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EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble cast for season 2 of drama series Truth Be Told. Merle Dandridge (The Flight Attendant, Greenleaf), Jason O'Mara (The Man in the High Castle, The Good Wife), Alona Tal (The Spy, Seal Team), David Lyons (Seven Seconds, Revolution), Christopher Backus (Jett, Big Little Li…

Kate Hudson has been tapped to star alongside Octavia Spencer in Season 2 of Apple drama series Truth Be Told. Created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman and produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content, Truth Be Told is a quasi-anthology series in the vein of USA drama The Sinne…

Octavia Spencer starts out our conversation for this week’s episode of my Deadline video series The Actor’s Side by joking about how some of the parts she has played in the past few years seem to have something in common. Spencer says in The Help she was a maid, then in Hidden Figures she worked at NASA, and then in Th…

Apple continues to hand out second-season pickups to its crop of original scripted series. The latest to get a Season 2 renewal is drama Truth Be Told, starring and executive produced by Octavia Spencer. The series is created by Nichelle Tramble Spellman and is produced by Hello Sunshine, Chernin Entertainment and…

Christmas is still weeks away, but there are a few presents under the small screen tree that you really should open this week. Yes, there's the return of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel for its lush third season tomorrow, the CW's December 8 premiering supersized annual Crisis on Infinite Earths team-up and Fox's…

“I have to get to the truth of what happened that night,” says Octavia Spencer’s Poppy Parnell in a voiceover at the beginning of the first-look trailer for Apple TV+’s limited series Truth Be Told. “I am for truth no matter who tells it, I’m for justice no matter who it’s for, or against,” Spencer continues. That is…

Amid the pomp and A-list names helping Apple unveil its AppleTV+ subscription streaming service Monday, we did learn a bit more about some of the many original series rolling out beginning with the service’s launch in the fall. As part of the sizzle reel that played in the Steve Jobs Theater during Jamie Erlicht and…

This is becoming a trend this fall as the networks are not as trigger happy as previous years and don’t yank underperforming new series off the schedule abruptly. Instead, the nets are trimming the lower-rated newcomers’ original 13-episode orders and allowing them to air all produced episodes in their designated time…

If you were watching Fox Sports 1 last night you know, Hell, you probably know anyway, that the Kansas City Royals are heading to the World Series next week to take on the New York Mets. The midwestern team defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 on Friday to win the American League Championship Series 4-2. On primetime…

On the first night of the American League Championship Series, there were clear winners and losers in Friday's primetime – and we're not just talking about the Kansas City Royals. The big winner was MLB and Fox with the Royals 5-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 last night of the ALCS. The net hit a 1.7/6…

If you intend to be home watching TV on Friday night, let me recommend that you skip Truth Be Told. Debuting on October 16 on NBC at 8:30 PM, the Tone Bell and Mark-Paul Gosselaar led sitcom is, as my video review above says, simply terrible. And maybe the worst part is it doesn't have to be as the recently renewed…

At the TCA Summer Press Tour today, producer Will Packer came to speak about his new NBC comedy series Truth Be Told. But the press also wanted to chat about another one of his hot projects, the movie Straight Outta Compton, which is opening tonight at 8PM.  One press member asked if Packer was concerned about…