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Tom Hanks led a group of on- and off-screen collaborators on Sony’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood keeping the positive vibes going at a press conference at Toronto on Sunday. The film received a warm reception  following its world premiere Saturday night. Inhabiting the role of children’s TV host Fred Rogers…

EXCLUSIVE: Wendie Malick, Gravity Falls‘ Alex Hirsch and Boss Baby‘s Sarah-Nicole Robles have been set to lead the voice cast of The Owl House, Disney Channel’s upcoming animated fantasy comedy series. They will be joined for the first season, set to premiere in early 2020, by guests including Matthew Rhys, Isabella…

Emmy-winning former The Americans star Matthew Rhys has been tapped for the lead in Perry Mason, HBO’s limited series from Team Downey. Rhys will play the classic character in the reboot, which tracks the unorthodox investigator/defense attorney’s origin story. Perry Mason is in the process of hiring a director, and…

A new trailer for Andy Serkis’ Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle debuted during Netflix’s slate event in Singapore, along with the release date. The new take on the Rudyard Kipling classic will make its way to theaters in an exclusive limited engagement beginning November 29 in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and…

This year’s 70th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, presided over by Saturday Night Live‘s ‘Weekend Update” anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che, set out to celebrate the most diverse list of nominees in Emmy history, opening with the production number “We Solved It”: We solved it We got with the times There's room for all…

Matthew Rhys played a conflicted Soviet spy living as an “illegal” in the U.S. for six seasons, but it was his final assignment that paid off most handsomely. The British actor won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Monday night for playing Philip Jennings on FX’s The Americans, which ended its run…

Deadline Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond gives his take on the top acting contenders for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards. Here, he breaks down the categories of Outstanding Lead and Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series It's co-star versus co-star in the Lead…

The BBC has revealed the first look at its forthcoming period drama Death and Nightingales, starring The Fall's Jamie Dornan and The Americans' Matthew Rhys. The pair are starring alongside Irish up-and-comer Ann Skelly (Kissing Candice, Red Rock) in the three-part drama, based on Eugene McCable's modern Irish…

After being largely ignored by the Television Academy through most of its six season run, the Cold War era FX spy series The Americans today finally felt a warm embrace, with four nominations in major categories. It isn't often that a show so inexplicably forgotten by the Academy during its run gets so many…

It was only appropriate that the ATX Television Festival end with The Americans as the FX show recently had its series finale. The packed house at the Paramount Theatre was filled with emotion as they aired of the final scenes appropriately set to the tune of U2’s “With or Without You” from the last episode before…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's The Americans series finale. The Americans will always be one of the greatest television shows ever but tonight's series finale was not one of its greatest moments. Lacking the tension that has defined the show from its 2013 debut up until tonight, hobbled with…

Jamie Dornan is reteaming with BBC Two and The Fall creator Allan Cubitt for Death And Nightingales, a three-part drama based on Eugene McCable’s modern Irish classic. The Americans‘ Matthew Rhys will star along with Dornan. They are joined by Irish up-and-comer Ann Skelly (Kissing Candice, Red Rock) in the project…