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Netflix is expanding its circle of influence next month. The streamer said today that its popular competition series The Circle will return for a four-part Season 3 on September 8. New episodes will go live on ensuing Wednesdays through the September 29 finale. Critics Choice Award winner Michelle Buteau returns as…

Netflix is continuing to double down on unscripted. The streamer has handed out renewals to a trio of shows: The Circle, Indian Matchmaking and The American Barbecue Showdown. This comes as it <a…

David Tennant Joins Sky's 'The Amazing Maurice' Former Doctor Who star David Tennant will join Hugh Laurie and Emilia Clarke in the cast of Sky's The Amazing Maurice, an upcoming adaptation of Terry Pratchett's best-selling children's fantasy novel. It will mark the actor's second turn in a Pratchett project…

E! has ordered a four-part series that brings some of the most celebrated TV casts back together on a roadtrip. The casts of All My Children, Scrubs, A Different World and Queer Eye For The Straight Guy are getting back together for Reunion Road Trip to reminisce and share surprising revelations about their shows. The…

Netflix reality series The Circle and Too Hot To Handle are having their own mini-crossover as Chloe Veitch, one of the breakout stars of the dating format is joining the social experiment. The streamer has dropped the first trailer for season two of The Circle, which returns on Wednesday April 14. Apart from Chloe…

Netflix, which introduced viewers around the world to the full-season binge drop, is experimenting with new scheduling around two of its biggest non-scripted shows. The Circle and Too Hot to Handle are returning later this spring, and their release pattern looks a lot more like traditional broadcasting scheduling than…

Channel 4 has confirmed one of the worst-kept secrets in British TV — that The Circle is going to be renewed for a third season. It has also revealed there will be a celebrity version for charity Stand Up To Cancer, and the show will be tweaked because of the coronavirus crisis. The Studio Lambert and Motion Content…

Netflix is doubling down on its reality slate – ordering a new series from Marie Kondo, handing two season renewals to Love Is Blind and The Circle and renewing Rhythm + Flow. The streamer has been recently stepping up its game in the non-scripted space, with Love Is Blind, produced by Red Arrow's Kinetic Content…

EXCLUSIVE: The Circle and Undercover Boss producer Studio Lambert has cooked up its latest format for Netflix — a dance show that will aim to find the world’s next superstar choreographer. Deadline can reveal that Studio Lambert is about to begin production in London on the show, which has been given the working title…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4’s director of programs Ian Katz has said he would consider bringing back Big Brother, and revealed that youth channel E4 is conducting a major hunt for a new reality show. In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Katz said he would not dismiss out of hand an approach from Endemol Shine Group…

At the BBC’s Christmas drinks earlier this month, I gatecrashed an animated conversation between two senior figures from the UK production sector. After a sheepish glance at each other, they revealed that the subject of their discussion was a certain Ian Katz, the director of programs at Channel 4. They are far from…

EXCLUSIVE: Most things James Corden touches turn to gold these days, but a new comedy entertainment show from his company Fulwell 73 may be a rare exception to the rule. Pants On Fire, an extreme bluffing format hosted by The Circle presenter Emma Willis, has been quietly rested by Channel 4’s youth station E4…