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Viola Prettejohn, Tracey Ullman and Kelly Macdonald will star in the series adaptation of Never Let Me Go, which has been handed a series order by FX to air on Hulu. Earlier this year, Deadline revealed that the Kazuo Ishiguro novel adapted as a film starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has pulled the curtain back on its first project with Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones since Deadline revealed in July that it had invested their production outfit Broke And Bones. After Brooker teased the comedy event special last Friday in a 10-second trailer and one of the…

In the biggest panel of all 44 shows in Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, all seven key female stars of FX’s Mrs. America gathered in different locations to talk about the limited series, which centers on the fight for the ERA as well as the women's liberation movement centering on those who fought hard…

Tracey Ullman didn’t name names, but she drew a clear distinction between her approach to political comedy and that of late-night talent. Speaking to her longtime friend Meryl Streep after the Tribeca TV Festival debut of the third-season premiere of HBO’s The Tracey Ullman Show, she offered something of a mission…

HBO has set a September 28 premiere date for Season 3 of Tracey Ullman’s Show, continuing its long relationship with the sketch series’ star/executive producer. Over the course of the new season, Tracey Ullman uses her signature brand of sharp satire to shape-shift into a range of public figures and offbeat original…

HBO never announced a formal Season 2 pickup for Tracey Ullman’s Show, but today the premium network gave it a premiere date. The sophomore run of the Emmy-nominated sketch comedy series will bow at 11 PM October 20. Veteran comic Tracey Ullman plays an array of famous faces and everyday people on the show, which…

Tracey Ullman is returning to HBO in Tracey Ullman’s Show, a six-episode sketch comedy series which aired on BBC One in the UK earlier this year. HBO also has set several comedy stand-up specials headlined by Jerrod Carmichael, the network’s stars Pete Holmes and T.J. Miller as well as All Def Comedy to premiere over…

"It's about time the Americans gave her back.” That’s Shane Allen, controller of comedy commissioning at the BBC, on the return of Tracey Ullman to British television. After many years working in the U.S., the BAFTA- and Emmy-winner is prepping a new comedy series for BBC One. While a different entity, the six-part The…

Tracey Ullman (The Tracey Ullman Show) has signed on to CBS' single-camera comedy pilot Good Session, opposite James Roday and Rich Sommer. Written by John Hamburg and Matt Miller and directed by Hamburg, the project revolves around a happy couple, Joel (Roday) and Lindsay (TBD), who go to a therapist to help them…

Allan McKeown, who with his wife Tracey Ullman created her TV series Tracey Takes On… at HBO and State Of The Union at Showtime, died December 24 at his Los Angeles home after battling prostate cancer. He was 66. McKeown was a UK-born hairdresser in the 1960s with clients like the Beatles, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard…