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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Holland Taylor is set as a lead opposite Sandra Oh in Netflix’s The Chair, a new six-episode half-hour dramedy starring and executive produced by Killing Eve's Oh and co-starring Jay Duplass (Transparent, Outside In). It hails from Amanda Peet (The Romanoffs) and Game of Thrones creators David…

It's always hard to pick a winner (I have been making predictions all week on Deadline), and I have some favorites (yes, I am one of the 23,000 or so eligible Emmy voters) in what has turned out to be an exceptional year for television. A number of people didn't get nominations who should have, for example Chris Evans…

Playing a role in Netflix limited series Hollywood has not only been "truly, one of the happiest jobs” ever for Holland Taylor, and the source of her well-deserved eighth Emmy nomination, but she also found herself personally very moved by the series' revisionist history. In Ryan Murphy and co-creator Ian Brennan's…

When you look at Holland Taylor’s career, and the variety of roles she has taken on, you have to be in awe — as I was when I interviewed her for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side. The occasion is her eighth Emmy nomination, this time for her heartbreakingly good turn as Ellen Kincaid…

When PBS executive Perry Simon took the stage at the PBS Television Critics Association press tour to talk about the new quarterly initiatives, it became clear that women are at the forefront of a sizeable chunk of PBS's 2020 programming. That’s  as part of PBS's "Trailblazers" initiative centered around the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Practice Emmy winner has boarded the ensemble cast of Bill & Ted Face The Music and will play The Great Leader, the most powerful person in the universe. The center? Why, San Dimas, California, 700 years in the future. Taylor joins previously announced cast including Alex Winter, Keanu Reeves, William…

EXCLUSIVE: Madeleine Arthur is officially set to reprise her role as Christine in Netflix’s All The Boys I've Loved Before sequel, which has also added Emmy winner Holland Taylor (The Practice, Legally Blonde ) and Sarayu Blue (Blockers) to the cast list as production is currently underway. Stars Lana Condor and Noah…

Approached by Stephen King with the galleys for King’s latest effort Mr. Mercedes, director Jack Bender was thrilled. “He had never written a detective novel, and I found it fascinating that Stephen was writing this time about the monsters inside the people, as opposed to the monsters outside the people,” Bender told…

Holland Taylor's Tony-nominated performance as Texas governor Ann Richards in 2013’s Ann will get a wider viewing next month with its exclusive debut on the Broadway streaming platform BroadwayHD. The one-woman play, written and performed by Taylor and directed by Benjamin Endsley Klein, was taped from a performance…

Comedy veterans Hector Elizondo (Last Man Standing) and Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men) have been cast as the leads in Guess Who Died, NBC’s single-camera comedy from Norman Lear and Peter Tolan, which has a pilot production commitment. Guess Who Died, from Sony Pictures TV, is based on Lear's personal experiences…

A starry list of stage and screen vets, several with marquee-quality drawing power from roles on popular TV shows, have joined the cast of The Front Page, the Scott Rudin-mounted revival with already-announced headliners Nathan Lane, John Slattery, Jefferson Mays and Sherie Rene Scott. Fresh to the bill are Holland…

What would we do without odd couples? Not just Neil Simon’s Oscar and Felix but all those mismatched friends, lovers, spouses, siblings, parents, partners, pets, cousins, exes, execs, scoundrels, thieves and other ill-suited collaborationists whose sum is more than the equal of their farce? With Ripcord, David Lindsay…