The next in Deadline’s It Stars On the Page series is Hulu’s Pen15, an ode to and examination of middle school awkwardness from co-creators Maya Erksine, Anna Konkle and Sam Zvibleman.
It Starts On the Page is a series that highlights the scripts serve as the creative backbone of the now-underway TV awards season…
The first Shondaland project in Shonda Rhimes’ mega-deal with Netflix burst on the scene on Christmas Day 2020, when the Regency-era drama series Bridgerton hit the streaming service. With a story mixing Jane Austen, Gossip Girl and the lush looks of London (and its aristocratic denizens) circa 1813 combined with a…
The latest limited series from Netflix and Ryan Murphy, Halston, came to Deadline’s Virtual Screening Series on Monday, when I spoke with star Ewan McGregor who plays the eponymous title character, the bon vivant fashion designer and social gadfly who made a huge name for himself and his brand before burning out far…
America was built by immigrants, and American Cuisine is a great example of how these communities came together to build something new. With Taste the Nation on Hulu, Padma Lakshmi takes the audience on a culinary journey across America with a focus on the diverse food culture of different immigrant groups. She seeks…
Singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is not even out of her teens and she has already won awards in the Grammys' top four categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist.
She's achieved something else rare for someone her age—having a documentary made about her by a major filmmaker…
For HBO's Mare of Easttown, editorAmy Duddleston's goal was to highlight a personal journey of growth while adding a mystery to enhance the show, but not define it. "We really discussed the fact that this show is really a family drama with a murder mystery thrown into it," Duddleston says. "So, the family drama came…
The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the annual Webby Awards, will celebrate for and not-for-profit organizations’ social impact work with the Anthem Awards.
Spanning various industries and social impact categories, Anthem Awards seeks to recognize businesses’ work in a…
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical may qualify as the most unusual Broadway-style song and dance show ever created.
It all began in the midst of the Covid pandemic, when a young school teacher, Emily Jacobsen, uploaded a 15 second ditty to the social media site TikTok in August 2020–a song she wrote that celebrated Remy…
Taraji P. Henson is set as host of the 2021 BET Awards, which will be handed out this month. BET also said today that Emmy winner and The Equalizer star Queen Latifah will receive the show’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
The in-person ceremony, whose theme this year is “Year of the Black Woman,” is set for 8 p.m. June…
“I love doing things that are about fashion,” Ryan Murphy tells us on the latest episode of Crew Call.
“A lot of people think fashion is frivolous and treat it as such. I think it’s true art, it’s how we live and it’s ‘the time’. I take it quite seriously,” adds the EP and writer who made Halston a priority as a…
Noah Hawley is nothing if not versatile. The prolific writer, director, producer and novelist has won an impressive group of awards for his work in TV including Emmys, Golden Globes, Critics Choice and Peabody honors for his most acclaimed series: FX’s crown jewel Fargo. The series has once again been generating…
Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love was a gift from Amazon when the streamer released it during the December holidays. Aperiod old-school romancer starring Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha, the film was a nod to the Douglas Sirk-style romance movies of the 1950s and ’60s with one major difference: the leads are Black, which…
