EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is heading down under for its latest straight-to-series order. The streamer has handed a ten-part order to Irreverent, an Australia-set crime drama from Matchbox Pictures, the production company behind Cate Blanchett’s Stateless. Irreverant was created by Paddy Macrae (Wanted) and follows a criminal from Chicago bungles a heist and is forced to hide
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In addition to her show, Maddow will be developing projects in a new partnership with NBCU, according to a person familiar with the matter. Further details were not immediately disclosed. Earlier this month, sources said that Maddow was considering the possibility of exiting the news network, where she hosts its No. 1 program. The Rachel
Phil Valentine, the Nashville-based radio talk show host known for his skepticism of Covid-19 vaccines, has died following a battle with the virus. He was 61. His station, SuperTalk 99.7 WTN, confirmed the news in a statement posted to Twitter on Saturday afternoon. “We are saddened to report that our host and friend Phil Valentine
On Saturday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 32 new deaths from Covid-19, and 3,891 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases announced today may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s data brings the County to a total of 25,061 deaths and 1,380,415 positive cases. At time of
Bill Maher took on the most valuable company in the world on Friday. He used his “New Rules” segment on Real Time to decry Apple’s announcement that it would soon scan users’ phones for child pornography. Maher said repeatedly that he was against pedophilia, but also against invasions of privacy. He called Apple’s move a
EXCLUSIVE: Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens returned to Comedy Central for Season 2, scoring a 0.31 rating in the 18-49 demo, per Nielsen; L+SD. The Comedy Central series, starring the Shang-Chi and Crazy Rich Asians actress, returned with a two-episode launch on Wednesday in the 10 p.m. hour. The series saw a 20% increase on
EXCLUSIVE: Season two of mythological fantasy animated series The Legend Of Hanuman is making waves in the competitive Indian streaming market, having topped all other shows and movies on paid VOD services over the last week, according to Mumbai-based consultancy Ormax Media. Ormax’s figures estimate that the show has attracted 8.5 million viewers in its
Los Angeles County Health Department officials today released the first data on Covid cases during the first week of school: In the 24 hours between Tuesday at 8 a.m and Wednesday at 8 a.m, the Los Angeles School District recorded 118 new cases. Classes resumed on Monday. The vast majority of those cases — 107
SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the American Horror Stories Season 1 finale, “Game Over.” In the final installment of American Horror Stories‘ first Season, the sprawling reach of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s original franchise comes to the gaming world. In “Game Over,” the meta season ender, all roads lead back to the Murder
EXCLUSIVE: Fourteen of Hollywood’s top cinematographers – including Oscar winners John Toll, Roger Deakins, Emmanuel Lubezki and Erik Messerschmidt – have signed a letter urging the member companies of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to finally address “the hazards of unsafe working hours” that have been common in the film and TV
Comcast and ViacomCBS have announced the next phase of their expected joint streaming venture into international markets in the form of SkyShowtime, which is looking to roll out in 20 European territories in 2022. Deadline reported last month that the two entertainment majors were exploring combined opportunities in the international sphere, rather than planning a
EXCLUSIVE: Gamechanger Films has partnered with Angry Little Girls, the 27-year-old brand from artist and webcomic creator Lela Lee, with plans to adapt Lee’s cult classic comic strip of the same name into a television series and a number of holiday movies. Lee’s webcomic previously inspired a 12-episode animated series that aired on Asian American network Mnet
EXCLUSIVE: Leonine Studios will handle world sales for Odeon Fiction’s new high-end German-language spy series Bonn. The six-part political-thriller, which follows Odeon’s AMC+ series Spy City with Dominic Cooper, recounts the rise of Germany’s Federal Republic after the terror of World War II. It focuses on a young woman who struggles to find her own
The battle for control of SAG-AFTRA has turned ugly, with allegations and threats of lawsuits flying between the feuding factions. Unite for Strength, the union’s ruling party, is calling on Matthew Modine and his MembershipFirst opposition party to publicly denounce the “rhetoric of hate” allegedly espoused by unnamed supporters of his who sit on the
When the new Starz wrestling drama Heels began production last fall, the pandemic posed challenges that were both very new to the industry and also costly. And when dealing with a high contact sport, the stakes are even higher. “Everybody had to be very disciplined,” executive producer and showrunner Mike O’Malley told Deadline. “We started
