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Deadline With everything Melanie Lynskey has done in films and television, it is hard to believe that her role in Showtime’s Yellowjackets and subsequent nomination as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series is actually…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has an exclusive track from Ariel Marx’s score for Candy, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records tomorrow. The acclaimed limited series tells the true story of Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biel), a 1980 housewife and mother who did everything right—good husband, two kids, nice house…

Candy, the limited series rolled out by Hulu in a Monday-to-Friday, one-episode-a-day pattern, pulled in 577 million minutes of streaming to finish sixth on Nielsen’s weekly chart for May 9 to 15. It was the best debut by any Hulu title since the most recent season of The Handmaid’s Tale hit the platform in May 2021. N…

Jessica Biel not only is finding numerous meaty roles for herself these days, she has, with producing partner Michelle Purple, found a way to get them made. Her latest is the Hulu limited series Candy, which details a shocking crime that happened 42 years ago in a small Texas town where a wife and mother took an ax to…

"It's a first-person shooter so you're not meant to know him," says Halo's Pablo Schreiber of the character of Master Chief from the iconic video game. "You're meant to fill in all the subtleties and aspects of his personality with your own, that's the way the character's designed," the past Emmy nominee adds today…

Three women running current TV and streaming series took stock of progress as well as lingering paradoxes in an entertainment industry that is still processing both the #MeToo movement and the economic change wrought by the streaming boom. Asked during the panel at SeriesFest if anything has changed in the years since…

UPDATED with full trailer: “Something terrible has happened.” Hulu has released the first full trailer for Candy, starring Jessica Biel as a friendly small-town wife and mother-turned-murderous adulterer. Watch the clip above and see the new key art below. Biel plays Candy Montgomery, a housewife and mother in 1980s…

Veep alum Timothy Simons is set to star opposite Jessica Biel in Hulu's original limited event series Candy, based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (Biel), who killed her friend Betty Gore (Melanie Lynskey) with an ax. In 1980 Texas, Montgomery seemingly had it all — a loving husband with a good job, a daughter…

Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black) is set as a lead opposite Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey in Hulu's original limited event series Candy, based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (Biel), who killed her friend Betty Gore (Lynskey) with an ax. In 1980 Texas, Montgomery seemingly had it all — a loving…

Melanie Lynskey (Castle Rock) has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Jessica Biel in Hulu's original limited event series Candy based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (Biel), who killed her friend Betty Gore (Lynskey) with an ax. In 1980 Texas, Candy Montgomery (Biel) seemingly had it all — a loving husband with…

Jessica Biel is to play Candy Montgomery, who killed her church friend with an ax in Texas, in a true-crime limited series for Hulu. The streamer has handed Candy, which comes from The Act pair Robin Veith and Nick Antosca, a series order. It comes after the project landed at the streamer last year with The Handmaid's…

EXCLUSIVE: Elisabeth Moss is expanding her relationship with Hulu with her latest drama project. Deadline understands that the streamer has landed Candy (w/t), which comes from The Act writer and co-exec producer Robin Veith and exec produced by The Act co-creator Nick Antosca. We're hearing that a writers' room is…