Erik has been a full-time journalist in Los Angeles for more than 30 years, the past 23 covering Hollywood. Before joining Deadline in 2013, he spent nearly 17 years at The Hollywood Reporter, rising to managing editor. He also wrote about music for THR; did hundreds of concert and TV reviews; covered such events as the Cannes Film Festival, NATPE and MIFED; and worked closely with the web team. Before that he was a cities editor at The Orange County Register after serving as managing editor of the Los Angeles Daily Commerce.
MSNBC is taking some heat today after a panelist on an afternoon discussion program falsely stated that Fox News is not airing live coverage of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before two Senate panels this week.
Rick Wilson, a longtime Republican strategist and author of Everything Trump Touches Dies…
ESPN host Dan Le Batard was MIA from his radio show today as his employer weighed punishment for his breaking company rules about talking politics on the air.
Le Batard had returned to his show Friday, a day after his riled his bosses over comments about Donald Trump’s war of words with a quartet of Democratic…
The WGA has set the key dates for its 72nd annual Writers Guild Awards. The annual dual ceremonies at the Edison Ballroom in New York and Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles are set for Saturday, February 1.
TV noms will be announced December 5, and film noms are due January 6.
The trophy show’s date is more than two weeks…
The misadventures of the world's most self-centered and perhaps stupidest ex-spy-turned-space captain will continue. FXX said during its panel at Comic-Con today that the animated spy spoof Archer has been renewed for Season 11.
"We are incredibly excited for our 11th season and look forward to Archer waking up from…
Quibi continues its content spree with a new series from The Killing creator Veena Sud. She is set to create, write, direct and executive produceThe Stranger, a shortform thriller from Fox 21 Television Studios.
The logline: An unassuming young rideshare driver is thrown into her worst nightmare when a mysterious…
“We’ve hit an ugly bump,” the Mayans president tells his club. “We gotta do something — or we lose everything.”
Here is the Season 2 trailer for Mayans M.C., Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff drama that focuses on a prospect in the Mayans charter on the California-Mexico border. The new episodes find Ezekiel "EZ"…
The late Stan Lee’s Pow! Entertainment is getting Restless. The company is teaming with Starlings Television and Atalaya Productions to develop a TV series about a Native American homicide detective.
Lee created the character, begins to inherit the mystical powers of his American Indian ancestors after his father’s…
“We have scoured the globe for the world’s most miserable true stories, and all you have to do is tell us where it lands on the Misery Index.” And there you have the premise of TBS’ newest game show. Check out the first trailer for The Misery Index above — just don’t blame us if you get nightmares about…
Donald Trump was in the news today. While that’s about as surprising as a prize in a Cracker Jack box, Stephen Colbert did his darnedest to joke about it. Equally unsurprising.
Fodder for his monologue on The Late Show tonight focused on POTUS’ own monologue from the previous night, when he made a wide-ranging and…
UPDATED with podium positions: Call it The Rematch. CNN picked the field for the July 30 and 31 Democratic debates tonight, and former Vice President Joe Biden will get another chance to square off against Sen. Kamala Harris of California, this time on Night 2 of Round 2. The duo, who famously clashed during the first…
EXCLUSIVE: It’s “the spinoff we never knew we needed but always wanted.” That line is from the trailer for The Movies That Made Us, an upcoming spinoff series from Netflix. The curtain was raised on the new series during a Comic-Con panel for Season 3 of The Toys That Made Us, which premieres later this year. Watch…
Brace yourselves for a cold, hard fact: It’s been a quarter-century since Jay and Silent Bob made their movie debut in Clerks. Now we have the first trailer for Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, and the Penn & Teller of the stoner set are battling Hollywood. Check out the decidedly NSFW trailer above and the first teaser…
