The creator of Paramount Network’s smash series starring Kevin Costner knows these ropes, being the owner of a working cattle ranch in Texas. He talks with Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. about his writing, acting, directing and producing career and, among other things, the difficulty of moving cows.
EXCLUSIVE: Set in a dystopian reality in which an unstoppable force turns London’s streets into a deserted wilderness, it’s perhaps fitting of our times that War Of The Worlds will be the first UK television drama series to get cameras rolling in the pandemic era. Hollywood blockbusters Jurassic World and Mission Impos…
UPDATED, AFTER JULY 9, 11:43 AM EXCLUSIVE: While players in the NFL debate the severity of punishment that might come the way of Philadelphia Eagles WR DeSean Jackson for tweeting anti-Semitic comments and evoking Adolf Hitler in a widely derided social media rant, team owner Jeffrey Lurie coincidentally launched his…
Despite finding his entire industry shutdown by this pandemic, Bollywood megastar Abhishek Bachchan says he has had a productive few months developing his own projects, recording an English dub for his new Amazon show Breathe: Into The Shadows, and most crucially, spending time with his loved ones. That's not…
The UK version of NBC show Game Night is moving from Channel 5 to Comedy Central as ViacomCBS UK’s director of programs Ben Frow begins to make his mark in his expanded role.
NBCUniversal International Studios-backed Monkey Kingdom will make 10-part series Comedy Game Night for Comedy Central after Season 1 was…
After delaying its 2020 edition due to the pandemic, Sundance's London offshoot will return August 7-9 in an online form for a scaled down version. The event will present three features from this year's Park City festival: Alan Ball's Uncle Frank, Zeina Durra's Luxor, and Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine's Boys State…
British actress Julia Sawalha has claimed she is being chopped from the upcoming Chicken Run sequel because her voice now sounds "too old".
In a statement published online, Sawalha said she has been told by producers via her agent that the character of Ginger will be recast with a younger actress for the second movie…
The Los Angeles teachers union has called for district school campuses to remain closed and online learning to continue when the 2020-2021 school year starts on Aug. 18.
The UTLAposted a notice on its website Thursday night calling on administrators to implement the request. The union also issued a report that…
ESPN announcer and former Yankee Alex Rodriguez and actress Jennifer Lopez are among the bidders angling for the New York Mets, according to reports.
Rodriquez and Lopez have put together a financial consortium to make a bid on the National League Team, which is being sold by the Wilpon family. The bankers handling…
Brandis Kemp, aka Sally Blankfield, died at her home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles on July 4 after a struggle with brain cancer and complications from COVID-19, a friend confirmed. She was 76 and spent five decades as a working actress and comedienne.
She is best known for her TV work in ABC's late night…
Alan Donnes, who worked as a stand-up comic before producing films, acting, doing radio, writing about sports and running National Lampoon, died July 8 of bacterial meningitis in Los Angeles. He was 57 and had been hospitalized for three weeks. His longtime friend Ken Trahan confirmed the news.
A native of New…
Smartly diverse casting in front of and behind the scenes adds a whiff of freshness to the comic book genre with The Old Guard, an action entry likely to kick off a smart genre franchise for Netflix, which starts streaming it Friday. Charlize Theron is the veteran leader of a pack of immortal mercenaries, a ragtag…
One of the handful of originals that will launch NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming platform isPsych 2: Lassie Come Home. The second Psych followup movie, reuniting the cast and the creative auspices of the long-running USA Network crime dramedy, had been originally commissioned by USA but was shifted to Peacock…
