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Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its inaugural Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event. It took place Saturday and spotlighted 38 programs in those fields from 19 studios and streamers. It also sets the stage for our Contenders Television scripted event May 15. Click here f…

The Masked Singer is currently in the middle of its fifth season on Fox and the team behind it is aware it needs to outdo itself each season to keep fans glued to their screens. This year, they also had to do it in the middle of Covid-19, a pandemic that initially hobbled their host Nick Cannon. The entertainer was…

Ken Jeong, a panelist on The Masked Singer, took on the role of host in Fox's latest singing competition game show I Can See Your Voice. Jeong, speaking at Deadline's Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted awards-season event, said he wanted to distinguish Fox's latest Korean adaptation from The Masked Singer…

The Amazing Race has been on the air for 20 years, and this year the CBS reality adventure competition series hit a major milestone: 1 million miles travelled. The 32nd season of the show, which premiered in October 2020, featured legs through the Amazon and across Kazakhstan as well as its first ever "mega-leg,&#8221…

With Tough as Nails, Phil and Louise Keoghan hoped to honor working-class people whose contributions to American society too often go overlooked. "Most of my family [is] working class," said co-creator, executive producer and host Phil Keoghan, speaking during a panel at Deadline's virtual Contenders Television…

“It was one of the most intense seasons that we’ve ever created,” said Emer Harkin, executive producer of MTV and Bunim/Murray Productions’ long-running reality competition series The Challenge. Filmed in frigid Iceland, Season 36 of the series, dubbed The Challenge: Double Agents, drew inspiration from espionage…

There are many poignant moments in 76 Days, Hao Wu's moving documentary about medical workers in Wuhan, China and the patients they treated as the city went through lockdown last year over Covid-19. For producer Jean Tsien, one moment in particular stands out. "The first scene…with the nurse [who] lost her father…That…

On The Real World Homecoming: New York, the original cast members of the landmark MTV series reunite in the same loft where they filmed in 1992 to reflect on how it changed their lives, and the enduring resonance of the issues it brought to light. Created by the late Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, with George Ve…

The January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol underscored the precarious state of American democracy in a time of deep political polarization. But the Emmy-contending Apple Original Film Boys State offers some hope that bridging ideological differences remains a possibility. The documentary directed and produced by Je…

Fifty years ago the Vietnam War was raging, the civil rights era had morphed into the Black Power movement, President Nixon declared a war on drugs and not only the U.S. but other countries seemed in danger of coming apart at the seams. It was also a time of groundbreaking popular music—records that went beyond merely…

“I think a really telling detail is that on almost all of these shoots, the icon would say to us, ‘Oh my God, can I take these letters home?’ " Dear… executive producer Jane Cha Cutler said of the new Apple TV+ docuseries. "Lin [Manuel] Miranda talks about everything you create is like throwing a pebble in to a pond…

When the planet went into lockdown over the Covid-19 pandemic, the animal kingdom took notice. Within little time at all, species adapted to the retreat of humans, exhibiting different behavior and in some cases venturing into territory formerly bustling with people and automobile traffic. The Apple TV+ documentary The…