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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…

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…