It seems only fitting that musician and songwriter Jonathan Coulton began his relationship with Robert and Michelle King, married co-creators of CBS' The Good Wife—and its CBS All Access spinoff, The Good Fight (with Phil Alden Robinson)—because of a legal dispute. A 2014 Good Wife episode drew inspiration from a…
No, that's not a typo in the title of Amy Winfrey's Making Fiends. The multifaceted Winfrey (animator, screenwriter, songwriter, director and voice actor) created a children's horror web series about a murderous little girl whose friends are monsters and whose nemesis is Pollyanna on steroids that was madly delightful…
Are BoJack Horseman veteran Lisa Hanawalt's 30-year-old BBFs (Best Bird Friends) in her new Netflix animated series, Tuca & Bertie, a sort of surreal Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern for millennials? Or are insecure songbird Bertie, voiced by Ali Wong, and her crazy Toucan gal pal Tuca, portrayed by Tiffany Haddish…
First, the news: This year's Women in Film Gala, held Wednesday night at the Beverly Hilton, showed this group means business by introducing three new awards honoring Hollywood's female entrepreneurs: The WIF Entrepreneur in Entertainment Award, Emerging Entrepreneur Award, and the WIF Members Choice Award.
The first…
UPDATED with video: There was plenty of laughter as well as a lot of tears at Raleigh Studios on Sunday night at a screening of the first episode of Ava DuVernay's limited series When They See Us, a dramatization of the real-life events of surrounding the wrongful conviction and eventual exoneration of the so-called…
It was probably a coincidence that Agnes Chu, SVP, content, for Disney+, was seated next to Craig Erwich, SVP content for Hulu, at today's panel titled "The Streamers: Meet the Buyers" at today's Produced By Conference 2019 at Warner Bros. in Burbank.
Or maybe it was just alphabetical on a panel that continued down…
Tonight the Television Academy in North Hollywood presented a panel discussion with Seth Meyers, and perhaps the audience might have expected a heavy dose of Trump gags and witty political snark from the Late Night With Seth Meyers host – particularly in light of this week's controversial news about Alabama's…
On today’s The Contenders Emmys panel featuring the stars of Netflix drama Ozark, moderated by Mike Fleming Jr., Jason Bateman said he had some fun throwing away some of his Marty Byrde character’s “icy, no-emotion” demeanor to show a few frayed edges in the series’ second season.
Bateman said that as Marty, a…
Anyone who followed free climber (that is, no ropes) Alex Honnold’s historic scaling of El Capitan in Nat Geo’s movie Free Solo breathed a huge sigh of relief when he finally made it to the top. While celebrating Honnold’s triumph, the team that captured the event on camera admitted at today’s Deadline’s The …
AT&T Audience Network’s thriller series Condor, adapted from the Oscar-nominated film Three Days of the Condor and the screenplay Three Days of the Condor by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel, stars Max Irons as Joe Turner, a young CIA analyst who unwittingly becomes the center of a major conspiracy. Today’s…
No doubt about it: Penn Badgley looks more like the handsome boy next door than a serial killer. That’s exactly why the actor was the perfect choice to play the murderous Joe Goldberg in WBTV’s You, said creators and star of the psychological thriller at today’s Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys panel.
Badgley joined…
Amy Adams, who does double duty as actor and an executive producer on the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects, struggled on today’s panel to talk about the challenges of portraying the story’s main character, emotionally troubled (to put it mildly) newspaper reporter Camille Preaker. Patricia Clarkson portrays Adams…
