Elisabeth Moss is well known as an Emmy-winning actress and force in several hit series going back to The West Wing and most notably including Mad Men and The Handmaid’s Tale along with limited series successes like Top of the Lake. Her film work includes acclaimed performances in Her Smell, Shirley, The Square and The…
Noah Hawley is nothing if not versatile. The prolific writer, director, producer and novelist has won an impressive group of awards for his work in TV including Emmys, Golden Globes, Critics Choice and Peabody honors for his most acclaimed series: FX’s crown jewel Fargo. The series has once again been generating…
Right out of the gate, the Hulu series Pen15 made noise, and not just for its title. The show was created by Anna Konkle, her best friend and writing and acting partner Maya Erskine and Sam Zviberman, who directs most of the episodes. Konkle and Erskine, who met in a theater class in Amsterdam, play 13-year-old…
Darren Star has one of the most enviable track records in all of television, having created one hit after another including Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Sex and the City, Younger and Emily in Paris — five shows that have glamour, escapism, independent women, a strong fashion sense and compelling themes that…
Kevin Bacon has about a hundred acting credits listed on IMDb, but over the course of his long and celebrated career he steadily has been building a filmography as director and producer. He has helmed such acclaimed projects as Losing Chase, Loverboy and The Closer, the series that starred his wife Kyra Sedgwick, and…
Milo Ventimiglia has wrapped his fifth season as Jack Pearson on NBC’s top scripted series This Is Us, and now he looks forward to shooting the sixth and final season of 18 episodes, which is set to debut midseason in early 2022. He joins me for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens — not…
Joining me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens is Jac Schaeffer, creator, EP and head writer of Disney+’s Marvel limited series breakout WandaVision, a unique show blending the MCU characters Wanda and Vision with classic television sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke…
As a writer and director, Billy Ray has always had his pulse on important issues and stories right out of the headlines including his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Captain Phillips, or his American adaptation of State of Play, and the story of the accused Atlanta Olympics bomber Richard Jewell. Add in those that he…
Like American counterpart David E. Kelley, writer-producer Peter Moffat came to his prodigious television career by way of the law. He started out as a barrister in his native England and learned a lot on the job, taking those lessons as inspiration for several top-flight projects revolving around lawyers including…
If you are in the mood for a master class in what it takes to be a successful screenwriter in Hollywood, look no further than this week’s episode of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens, where I go deep into the making of Mank with one of its producers, Eric Roth. This happens to be Roth’s first feature film…
These are good times for Lee Isaac Chung. The writer-director of the widely acclaimed Minari is up for Best Director at this weekend’s DGA awards, and his film is nominated for six BAFTA Awards including one for his directing. It is also up for the Best Picture Oscar and five other nominations including two for him in…
Thomas Vinterberg achieved that rare honor with this year’s Oscar nominations, not only receiving one for Denmark’s Best International Film entry, Another Round, but also one for him as Best Director category — the only nominee there for a film not also competing for Best Picture. This is something true icons…
