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Former The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies has joined the Season 2 cast of Apple’s The Morning Show. Margulies will play Laura Peterson, an anchor at UBA News. She’ll join returning stars Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Nestor Carbonell, Bel Powley, Karen Pittman and…

They’re not really lawyers, but they play ones on TV. Still, We The Action, an organization that connects volunteer lawyers with nonprofit organizations, hopes to use the television stars to recruit real attorneys who can work to ensure a fair election. A public service announcement was released Thursday for the We…

Julianna Magulies (The Good Wife) and Corey Stoll (The Strain) have joined the Season 5 cast of Billions, Showtime’s drama series starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. Created executive producers/showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien, along with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Season 4 of Billions saw former enemies…

Today at CBS All Access’ executive session at TCA, EVP Original Content Julie McNamara was asked to comment on the streamer’s pay dispute with Julianna Margulies when it came to reprising her Good Wife character on the spinoff The Good Fight.  This past spring, Julianna Margulies told Deadline that she was offered a…

A 25-year passion project for Ridley Scott and Lynda Obst, The Hot Zone finally made its way to the small screen this year, in the form of a starry National Geographic miniseries, developed by Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson and Jeff Vintar. Centered on Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies), a colonel at the United States…

Included in American Scientist magazine's list of "books that shaped a century of science," Richard Preston's non-fiction classic The Hot Zone has long been considered the definitive study of the origins of the Ebola virus. It is also, as chiller writer Stephen King would testify, a gripping read: "The first chapter…

After six years on ER, playing Carol Hathaway in NBC's hit medical drama, Julianna Margulies made a vow to stay away from roles that involved delivering complex scientific jargon. She was so strict with herself that, when Scott Free first approached her with The Hot Zone, a six-part tale about the origins of the Ebola…

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic is looking to stay in The Hot Zone. Following the ratings and critical success of the limited series starring Julianna Margulies, the Disney-owned network has begun discussions with producers Fox 21 TV Studios, part of Disney TV Studios, and Scott Free to turn the program, chronicling…

Julianna Margulies is certainly no stranger to award seasons, with her track record of success in terms of nominations and statuettes taken home pretty impressive. She has 10 Emmy nominations, including two wins — for ER (the only cast member to win an Emmy for the series) and The Good Wife, respectively. She has 12…

Julianna Margulies is elaborating further on her dispute with CBS over why she didn’t reprise her The Good Wife character in CBS All Access’ spinoff The Good Fight. In an interview with SiriusXM’s Jessica Shaw, Margulies said she’d return now for the spinoff if they would pay her fee to appear. “If they were to ask me…

Nat Geo brought the harrowing new miniseries The Hot Zone to the fourth annual The Contenders Emmys, Deadline’s all-day event in front of a packed audience of Television Academy and key guild voters at the Paramount Studios theater. The panel discussion came ahead of the mini’s Memorial Day weekend premiere. Joining…

In February, The Good Wife star Julianna Margulies revealed to Deadline that she almost reprised her role as Alicia Floreck on the current third season of the spinoff series The Good Fight on CBS All Access. She said she “really wanted to do it” but “the deal didn't happen." The Emmy-winning actress is now opening up…