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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the first three episodes of Apple TV+’s Extrapolations. Daveed Diggs plays a rabbi grappling with the realities of the climate crisis in Scott Z. Burns’ series Extrapolations for Apple TV+. When audiences first meet him, Rabbi Marshall Zucker is…

BREAKTHROUGH Co-Creator/Executive Producer: Will Malnati Co-Creator/Executive Producer: Ethan Russell Panelists: Sara Bareilles (judge); Daveed Diggs (host) Logline: In a genre-redefining first, Breakthrough bursts onto the singing competition scene with an electrifying, audio-only…

Blindspotting makes its long-awaited return next month, and Starz released the first trailer for Season 2 on Wednesday. The second installment of Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs‘ comedy series, which is a follow-up to the pair’s 2018 film, picks up nine months after Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and…

EXCLUSIVE: Fraggle Rock: Back To The Rock will be back for another go-round. Apple TV+ has renewed the Emmy-winning series for a second season, with Daveed Diggs (Hamilton), who appeared in the Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock Night of the Lights holiday special, set to return, along with Ariana DeBose (Schm…

EXCLUSIVE: TNT’s Snowpiercer will be pulling into the station. The post-apocalyptic drama’s upcoming fourth season, which is in production, will be its last. I hear the cast’s options were coming up and were not picked up, releasing the actors to book other jobs. “We can confirm that Snowpiercer will end after a…

Blindspotting co-creators Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs initially thought that a series spinoff of their 2018 film wouldn’t work when Lionsgate first brought up the idea. “We said, ‘No it wouldn’t,’ and we thought that was the end of it,” Diggs said. Contenders TV — Deadline’s Complete Coverage Nearly four years after…

UPDATED: Following a brief bit of banter that kicked off this year’s SAG Awards, actor Leslie Odom Jr. paid tribute to Ukraine with a message of support. “We’re holding a place in our hearts for Ukraine and sending our thoughts, prayers and hopes for impending peace,” Odom said, referencing the recent and ongoing…

UPDATED with more presenters: The structure of the 28th annual SAG Awards is continuing to take shape, with organizers saying Friday that SAG and Oscar nominees Benedict Cumberbatch and Jessica Chastain are among the presenters set for Sunday’s ceremony. The newly added presenters also include Oscar nominee Jesse…

The Crossover, Disney+'s basketball drama series, has found its narrator. Snowpiercer star Daveed Diggs will narrate the series, which is based on Kwame Alexander's novel. It comes after Deadline revealed that the streamer had handed the adaptation a series order last month after a pilot. NBA star LeBron James…

TNT has dropped the first trailer for Snowpiercer Season 3, which provides fans with a glimpse at Archie Panjabi’s new character Asha. Set to return Monday, Jan. 24 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on TNT, Snowpiercer will follow Layton, Ruth and more as they seek out New Eden to save themselves from a warming Earth. At the end of Snow…

Scott Z. Burns' climate change anthology drama series Extrapolations has set a star-studded cast. The Apple TV+ series has cast stars including Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Tahar Rahim, Matthew Rhys, Daveed Diggs, Gemma Chan, David Schwimmer and Adarsh Gourav to lead the series. The series, which is now…

EXCLUSIVE: What better to liven up a quite Toronto Film Market than a package for a movie set in the rap arena, that has stars and a slam dunk a top-selling soundtrack? Justice Smith, Idris Elba and Taylour Paige will star in We All Die Young, a drama that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs has scripted for Jake Schreier to…