When the best part of your trophy show is the short sendoffs to series that have finished including ‘Games of Thrones’ and ‘Veep,’ you might want to quit gazing out of the rearview mirror before you lose control.
Pop star Halsey performed a moving rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” during the In Memoriam tribute at Sunday night’s 71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.
Accompanied by a pianist, Halsey sang the ballad over a screen montage of television legends and other industry figures who passed away since…
Oprah Winfrey made a guest appearance on CBS This Morning on Monday to announce her pick for her re-activated book club: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. (See video above.)
Her interview with Coates will stream on Apple TV+ when the subscription service launches on November 1, under the title Oprah’s Book Club…
Blue Planet II commissioner Tom McDonald is moving into production to become the director of factual at BBC Studios.
McDonald will move over to the BBC’s commercial production arm in early 2020 after four years as the British broadcaster’s head of natural history and specialist factual commissioning.
He will report to…
The big winners last night were Games of Thrones, Fleabag and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Chernobyl, Pose's Billy Porter, Killing Eve's Jodie Comer and the Los Angeles Rams.
Not so much the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Fox.
Back on Sunday and hence up against the Rams vs. the Cleveland Browns match-up on NBC's Sunda…
Edward Norton's U.S. crime-drama Motherless Brooklyn will open this year's Rome Film Festival, which runs October 17-27. Set against the backdrop of 1950s New York, pic follows Lionel Essrog, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome, as he ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only…
EXCLUSIVE: Zai Bennett, managing director of content at Sky U.K., has said hailed Chernobyl’s success at the Emmys as a “coming of age” story for the Comcast-owned broadcaster.
Chernobyl was one of the big winners at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday night, picking up three prizes, including outstanding…
Peaky Blinders fans in the U.S. still have to wait until Netflix drops Season 5 of the epic gangster drama on October 4, but in the UK last night, the season drew to a close on BBC One with a series high 3.8M overnight viewers. The figures edged the record previously set by this season's episode 3, and come with a…
Deadline has bolstered its international ranks with the hire of Screen International’s Tom Grater who joins as International Film Reporter, based in London.
Grater will join International Editor Andreas Wiseman and International TV Editor Jake Kanter in the London bureau. He will report to Wiseman.
The overseas news…
Assassination drama Incitement last night picked up the best picture prize at Israel’s Ophir Awards, the country's primary national film awards. The win means the film becomes Israel’s submission to this year's Best International Feature Film Oscar (renamed for 2020 from Best Foreign Language Film).
Directed by Yaron…
Arrested Development star Will Arnett has joined the cast of The First Team, the BBC2 comedy from the creators of The Inbetweeners.
Iain Morris and Damon Beesley’s six-part series follows the misadventures of three young soccer players and Arnett will play their team’s eccentric American chairman.
Shaquille Ali-Yebuah…
Despite HBO’s Game of Thrones taking the top Emmy prize tonight as Best Drama for its eighth and final season, the press corps in the media room wanted to know how the cast and the creators dealt with the blow back from fans over the series finale.
“I’ll take this one,” declared Kit Harington aka Jon…
HBO topped all networks with nine wins at Sunday night’s 71st annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Amazon Prime Video surged to a second-place finish with seven. The streaming service was paced a several surprise wins for its Fleabag, which won a leading four Emmys as it dominated the comedy categories — leaving lame-duck…
