After a period when Netflix, Hulu and Amazon reigned virtually unchallenged, the SVOD landscape is getting more crowded than the last act of ‘Avengers: Endgame.’ How will the Big Three fare as big-budget competitors enter the fray?
Broadway settled into its pre-Tony wait-and-see groove last week, with box office for most shows hovering just above, below or on par with the previous week. In all, the 37 productions took in $35.1 million for the 2018-19 season’s Week 51, a small 5% dip from the previous week. Total attendance was 310,574, a 2%…
Fox News Channel’s Sunday headline-grabbing, POTUS-pissing-off town hall with Dem 2020 hopeful Mayor Pete Buttigieg scored 1.1 million viewers, 172,000 in the news demo, at 7 PM ET.
Buttigieg’s sit-down with Chris Wallace clocked bigger numbers in both metrics than combined time-slot stats for MSNBC’s Kasie DC…
Dakota Johnson and Golden Globe winner Tracee Ellis Ross, from TV’s Black-ish, have signed on as the leads in Covers, a comedy set among the talent, fame, and fast-paced world of Hollywood's music scene from Focus Features and Working Title Films. Nisha Ganatra, whose comedy Late Night made a big splash at this year’s…
Marta Fernandez is exiting Starz where she most recently served as EVP Originals Programming. Fernandez, a 12-year Starz veteran, is leaving to pursue other opportunities. I hear she has been in talks with Charles D. King’s production company Macro.
Fernandez’s exit comes amid an executive transition at the pay cable…
AMC Theatres’ Stubs A-List subscription service has added 200,000 members in 2019 to date, passing 800,000 total subscribers.
The company said the level is well ahead of its initial Year One target of 500,000 members, and also makes it the No. 1 subscription moviegoing service in North America. MoviePass initially…
“When I made this show, I was interested in going into the world of where the teenagers control,” says director Nicolas Winding Refn, who returns to Cannes for a fourth time in eight years with his upcoming Amazon LAPD cop streaming series Too Old to Die Young, which he co-created with Ed Brubaker.
“This is their…
Sesame Street is tackling the tough issue of homelessness. The popular children’s show has introduced new muppet Karli, a yellow-haired friend of Elmo’s who introduces viewers to her “for-now parents” Dalia and Clem.
The addition of Karli is part of an initiative from the “Sesame Street in Communities” program, which…
AMC and Channel 4 sci-fi drama Humans is coming to an end. The Gemma Chan-fronted series has been cancelled after its third season.
The news came via a blog posted to social media by creators and writers Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent.
The pair wrote, "Sadly, there won't be a fourth season of Humans. In this age of…
The series that made some parents blush and their kids beam is coming back to wreak more havoc at the dinner table. Nickelodeon has set 7 p.m. Monday, June 10, for the premiere of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? with new host John Cena.
The game show will relaunch with a week-plus of new episodes through June 19…
SPOILER ALERT! This gallery includes photos of major plot points from last night’s series finale of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Well, that was that. After eight seasons, the insanely popular, extraordinarily intricate and entirely captivating Game of Thrones came to an end (as did you-know-who – and if you don’t know who…
The HBO series The Deuce is a period piece set just as the porn-movie industry started to thrive. When star Maggie Gyllenhaal came to Deadline’s fourth annual The Contenders Emmys recently, she told the packed audiences of TV Academy members and guild voters that the goal of the show and her character was not to say…
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of Sunday’s Game of Thrones series finale.
It must be both a good day and a sad day at HBO now that the final numbers are in for the series finale of Game of Thrones.
Good because the viewership for last night's episode — “The Iron Throne,” written and directed by David…
Forty years after the Cannes Palme d'Or saved Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece from oblivion, the ultimate disruptor reflects on life before and after "Apocalypse Now."
