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Airplane! director David Zucker recently reiterated a joke he’s told frequently through the years. “When we do screenings of Airplane! we get the question if we could do Airplane! today,” said Zucker. “The first thing I could think of was, ‘Sure, just without the jokes.’ “ In a video posted…

The challenges and vicissitudes of living with cerebral palsy are made quite clear in Your Friend, Memphis, a sympathetic, up-close documentary that traces a few years in the life of a young man whose teenage optimism about his prospects narrows considerably as time marches on. It's a poignant but ultimately tough…

Director David Zucker (Airplane!, Naked Gun) has attacked the problems of cancel culture, saying he could only make his Airplane! film today without the jokes. In a long essay in Friday’s New York Post, Zucker – marking the 40th anniversary of the release of Airplane! – claimed Paramount Pictures actually “discussed…

Following the success of National Geographic limited series The Hot Zone, showrunner-EPs Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson and EP David Zucker looked at around 100 ideas for a second season, landing subject-wise on the harrowing anthrax attacks of 2001. From the perspective of Peterson, The Hot Zone: Anthrax was…

EXCLUSIVE: The era of The Man in the High Castle is coming to an end. The upcoming coming fourth season of the acclaimed Amazon series based on Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel will be its last, I've learned. That fourth and final season is set to launch on the Jeff Bezos-founded streamer this fall. MITHC meticulously and…

A comedy venture of Circa, Sinclair Broadcast Group’s digital news subsidiary, has been sued for sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation. Jaclyn Mason, Richelle Meiss and Rebecca Zak are suing Sinclair, along with its digital comedy venture Circa Laughs, Medio Pictures Partners, David Zucker (writer and…

I’ve learned that AMC has put another drama script on a track for a possible straight-to-series order. I hear the network is opening a writers room for Marvel (working title), a drama from Scott Free Prods. inspired by the story of Jet Propulsion Laboratory co-founder Jack Parsons. Written by Mark Heyman, Marvel (no…

PBS will add a Civil War hospital drama from Ridley Scott to its Sunday night lineup. The unnamed drama, slated for 2016, is based on true stories and set in Alexandria, VA. The drama, which has an initial six-episode order, follows two volunteer nurses on opposite sides of the war in the union hospital which is a…

EXCLUSIVE: The television division of Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free Prods has signed with WME. The TV company, run by David Zucker, had been represented by CAA. Scott Free Prods recently earned a total of 23 primetime Emmy nominations for its CBS drama series The Good Wife, Starz miniseries The Pillars of the Eart…

EXCLUSIVE: Last week, Deadline’s Mike Fleming reported that Ridley Scott is planning another Blade Runner film, while brother Tony Scott plots to do a remake of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah Western classic The Wild Bunch. These are just a couple of many film projects the indefatigable pair are involved in after careers…