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Beth McCarthy-Miller will once again serve as Awards Chair for the 75th Annual DGA Awards, which will be held February 18, 2023 at the Beverly Hilton. She served in the same position last year. "I look forward to the fantastic challenge of honoring the 75th Anniversary of the DGA Awards, while ensuring that the…

Judd Apatow is returning to host the 74th Annual DGA Awards and Beth McCarthy-Miller has been named chair of the event, which will be held March 12 at the Beverly Hilton. Apatow, who hosted the 70th DGA Awards in 2018 and the 72nd in 2020, quipped, "I am so excited to host again as part of my ongoing campaign for the…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema has set Beth McCarthy-Miller to direct Mean Moms, a comedy that essentially takes the spirit of Mean Girls into a venue where that film company can get big female stars to galvanize the bitch-fest. The plot: a happily married mother of two moves from small town America to the high–class…

EXCLUSIVE: Hailee Steinfeld is in negotiations to star as the lead in Why We Broke Up, the Fox 2000 comedy that will be directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller. It is based on the book by Daniel Handler, who wrote the Lemony Snicket series. Steinfeld will play Min, a high school sophomore and cinephile who enjoys hanging out…

Lost director Jack Bender is set to direct and executive produce Syfy’s two-hour pilot Rewind, a thriller about a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in hopes of changing the future after a nuclear bomb destroys New York…

New Line has tapped Saturday Night Live vet Beth McCarthy-Miller to helm Tammy, the comedy set up last year as a star vehicle for Melissa McCarthy. The Emmy-winning Mike & Molly and Bridesmaids star wrote the script herself to play a woman who is laid off from her fast-food job and finds her husband is cheating, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Top TV director Beth McCarthy-Miller is making her first foray into network development with a single-camera comedy project at ABC through ABC Studios. Haught Mess, written by Ellen Rapoport, is an adult family comedy centered on a woman who is caught between her new boyfriend and her inability to say “no&#8221…

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline's Emmy coverage. Here's his scorecard assessing the Outstanding Comedy Series Director race. Beth McCarthy-Miller, 30 Rock (NBC) “Live Show” Why She Was Nominated: Because the trick that McCarthy-Miller turned here in handling a pair of live performances (one for the East…

Here is the second-annual honor roll of the best and brightest at the broadcast upfront. First off, to all who got their pilots picked up to series — congratulations. You’re already winners. This is a list of those who took their upfront success to an extra level: Whitney Cummings: The undisputed queen of Upfront…

Spike TV is recalibrating its male demo focus with a new scripted slate catering to the older portion of the 18-49 demographic. The cable network’s development slate features 6 comedies from such auspices as  veteran SNL and 30 Rock director Beth McCarthy Miller, top reality producer Thom Beers, and Wild Hogs director…