Ta-Nehisi Coates is the latest name to be added to the roster of keynote speakers for the 2018 South by Southwest Conference and Festival. The journalist and author joins previously announced SXSW keynoters in Academy Award-winning Barry Jenkins, psychotherapist and bestselling author Esther Perel, and technology…

Nightline co-anchor Dan Harris has been tapped as host for Season 2 of ABC's event game show 500 Questions, from Mark Burnett and Mike Darnell. Produced by MGM Television in association with Warner Horizon Television, the series will return this year.

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The Goldbergs star Wendi McLendon-Covey has joined the cast of Sycamore Pictures' teen comedy Speech & Debate. The film follows a misfit trio of high school students who, frustrated by the hypocrisy of their authority figures, revive their school’s long since shut-down speech and debate club. Blogging, blackmail and…

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EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer/director Dan Harris, who’s currently scribbling X-Men: Apocalypse with Michael Dougherty and Simon Kinberg for director Bryan Singer. Harris, who’d been repped by CAA, moves over to the same agency that reps his often writing partner Dougherty, with whom he worked on Fox's X-Men 2 and…

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ABC News President Ben Sherwood made the announcement this morning, <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-609346" title="BillWeir" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt width="240" height="180" data-lazy-src="https://pmcdeadline2.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/bil…