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UPDATED with CBS plans: NBC wants to make sure viewers can watch President Obama’s farewell speech Tuesday without having to miss — or DVR — the midseason return of its breakout drama This Is Us. CBS, meanwhile, will re-run the Season 9 finale of The Big Bang Theory in place of Bull after the speech. NBC said today…

Disney got the OK to break ground on the $5.5B Shanghai Disney Resort just a little over five years ago. Today, the “authentically Disney, distinctly Chinese” park opened under rainy skies and following much anticipation. This is the first Disney resort in mainland China, and its 6th worldwide. Under a partnership…

Alamo Drafthouse chief Tim League took to Facebook to discuss his concept and the architectural design for gender neutral restrooms at his theater chain’s upcoming Mueller location in Austin, Texas. League’s ideas come in the wake of a heated national debate over transgender rights in schools and public life. Close to…

WGN America’s upcoming series about the underground railroad used by escaping slaves is headed to Washington. The White House will screen Underground on Monday as part of a Black History Month event, and a source tells Deadline that President Obama and the first lady are “very likely” to attend. There will be a panel…

SAG-AFTRA has issued a strong statement of support for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances that President Obama sent to the Senate today for approval. The treaty is the result of a long-running multinational effort to grant full, worldwide recognition of…

Years in the making, the Trans-Pacific Partnership was signed in New Zealand today by a dozen Pacific Rim countries. The ratification process is next. President Obama calls it “a new type of trade deal that puts American workers first.” The MPAA Chairman and CEO Chris Dodd weighed in on the news today: "Today's…

In a move that is certain to stir things up as the political new year unfolds, President Obama will lead a televised town hall Thursday to address tightening restrictions on access to guns. The commander in chief will sit down with Anderson Cooper on CNN at 8 PM ET for the one-hour event titled “Guns in America,&#8221…

UPDATED with Kennedy Center Honors, NBC football and Trump: President Obama will be late for the ceremony for tonight’s Kennedy Center Honors, though he will host a pre-ceremony reception for honorees at the White House as planned. Earlier, it was unclear whether the president could show up for the ceremony. The…

President Obama this morning, making his latest statement following the latest mass murder in this country, now is reduced to suggesting the American public and legislators search as a society to “make sure we’re taking basic steps that would make it harder — not impossible but harder — for individuals to get access…

EXCLUSIVE: With advance ticket sales now in the $40 million range — a figure comparable to The Book Of Mormon and the opening of Miss Saigon in 1991 — and tickets harder to come by than a kind word for Trevor Noah, the Hamilton money machine churns on. Production sources tell Deadline that just five weeks after its…

Media observers/critics Howard Kurtz of Fox News and the Baltimore Sun’s David Zurowik parsed the week’s disclosures of Jon Stewart’s visits to the Obama White House Sunday in this clip from Fox News. Not surprisingly, the critics sided against both the President and soon-to-depart talk show host. Here, Kurtz and…

The broadcast networks interrupted their regular programming to cover the cheering that erupted this morning when the Confederate battle flag was taken down from the South Carolina Capitol grounds, ending a decades-long fight that re-ignited when a white supremacist murdered nine black members of an historic…