The creator of Paramount Network’s smash series starring Kevin Costner knows these ropes, being the owner of a working cattle ranch in Texas. He talks with Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. about his writing, acting, directing and producing career and, among other things, the difficulty of moving cows.
ESPN announcer and former Yankee Alex Rodriguez and actress Jennifer Lopez are among the bidders angling for the New York Mets, according to reports.
Rodriquez and Lopez have put together a financial consortium to make a bid on the National League Team, which is being sold by the Wilpon family. The bankers handling…
Brandis Kemp, aka Sally Blankfield, died at her home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles on July 4 after a struggle with brain cancer and complications from COVID-19, a friend confirmed. She was 76 and spent five decades as a working actress and comedienne.
She is best known for her TV work in ABC's late night…
Alan Donnes, who worked as a stand-up comic before producing films, acting, doing radio, writing about sports and running National Lampoon, died July 8 of bacterial meningitis in Los Angeles. He was 57 and had been hospitalized for three weeks. His longtime friend Ken Trahan confirmed the news.
A native of New…
Smartly diverse casting in front of and behind the scenes adds a whiff of freshness to the comic book genre with The Old Guard, an action entry likely to kick off a smart genre franchise for Netflix, which starts streaming it Friday. Charlize Theron is the veteran leader of a pack of immortal mercenaries, a ragtag…
One of the handful of originals that will launch NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming platform isPsych 2: Lassie Come Home. The second Psych followup movie, reuniting the cast and the creative auspices of the long-running USA Network crime dramedy, had been originally commissioned by USA but was shifted to Peacock…
Peacock, NBCUniversal's new streaming service, launches nationwide July 15 with originals including an adaptation of Brave New World, the original movie Psych 2 and a number of British titles.
Bill McGoldrick, President of Original Content at NBCU Entertainment Networks and Direct-to-Consumer, would have hoped that he…
For Life is not an easy sell as a broadcast drama. Inspired by the life of Isaac Wright Jr., who was wrongfully convicted but got his conviction overturned while in prison and became a licensed attorney, the series’ first season was set in prison. It followed Aaron Wallace (Nicholas Pinnock) as he represents himself…
EXCLUSIVE:Showtime has put in development La Bravura, a one-hour psychological thriller dramedy from veteran comedy showrunner Tad Quill (A Moody Christmas), S.W.A.T. co-creator Shawn Ryan and his MiddKid Productions, and Sony Pictures Television.
La Bravura, which I hear landed at Showtime in a competitive…
One day after Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcettiwarned that “We’d likely return to a mandated stay-at-home order" in one or two weeks if coronavirus conditions in the region get worse, the head of Los Angeles County’s Health Department agreed, with some qualifications.
“Nothing can be off the table in the pandemic,”…
UPDATE: Thursday, 4:30 PM. A search and rescue operation has turned into a recovery effort for Glee’s Naya Rivera. The actress has been missing since Wednesday when she disappeared while swimming at Lake Piru north of Los Angeles.
“We’re presuming that an accident happened and we’re presuming she drowned in the lake,”…
“We wanted to tell that story as it related to the first year. We wanted people to know it’s not all roses — there are some thorny parts of it,” said Maverick Carter, who served as an executive producer alongside LeBron James on the Quibi docuseries I Promise, which details the first academic year of James Family…
Nielsen has put a pin in its planned integration of out-of-home viewing into the overall ratings picture, a step that would have provided a boost in the numbers at a time when networks could really use it.
Originally, the measurement firm had said it would start accounting for viewing outside the home this fall…
