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The era of Peak TV hit a record-breaking peak in 2018 with the relative newbies of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Apple's soon to debut small screen service beating out the broadcasters and cablers for the first time ever. Though down by a notch from FX boss John Landgraf's prediction earlier this year that there would be…

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on May 14. With one Emmy and five nominations to date, Jeff Daniels will compete this year in both Lead and Supporting Categories with roles in two acclaimed series, Hulu’s The Looming Tower and Netflix original Western Godless. Jeff Daniels…

Hulu's limited series The Looming Tower not only digs deep into the U.S. intelligence failures that preceded 9/11, but also highlights some of the unsung heroes who battled to beat Al Qaeda behind the scenes. For Bill Camp, playing the role of FBI counterterrorism agent Robert Chesney meant becoming a composite…

Tahar Rahim owes his UTA agent, Ali Benmohamed, a huge thank you. If it weren't for Benmohamed's insistence that Rahim read the script for The Looming Tower, in spite of Rahim's blanket refusal to read anything that would cast Muslims as terrorists, he might never have played perhaps the most defining role of his…

In recent years, the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series has become quite the jewel in the crown of the TV Academy contest and for 2018, there is sure a lot that glitters, as we discuss in the Deadline Podcast: TV Talk this week. With strong performances by leads and past Emmy winners Jeff Daniels and B…

It looks like the battle for Best Actor in a Limited Series or Movie could be a real showdown between two past Emmy winners. In today's Deadline TV Talk podcast, we put Newsroom alum Jeff Daniels and Sherlock vet Benedict Cumberbatch in the potential lead spots in the category for their respective stellar performances…

It's been a long road to the Cannes Film Festival for Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker A.B. Shawky and his feature debut Yomeddine. The feel-good road movie was a passion project that he developed as his thesis out of NYU's Tisch School for the Arts, shot in Egypt with his wife, first-time producer Dina Emam, and stars…

It's Emmy season 2018 and that means we're back with a brand new run of TV Talk. Coming just days after our packed Deadline's The Contenders Emmy event at the DGA, we're jumping in right away with a look at the legacy of Atlanta's Donald Glover and who could be up for a Best Actor in a Comedy Series when the Primetime…

Hulu’s The Looming Tower  tackles terrorism and the lead up to 9/11 that was 60 years in the making, managing to pack the multifaceted subject into ten episodes. The result is as riveting as the subject matter. Based on the Lawrence Wright book of the same name, one White House insider called it the definitive crash…

If you had any notion that Hulu's historic Emmy win last year with The Handmaid's Tale was the only prestige weapon in the streamer's arsenal, the February 28-debuting The Looming Tower will surely dispel that fallacy. The 10-episode series based on Lawrence Wright's 2006 Pulitzer Prize winner The Looming Tower: Al-Qae…

Hulu's Jeff Daniels-fronted terrorism drama The Looming Tower and AMC's period drama The Terror are set to headline the TV section of this year’s Berlin Film Festival. It will be the fourth year that the German festival has had an expanded television selection alongside its feature films and comes after The Night Manag…

Documentarian Alex Gibney says he got on board as an exec producer of Hulu’s drama series The Looming Tower because it “seemed like a story that could not be told in pure documentary terms,” but he knew his experience would be a “very useful” tool to “find the reality of the drama.” The 10-episode straight-to-series…