Branded Television revealed plenty of news at the D23 Expo, which ran September 9-11 at the Disneyland-adjacent Anaheim Convention Center. Highlights included panels loaded with cast and creatives behind almost every big

Percy Jackson is back and Disney+ just unveiled the first look teaser trailer of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The footage was introduced at the D23 Expo by the three stars of the series: Walter Scobell, Aryan Simhadri and Leah Sava Jeffries. Watch the teaser video above. “Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood. Being a

Marvel Studios took the wraps off its first TV special, the Halloween-themed Werewolf by Night, at Disney’s D23 Expo on Saturday, unveiling a trailer and revealing that the special will premiere October 7. Watch the trailer above and see the key art poster below. Gael Garcia Bernal and Laura Donnelly star in the special, shot in

This week’s 20 Questions On Deadline guest is Rachel Bloom. The multi-hyphenate Bloom first found fame as co-creator and star of the musical comedy series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, for which she won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a Critics Choice award. In this chat covering how to deal with the pain of rejection, a creepy

Ellen Pompeo on Friday made her first public comments about her reduced on-screen presence on Grey’s Anatomy next season. As Deadline exclusively reported last month, Pompeo will appear in only eight episodes of ABC’s top scripted series for the upcoming 19th season. She is using the time to star in and executive produce an eight-episode Untitled

EXCLUSIVE: Another Round star Maria Bonnevie is leading Viaplay’s latest Norwegian original, a comedy-drama inspired by award-winning director Bård Breien’s unusual childhood. In the Name of Love is set in 1970s Norway, where a primary school teacher, played by Bonnevie, does everything to keep her husband Lars’ (Trond Espen Seim) highly profitable porn business secret. Lars sees his

AMC Networks is consolidating its distribution and affiliate operations with ad sales, promoting Kim Kelleher to the new role of chief commercial officer. Josh Reader, who joined AMC Networks in 2011 and has been president of distribution and development since 2019, is exiting the company. He had previously informed top execs of his plan to