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HBO premiered The Outsider on January 12 and it serves another helping of Stephen King fare translated to TV.  In it, Cynthia Erivo plays private investigator Holly Gibney who uses her uncanny abilities to help police detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn, who was unable to attend TCA as he was sick with pneumonia…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Television has closed a deal to develop the Jonathan Lethem novel Gun, With Occasional Music for a TV series. Johan Renck, coming off his Emmy-winning work on the acclaimed HBO miniseries Chernobyl, has been set to direct. He will be executive producer along with David Flebotte, who’ll be the…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from winning the Emmy for Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series for Ozark, Jason Bateman has found his next feature film to direct. He’ll helm Shut In, the spec script by first time scribe Melanie Toast that New Line acquired in September. Bateman had been developing to direct a film based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from Sunday’s Emmy win for Best Directing in a Drama Series for Netflix’s Ozark, Jason Bateman is in early talks direct Ryan Reynolds in Clue, the live-action feature adaptation of the Hasbro board game for Fox/Disney. Bateman also plans to star in the film, though it’s early going. Bateman, who won…

Expect a lot of riverboat in season 3 of Netflix’s Ozark.  Speaking to the press following his first Emmy win tonight for the show, Jason Bateman gave us some insight as to what to expect for the crafty Byrd family next season. The MRC-produced series was recently in production over the summer Ozark follows Marty…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed Scarlet, a film that is being measured to be the next one directed by Sundance breakout Alice Waddington, the helmer of Paradise Hills. Waddington hatched the idea and will write the script with Kristen SaBerre. The project was acquired for Aggregate’s Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan…

Ozark‘s Jason Bateman, Laura Linney and Julia Garner took the stage at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys awards-season event to talk about how the Netflix show’s identity and characters have evolved by the end of the second season. “The thing that I love about our show is that there is a core in identity — about who we…

We take on the Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy race in this week’s edition of Deadline’s TV Talk podcast. One thing we agree on for sure: there will not be a repeat of the outcome last year, when Matthew Rhys finally won for The Americans in its sixth and final season. Now, that doesn’t mean we won’t have a repeat…

On today’s The Contenders Emmys panel featuring the stars of Netflix drama Ozark, moderated by Mike Fleming Jr., Jason Bateman said he had some fun throwing away some of his Marty Byrde character’s “icy, no-emotion” demeanor to show a few frayed edges in the series’ second season. Bateman said that as Marty, a…

Here is your Arrested Development update by the numbers. One murder, no masterminds, one premiere date for Part 2 of Season 5. Got that? Netflix said today that the eight new episodes of its ensemble comedy starring Jason Bateman et al. will start streaming on March 15. Check the poster here and some first-look photos…

The game was a low-scoring snooze, and Maroon 5’s half-time show exuded strongly bleached blandness, leaving the ads our last best hope to avoid total Super Bowl viewing disaster. Here are the ads that rose to the occasion, and those that did not: THE  GOOD: Andy Warhol Wins Big year for Andy Warhol who was paid…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Bateman has set a deal with Netflix to direct an untitled action comedy script by Game Night and Accepted screenwriter Mark Perez. Bateman will produce with Michael Costigan through their Aggregate Films banner, teaming with Jeff Kirschenbaum and Joe Roth. Casting is underway but Bateman will not star…