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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details on tonight's season 2 finale of 9-1-1 on Fox. The second season of first responder drama 9-1-1 concluded Monday night with a series of explosive turns, and the ultimate declaration of love. The Fox series opened with a news report revealing a second package bomb in two days…

EXCLUSIVE: 9-1-1 star Angela Bassett has signed on to co-star in Gunpowder Milkshake, the action thriller from Studiocanal and The Picture Company. Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado are directing the film from a script that they wrote with Ehud Lavski. Bassett, whose recent credits include the smash hit Black Panther…

Ahead of the premiere of part 2 of its second season on March 18, Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oliver Stark, Aisha Hinds, Kenneth Choi, Rockmond Dunbar, and Ryan Guzman of Fox’s 9-1-1 took the stage at PaleyFest Sunday evening in Los Angeles along with showrunner Tim Minear to talk about the…

“9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” “We’re on the freeway and a man’s been attacked by a shark!” Just when you thought you were safe from ravenous fish on your daily commute — were we ever? — comes the new trailer for Fox’s drama about first responders and the myriad cases to which they respond. Have a look above. Along…

While there are no current plans to bring back Connie Britton's Abby Clark character for Season 2 of Fox's 9-1-1, co-creator/EP Tim Minear wanted TV critics at TCA to know "We are honoring the character of Abby; it was an important role in the first season” and that “the front door, back door, and side door are always…

EXCLUSIVE: Looks like we’ll be seeing more of the Grant kids on Fox’s 9-1-1. The network confirmed today that Corinne Massiah and Marcanthonee Reis, who recurred on the freshman drama last season, have been upped to series regulars. They play May and Harry, the respective daughter and son of LAPD Sgt. Athena Grant (Ang…

Angela Bassett was recently thrown onto the force with regular collaborator Ryan Murphy's idiosyncratic, thrilling procedural series 9-1-1 on Fox. Having never played a cop before, Bassett — a Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee and four-time Emmy-nominated actress including this year for her turn on Netflix’s Master of…

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett and Patricia Arquette are in negotiations to star in the feature comedy Otherhood which Cindy Chupack (Modern Family, Sex In The City) is directing for Netflix. The project was adapted by Chupack and Mark Andrus from the William Sutcliffe novel Whatever Makes You Happy. The production is…

During Fox's first panel at today's Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys, AwardsLine editor Joe Utichi quizzed stars of Fox's hit freshman series 9-1-1 about the challenges of portraying first responders. The drama, created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear, was renewed for a second season in January. The three…

There are dozens of emergency quips to make about Fox's new procedural 9-1-1, but when it comes to ratings it looks to be all green lights and parking spaces. Having topped the night among adults 18-49 with its January 3 debut, the series created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear has now seen strong delayed…

UPDATED with all presenters: The Creative Arts Emmys are just around the corner and Television Academy and Executive Producer Bob Bain has announced the first group of presenters. The lineup of presenters include Tom Hanks, Angela Bassett, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and stars from The Goldbergs, Saturday Night Live, The Han…

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Bassett has signed on to Paramount’s Mission: Impossible 6 in which she’ll play the C.I.A. director. The Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner for What’s Love Got to Do With It starts work next week and joins Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirky and Alec Baldwin in the Christopher…