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After a crazy season of twists and turns, Disney+'s WandaVision netted 23 Emmy nominations including for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and three nominations in the Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie category. Elizabeth Olsen stars as Wanda Maximoff, with Paul Bettany as Vision, in…

Disney+'s first TV series launch, the nine-episode WandaVision combined a wholly original premise that somehow felt familiar by its blatant homage to classic sitcoms that the witch Wanda conjured to mask her grief in losing her soulmate, Vision, to a brutal death we all saw in Avengers: Infinity War. Having Wanda mask…

Here are Avengers Wanda Maximoff and her beau Vision in an environment we’ve never seen them before: In American suburbia in black and white. It all looks like an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, but that’s part of the point in WandaVision. Disney+ debuted its first Marvel Cinematic Universe series in January to…

Marvel Studios and 20th Television have entered into a three-year overall exclusive television deal with writer-producer Jac Schaeffer. This is the first deal of this kind, signaling closer collaboration between Marvel Studios and Disney’s TV studio units. Schaeffer will develop television projects for both Marvel…

Joining me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens is Jac Schaeffer, creator, EP and head writer of Disney+’s Marvel limited series breakout WandaVision, a unique show blending the MCU characters Wanda and Vision with classic television sitcoms like The Dick Van Dyke…

SPOILER ALERT: The following interview with WandaVision EP and head writer Jac Schaeffer contains details about the Disney+/Marvel series’ finale “The Series Finale.” If you haven’t already read our recap of WandaVision‘s “The Series Finale”, you can read it here. But let’s get down to brass tacks ASAP with the…

Spoiler Alert: The following article contains spoilers about Episode 3 “Now in Color” of Disney+’s WandaVision After all the Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched satirical hijinks on WandaVision, the series began to deliver in a way that put fans at the edge of their seats: Wanda Maximoff delivered her twin boys, Thomas…

Disney+’s The Vision and Scarlet Witch has found a writer and showrunner. Jac Schaeffer, a writer on the upcoming Captain Marvel feature, will pen the pilot and executive produce, Deadline has confirmed. The Vision and Scarlet Witch is among the first series that Marvel Studios will be making for Disney’s streaming…