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Deadline’s Contenders Television, a day filled with a star-studded lineup of creatives behind almost 50 Emmy-caliber shows, teamed with Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Kimmel Live!, nonprofit St. Joseph Center, ABC and Disney Television Studios to donate 400 meals to those living in shelters and interim housing sites in Los…

Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television awards-season event, which this past weekend shined a light on 49 buzzy scripted programs from 21 broadcast and cable networks and streamers in our biggest Contenders showcase yet. Combined with the inaugural Contenders Television: Documentary…

“We knew from the beginning we wanted to position this as a very, very modern superhero show,” said Malcolm Spellman, creator, executive producer and writer of the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which sees Sam Wilson/Falcon and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier team up on a global adventure. The show also…

Across five MCU movies, Elizabeth Olsen has played the sorceress Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch, but it arguably wasn't until the Disney+ series WandaVision that she saw the character in her entire zenith. A master of chaos magic and a native of the fictional war-torn Eastern European country of Sokovia, Wanda saw…

If it seemed impossible to create more tension in the assault on the Dutton Family ranchlands in Montana than a Season 2 that ended in a high body count, Yellowstone upped the ante in a Season 3. It ended with patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) shot on the roadside, his ruthless daughter Beth (Kelly Reilly) blown…

Fox canceled the intriguing drama series Prodigal Son this week after two seasons, but fortunately before it goes off the air viewers will get to see a great turn in a seven-episode arc by Oscar and Tony winner Catherine Zeta-Jones. She plays forensic Dr. Vivian Capshaw, who finds herself working with a serial killer…

Heading into Season 2 of Everything's Gonna Be Okay, creator, executive producer and star Josh Thomas was trying to figure out the best way to address the Covid-19 pandemic in the context of a Freeform comedy. "We were trying to work out whether people would want to go back to being in the pandemic, by the time the…

Writer-director Hannah Fidell had already made the acclaimed indie film A Teacher in 2013, but when the opportunity arose to expand the story as a television series and really bring out all its complexities, she jumped at the chance. As she said during the FX series’ panel at Deadline's Contenders Television…

Through its four seasons, Snowfall has explored a story whose gripping force is grounded in a sobering history: crack cocaine's siege on South Los Angeles in the 1980s. Yet the FX series has pointedly integrated moments of humor and brightness, achieving a blend of tones that is a key aspect of the show's…

Fargo: Chapter 4 arrived on TV in the wake of a summer in which the Black Lives Matter movement swelled following the killing of George Floyd, and a divided nation of red and blue barreling toward the 2020 U.S. presidential election. For Fargo's fourth season, creator Noah Hawley chose the crossroads of Kansas City…

This year marks the third and final season of FX’s groundbreaking series Pose, which was co-created by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Steven Canals. The drama, which premiered in 2015, broke ground with the largest transgender cast in TV history as it put the spotlight on the underground ballroom culture that thrived…

The first scene in Season 1 of Breeders arrived fully formed for Martin Freeman courtesy of a dream, he said during the FX series’ panel at Deadline’s Contenders Television awards-season event. In his imagined experience, Freeman paced the stairs of his home on the way to admonish his children, who were refusing to…