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On this week’s episode of Deadline’s TV Talk podcast, we discuss how the industry will transition to a “new normal” — not only during this Emmy campaign season now in full swing but also how the coronavirus pandemic could also drastically overhaul awards campaigning in general, and especially during the upcoming Oscar…

Following in the digital footsteps of Quibi and Peacock, HBO Max joined the streaming wars in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic this week. The AT&T-owned entity lands in the TV landscape minus it its hugely hyped Friends reunion special and many other originals shut down because of the global health crisis. In…

Veteran news executive Bill Small passed away on Sunday after a brief illness unrelated to the coronavirus. The former CBS News Washington Bureau Chief, NBC News President, United Press International President and Chairman of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, was 93. Small served as CBS’ Washington Bureau Chief…

HBO’s post-Emmy party has been an industry staple for decades, and still the hottest ticket in town on Primetime Emmy Awards night. Amid a global pandemic, the premium network is canceling this year’s reception, held traditionally at The Plaza at L.A.’s Pacific Design Center. HBO said Friday that it is redirecting…

In this week’s edition of our Deadline podcast TV Talk, we try to break down the seismic changes hitting the TV industry in light of the coronavirus pandemic. We ask the question: How much of this virtual programming that has become the new normal is really content, or just filler until we get back (hopefully) to the…

There is no question that Julia Garner is on a roll right now. In a conversation for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, Ozark’s “bad” girl Ruth talks about why the Netflix series has become instant water-cooler conversation and one of TV’s most watched shows, how the current pandemic may…

Editors’ Note: Live events were hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with sweeping cancellations of festivals, sports and awards shows. Don Mischer is one of the doyens of the live-event business. During his long career, he has produced/directed dozens of high-profile special event-telecasts from the Oscars and…

Indicative of these coronavirus pandemic times, Barack Obama will be taking to the mic on Saturday to deliver a remote commencement speech to the nation’s graduating high school seniors. Like last month's Lady Gaga-curated One World concert (read our review here), Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class…

You can tell when its Emmy season because that also means the return of Deadline’s TV Talk Podcast, featuring TV critic Dominic Patten and awards columnist Pete Hammond. For the 2020 premiere episode, we hit numerous topics related to the changing landscape of this unique Emmy campaign year as we cover the waterfront…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix, acknowledging traditional Emmy campaigning is impossible this year especially when it comes to kind of events it has produced in past seasons, is making wholesale changes in its approach in showing off its wares. The moves include going almost exclusively digital, revamping the concept of its FYC…

Welcome officially to our first-ever virtual season of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side, which will run every Wednesday. Due to the coronavirus pandemic we are by necessity out of our usual studio and inside (via video) the homes of the actors we are talking with about career and craft this Emmy season; it…

The fifth annual Deadline Contenders Television is set to take place Sunday, June 7, but this time with a difference. For the first time in the history of any of our Contenders events, whether in Oscar season or Emmy season, it will all be done virtually, with a livestream beginning at 8 AM PT and continuing all day…