The Murdoch family and the Disney-Fox merger echo loudly in the series as Waystar Royco tries to stay alive as one of the big companies in a changing media landscape. Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro spotlights what went down in Sunday night’s episode and looks ahead at Season 3.
EXCLUSIVE: Kelvin Harrison Jr. has been added to the cast of The Trial Of The Chicago 7,Aaron Sorkin’s longtime-in-the-making drama that was recently picked up by Paramount Pictures for domestic distribution. The starry cast includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frank Langella, Mark…
Facebook is under scrutiny as #DeleteFacebook has become a trending topic once again in the wake of reports of the social media platform’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg having off-the-record dinners with conservatives.
According to Politico, the dinners began in July and were an attempt to connect with the right after Donald…
Ivana Lombardi, who formerly served as Annapurna Pictures’ President of Film, is leaving the company to join Netflix as Director of Independent Film.
Lombardi joined Annapurna as EVP Development early last year moving from Chernin Entertainment. She was promoted to President in January after the previous head of film…
EXCLUSIVE: The traveling event Together Live is in the works for the small screen. UCP is adapting the event as a television series, with founders Jennifer Rudolph Walsh and Glennon Doyle set to executive produce.
According to the official description, Together Live is a traveling event that brings diverse…
Facebook has announced it is partnering with a bunch of European publishers to make 23 new Watch shows starring Facebook creators, including a format with Man V. Food star Adam Richman.
The collaborations see digital publishers match up with Facebook influencers to create shows for Watch, the social media giant’s…
Artists First veterans and partners E. Brian Dobbins and David Gardner have been named Co-Presidents of the management/production company. Peter Principato, who had served as President and CEO since Principate-Young rebranded itself as Artists First in 2018, will remain CEO.
"Brian and David have continually shown…
EXCLUSIVE: Weeds alum Justin Kirk is set for a key recurring role opposite John Lithgow, Matthew Rhys and Tatiana Maslany in Perry Mason, HBO’s limited series from Team Downey.
Written and executive produced by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, who also will showrun, the reimagined Perry Mason is set in 1932 Los…
Former Grimm executive producers Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner of Hazy Mills have reteamed with that series’ former writers Thomas Ian Griffith and Mary Page Keller for a new drama project, which has been set up at NBC.
Penned by husband-and-wife duo of Griffith and Keller, The Translator’s Daughter is a thriller about…
The Chicago company that created a controversial interrogation technique is putting When They See Us director Ava DuVernay and Netflix in the legal hot seat over a line in the Emmy-winning HBO series.
"Defendants published the statements in When They See Us in an effort to cause a condemnation of the Reid Technique,"…
Entertainment One (eOne) has signed Ben Forkner to a first-look deal on all film, scripted and unscripted television, and new media projects. Forkner previously served as the President of Motion Picture Production at Management 360 where he worked with clients on matters relating to intellectual property, film and…
Apple has given a formal series greenlight to Ted Lasso, a comedy starring, co-written and executive produced by Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudeikis.
Written by Sudeikis and Bill Lawrence (Whiskey Cavalier, Scrubs), Ted Lasso is based on the popular Coach Ted Lasso character Sudeikis played in NBC Sports videos…
