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Apple TV+ has handed an eight-episode series order to Criminal Record, a one-hour London thriller starring Peter Capaldi and Cush Jumbo as detectives in a tug of war over a historic murder conviction. The series hails from BAFTA Award nominee Paul Rutman (Vera, Indian Summers), Tod Productions and STV Studios…

EXCLUSIVE: Filming has begun in Canada on New Regency-backed fencing thriller Balestra, which will be produced as a feature with an alternate version to be released separately as a limited series. Cush Jumbo (The Good Fight), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place) and James Badge Dale (Iron Man 3) lead cast on the project…

“The worst TV adaptations are slavishly devoted to the [original] text,” according to The Stranger creator Harlan Coben, who said he “hopes to continue” working with Netflix as his five-year deal draws to a close. Coben was speaking in a Q&A for his latest Netflix project, Red Production Company’s Stay Close starring C…

Original The Good Fight cast members Cush Jumbo and Delroy Lindo, who announced last year that they would not return for Season 5 of the Paramount+ legal drama, will return as guest stars in the season premiere to wrap up their characters’ storylines, Deadline has confirmed. The fourth season was cut short by three…

The Good Fight will be saying goodbye to attorney Luca Quinn. Cush Jumbo, who originated the role in the mothership series The Good Wife before moving to the CBS All Access spinoff in season 1, is exiting the series ahead of the upcoming fifth season, Deadline has confirmed. The season 4 storyline for Jumbo’s Quinn…

The Good Fight's Cush Jumbo and Good Omens' David Tennant are to star in Channel 4 crime drama Deadwater Fell (w/t). The pair are leading the cast of the Kudos-produced four-part series alongside Patrick Melrose and The Crown star Anna Madeley and The Terror's Matthew McNulty. The series is as much of an exploration…

In her first stage appearance since exchanging the boards for the sound stage as Julianna Margulies’ smart sidekick on the final season of The Good Wife, Cush Jumbo grumps, groans, grimaces, growls and glowers — man does she glower — under the sky in Phyllida Lloyd’s freewheeling feminist all-female revisal of The Tami…

UPDATED: During CBS’ upfront presentation, CBS Corp. chairman Leslie Moonves confirmed a straight-to-series order to a Good Wife spinoff project, starring The Good Wife's Christine Baranski and Cush Jumbo, to premiere in spring 2017 on CBS All Access. It will be CBS' fledgling SVOD platform’s second original…

Is there another victim-to-victimizer evolution in the offing? The long rumored Good Wife spinoff is close to becoming a reality. CBS’ fledgeling SVOD platform CBS All Access is in negotiations for a straight-to-series order to the project, starring The Good Wife‘s Christine Baranski, reprising her role as top…

Deadline's Jeremy Gerard and Jujamcyn Theatres majority owner and president Jordan Roth talk about the state of the industry and other subjects, the only stipulation being no holds barred. GERARD: It feels like there’s a lot of drama on Broadway this season and for once it’s onstage more than off. I’m encouraged…

Shakespeare’s battle-of-the-sexes comedy The Taming Of The Shrew has been a reliable crowd-pleaser over the decades of free Shakespeare in Central Park (among the most memorable were Meryl Streep and the late Raul Julia in 1978, and Tracy Ullman and Morgan Freeman in 1990). The production that will launch the coming…

Christine Baranski’s Emmy nomination for The Good Wife's Diane Lockhart is her sixth for the role –that's one for every year she's been on the show–an experience that’s left her feeling "touched," she says, "because I didn't go into it considering myself a dramatic actress. I've had a learning curve and I think I've…