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TV Emmy Voting Starts & Key Members Pick Their Favorites; Apatow Talks Carlin & More

Those Primetime Emmy ballots are now live, with voting to be completed by August 22. It has been a very, very long season and the first since the pandemic began in earnest in early 2020. You can count on that campaigning to keep going until the last minute in a season that was perhaps more content-rich and dense than any in recent memory.

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Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth Remember ‘Beverly Hills, 90210’ Costar Denise Dowse After Her Death

Denise Dowse, who had a recurring role on Beverly Hills, 90210 as Vice Principal Yvonne Teasley, died at the age of 64 after contracting meningitis. Following her death, Tori Spelling and Jennie Garth honored her memory recalling how it was working with her on set. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery It…

Zoë Kravitz Reflects On Backlash Over Comments About Will Smith’s Slap At The Oscars: “It’s A Scary Time To Have An Opinion”

Zoë Kravitz is looking back on the comments she made about Will Smith after the actor slapped Chris Rock during the live broadcast of the Oscars. Following the incident at the 2022 Academy Awards, The Batman actor took to social media and shared a photo of herself on the red carpet wearing a pink dress and captioned…

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Liz Cheney Vows To Do “Whatever It Takes” To Keep Donald Trump From “Anywhere Near The Oval Office” As She Concedes Wyoming Primary Race — Update

UPDATE: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), soundly defeated in her primary against a Trump-backed challenger, said that “now the real work begins,” as she vowed to prevent the former president from returning to the presidency. As pundits weighed the possibility that Cheney would wage a 2024 presidential run, she used her…

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‘Superman & Lois’ To Recast Jonathan Kent Role As Jordan Elsass Exits the CW Series

UPDATED: Superman & Lois series regular Jordan Elsass will not be returning for the upcoming third season of the CW’s DC series. As a result, his role, Jonathan Kent, will be recast. The decision was made after Texas native Elsass did not report back to work by the deadline given to the cast to reconvene in Vancouver…

Academy CEO Bill Kramer Lays Out Some Goals, Talks 2023 Oscar Show Producers & Plans In “Exclusive” Interview To Membership

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today not only sent out its latest edition of their digital newsletter, A. Frame, to its entire 10,000-plus membership, its also alerted press and made it available to them just an hour later. The reason for all this? An “exclusive” interview with new CEO Bill Kramer…

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Take Two: Star Power – Is Tom Cruise Really The Last Movie Star?

Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 28th episode of its video series Take Two (formerly known as Two Shot), in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hope…

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‘Wednesday’: First Look At Catherine Zeta Jones, Luis Guzmán & Addams Family From Netflix Series

Netflix has revealed a first look at the Addams Family members that will be featured in the series Wednesday. The streaming service shared a black and white photo on social media that features the main characters created by cartoonist Charles Addams. Jenna Ortega plays the titular character and is front and center of…

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Diane Lane Remembers ‘Perfect Storm’ Director Wolfgang Petersen: “A Big, Loving Soul”

The Perfect Storm star Diane Lane paid tribute today to its director Wolfgang Petersen, who died Friday at 81. Wolfgang Petersen: A Career In Photos “My heart is sad today,” she said in a statement to Deadline. “Wolfgang was a big, loving soul. A natural leader via positive encouragement; dare I say, he was a…

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IATSE Accuses AICP Of “Union Busting” In Drive To Organize TV Commercial Production Department Workers

IATSE is accusing the Association of Independent Commercial Producers of "union busting" and providing companies with a “license to blacklist" production department workers engaged in unionizing efforts. Last month, the union said that thousands of workers employed in TV commercial production departments had formed a n…

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Netflix Top 10: ‘Extraordinary Attorney Woo’ Continues Extraordinary Run; ‘The Sandman’, ‘Never Have I Ever’, ‘Locke & Key’ Top English Chart

Extraordinary Attorney Woo did not take the world by storm the way Squid Game did last year. The latest hit from Korea instead took the scenic route toward success by gradually building its popularity via word of mouth. Extraordinary Attorney Woo — essentially a legal take on The Good Doctor (which also originated in…

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Lizzo On Carrying Flag For Plus-Size Dancers, Ensuring “Everybody Felt Respected”

Creatives On Finding Hidden Gems To Tell Lucille Ball And Desi Arnaz’s Love Story

Rachel Brosnahan On Doing All That Stand-Up In Penultimate Season

Executive Producer Brent Miller Says “The Time Is Right” For ‘Maude’ Episode

Producers Randy Barbato And Fenton Bailey On The Rise And Rise Of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’: “It’s About Love And Self-Expression And Openness”

"You always hope every show you do is a massive revolutionary force that changes people's lives," says RuPaul's Drag Race producer Fenton Bailey, "but so rarely is that the case." But by any metric, World of Wonder's long-running reality show — in which ever more outrageous drag queens compete for the approval of its…

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‘Black Panther’, ‘Mysterious Benedict Society’ Actor Seth Carr Signs With Gersh

EXCLUSIVE: Seth Carr, known for his work in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther and Disney+’s The Mysterious Benedict Society, among others, has signed with Gersh for representation. Carr plays the series regular role of George ‘Sticky’ Washington on Disney+ series The Mysterious Benedict Society, which has completed filming…