When White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre first stood before the media in the White House briefing room last month, the moment made history: She was the first African-American woman to do so in 30 years and the first LGBTQ woman to do so period. Deadline’s Ted Johnson sits down with her.
EXCLUSIVE: NBC has opted not to renew missing plane drama series Manifest for a fourth season. The decision came down Monday night, just hours before the options on the cast were to expire Tuesday and amid a strong showing of Manifest on Netflix where it has been #1 in the U.S. for the past three days.
Manifest, from…
EXCLUSIVE: Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) is set to debut a third season of its female-led crime drama series Honour on its Viaplay streaming service in 2022. Filming is set to start this autumn.
One of the most viewed Viaplay Originals so far, the drama has already been sold in 60 territories worldwide with…
"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to The Late Show, I'm Stephen Colbert." Those are words that the comedian and broadcaster hasn't said for well over year.
Colbert was back in the Ed Sullivan Theater with around 400 fully vaccinated audience members and it was pretty raucous.
After a cold open gag about wearing pants and…
“I'm starting to feel like this is my funeral,” Oz creator Tom Fontana joked, while sitting down for an ATX retrospective on Monday, celebrating his series’ enduring impact.
During the lively, foul-mouthed conversation, moderator Eric Deggans of NPR noted that the prison drama was the first one-hour drama series ever…
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti is out of town this week on what his office on Monday called a “personal trip.” The mayor’s trip comes just as local and state officials are set to lift the vast majority of Covid-19 restrictions tomorrow. The reopening process has not been a smooth one and many are confused about what…
UPDATED at 7:15 p.m.: Just hours after Lip Sync Battle co-host Chrissy Teigen broke her monthlong silence after bullying allegations from former reality star Courtney Stodden, another higher profile reality TV personality has accused her of a concerted campaign to ruin his career.
Michael Costello, who came in 4th…
Trevor Noah and Arsenio Hall are two of the biggest trailblazers in late-night television.
The host of The Daily Show and the host of The Arsenio Hall Show are two of only a few Black comedians and performers to have fronted a late-night show. They got together for a metaphorical passing of the baton as part of the…
"There is a lot of effort put into recruitment, and not retention," said producer Monica Macer of the tactical inclusionary moves that much of Hollywood makes.
"I want to keep creating spaces for writers of color to have a seat at the table, so that our stories can be centered," the former Queen Sugar andMacGyver…
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical may qualify as the most unusual Broadway-style song and dance show ever created.
It all began in the midst of the Covid pandemic, when a young school teacher, Emily Jacobsen, uploaded a 15 second ditty to the social media site TikTok in August 2020–a song she wrote that celebrated Remy…
EXCLUSIVE: Juju Journey Brener and Mason Blomberg are set to star in The Furry Fortune, an indie adaptation of author D. Good Morgan's popular children's book. Morgan also serves as executive producer. Rounding out the cast are Shane Hartline (Addicted to You), Mo Allen, Sean Whalen and its canine hero Henry.
Justin…
Taraji P. Henson is set as host of the 2021 BET Awards, which will be handed out this month. BET also said today that Emmy winner and The Equalizer star Queen Latifah will receive the show’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
The in-person ceremony, whose theme this year is “Year of the Black Woman,” is set for 8 p.m. June…
After director Jon Chu responded to the lack of Afro-Latinx representation in his feature musical In the Heights, the film’s composer/ lyricist/producer and co-scribe and star Lin-Manuel Miranda has weighed in with a public apology on social media.
“I'm seeing the discussion around Afro-Latinx representation in our…
