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"With 190 days to go to Tokyo, we can proudly say, let the games begin," declared Mike Tirico today at the Peacock Investors Day in the most streamlined offering from the new additions to the streaming wars so far. The competition was clearly more than the Summer Games of the XXXII Olympiad, if you know what I mean…

Laura Linney pours the breath of life into Broadway’s My Name Is Lucy Barton, based on the novel by Olive Kitteridge author Elizabeth Strout. Arriving in New York following an acclaimed London production, this poignant, 90-minute solo play, directed by Richard Eyre and opening tonight at Manhattan Theatre Club's…

The first actual votes of the 2020 Presidential campaign will be cast on February 3, and tonight saw the six leading Democrats for the White House take the stage for the CNN cameras for their final debate before the Iowa caucuses. In a week of historic consequences as Congress moves towards the third presidential…

Today, the Motion Picture Academy nominated nine films for the Best Picture Oscar, and I have reviewed all of them here at Deadline over the past few months. To say the Academy and I are pretty much on the same page as far as the best movies of 2019 is an understatement. Of the nine nominees, seven also appear on my ow…

On the eve of the start of Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial, there were literally no bombshells tonight on the Golden Globes. Bombshell star Charlize Theron lost out on a Best Actress – Drama trophy from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to Judy's Renee Zellweger, and returning host Ricky Gervais veered far away…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of tonight's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times on ABC What a difference an impeachment vote or two can make. It's not that tonight's Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in The Family & Good Times was bad, it was actually "pretty great,"…

Returning to Broadway, Harry Connick Jr. chooses his muse wisely and well, taking the stage in an attractively modern, multi-media setting to celebrate that most sophisticated of the American songbook’s founders, Cole Porter. At its frequent best, Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter, opening tonight at the…

In Jagged Little Pill, a record album gets its own jukebox musical, though there’s none of the Wikipedia-style rat-a-tat biographical highlights (airbrushed or otherwise) that accompanied Donna Summer, The Temptations and all the other post-Jersey Boys superstars on their trips to the stage. With an earnest, ambitious…

Early on in tonight's fifth Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders proclaimed that for all the incumbent's apparent sins, "we cannot simply be consumed by Donald Trump, because if we are we're going to lose the election." The sage from Vermont and his nine fellow contenders onstage in Atlanta may have wanted to…

Everything and the Game of Thrones sink is what HBO Max aims to be and certainly what the upcoming AT&T-owned streamer unsuccessfully poured into its unwieldy and overloaded presentation today. Or put another way, how many times can a revolving cast of executives mention or reference the Emmy winning blockbuster…

One of rock’s great questions, a rung or two below Are You Experienced? and maybe Which One’s Pink? but still right up there, has got to be Why A Big Suit? David Byrne asked himself that in an early-MTV-era promo for Jonathan Demme’s brilliant Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense, posing a query about an image…

Poor Robert Redford. Except for an out of focus poster in a Tulsa school room, the Oscar winner is never seen on-screen in HBO's Watchmen. However, Redford's multi-term Presidential shadow is an ominous specter in a sometimes shambolic and yet spectacular show full of shadows, good intentions gone wrong, mad…