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On the eve of Valentine's Day, there is a lot of love in the air and on the small screen this week, in many forms. As my TV review above displays, there was the debut of the Ava DuVernay created Cherish the Day on OWN on February 11, and the launch of the bloody second season of Narcos: Mexico on Netflix today. Then…

BBC Studios has announced that it is making a TV series with Greta Thunberg, following the 17-year-old’s environmental campaigning and her journey into adulthood. No broadcaster is yet attached to the series, while the number of episodes and title are also yet to be determined. BBC Studios announced the project at its…

EXCLUSIVE: Sebastian De Souza (Medici: Masters of Florence) is set as a series regular opposite Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult in Hulu comedy series The Great, from Civic Center Media in association with MRC Television. Created, written and executive produced by Oscar-nominated writer Tony McNamara (The Favourite), Th…

EXCLUSIVE: In a development that is a fitting epitaph for a 2020 Sundance Film Festival acquisitions market dominated by streamers, Deadline hears that the fest’s biggest sale title — the WW rights deal for Palm Springs — was actually worth substantially more than what was reported last week by winning bidders Hulu…

Eight months after Disney took full control of Hulu, Disney is moving forward with integrating Hulu into its business operations under Direct-to-Consumer & International chairman Kevin Mayer. As part of the restructuring, Hulu CEO Randy Freer has stepped down. The top executives across Hulu operations, like…

EXCLUSIVE: Bad Hair, one of the buzz titles at Sundance since it premiered last Thursday at The Ray, is nearing a worldwide rights deal north of $8 million with Hulu, sources said. Pic is a horror satire directed by Dear White People creator Justin Simien, and it has been chased hard by suitors I’ve heard included…

UPDATED: Deadline today broke that Hulu and Neon set the high bar for deals at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with a $15 million world rights deal for the Andy Samberg-starrer Palm Springs. At the time, we heard it might be a bit higher, and waited for a definitive number. The deal at that price was certainly a…

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend co-creator Aline Brosh McKenna has signed a three-year-old overall pod deal with ABC Studios. Under the pact, Brosh McKenna will develop projects across all platforms for ABC Studios, part of Disney Television Studios, through her newly launched company, Lean Machine. The first project Brosh…

With the January 25th world premiere of the Hillary docuseries on her life, Hillary Clinton has been a frequent presence in Park City during the opening days of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. As you can see in the video above, the former Secretary of State has also been very blunt about Donald Trump, the stakes of…

"I hope this will haunt them, not only politically but historically," Hillary Clinton said Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival of the Republicans’ likely acquittal of President Donald Trump in his ongoing Senate Impeachment trial. "I find it absolutely beyond my understanding why they are so cowed, so…

Marvel is not moving forward with its Hulu animated series Howard the Duck and Tigra & Dazzler, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to Deadline. That leaves two Marvel animated series remaining at Hulu, Hit Monkey and M.O.D.O.K.. along with the live-action Helstrom. All projects originated at Marvel…

EXCLUSIVE: British playwright and screenwriter Nina Raine has been tapped to write the limited series adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is The Night novel for Hulu. The project, from Colin Callender's Playground Entertainment, has been in development at Hulu since 2018. Tender Is The Night, which was…