EXCLUSIVE: Never Back Down screenwriter Chris Hauty’s debut novel Deep State has been sold to Simon & Schuster's Emily Bestler Books and is being shopped for film and TV rights by literary agency Original Artists. The agency describes the book as a contemporary Three Days of the Condor-style thriller with a strong…

Justified and Vice Principals alum Walton Goggins will headline and executive produce the upcoming eight-episode second season of Deep State, I have learned. The spy thriller from Fox Networks Group Europe & Africa airs in 50 markets across the region. Goggins will take over for Mark Strong, who starred in the first se…

Deep State, the Mark Strong-fronted spy thriller, has been renewed for a second season ahead of its debut bow. Fox Networks Group (FNG) Europe & Africa has ordered a second run of eight episodes as the show kicks off this evening, April 5 in 50 markets across the region. Co-created, directed and written by Matthew…

Epix will air espionage drama Deep State in the U.S. The eight-episode series produced by Fox Networks Group Europe & Africa, and starring Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Game of Thrones‘ Joe Dempsie, will premiere Sunday, June 17 at 9 PM on Epix. Co-created, directed and written by Matthew Parkhill…

Fox Networks Group has unveiled the first-look at its global espionage thriller Deep State, starring Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy's Mark Strong. The show, which is the company's first regional scripted commission for Europe and Africa, sees Strong play an ex-spy, whose past comes back to haunt him. The trailer shows…

Ellen DeGeneres, Deep State operator? Nah, says the talk show host, swatting away Eric Trump’s bizarre suggestion. Her schedule just wouldn’t permit. "I don't have that kind of time,” DeGeneres jokes on today’s The Ellen Show. “I've got my gay agenda meetings on Mondays. On Wednesdays Beyonce and I host an Illuminati…

UPDATED with video: Donald Trump’s manic Tuesday tweeting was a gift to Stephen Colbert’s first original Late Show broadcast of 2018 that same day. And Colbert’s show had taped before Trump’s crazy-normalizing evening tweets about his “Nuclear Button” being bigger and stronger than Kim Jong Un’s, or Trump’s tweet…

When President Donald Trump Tuesday morning ripped the “Deep State Justice Department” for failing to “Jail!” the “Crooked Hillary Clinton” and her top aid Huma Abedin over email handling, what he was conveying is that “Obviously the president does not believe the entire Justice Department is part of” that “Deep State&#8221…

Deep State, Fox Networks Group's first regional scripted commission for Europe and Africa, has added new cast and released a first-look photo as production moves to London. Mark Strong is starring in the eight-part series created by Matthew Parkhill and Simon Maxwell. It will air in more than 50 countries on…

Mark Strong is set to star in espionage thriller Deep State, Fox Networks Group's first regional scripted commission for Europe and Africa. The eight-episode hourlong original series (which previously was announced under the working title The Nine) is written by Matthew Parkhill (Rogue), Simon Maxwell (American Odyssey…

“Ever since voters invited a bunch of state mashing, wall building, America First, Breitbart aficionados to slither out of their swamp and run the country for a while, we’ve been introduced to so much of their subculture’s fascinating slang. One angry insomniac rage tweet at a time,” Samantha Bee began Wednesday’s Full…

Comic book and graphic novel publisher BOOM! Studios has sold two drama projects based on properties from its catalog under the company’s first-look deal with 20th Century Fox TV, one of them executive produced by Homeland and Tyrant‘s Howard Gordon. Serving as executive producers on both are BOOM! Founder and CEO…