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A cold winter’s night saw a unique divide between Sharks and Smacks, as ABC’s Shark Tank and Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown tied atop the demo pool, each raising an 0.6. Shark Tank’s new episode saw Mark Cuban, Daymond John, Kevin O'Leary, Lori Greiner, Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran duel over entrepreneurs…

Refresh for updates… Tributes have been flooding in for Meat Loaf,  the prolific singer and actor born Marvin Lee Aday who has died Thursday at 74. Many of those who worked alongside him as both singer and actor were first to take to Twitter. Global superstar Cher said she “had so much fun with Meat Loaf” when they…

‘Big Brother’ Spain Label Zeppelin Unveils MD Zeppelin, the Banijay Iberia label that introduced Big Brother and entertainment format The Bridge to Spain, has promoted Miguel Martín to MD, replacing Amparo Castellano. Martín joined the label two years ago to work for Banijay Birds, the territory’s creative hub for…

During the holiday break, which traditionally shuts down Hollywood for the final two weeks of the year, top broadcast network executives used to spend a significant portion of their time reading pilot scripts before kicking off pilot pickups at the start of January with early drama standouts. Broadcast business…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has taken in for development Guys We F****d , a multi-camera comedy based on Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson's Guys We F****d: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast, from Eric and Kim Tannenbaum's The Tannenbaum Company (Two and a Half Men), and Lionsgate TV, where The Tannenbaum Co. is under a deal. The…

Celebrities are reliving the classic dance moments in Dirty Dancing with the hope to become the next Baby and Johnny in a new competition series for Fox. The network is launching The Real Dirty Dancing on February 1. The series, which is hosted by Stephen "tWitch" Boss, host of Jimmy Fallon-exec produced Clash of the C…

Fox has slated two in-person upfront events this spring — one in LA in March, the other in its usual mid-May berth in New York — as the industry looks to emerge from the long shadow of Covid. On March 23, on the Fox lot, the company will hold the Content Drives Commerce Brand Partnership Summit. will be held on…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox is moving past The Last Police. Deadline understands that the network has passed on the Kyle Killen pilot. Based on Ben Winters' sci-fi mystery novel The Last Policeman, the network ordered the pilot in July. It was written, directed and exec produced by the Lone Star and Awake creator via his Chapter…

Fox is going its own way with Mick Fleetwood. The network is looking to the Fleetwood Mac co-founder to drum up its next drama series after putting 13 Songs into development from the musician, whose band was responsible for mega-records like Rumours. The scripted project is written by Will Reiser, who wrote the Joseph…

9-1-1 has been an incredibly successful franchise for Fox, with the original series in its fifth season and Lone Star spinoff in its third season. Could we see more incarnations on the network any time soon? Michael Thorn, President of Entertainment at the network, told Deadline, "If there’s a way where we could…

Fox's animation push is just getting started. The network has been bulking up its slate of adult cartoons recently with series orders for the likes of Jon Hamm-narrated Grimsburg and Dan Harmon's Krapopolis. President of Entertainment Michael Thorn tells Deadline that there's more to come and it's all building up to a…

Fox last week pulled high-profile new drama Monarch from the midseason lineup two weeks before it was to launch behind the network’s coverage of the NFC Championship game. The country music family dynasty series, starring Susan Sarandon, Trace Adkins, Anna Friel and Beth Ditto, will now debut in fall 2022. In a…