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"I'm just making an argument to make this fascinating to our listeners here," jokes our Awards Columnist today on Deadline's TV Talk podcast. With TV Academy members casting their ballots for nominations as we speak, Pete Hammond and Deadline’s Chief TV Critic Dominic Patten want to make everyone's day a little bit…

For many who tuned into Hulu’s Dopesick — the eight-part series about the country’s worst drug epidemic — it probably marked the first time they heard of the Sackler family and the role their pharmaceutical company played. It was a responsibility that both creator Danny Strong (Recount, Game Change) and the cast…

Emmy voting started Thursday, and for our penultimate TV Talk podcast of this stage of the season, we have some names for you to consider. Euphoria's Zendaya, Dopesick's Michael Keaton, Hacks‘ Jean Smart and Paul W. Downs, Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae, the Succession gang, Grace & Frankie's Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, Thi…

UPDATED with final winners: The Oscar-winning documentary Summer of Soul, Bo Burnham’s Emmy-winning musical comedy special Inside, Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad and Raoul Peck's Exterminate All the Brutes are among the final list of winners of 2022 Peabody Awards. The Peabodys, in their 82nd year, honor the…

A new season of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens begins today with my conversation with Danny Strong, a writer, director, producer and actor who has become one of the most prolific creators in television. His current limited series for Hulu, Dopesick, is heavily buzzed for Emmy attention and has already…

London's prestigious National Gallery, containing much of the UK's most prized art, has removed the name of one of its biggest donors, Sackler – the disgraced pharmaceuticals dynasty. The Times reports that staff have removed the now infamous name from the room – technically Room 34, but for 30 years known as ‘the…

"There are so many good things, so many different kind of series here," Deadline's Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond says on today's TV Talk podcast, speaking about the Limited Series contenders for this year's Emmys. With the likes of Hulu's Dopesick and The Dropout, HBO's The White Lotus, Netflix's…

The 15th annual Television Academy Honors list is out, recognizing seven exceptional TV programs and their producers who used powerful and innovative storytelling to advance social change. The programs representing some of the most significant and impactful television of 2021 are Black and Missing, Dopesick, Insecure…

Danny Strong still remembers the anger he felt while researching the opioid crisis that would lead to the creation of Dopesick. Before writing the Hulu limited series that would Michael Keaton and Kaitlyn Dever, Strong was shocked to learn how the Sackler family, the founders and owners of Purdue Pharma, caused “so…

For Michael Keaton, accepting the SAG Award for his performance in Hulu’s Dopesick started off with slapstick comedy as the actor left presenter Salma Hayek stranded for a minute or so before sprinting to the stage and rolling onto it. He kicked off his speech by apologizing for his tardiness due to a “quick trip to…

Maggie Gyllenhaal won the USC Libraries’ Scripter Award on Saturday for her adaptation of Netflix’s The Lost Daughter, based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante, making Gyllenhaal a frontrunner to take home the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Since 2011, the Scripters have proven a remarkable bellwether…

EXCLUSIVE: Sylvie Rabineau and Jill Holwager Gillett sold their boutique Rabineau Wachter Sanford & Gillett Literary Agency to WME five years ago. At that time, the pair, who are now co-heads of WME's literary packaging division, were behind films such as The Girl on the Train and series including HBO's The…