Mindy Kaling was just 24 when she became both the first woman and the first person of color to join the writing staff of The Office. 14 years later, this January, her production company Kaling International sold the film she wrote, Late Night, in a record deal with Amazon at Sundance. She also just had her newest film…

When Nicole Kidman first met Per Saari back in 2004, theirs would become the collaboration that spawned a brave new wave of television and film production. From their first film Rabbit Hole in 2010, to this year's second season of smash hit limited series Big Little Lies, Kidman and Saari's company Blossom Films…

Ellen DeGeneres is not yet ready to give up her daytime show, she told Deadline ahead of Netflix’s FYSEE screening of her special Relatable on Wednesday. Saying she’s “torn" on how long to keep the show, she joked, “I don’t know what I’m doing.” While her wife Portia de Rossi wants her to have a chance to relax more…

It seems we have President Obama to thank—at least partially—for Bruce Springsteen’s recent Broadway show and its subsequent Netflix film version, Springsteen on Broadway. At the streamer’s FYSEE opening night on Sunday in Los Angeles, Springsteen recounted how an invitation from the former POTUS had been the genesis…

When Ramy Youssef set out to make Hulu’s Ramy—a scripted comedy that digs into his experiences as a Muslim-American living in New Jersey—he had a whole slew of his own stand-up material to bolster him. “I started from stand-up,” Youssef said on stage at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys on Sunday. He recalled doing…

James Corden took the stage by storm at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys on Sunday, in the energetic style so often enjoyed by viewers of The Late Late Show With James Corden on CBS. As he rushed around the audience demanding that everyone wake up from their post-lunch slump, the power of Corden’s contagious charm was…

Comedy Central’s The Other Two satirizes the world of social media and YouTube fame within a family dynamic and has proved to be so on point that a second season is in the works. At Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys on Sunday, co-creator and EP Sarah Schneider said the upcoming season likely will dig into the newfound…

Julianna Margulies swore she’d never again get sucked into memorizing reams of medical terminology following years on the hit show ER, but she couldn’t resist jumping on the lead role in National Geographic’s upcoming drama The Hot Zone in which she once again plays a medical professional—this time a…

As Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek begins production on its sixth and final season, father-son creative team Eugene and Daniel Levy reflected on the importance of solid character development in their hit comedy. “That’s the great thing about a good character comedy, which is what we set out to make in the beginning,” Eugene…

When creators Micah Bloomberg and Eli Horowitz set out to create the original podcast Homecoming, they never imagined their efforts would result in an Amazon Prime Video series with Julia Roberts as both an executive producer and in the lead role. Speaking on the Paramount Theater stage at Deadline’s The Contenders Emm…

While Trump recently dismissed current Late Night hosts, tweeting that they lacked talent, Stephen Colbert says the President has actually borrowed some of his lines from The Colbert Report. "He could have stolen a lot of my lines," Colbert said during CBS' An Evening with Stephen Colbert at PaleyFest in Los Angeles…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about the Shameless Season 9 finale episode “Found” on Showtime. Emmy Rossum wrapping up her tenure as Fiona in the Shameless Season 9 finale wasn't exactly a shock—fans have known her departure was imminent for a while—but still, it felt pretty sad to see her board a plane…