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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has set female-led action adventure series Palomino from Sony-backed The Crown producer Left Bank Pictures, with filming set to get underway later this year in Barcelona. Sky’s Strike Back: Vendetta exec/writing duo Rob Bullock and Jack Lothian are to combine again on the project, with Lothian also…

Actress Mahira Khan may have spilled a big secret about an important casting in the upcoming season of Netflix’s royal family drama The Crown. Khan tweeted today that Humayun Saeed has apparently won the role of Dr. Hasnat Ahmad Khan, the British-Pakistani heart and lung surgeon who had a romantic relationship with…

EXCLUSIVE: Spain-based The Crown and Night Manager production services outfit Palma Pictures, which recently entered the original drama game, has kickstarted an investment round to support its expansion. Palma has appointed Moore Kingston Smith Corporate Finance to seek an undisclosed amount of investment from the…

The Crown has found its Prince William, very close to home. Senan West, the 13-year-old son of Dominic West, who portrays Prince Charles in the royal drama’s upcoming fifth season, will join his dad in the role of Prince William, Deadline has confirmed. We understand Senan West will play a slightly older Prince…

The British TV industry is "losing the arguments around Public Service Broadcasting and hasn't yet found the words to make an effective case," according to Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz creator James Graham. Graham, who is also behind BBC1's upcoming drama Sherwood, said a "new case" needs to be forged to keep…

Andrew Neil has compared GB News to a "UKIP tribute band" and said the Discovery-backed news channel, which he split from acrimoniously over the summer, may "fall into irrelevance and obscurity" if it doesn't sort production values and ratings. Neil said he doesn't want the news channel to be the "full stop on my…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. I hopped on a Zoom call Thursday with Frank Marshall, who is producing (with Beth Williams) the new Broadway show Diana: The Musical — which, in an unprecedented move, first debuts today in a filmed version on Netflix before its opening on the Great…

Fresh off its formidable sweep at the 73rd annual Emmy Awards, Netflix’s The Crown will come back for even more royal drama next year. Netflix, during its Tudum fan event on Saturday, revealed that The Crown will return for Season 5 November 2022. The announcement was made by Imelda Staunton, who is taking on the role…

(UPDATED WITH NFL NUMBERS) With a predictable night of winners at the low-drama 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards on CBS and a high-stakes battle between the Baltimore Ravens and Kansas City Chiefs over on NBC's Sunday Night Football, we all thought we knew how this was going to end. 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Deadlin…

A big night for The Crown and The Queen's Gambit helped Netflix score the most wins by any platform or network at Sunday night's Emmys, equaling the record set by CBS in 1974 with 44 wins. 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Deadline's Full Coverage Netflix bosses, including head of global TV Bela Bajaria, head of…

Here is the final tally of wins by program and network/platform for the 2021 Emmy Awards, including the Primetime and Creative Arts ceremonies and the pre-announced juried winners. 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Deadline's Full Coverage Emmys TV Review: Slog Of A Show Was Way Too Status Quo, Full Of Time…

The chicken wings and guacamole turned up at London's Soho House just before The Crown won the Emmy for best drama series. 73rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: Deadline's Full Coverage It was 4 a.m. Monday in the Greek Street members club when the telecast finished, but the cast and crew of Netflix's series were…