Defense attorneys in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein failed in their attempt to obtain a gag order against attorney and victims rights advocate Gloria Allred on Wednesday, prompting Allred to tell Deadline, “Harvey Weinstein is not going to silence me.” Allred is not directly involved in this criminal trial, but…

Tony-winning actress Patina Miller is set to star opposite Omar Epps in Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Starz/Lionsgate’s upcoming Power prequel series created by Courtney A. Kemp. Miller will play Raquel Thomas. To the streets, "Raq" Thomas is cold, hard and fierce — a successful and deadly woman taking names in a…

EXCLUSIVE: A year after setting sail with an inventive business plan in which Truly*Adventurous  digitally generates a longform, magazine-quality article every three weeks through a partnership with Medium and Audm, the company has put in play 15 film and TV projects they will produce, some with major elements…

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime is expanding its relationship content with an eight-episode order for Battlefield of Love, a new docuseries that focuses on military couples. The most popular search on dating apps is for active duty military members, according to Lifetime. Battlefield of Love focuses on members of the military who…

EXCLUSIVE: The Man of Bronze is headed to the small screen. Sony Pictures Television and Neal H. Moritz’s Sony-based Original Film have partnered with Condé Nast Entertainment to develop a scripted television series based on the Doc Savage pulp fiction franchise from the Street & Smith library. The project is part of…

EXCLUSIVE: Dame Harriet Walter has joined Ridley Scott's new epic, The Last Duel, the revenge story that stars Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck. Based on Eric Jager’s novel, the script is by Damon, Affleck and Nicole Holofcener. Shooting is just getting underway with filming due to take place in…

Updated with comments from conference call: Dish Network chief Charlie Ergen said he thinks it's inevitable that Dish will ultimate merge with rival DirecTV as pay TV is eroded by cord cutting and other pressures. It seems likely "that those two should get together because the growth in TV is not coming from linear,"…

Spectrum Originals will launch Josh Hartnett-fronted Southern gothic mystery drama Paradise Lost on April 13. Charter Communications' original content division will launch the ten-part drama ad-free on its on-demand service. The show, which comes from Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content, launches first…

Odessa Young (Assassination Nation) and Ella Rumpf (Raw) are the latest to join HBO Max’s forthcoming series Tokyo Vice as series regulars. They join previously announced cast members Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe in the adaptation of Jake Adelstein’s book of the same name. Michael Mann is set to direct the pilot with…

NBC’s favorite heartfelt, tear-jerking family drama This Is Us kept its spot as Tuesday’s highest-rated show, drawing a 1.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and roping in 6.42 million viewers. Although down a tenth, This Is Us along with Ellen's Game of Games (1.0, 4.61M) and New Amsterdam (0.7, 4.75M), which…