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"We kind of play the moments in the show, as you do in life," Eugene Levy told Deadline's Contenders Emmys event this spring of the lightening in a bottle that is Schitt's Creek. "Because life is not made up of punch lines, it's just made up of moments, some of them funny, some of them emotional, some of them tragic…

"I really wanted to make something about a group that people don't know, that is self-reflective instead of something that is trying to project an idea of what you should think of us," reveled Ramy Youssef of the Hulu comedy that bears his name. Onstage at the Paramount Theatre at Deadline's Contenders Emmy event…

“The reason for making this series was because Monica agreed to talk,” says The Clinton Affair EP Alex Gibney about landing Monica Lewinsky for the 6-part A&E docu-series at Deadline’s Contenders. To understand and rationalize our present, we need to know our past, and when it comes to that axiom there are many themes…

AT&T Audience Network's thriller series Condor, adapted from the Oscar-nominated film Three Days of the Condor and the screenplay Three Days of the Condor by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel, stars Max Irons as Joe Turner, a young CIA analyst who unwittingly becomes the center of a major conspiracy.  At Deadline's…

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…

Paramount Network’s Yellowstone series made a big splash when it hit the air. The Montana-set family ranch drama was not only a ratings success for the network, which picked it up for a third season, but it also introduced movie star Kevin Costner as series regular on a multi-seasoned show (prior to this he starred on…

Catch-22 recently made its highly-anticipated debut on Hulu. George Clooney directs and co-stars in the adaptation of Joseph Heller’s seminal novel about artful dodger Yossarian (Christopher Abbott). The book contained nearly four dozens characters, which made it extremely difficult for writers Luke Davies and David…

Created by a comedy writer, DJ Nash, ABC’s freshman drama A Million Little Things tackles head-on difficult issues such as suicide, mental health, cancer, alcoholism and sexual abuse while allowing itself to laugh. That is what actor Ron Livingston, whose character commits suicide in the pilot, found appealing to…

Executive Producers Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg were “huge fans” of the The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) and three years ago they began discussing the proper approach to a 21st century reboot, one that would be truly worthy of sharing its name with the revered brand. The result, The Twilight Zone hosted by Peele, made…

The ongoing mission of The Orville is to explore a new television frontier in comedy and engaging sci-fi adventure and the second season of the Fox series proves the commitment to that quest by doubling down on intense action and interstellar peril. The meld is an uncommon one and even Jon Cassar,  one of the show’s…

You, the Penn Badgley-fronted drama, was designed as a Rorschach test, according to the creators, albeit one that the audience failed, according to the former Gossip Girl star. The series, which was written by Greg Berlanti and Sera Gamble and based on Caroline Kepnes' best-selling novel, tells the story of a…

James Corden doesn’t couch his late-night aspirations in typical talk-show traditions. The Late Late Show with James Corden may retain the hallmark rituals of late-night network fare but in minimized ways: Corden’s monologue is the shortest among his late-night peers, for instance, and he’s often treats celeb guests…