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Bill Paxton’s untimely death at age 61 came four episodes into the run of what will be his final series, CBS’ Training Day. Production on the midseason drama, a reboot of Antoine Fuqua’s acclaimed movie, wrapped in December, so all 13 episodes from the show’s first-season order have already been filmed. That gives…

Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder are all back, putting ABC and Shonda Rhimes' TGIT in full swing again. But NBC and CBS are bringing some newbies to Thursday primetime this week with very different results: one worth watching and one most certainly not. As I say in my video review above, the one…

Fans of the movie Training Day shouldn’t expect to see appearances by Denzel Washington’s notorious character Detective Alonzo Harris or Ethan Hawke’s Jake Hoyt in the new CBS series that’s premiering February 2 at 10 PM. “We wanted to respectfully give them some distance on the show,” says executive producer Will…

Deadline's studio at the 69th Cannes Film Festival has been greeting fest-goers all weekend on the Croisette; including visits by Chloë Sevigny, director of closing short Kitty, festival juror Mads Mikkelsen, icons Vanessa Redgrave and James Ivory, Bill Paxton of Mean Dreams, Rebecca Hall from The BFG, and many…

EXCLUSIVE: Young Chicago actor Justin Cornwell has landed the co-lead opposite Bill Paxton in CBS' drama pilot Training Day. Written by Will Beall and directed by Danny Cannon, Training Day is a present-day reimagining of Antoine Fuqua's acclaimed 2001 feature. Set 15 years after the film left off, the show centers on…

Defiance star Julie Benz is set as a regular role opposite Bill Paxton in CBS’ drama pilot Training Day. Written by Will Beall and directed by Danny Cannon, Training Day is a present-day reimagining of Antoine Fuqua's acclaimed 2001 feature. Set 15 years after the film left off, the show centers on an idealistic young…

Katrina Law (Arrow) has been cast opposite Bill Paxton in CBS' drama pilot Training Day, a present-day reimagining of Antoine Fuqua's acclaimed 2001 feature. Set 15 years after the film left off, the TV show, written by Will Beall, centers on an idealistic young African-American police officer, Kyle Craig, is…

Bill Paxton is set as one of the bad-cop leads in CBS' drama pilot Training Day, a present-day reimagining of Antoine Fuqua's acclaimed 2001 feature that starred Denzel Washington as a rogue narcotics detective and Ethan Hawke as his rookie cop partner. Set 15 years after the film left off, the TV show, written by…

EXCLUSIVE: Production has begun and the lead cast has been set on Mean Dreams, a new thriller from director Nathan Morlando. The coming-of-age tale follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes. Stealing a bag full of drug money from Casey’s corrupt police officer father…

With a Memorial Day debut on History Channel, Texas Rising has ambitious aims. But sad to say, the 10-hour multi-week miniseries just doesn't hit the target. Brought to the small screen by some of the team behind the blockbuster The Hatfields And McCoys series, the Roland Joffe-directed tale of Lone Star warfare and…

Bill Paxton, who was just here in Cannes for Mip-TV, is headed down to Capetown next week to begin work on a drama for BBC Two that traces the story behind the rise of the Grand Theft Auto franchise. Daniel Radcliffe is playing Sam Houser, the co-founder of video game developer Rockstar Games, and Paxton is lined up…

History’s eight-hour 2015 tentpole series Texas Rising was modestly described this morning by its EP Leslie Greif as a “saga about a period of nine months when people of all ethnicities were trying to find a little place of freedom, called Texas.” Kicking off a Q&A for that series, what he described as "another major…