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EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights has sold rags-to-riches series The Hardacres to a wealth of territories as the sales giant reveals one of its biggest pre-MIPCOM deal packages with the Cannes confab kicking off next week. The Channel 5 show from All Creatures Great and Small producer Playground chronicles the loves and fortunes of the working-class Hardacre

The Penguin is halfway over, and audience interest is still growing. The fourth episode drew 1.7M viewers cross-platform viewers in the U.S., which is a season high premiere night audience, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. It’s a small lift from the second episode, when 1.6M tuned in, which already marked a 17% increase over the

Don’t let BBC Director General Tim Davie hear you say the word “talent.” With the BBC’s review into dodgy workplace behavior kicking off following the Huw Edwards, Strictly Come Dancing and Jermaine Jenas scandals, the DG said he has banned a word that has been common parlance in the TV industry for decades. Speaking to

Today is gonna be the day Liam Gallagher is gonna throw it back to Saturday Night Live. In a succinct one-liner posted to X earlier this morning, one-half of the brothers in the rock band Oasis reacted to the SNL spoof on “Weekend Update,” featuring Sarah Sherman as him and James Austin Johnson as his

Big Brother Season 26 is coming to a close on Sunday, October 13, when a new winner will be crowned on CBS. The live two-hour finale will air on CBS starting at 9 p.m. ET and stream on Paramount+ for subscribers. After 90 days of competition, the winner of Big Brother will win a cash

Cory Michael Smith had some big shoes to fill with his latest role. The Saturday Night actor recently opened up about the “terror” of mastering his portrayal of Chevy Chase and his “very compulsive” process to prepare for the film, which premiered Friday on the 49th anniversary of Saturday Night Live‘s debut. “I have loved

As Bill Maher attempts to appeal to Gen Z, he’s recycling some particularly outdated talking points. On Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian used Chappell Roan‘s recent political statements to try and school the ‘Pink Pony Club’ artist and her fans on the Israel-Hamas war. “To mark the Oct. 7 anniversary,

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is not proceeding with a third season of Unstable, its comedy series starring and co-created/executive produced by Rob Lowe and his son John Owen Lowe. The news, which I hear has been relayed to the crew, is not surprising because Season 2, which debuted Aug. 1, failed to break into the Netflix Top

EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has placed a big bet on daily drama with the launch of Return to Las Sabinas. The first five instalments dropped today in Spain, as well as on Disney+ around the world and Hulu in the U.S. The remaining 65 parts will be stripped throughout the week with new eps released weekday mornings.

Netflix’s The Diplomat will arrive ahead of the 2024 presidential election at the end of October. The political thriller series, starring Keri Russell, received a renewal order for another season in May 2023 after Season 1 premiered on Netflix on April 20, 2023. The ending left viewers wondering as to the fate of a certain

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has sought inspiration from unlikely places including Oscar-winning movies and Netflix basketball docs for its next generation of natural history shows. In a saturated market hit by rising costs, natural history boss Sreya Biswas told Deadline she is focused on telling dramatic narratives and commissioning binge-able fare that takes advantage of top-level

The ten queens competing for the crown in Drag Race Down Under Season 4 have been revealed, and WOW Presents Plus has set the U.S. premiere date for the competition. Michelle Visage has been tapped to host and preside over the reality competition set to premiere on Friday, November 1, on WOW Presents Plus in the

Raven-Symoné has been acting since she was a little girl, and one of her first starring roles was in the sitcom Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper. The former The View co-host made an appearance on The Talk where she said she is still in close contact with her co-stars Holly Robinson Peete and Mark Curry. “I

Update: Netflix released the full trailer for Season 2 of The Diplomat early in October ahead of the second installment’s debut on the streamer on Halloween. U.S. Ambassador Kate Wyler (Keri Russell) has a new adversary in Season 2 of The Diplomat — but at least her husband is still around to continue helping her

EXCLUSIVE: The London Screen Academy, which was founded by industry titans Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, David Heyman, Eric Fellner, Tim Bevan and Last King of Scotland Producer Lisa Bryer will set up a new campus at the Camden Film Quarter, the film and TV-focused neighborhood being developed by Yoo Capital in central London, Deadline

