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.
UPDATE, 11: 11 AM: The early metrics were not good for the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards and the final numbers are another bludgeoning for TV’s biggest night and Fox, this year’s broadcaster.
Watched by 6.9 million viewers from 8 PM to just after 11 PM ET, the hostless ceremony pulled in the smallest audience for any…
UTA has signed Chance the Rapper in all areas and for worldwide bookings outside the US and Canada. The agency will work with the Grammy-winning hip hop artist with his business, focusing on global touring, brand partnerships, acting, producing, licensing and synchronization, speaking engagements, books, charity work…
UPDATED, 11:05: BET said today that its new Tyler Perry drama series The Ovaland Sistaswill premiere on Wednesday, October 23. Both had been slated to bow on October 9.
PREVIOUSLY, September 9: BET has set the premiere dates for Tyler Perry’s new original drama series The Oval and Sistas, which will premiere back…
EXCLUSIVE: There is a new Walker, Texas Ranger in town. Supernatiral star Jared Padalecki is set to headline and executive produce Walker, a reimagining of CBS’ long-running 1990s action/crime series Walker, Texas Ranger, I have learned.
The project, written/executive produced by Anna Fricke (Valor) and executive…
EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe-winning Entourage alum Jeremy Piven, Oscar nominee Bruce Dern, Taryn Manning of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, Zach McGowan (Shameless, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., The 100) and Jamie Kennedy (Malibu's Most Wanted, Ad Astra) are attached to star in Crabs in a Bucket, an indie comedy from Future…
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will bring together the triumvirate of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci with its New York film festival premiere this Friday September 27, and one person who can’t wait for that event is producer Jane Rosenthal. We can also expect a rather different offering from Scorsese this…
UPDATED with video:Saturday Night Live‘s Emmy win Sunday was hardly unexpected, but the show’s usually stoic creator Lorne Michaels delivered a surprisingly emotional acceptance speech, taking the time to make a touching tribute to the late Chris Farley.
Accepting the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series – a…
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Village Roadshow Pictures has optioned New York Times-bestselling author Charles Pellegrino's environmental horror novel Dust, which Dan Berk and Robert Olsen will adapt for the screen.
Published near the turn of the millennium in 1998, Dust is strangely prescient about the…
Sid Haig, a veteran character actor best known for his later-in-life roles in Rob Zombie’s horror films House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects, died Saturday, his wife Susan Haig announced today on Haig’s Instagram page. He was 80. No cause of death was given.
“He was my angel, my husband, my best friend and…
EXCLUSIVE: MGM has closed a deal with Julius Avery (Overlord) to direct Samaritan, a thriller that will be the next star vehicle for Sylvester Stallone. Shooting will begin early next year.
Based on an original idea, the thriller centers on young boy who is out to discover if a mythic superhero, who vanished 20 years…
A musical adaptation of Between the Lines, the best-selling novel by mega-selling author Jodi Picoult and daughter Samantha Van Leer, is heading for Off Broadway. Producer Daryl Roth announced today that the new musical will begin performances on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 with an official opening in May 2020 at the Tony…
EXCLUSIVE: Pod Save America producer Crooked Media is launching a narrative podcast that will explore public health in America.
The company, which is run by ex-President Obama staffs Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett, the latter who also wrote on The Newsroom, is launching America Dissected with Abdul…
