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This once-proud category fell on hard times when the networks abandoned the format, and increasingly cable outlets did too. HBO and Netflix have kept it alive, the latter finding safe harbor here the past three years with an anthology series of 'movies' from its Black Mirror franchise, which was finally ruled…

The first time Hugh Jackman won an Emmy was for hosting the Tonys. He says he didn't even know there was a category for that, and was so convinced he wouldn't win he didn't prepare a speech. In fact he did win, and based on that experience he says he will at least have something ready in case he does grab the Emmy…

Hugh Jackman has been nominated for an Emmy 4x before, in fact he won in his first go-round in 2005 for his hosting duties on the 58th Annual Tony Awards, but today this morning was truly bliss. Finally, the Logan and Les Miserable Oscar nominee, was appreciated for his acting turn as real-life corrupt Roslyn, NY…

With voting for this year’s Emmy nominations coming into the final stretch, today’s episode of our Deadline weekly podcast, TV Talk, once again dives into a handicap of some key races, in this case for Best Limited Series and Best Movie Made for Television. Among top contenders in the uber-crowded Limited Series race…

Telling the sordid true story of a man still very much alive but at the worst time in his life was a big responsibility for Hugh Jackman, one he took on despite the enormous pressure to get the story of disgraced Long Island schools superintendent Frank Tassone right. That is exactly what Jackman did in the HBO movie B…

When Bad Education hit the Toronto International Film Festival in September, it was expected to be one of the hot titles for acquisition and a possible Oscar run in the fall. It certainly was a hot commodity, but the sale surprisingly went to HBO for a sizzling $20 million, and a movie starring Hugh Jackman coming off…

In show business, some child actors don’t make the jump, with the industry stalling their careers by adulthood. But not Alex Wolff. Having enjoyed early success by the time he was 10 with his brother Nat on the 2007-09 Nickelodeon mockumentary series The Naked Brothers Band, which revolved around them and their band…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is nearing the big deal of the Toronto Film Festival, acquiring for a sum nearing $20 million world rights to Bad Education, the Cory Finley-directed fact-based dark comedy that stars Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney as supervisors in the Roslyn, Long Island, school district who masterminded the largest…

“I got to work with the Wolverine,” Ray Romano told Deadline at TIFF of his latest film Bad Education. “It was fun. He tap-dances, by the way. He was in the trailer next to me, and I would hear.” Romano is, of course, talking about Hugh Jackman. Based on true events, Bad Education follows the story of Long Island…

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Wolff, who was last seen in Sony’s blockbuster film Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and the sleeper hit Hereditary has been cast in director Cory Finley’s comedy Bad Education. Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano and Allison Janey are already attached to the project which hails from Automatik and Sight…

EXCLUSIVE: Ray Romano is set to star with Hugh Jackman and Allison Janey in Bad Education, the movie based on a true story from I Think We're Alone Now screenwriter Mike Makowsky and Thoroughbreds director Cory Finley. Finley is directing the pic, from Automatik’s Fred Berger and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Sight…

EXCLUSIVE: Allison Janney is in talks to join Hugh Jackman in Automatik’s Bad Education, a feature based on a true story from I Think We're Alone Now screenwriter Mike Makowsky and director Cory Finley (Thoroughbreds). The story, which is said to be based on Makowsky’s own high school experience, follows a…