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Jeff Johnson, the former reptile dealer seen in Netflix’s Tiger King has died, Oklahoma City Police confirmed to Deadline today. His cause of death was declared a suicide. He was 58. Johnson’s appearance on the show was not long, but it was memorable. In Episode 4 of Season 1, Johnson shed light on the animosity…

Joe Exotic, the Tiger King star who is incarcerated in a Texas federal prison for his part in a murder-for-hire plot, is asking for a compassionate release because of aggressive prostate cancer. Exotic (real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage) was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in federal prison after his conviction…

UPDATE, 11:55 PM: Netflix won't have to worry about Carole Baskin and her just filed contract lawsuit pulling the plug on the November 17 launch of Tiger King 2, at least not for now. Mere hours after Baskin and her husband sued the streamer and producers Royal Goode Productions over what they are calling…

UPDATED with cause of death: Erik Cowie, a zookeeper featured in Netflix’s Tiger King, died Sept. 3 from acute and chronic alcohol abuse, according to the New York Medical Examiner. He was 52. Cowie was found dead Friday at 5:30 p.m. local time in a bedroom inside a Brooklyn apartment building. Although his identity…

More mayhem and madness lie ahead as Netflix confirms Tiger King 2 will debut on Nov. 17, during the streamer’s Tudum presentation on Saturday. Fall Premiere Dates For New & Returning TV Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming Netflix confirmed the date via a video refresher of documentary subjects Joe Exotic, and Carol…

A Tiger King sequel is coming to Netflix this year as part of a new true-crime lineup of documentaries to be released. It's not exactly clear what the focus will be for the new season of Tiger King, but Deadline understands that the filmmakers met with and spoke to Joe Exotic (aka Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage né…

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, the subject of the wildly popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness that detailed the raconteur animal handler’s role in a murder-for-hire plot against rival animal-rights activist Carole Baskin, is getting resentenced for the crime. A ruling Wednesday…

Carole Baskin again has slammed Tiger King, saying that the Netflix docuseries, in its final form, was not what she expected. "[Tiger King] was totally not what we had been told the series was going to be about,” she said on recently launched podcast The Tea With Dr. V, hosted by celebrity shrink and relationship guru…

Louis Theroux profiled Joe Exotic before he became the self-styled Tiger King of world renown — and now the British documentarian is returning to Oklahoma to investigate how Joseph Maldonado-Passage became a media phenomenon after his Netflix series. Produced by Theroux’s production outfit Mindhouse Productions, Louis…

EXCLUSIVE: Mario Tabraue, one of the controversial characters in Netflix's Tiger King and a former drug trafficker widely hailed as the inspiration for Al Pacino's Tony Montana in Scarface, is to be the subject of a limited series. The Traveling Picture Show Company (TPSC), the company behind Bryan Bertino's horror…

UPDATE, 9:55 PM: The White House has confirmed that Steven Bannon has been pardoned by Donald Trump. “President Trump granted a full pardon to Stephen Bannon,” said the official announcement tonight. “Prosecutors pursued Mr. Bannon with charges related to fraud stemming from his involvement in a political project. Mr…

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…