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Invitations have just gone out for Deadline’s fourth annual The Contenders Emmys all-day event, set this year for Sunday, April 7 at a new venue, Paramount Studios. A total of 19 studios and networks are set to participate, bringing showrunners and talent from their biggest Emmy hopefuls including ABC Studios…

No sooner than Oscar season has ended and the Emmy season is upon us, and that means Deadline is gearing up for our fourth annual The Contenders Emmys all-day event, set this year for Sunday, April 7 at a new venue, Paramount Studios. The anticipated day has become a key launch for the beginning of the race for…

Amazon’s The Dangerous Book for Boys follows a young boy who reconnects with his deceased father within a fantasy world he creates from a how-to guidebook his father left for him. The series showcases a production within a production, and creating the fantasy worlds came with its own challenges. “We didn’t have a lot…

The CW superhero saga Black Lightning has plenty of the usual zap-bam-pow action one would expect from the genre and producer Greg Berlanti. But this tale of a conflicted African-American superhero who reluctantly returns to crime-fighting also had a deeper meaning to co-developer Salim Akil, who remembers a time when…

The rising threat of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida was known to the FBI and the CIA in the late 1990s. But rivalry between the agencies kept their accumulated information in silos, ultimately leading to the breakdowns that helped result in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the war in Afghanistan. The Looming Tow…

After Donald Trump referred to Haiti as a “sh*thole country,” Conan O’Brien took his TBS late-night show to the island nation to prove him otherwise. O’Brien said at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event that the special Conan episode worked because it not only humanized Haitians it humanized him, as well. “The point…

“We're all living in echo chambers. You think that your Twitter is giving you 'fair and balanced news,' but you curate it,” I Love You, America host Sarah Silverman said during her Hulu series’ panel at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event. “It's a whole world that you have curated according to your thoughts and…

During the panel for Netflix’s GLOW at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event, stars Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Sydelle Noel and Britney Young talked about how wrestling bonded the cast in the most “intimate” ways. “We were trust-falling into each other’s arms before we knew what each other’s last names were,” Gilpin…

From “Carpool Karaoke” to “Crosswalk: The Musical” to “Role Call” (that’s the one where they act out all the films of an actor in 10 minutes), The Late Late Show With James Corden has seen great success with its viral-friendly segments. Still, at Deadline’s recent The Contenders Emmys event, host James Corden said “it…

In Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's 10-part documentary series The Vietnam War, 80 witnesses give testimonies about their experiences in the conflict from Americans who fought to protesters, North and South Vietnamese soldiers, and civilians. Burns thought he knew a lot about the war, but when he took on the project, it…

Bryan Cranston came to Deadline’s annual The Contenders Emmys awards-season event and brought with him his new Amazon comedy series The Dangerous Book for Boys, which he co-created with Greg Mottola. Cranston opened up about the initial difficulty of coming up with a direction for the series, which is based on Conn…

Now in its second season, The Handmaid’s Tale showrunner Bruce Miller had one thing to say about the award-winning Hulu series’ sophomore run: “You just don't want to f*ck it up.” Miller was joined onstage by executive producer Warren Littlefield at Deadline’s annual The Contenders Emmys event to talk about going…