Television Academy chief Frank Scherma and Emmycast producers Don Mischer and Ian Stewart talk to Deadline about the pros and cons of an emcee for the September 22 show — including controlling the politics.
The guestlist for the BBC's remake of RuPaul's Drag Race keeps getting longer with supermodel Twiggy and ex-Girls Aloud pop star Cheryl joining the competition format.
The pair have been added as celebrity guest judges for RuPaul's Drag Race UK, which will launch on BBC Three later this year. Twiggy was the face of…
This year’s Locarno Film Festival (Aug 7 -17) lineup includes Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood and Joseph Gordon-Levitt plane thriller 7500, which gets its world premiere at the Swiss showcase. Scroll down for major category lineups.
The 72nd edition of the festival marks the first for incoming…
The Feed producer Studio Lambert has made a number of drama moves, while Backyard Envy producer Renowned Films has hired a new head of development.
All3Media-backed Studio Lambert has promoted Maddie Sinclair (above) from head of development to executive producer and hired Mammoth Screen's James Gandhi to replace her…
Amazon is heading to Germany for its next football fix – the SVOD service has scored a doc series looking at Borussia Dortmund.
The digital platform has ordered Inside Borussia Dortmund from producer and director Aljoscha Pause, who has made films including Being Mario Götze.
The doc will explore the club's 2018/19…
With the ongoing battle between the WGA and Hollywood's talent agencies now in its fourth month, the guild's negotiating committee reminded writers tonight to be wary of fired agents offering to "help" their out-of-work former clients. More than 7,000 writers have fired their agents who refused to sign the guild's…
The trailer for the upcoming STX Films release Hustlers just dropped, and it’s provocative to say the least.
The video opens with Jennifer Lopez offering Constance Wu a lesson on how to work a stripper pole like a pro.
“Front hook. Ankle hook. Knee hook,” Lopez says as she wraps an acrylic heel around the pole.
“From…
A three-time Emmy nominee with a 33-year screen career, Natasha Lyonne has wanted to employ her talents behind the scenes for as long as she can remember, finally doing so with her Netflix hit Russian Doll. Today, the series earned 11 Emmy nominations in its first go-round, demonstrating to the actress beyond the…
Coming onto Veep as showrunner in Season 5, David Mandel has been caught since then between a rock and a hard place. "It's funny. When I started this thing, the question was always, 'What are you doing about the pressure of taking over for Armando [Iannucci]?' Then, I guess I got a year off, and it's now turned into…
Another day, another opportunity for Stephen Colbert to body slam President Trump.
On Tuesday night’s installment of The Late Show, Colbert called POTUS out for his back-and-forth with the four Democratic Congresswomen known as “The Squad.”
The CBS late-night host read Trump’s tweet from earlier in the day, when the…
When They See Us is on a hot streak. The four-part series not only was one Netflix most-watched shows but it also earned the streaming giant its most Emmy nominations with a count of 16 total. “The title came to life. When They See Us came to life. We see them,” series star Jharrel Jerome, who nabbed his first-ever…
When I walked into the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre for this morning’s Emmy nomination announcement, the first thing I saw on the wall were the words “Netflix Lobby.” Those naming rights for the prolific streamer take on double meaning on a day like this because they not only won the lobby, they also got a…