Nadia Caterina Munno, star and executive producer of The Pasta Queen which arrives on Prime Video Oct. 24 highlighted two main ingredients that make the show unlike anything that has come before it: five generations of her Italian family and their perspective of Italy versus an American one. Munno, who descends from an Italian pasta

Ten days after the Southeast was wracked by Helene, one the deadliest storms in modern history, the National Weather Service today forecast that newly-formed Hurricane Milton is headed toward central Florida and could impact the entire state. “Milton is forecast to move just north of the Yucatan Peninsula and across the southern Gulf of Mexico

Another brutal Stormfront is imminent as Aya Cash braces fans for Vought Rising. Although the actress admitted they “don’t actually know yet” when The Boys spin-off will begin filming, she teased an exciting prequel to the comic book adaptation after reading the first two episodes. “I’ve read two scripts and they’re absolutely insanely good. But

Nate Bargatze knows what his fans want: For his second trip to Saturday Night Live, the comedian dusted off his waistcoat and breeches for another skit about “Washington’s Dream.” In the return of the sketch that first debuted last November, Mikey Day, James Austin Johnson, Bowen Yang and Kenan Thompson are dressed as American Revolutionary

Despite her upcoming murderous portrayal, Ella Purnell struggled to stomach her latest role. As the British actress discussed her homicidal character Rhiannon Lewis in Sweetpea, premiering Oct. 10 on Starz and Sky, she admitted starring in the series did “take a toll” on her mentally. “People think I must be really messed up, but I

Charli XCX thought Bowen Yang‘s impression of her on Saturday Night Live was very brat. In a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, the dance music artist was asked by the host if she saw the sketch, part of the Season 50 opener episode, as a “compliment, or were you just ticked off about

EXCLUSIVE: Damon Wayans and Damon Wayans, Jr. will get a chance to pay tribute to their old gigs on In Living Color and New Girl by featuring special appearances by Tommy Davidson and Lamorne Morris on their new CBS comedy Poppa’s House. In an episode planned for February, Morris — who starred opposite Wayans, Jr.

Top executives at Korea‘s CJ ENM announced that they will retain their annual content spend at 1 trillion won ($750M), while acknowledging that new business models are necessary to combat the industry’s economic headwinds. “Despite the growing uncertainty in the film industry, we will continue to support creators and enable their imaginations to come to

Matthew Broderick is married to Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker and recently revealed why he never appeared in the HBO series. In a new interview, the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off opened up about why he never guest-starred in Parker’s show. “Whenever there was a part that I could do, I couldn’t do

The BBC has canceled a planned interview with Boris Johnson after presenter Laura Kuenssberg accidentally sent the former UK prime minister her briefing notes. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Kuenssberg said the error was “embarrassing and disappointing” after she had intended to share the document with colleagues. Boris Johnson: The Laura Kuenssberg Interview

Brilliant Minds is off to a good start for NBC. Michael Grassi’s medical drama has attracted 9.2M cross-platform viewers to its premiere episode since the September 23 debut, NBCUniversal says. That’s up 138% from the live + same-day audience of 3.9M. The audience declined slightly for Episode 2, attracting 3.5M live + same-day viewers on

Bravo is teasing the new season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with a new promo. Season 14 of the Beverly Hills-based reality series is set to premiere this fall, and the cable network has released a teaser for fans. “Lights. Camera. 90210,” reads the post on X, the social media platform formerly known

EXCLUSIVE: Following the outsized success of Prime Video‘s YA drama The Summer I Turned Pretty, Amazon is bringing another popular romantic book series to the screen. The streamer has given a series order to Off Campus, a college-set romantic drama based on the international best-selling novels by Elle Kennedy, with Louisa Levy (Death and Other

Jon Stewart is an undecided voter, he joked, as in part of a group that’s “basically, me and six people who were kicked in the head by very powerful horses,” he said on Monday night’s installment of The Daily Show, which kicked off with a long segment comparing the two presidential candidates VP Kamala Harris

Another month, another star-studded new series from Ryan Murphy under his Disney deal. FX has given a series order to The Beauty, a drama starring Evan Peters, Anthony Ramos, Jeremy Pope and Ashton Kutcher. Peters, Ramos and Pope also executive produce. Co-created, written and exec produced by Murphy and Matt Hodgson, The Beauty is based