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the Season 1 finale of HBO’s The White Lotus. “Now, we are starting down a very dark road,” Shane Patton (Jake Lacy) says in tonight’s episode of The White Lotus, “and you’d better be sure you really want to go there.” While the wealthy man-child’s comments are directed
John Oliver isn’t too pleased about the new host of Jeopardy! either. The HBO Max host noted his disgruntlement on today’s episode of Last Week Tonight while discussing school mask mandates. Early in the episode, Oliver played a clip of an angry mob accosting a school board member over mask mandates with a man screaming,
The first case of the much-talked-about Lambda variant of Covid-19 was reported by Los Angeles health officials on Thursday. But for all the fanfare, Lambda doesn’t seem to have been much of a match for Delta – yet. “We’ve only seen one Lambda variant among tests sequenced in our labs, and this was a sample
Archer, one of television’s longest-running animated series, is launching its 12th season Aug. 25 on FXX. It is the last season featuring the voice of core cast member Jessica Walter who died on March 24 at the age of 80. With a show so deep into its run, the question whether to continue always comes
EXCLUSIVE: The Lincoln Lawyer is heading to court, literally. In what could become both a very revealing and grueling affair for all concerned, A+E Studios subsidiary Frankl & Bob Films II, LLC have sued ViacomCBS for “millions of dollars” in losses over the latter’s spring 2020 decision not to go ahead with a series based
Ratings controversy is nothing new in the TV trenches, but the streaming shift is amping up the level of angst all around. The Media Rating Council, a government-founded, industry-supported organization that monitors various media stakeholders, fired the latest shot in the long war over measurement. It ripped Nielsen’s “deep-rooted, ongoing performance issues” in a statement
Netflix said Thursday that its limited series Colin In Black & White, created by Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick, will premiere on October 29, 2021. The six-episode scripted drama chronicles Kaepernick’s coming-of-age tackling the obstacles of race, class and culture as the Black adopted child of a white family in central California. Kaepernick narrates the
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated POV Shorts, from American Documentary, is set to premiere its fourth season via PBS and streaming at POV.org on Sept. 6. This season will feature 13 new diverse, short nonfiction films across 7 episodes tackling the complexities of family, identity, and community. “This is a deeply affecting group of films,
The Strategic Organizing Center (SOC), a federation of labor unions repping close to 4 million workers, Wednesday called on the Federal Trade Commission to reject Amazon’s proposed $8.45 billion acquisition of MGM as a newly vigilant FTC in in the process of scrutinizing the deal that was announced in May. In a letter sent to
AT&T is in talks to sell WarnerMedia’s celebrity gossip site TMZ to Fox, Deadline has confirmed, in yet another deal paring down the telco’s entertainment assets, one that comes as it prepares to spin off Warner and merge it with Discovery. That $43 billion-deal was announced in May and may not close until the middle
Global Citizen Live has revealed more performers for the worldwide show on September 25. Jennifer Lopez — who also played Vax Live in Los Angeles a few months ago — Black Eyed Peas and Meek Mill are among the acts just added to the 24-hour event, which will feature performances in on six continents. See the
EXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn-based sports startup Overtime, whose investors include Jeff Bezos, Drake, Alexis Ohanian and more than 25 current and former NBA stars including Trae Young, Devin Booker, Klay Thompson and Pau Gasol, has launched a college athlete creator studio. Taking advantage of the recent NCAA rule changes that allow college athletes to profit from there
Jon Stewart and Pete Davidson are teaming up for a night of comedy in New York City benefitting various 9/11 charities. The event NYC Still Rising After 20 Years: A Comedy Celebration will bring together some of Stewart and Davidson’s famous friends including Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Colin Jost, Tom Segura, Wanda Sykes, Colin Quinn,
Hollywood and media industry financing sources have tended to be cyclical, with new money refreshing the old every few years. The current cycle of private equity investment, though, is bucking that history and could extend the M&A wave for years to come, dealmakers say. Transactions like the $900 million takeover of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine,
Markie Post, the actress known for turns in Night Court, The Fall Guy, Hearts Afire and more, died on Saturday, following a three year, ten month battle with cancer. She was 70. Post’s manager, Ellen Lubin Sanitsky, confirmed her passing to Deadline. Born on November 4, 1950 in Palo Alto, California, Post got her start in