EXCLUSIVE: Broad City alum Abbi Jacobson has been tapped to voice Katie Mitchell, one of the lead roles in the animated family comedy The Mitchells Vs The Machines, which is set up at Sony Pictures Animation with Oscar winners Phil Lord and Christopher Miller attached to produce along with Kurt Albrecht. Slated for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Fishburne is to host and narrate a new strand for History that will investigate a range of mysteries surrounding the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell and John Wilkes Booth. The Matrix and Black-ish star is to front History's Greatest Mysteries for the A+E Networks broadcaster, launching in summer…

Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd are getting back together for the MRC Television limited series The Shrink Next Door which is based on the 2019 No. 1 new  Wondery and Bloomberg Media podcast. The last time the duo starred together was in 2013’s Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.  Also inspired by true events, The Shrink Nex…

Pioneering sportscaster Lesley Visser will make history in the spring when she becomes the first woman to receive the Sports Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sports Emmy Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said today that she will be honored at the 41st annual ceremony on April 28 at Jazz at…

Universal Entertainment Group, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media at Mount Saint Mary's University and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have entered a year-long partnership to pilot a Spellcheck for Bias resource to help support more authentic Latinx onscreen representation and casting opportunities…

EXCLUSIVE: Westworld Emmy winning actress Thandie Newton will headline Julian Higgins' feature directorial debut God's Country for Cold Iron Pictures and The Film Arcade, Deadline has learned. The neo-Western thriller is set in the bleak winter landscape of the Mountain West. Newton plays a college professor living on…

EXCLUSIVE: Endemol Shine Group and ViacomCBS network Channel 5 have become the latest companies to sever ties with Kew Media Distribution (KMD) as the embattled TV sales house edges closer to collapse. KMD was responsible for selling Agatha And The Curse Of Ishtar and Agatha And The Death of X (working title), a pair…

EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired North American rights to Proximity, a sci-fi thriller that marks the feature directorial debut of Eric Demeusy. The Emmy-winning VFX veteran is behind the main title designs of the likes of Game of Thrones, Stranger Things as well as Tron: Legacy. Ryan Masson (Good Girls)…

EXCLUSIVE: British producer Fired Up Films has teamed up with The Crying Game star Stephen Rea and Beat director Marco Kreuzpaintner on a pair of dramas. The company, which was set up in 2017 by Simon Howley and Jon-Barrie Waddell, is working with Rea on Irish crime drama Ladder of Angels and with Kreuzpaintner on spy…

Following Berlanti Productions’ big slate expansion over the past several years to become the most prolific producer in television, the company founded by Greg Berlanti is also expanding its top executive suite. Sarah Schechter, who has served as President of Berlanti Productions for the past six years, overseeing…