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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

L.A. County’s Department of Public Health reported 13 new deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday, along with 4,283 new positive cases. The number of deaths and confirmed cases reported may reflect delays in weekend reporting. But today’s data brings the County to a total of 24,769 deaths and 1,323,345 positive cases. At time of reporting, 1,383

“Congressman is literally the only job in the world you can get with so much prestige and so many perks while being a complete doofus with absolutely no skills, knowledge or qualifications,” said Bill Maher as he began the final of his “New Rules” on Real Time Friday. “Name almost any job — dental hygienist,

Warning: The following podcast contains spoilers from the season one finale of AppleTV+’s dramedy series Physical, “Let’s Get Together” Today we talk with the creator and EP of Physical, Annie Weisman, as we breakdown the season one finale of Physical, which AppleTV+ recently gave a second season to yesterday. Even though Sheila’s (Rose Byrne) husband Danny (Rory Scovel) lost

UPDATED with schedule changes: NBCUniversal is airing programming from the Tokyo Olympic Games across a wide swath of its broadcast, cable and digital properties, the programming schedules for which are constantly shifting this year. Deadline is updating this list daily from multiple official sources. See schedule below for full event listings. NBCU’s Peacock streaming service

EXCLUSIVE: Atypical star Keir Gilchrist, Elizabeth Marvel (Homeland) and Tom Pelphrey (Ozark) are set as series regulars alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Jesse Plemons, Patrick Fugit and Lily Rabe in HBO Max’s Love and Death, a limited series about the true story of Texas housewife Candy Montgomery’s murder of Betty Gore in 1980. Written by Kelley and

EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video has set its first scripted Canadian Amazon Original series, The Lake. Jordan Gavaris (Orphan Black), Julia Stiles (Hustlers, The Bourne Identity) and Madison Shamoun (#blackAF, Black-ish) star in the half-hour comedy, produced by Amaze (Carter). Set in cottage country, it will film in northern Ontario from August to September for a 2022

EXCLUSIVE: After executive producer Jada Pinkett Smith introduced a show distinguished by the remarkable amount of candor on personal issues facing women and families with the Facebook series Red Table Talk, the brand is expanding into the realm of sports. Red Table Talk Productions is developing The Toughest Opponent, with Brandon Marshall set to host.

For the three months ended June 30, 2021, Sony Pictures Entertainment posted profits of $232 million, a 6% decrease versus the same period last year on a local currency basis (27 billion yen to 25.4 billion yen). Revenue was up 15% on a U.S. dollar basis to $1.87 billion. Films in release during the quarter

Simone Biles took to the balance beam today at the Tokyo Olympics and proved she is every inch a true champion as the Covid conflicted NBC broadcast games head into their final days. Yet, as Emmy campaigning truly ups its game and the Delta variant brings masks and vaccination mandates across the nation, there’s a

Saturday Night Live’s annual will-they-stay-or-will-they-go debate is alive and well. The conversation over whether any key cast members will leave the fabled NBC institution is getting louder with rumors and gossip swirling around the likes of Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong and Colin Jost. However, Deadline understands that SNL supremo Lorne Michaels

Fox News Media said that it has parted ways with legal analyst Andrew Napolitano, following an associate producer’s claim of sexual harassment. The employee, John Fawcett, who works on Fox Business Network’s Kudlow, filed a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court (read it here) on Monday against the network, outlining his claims against Napolitano. Fawcett