Part of a new mini-trend of taking popular podcasts and transitioning them into full-fledged TV entertainment, Amazon’s Homecoming just might be the prime example at the moment. Who knew that would be all it would take to get Julia Roberts to commit to her first TV series?
At Deadline’s fourth annual The Contenders…
There can be no question Chuck Lorre now sits on top of television’s comedy mountain. No creator has had the winning streak Lorre has in the past three decades since first finding success as a showrunner and creator with Grace Under Fire. After that came more hits with Cybill, Dharma & Greg, Two And a Half Men, Mike…
Tony nominees Hadestown, The Ferryman and Bryan Cranston for his performance in Network took top honors at the 85th annual Drama League Awards, which were unveiled at a gala luncheon Friday at the Marriott Marquis Times Square. The awards, the nation’s oldest theatrical honors, recognize the year’s best distinguished…
Laurie Metcalf’s Hillary Clinton might or might not be your Hillary Clinton. It certainly isn’t the historical Hillary Clinton, as playwright Lucas Hnath so intriguingly writes in the early moments of Broadway’s Hillary and Clinton. Think alternate universe, some other dimension where a Hillary might have…
“Even if the movie doesn’t make one penny — which will kill Jim Gianopulos — it is the movie I wanted to make, and that doesn’t happen often,” said no one other than Elton John on Thursday as he proceeded to sing his signature “I’m Still Standing” at the Carlton Beach after-party for the world premiere of the movie…
So, the Upfronts are thankfully over and part of the takeaway has to be that there are going to be a lot of legal dramas on the air next season, wall of superheroes and all of the Big 4 and the CW are trying to be a bit different as well as emphasizing stability (which is a word I don't want to hear for a while after…
Based on Lindy West’s bestselling 2016 memoir, Hulu’s Shrill stars Aidy Bryant as Annie, a journalist who is juggling her life of bad boyfriends, sick parents and a perfectionist boss. She realizes she is as good as anyone else and she looks to change her life – but not her body. Co-executive producer and co-writer…
EXCLUSIVE: Audiences don’t alway see eye to eye with Tony voters, as we see again in this year’s Audience Choice Awards from Broadway.com. Presented exclusively to Deadline for today’s reveal, the fan-selected top winners are Be More Chill, Pretty Woman and American Son, none of which scored Tony noms for best musical…
Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke is the subject of this week’s episode of my Deadline video interview series The Actor’s Side. You probably know her better with her shortened name, Emilia Clarke, but as she tells me she can relate with the number of names her character Daenerys Targaryen has also been known by on…
Celia Keenan-Bolger was nominated for her first Tony Award in 2005 (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), her second in 2012 (Peter and the Starcatcher) her third in 2014 (The Glass Menagerie) and her fourth just weeks ago. As Scout Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird…
Rather than focus on one show and one funny woman for its panel at Deadline’s fourth annual The Contenders Emmys, ABC decided to bring three women whose series provided some of the brightest spots on the network this season.
In front of a packed audience of TV Academy and key guild voters at Paramount Studios, the…
