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My guest this week is Jason Segel.  In his new show Shrinking—co-created with Ted Lasso‘s Bill Lawrence and Brett Goldstein—Segel plays Jimmy, a bereaved therapist on the brink of a breakdown. One day, Jimmy cracks and decides to tell his patients what he really thinks of them. His fellow…

The second season of Swagger will debut on Apple TV+ in June. The streamer announced the news Wednesday, along with a few first look images of the cast (one is above, and the others are at the bottom of this post). The images don’t give much away, showing a few moments with star Isaiah Hill’s…

Eugene Levy is ready to hit the road. Apple TV+ announced today that its Levy-hosted show The Reluctant Traveler will premiere globally on February 24, 2023. The eight-episode series follows the Schitt’s Creek star as he visits destinations in Costa Rica, Finland, Italy, Japan, Maldives, Portugal…

Apple TV+ is offering a first look at Shrinking, the new 10-episode comedy starring Harrison Ford and Jason Segel. Shrinking follows a grieving therapist (Segel) who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge…

Five Days at Memorial, the grim tale about the disastrous events that took place at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, finished its eight-episode run today on Apple TV+. Here, executive producer Carlton Cuse (Locke & Key, Lost), who adapted the series together with John Ridley (12 Years a Slave)…

Keshet International CEO Alon Shtruzman is exiting the Israeli powerhouse after a decade at the helm. Shtruzman, who has overseen a period of growth for the Keshet Media Group-owned Israeli producer-distributor, will leave at the end of 2022, with succession plans expected in due course. Keshet Media Group CEO Avi Nir…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ drama Criminal Record has set the rest of its cast, with BAFTA 2022-winning Help star Cathy Tyson joining previously announced Peter Capaldi, Cush Jumbo and seven others. Tyson will play Doris Mathis, a woman relentlessly trying to clear her son Errol’s name. Alongside Capaldi and Jumbo, she is…

Apple TV+ today announced its fall slate for kids and families, featuring original series, new imaginings of properties, as well as returning series. New original series coming to platform this autumn include “Sago Mini Friends,” an animated series based on characters from the Sago Mini World app; “Slumberkins,” a…

Major U.S. studios, streamers and British broadcasters have combined to launch a Statement of Commitment Against Bullying, Harassment and Inappropriate Behaviour in TV. Organized by actors’ union Equity, today’s flagship pledge includes creating safe casting and audition spaces, a requirement for producers to have…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Garner has pulled out of the long-in-the-works Apple TV+ limited series My Glory Was I Had Such Friends, from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV. As a result, the streamer has opted not to go forward with the project that it had landed with a straight-to-series order in 2018. Reps for…

 On the latest episode of 20 Questions on Deadline, Emmy-nominated Severance star Adam Scott declares New York Attorney General Letitia James his hero. On a less serious note, he confesses his deep and abiding love for Indiana Jones films, his childhood yearning to be Matthew Broderick in War Games, and his…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Ryan is set as a lead opposite Colin Farrell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste in the Apple TV+ series Sugar. Details regarding the plot and characters remain under wraps, but Deadline hears it's an L.A.-set contemporary take on the private detective story. Hailing from Apple Studios, the genre-bending series…