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It’s the jarring thought many face each year on Emmy nominations day as shows receive their just plaudits in the noms: what happened to that great show I was just watching? The one everyone’s talking about right now. Why isn’t it nominated? It’s easy to forget that Emmy’s eligibility window comes to a close on May 31…

Wayne Garvie could see the tsunami coming as early as January, but he was still not prepared for the speed with which coronavirus ripped through the TV industry. Sony Pictures Television’s president of international production watched as his colleagues in China were forced into self-isolation. Korea came next and…

Straight Outta Compton and The Chi actor Jason Mitchell was arrested Wednesday in Mississippi and faces four felony drug and weapons charges, the Harrison County Sheriff's department has revealed. Mitchell was charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and two counts of…

UPDATED with NCAA report: The NCAA's worst-case scenario for staging its March Madness tournaments in the time of coronavirus would be barring spectators from games, with players screened for illness before competing, the association's chief medical officer Brian Hainline told The Wall Street Journal Saturday. The…

The final five titles nominated for the newly named International Feature Film Oscar category included some surprises when they were announced in January. Chief among the latter is Bong Joon Ho's Parasite, an awards season darling that has continued to cement its position as a leading candidate for this particular…

Taking on the English voice role for an original French language film isn't as simple as just dubbing it American-style, says Alia Shawkat. As the voice of Gabrielle in the Jérémy Clapin-directed animated feature I Lost My Body, Shawkat carefully considered the sensibility of the French language version from the…

With an Emmy nomination this year for his short form web series Billy on the Street, comedian Billy Eichner is celebrating both his third Primetime nod from Academy, and his third iteration of the show, since it returned as a web series late last year. But short form online isn't a new home for Billy on the Street…

This year, comedy duo Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer have snapped up three Emmy nominations for their short form web series Hack Into Broad City—one each for acting, and a shared nod for the show itself. Such is the beauty of short form, that despite evolving into Comedy Central's hit half-hour show Broad City, which…

Could there be a second season of Nick Hornby’s State of the Union? Sundance TV’s Jan Diedrichsen is ready and willing. “We, of course, love Nick,” he says. “We love the show, and we would love to do more.” Diedrichsen’s enthusiasm is unsurprising, given that State of the Union has proven to be not only a new kind of…

Long before she was a teenage actress holding her snarky own in Roseanne, before heading a panel of women sharing their perspectives on The Talk, and before the Roseanne reboot reconfigured into The Conners, Sara Gilbert found her voice as a performer. Specifically, during an elementary school performance of The Wizard…

It's a gloomy Monday afternoon in Westwood and Phoebe Waller-Bridge is wrapping up Deadline’s cover shoot. Fresh from the Fleabag stage in New York, in two weeks' time her brainchild Killing Eve will sweep the BAFTAs, but of course she doesn't know that yet. For now she's hard at work on a very famous, typically…

If there's a takeaway from this awards season, it's that true stories are back with a vengeance. For proof, look no further than Rosamund Pike as war reporter Marie Colvin in A Private War, Sam Rockwell as President George W. Bush in Vice, Mahershala Ali as Don Shirley in Green Book, Melissa McCarthy as forger Lee…