What if your average workaday existence suddenly was changed by a single decision? Here’s one idea. Amazon is out with the first trailer for Forever, its comedy series starring Saturday Night Live veterans Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen in which a little recreation turns in a life-changing event.
The logline:Â Married…
When it comes to diverse voices across film, TV and streaming, “it’s not enough to make one thing,” said Emmy winning Master of None EP Alan Yang at this morning’s CAA Amplify conference, “you’ve got to make that show better than all the other shows out there, it has to be the best.”
“When you get that freshness…
ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey, filmmakers Lee Daniels (The Butler) and Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and chairman of NBCUniversal International Group and NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises Cesar Conde are among those who will take part in CAA Amplify’s…
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is developingLittle America, a half-hour anthology series from Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, the Oscar-nominated writers of indie hit The Big Sick, SMILFÂ executive producer Lee Eisenberg, Master of None co-creator/executive producer Alan Yang and Universal Television.
Written by Eisenberg, who…
As part of their Newsmaker Luncheon series, the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS) hosted The Hitmakers panel which featured an A-list roster of TV producers that have, as the panel suggests, created hit series that have stood out in the evolving landscape of TV. Alan Yang (Master of None), Bruce Miller (The…
With multiple Emmy nominations for each of its first two seasons, including a 2016 win for writing, Master of None co-creator Alan Yang is in no rush to churn out a Season 3 of the Netflix original.
“It’s still up in the air,” Yang told Deadline today after the second Comedy Series Emmy nom for the show he co-created…
Among several other changes put into place by the Television Academy this year, in anticipation of the 2017 Emmys, the category of Music Supervision was added to the fold—and rightly so. As with the composer, the cinematographer and every other craftsman working in television, the music supervisor plays a critical…
UPDATED, 2:50 PM:Alan Yang took to social media today to respond to the National Italian American Foundation’s negative reaction to his Emmy acceptance speech on Sunday. “The point isn’t to pit groups of people against each other,” he wrote on Instagram. “I was praising what I consider to be four masterpieces of film…
We all know him as wisenheimer Tom Haverford, the Pawnee, Indiana town official with a string of tacky entrepreneurial ideas on NBC's Parks and Recreation. However, after being part of Amy Poehler's esteemed second banana posse on that show, Aziz Ansari graduates to leading, complex protagonist in the Netflix comedy Ma…
Already racking up an impressive number of awards and nominations just for its first season, the NETFLIX show Master Of None starring Aziz Ansari was part of NBC/Universal Television’s presentation at the first -ever Deadline  Contenders Emmys all day event held last month at the DGA Theatre. The show, which was named…
“It comes down to real characters,” said Superstore actress and producer America Ferrera about the diversity that’s being presented on TV today. It’s often said, if you want to take a look at what’s going on in the U.S., turn on the television. As such, networks and streaming media services are embracing more…
