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UPDATED with latest winners: The Peabody Awards revealed its complete list of winners for its 81st edition, recognizing the year’s most compelling and empowering stories in broadcasting and streaming media, topics that in the year 2020 included Covid-19, racial equality, immigration and social justice. Joining the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Good Lord Bird, the Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke in the adaptation of James McBride’s book about enigmatic abolitionist John Brown, will be awarded a Peabody on Tuesday, Deadline has learned. Chris Rock presented the award to Hawke, who also co-wrote and produced the seven-part series…

To say Ethan Hawke does it all really is an understatement. Best known as an actor who began as a child star in 1985’s Explorers and grew into a multiple showbiz threat, Hawke has directed and written several films, appeared on Broadway and Off Broadway, been nominated for a Tony and directed three Off Broadway shows…

In keeping the spirit of Halloween alive while the pandemic mandates most of us to stay at home, Blumhouse is celebrating its first BlumFest. The virtual event, taking place Thursday at 10 a.m. PT on Blumhouse’s YouTube channel and Facebook page, will feature panels of talent from the studio’s upcoming movies, both…

Showtime is moving Ethan Hawke's The Good Lord Bird later in the year – a shift designed to put more context around the abolitionist miniseries as the focus sharpens on the issue of systemic racism in the U.S. The Hawke drama was originally intended to premiere on August 9 but will now move its launch to October 4 in…

ATX Television Festival has announced that the first-ever virtual Saturday night marquee event will be a sneak peek and conversation with the team behind Showtime’s upcoming limited series The Good Lord Bird. Scheduled to debut August 9, Blumhouse Television series stars Ethan Hawke, Joshua Caleb Johnson, Ellar…

“Everybody got God on their side in a war,” enslaved teenager Little Onion says. “Trouble is, God ain’t tellin’ nobody who he’s for.” Here is the first trailer for The Good Lord Bird, Showime’s limited series starring Ethan Hawke as John Brown, the antebellum abolitionist who organized an ultimately ill-fated raid on…

“People often like to call him insane,” Ethan Hawke said today about John Brown, the American abolitionist he plays in Showtime’s upcoming miniseries The Good Lord Bird.  But there certainly was something more in James McBride’s National Book Award-winning novel that spoke to the Oscar-nominated actor, especially in…

EXCLUSIVE: Rafael Casal (Blindspotting) is set for a recurring role opposite Ethan Hawke in Showtime's The Good Lord Bird based on James McBride's novel, from Blumhouse Television. The Good Lord Bird is told from the point of view of Onion (Joshua Johnson-Lionel), a fictional enslaved boy, who is part of John Brown's…

Grammy and Tony Award winner Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Wyatt Russell (Lodge 49) are for key roles opposite Ethan Hawke in Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird based on James McBride’s novel, from Blumhouse Television. The eight-part limited event series will premiere on Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 10 PM ET/PT. The Good Lor…

EXCLUSIVE: Joshua Johnson-Lionel is set to star opposite Ethan Hawke in the forthcoming Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird from Blumhouse Television. Based on the National Book Award-winning novel of the same name by James McBride, Johnson-Lionel will step into the lead role of Onion (aka Henry Shackleford), a…

In his first major foray into television, filmmaker Albert Hughes (Alpha, Menace II Society) has signed on to executive produce and direct multiple episodes of Showtime limited series The Good Lord Bird, starring Ethan Hawke. The Good Lord Bird, based on James McBride’s 2013 novel, is told from the point of view of…