SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details of some very good TV series that aired in 2020.
There is no other way to say it: 2020 has been a horrible year full of great television.
As you can see in the video above, the first part of Deadline's Top 10 New TV Shows of the year has a different tone from the past. Going…
With a flurry of exiting pardons expected from Donald Trump any moment, incarcerated Tiger King star Joe Exotic has taken the Justice Department to court in the hopes of joining Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and other similar upstanding citizens in getting a Presidential act of clemency.
“Joe Exotic seeks to require the…
Nominations have been unveiled for the 48th edition of the Grierson Awards, the UK's top documentary awards.
A total of 52 films are nominated across 14 categories. Of those, 21 were broadcast on BBC channel, while Netflix has nine nominations and Channel 4 has five. ITV and Al Jazeera have two apiece whilst…
He's won six NBA championships and is widely considered the greatest basketball player of all time and tonight Michael Jordan helped the team behind ESPN's The Last Dance win an Emmy.
The Last Dance beat Netflix's Tiger King, Hulu's Hillary, PBS' American Masters and HBO's McMillion$ to win Outstanding Documentary or…
When directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin began collaborating on a documentary series about the strange world of exotic animal breeders, they thought it might generate modest attention.
"We were certainly fascinated by it," Chaiklin recalls. "But we sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few…
The Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, as seen in Netflix's hit doc series Tiger King, has closed its doors for good.
Current owner Jeff Lowe confirmed the news in a Facebook post, saying that he was voluntarily forfeiting his USDA exhibitors license. Back in May, a federal judge in Oklahoma granted ownership of…
The almost first female POTUS is in the game, but the playoff in the Emmy docuseries category looks to be a battle between Joe Exotic and Michael Jordan.
Facing Hulu's Hillary, PBS' venerable American Masters and HBO's McMillion$, the very well watched Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness andThe Last Dance snagged…
Coronavirus stay-at-home orders dramatically impacted television viewing habits, driving up consumption of just about every genre of programming, including documentary. The resulting huge audience numbers and media attention generated by Tiger King and The Last Dance could give those nonfiction series a leg-up as Emmy…
Long before Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin became household names, before Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness turned into one of the most successful documentary series of all time, directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin embarked on something they little suspected would become a cultural mega-hit.
"We sort of…
This is yet another twist in the decades-long bitter rivalry between Joe Exotic (aka Joseph Maldonado-Passage) and Carole Baskin, which is at the heart of Netflix’s wildly popular docuseries Tiger King.
Baskin, the woman Joe was convicted of plotting to kill, and her Big Cat Rescue corporation have been granted…
The individual sitting across from me was a veteran filmmaker who was tormented by a tough decision. "The story I want to tell should be made as a doc, not a feature film," he told me. "But let's get real: Movies occupy center stage while documentaries sit in the balcony."
He ended up shooting a feature (more on that…
EXCLUSIVE: The Tiger Kinghits keep on coming. The most recent project connected to Netflix’s stranger-than-fiction docuseries is the Full Moon Features comedy Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King. Watch an exclusive clip below.
The pic will include an appearances by John Reinke, the zookeeper and right-hand man to Tige…