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Syfy is delving into the world of Peter Pan with a limited series from Brian McCauley Johnson and Universal Content Productions. The NBCU-owned cable network is developing The League of Pan, which will follow the adventures of the iconic fairytale about a group of misfit children who refused to grow up. The series picks up […]

When This Is Us returns for the second part of Season 4 next week, the family drama will introduce two new characters, played by Better Things co-creator/star Pamela Adlon and Chicago PD alumna Sophia Bush. The characters involved in the storylines of two of the Big Three, Randall (Sterling K. Brown) and Kevin (Justin Hartley). […]

Chucky is coming to TV. Syfy has given a straight-to-series order to Chucky, a series revolving around the character at the center of the horror/slasher Child’s Play film series, the red-haired, freckled-faced doll possessed by the soul of notorious serial killer, Charles Lee Ray. The series order was announced Saturday during NBCUniversal’s presentation at the […]

The 31st annual Palm Springs Internatioal Film Festival has named Beanpole the winner of its FIPRESCI prize, with Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite copping the FIPRESCI Screenplay prize. The Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) is one of the largest film festivals in North America, welcoming 136,000 attendees last year for its lineup of new international features […]

The 189-year-old Neir’s Tavern in Queens, which was prominently featured in the classic mob film Goodfellas, has been given a reprieve from an expected Sunday closing. The bar, which was depicted as the place where the infamous Lufthansa robbery was planned by movie mobsters Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta, among others, would have been […]

Meghan Markle has a voiceover deal on an unspecified Disney project in return for a donation to an elephant charity. The deal, which will benefit the conservation charity Elephants Without Borders, was signed before the recent uproar over Markle and husband Prince Harry’s plans to disengage from the Royal Family and pursue other opportunities. The […]

Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden were each in Los Angeles on Friday for campaign swings, but the former South Bend mayor also did some fundraising before showbiz-centric crowds. At an evening event at the Sherman Oaks home of Lisa Gregorian, chief marketing officer for Warner Bros. Television Group, Buttigieg took questions from the group of […]

President Donald Trump is skipping golf this Saturday, even though the Washington, DC temperatures are a warm, spring-like 64. Instead, he’s turning up the heat on some of his opponents. Starting with the FBI officers in charge of obtaining FISA warrants – “Are these “dirty cops” going to pay a big price for the fraud […]

3rd Update, Saturday AM Refresh for more analysis and chart: It’s another win for original movies, and this time around with a fresh face cast as Amblin/New Republic/Universal’s 1917 jumps to a $37.2M wide opening, putting its running total at $39.9M since its limited Christmas day debut. Sure, that Golden Globe win for Best Drama Picture has something to […]

PBS ended its day at the TCA Winter Press Tour with Frontline’s Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos – and if you’ve been thinking about your own Amazon addiction, this program will make you think more than twice. Frontline producer James Jacoby was blunt in his assessment of the company. “There’s a […]

The sensitive subject of China’s One-Child Policy and suspect adoptions that resulted from it are explored in Independent Lens’s upcoming film One Child Nation by director-producer Nanfu Wang. At the TV Critics Association press tour, Wang and Brian and Longlan Stuy, the film’s subjects and co-founders of Research China, talked about the policy’s impact on China’s […]

A Family Feud contestant who made a crucial mistake of identification cost her team a chance to win the game on the Canadian edition of the game show. In a clip rapidly going viral, contestant Eve Dubois stepped up on Thursday night with a chance to advance her family to the next round and a […]

Stephen Colbert marveled at some of the behind the scenes news coming out about the White House activities during the attack this week on US military bases in the Middle East. The Late Show host noted that the White House received a warning known as a squawk. Usually, when the White House hears a squawk, […]

More than 300 people will benefit from CNN’s settlement of a long-running dispute with unionized camera operators in what’s called the “largest monetary remedy” in the National Labor Relations Board’s histor CNN agreed to pay $76 million in back pay stemming from its termination of the contracts of unionized camera operators in 2003. “The settlement […]

What is a primetime TV hit years in the making? Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time tournament, featuring the three highest-earning Jeopardy! contestants, Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and James Holzhauer, has dominated ratings this week. With the trio taking primetime by storm, it may not be the last time we see them together on ABC […]

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. After the ABC announcement this week that there would be a second year in a row with no traditional Oscar host, I happened to be on the phone talking with a former Oscar show producer who said it was getting to the point where no […]

The Directors Guild of America is out with its DGA Awards nominations for TV series after a false start earlier this week. The shows whose helmers will be vying for the hardware are Game of Thrones, Watchmen, Succession, Barry, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Veep. See the full list of noms revealed today below. The DGA had […]

NBC has handed out its first pilot order this cycle to Night School, a multi-camera comedy based on the hit 2018 Universal movie, from Marlon co-creator Christopher Moynihan and the film’s star/producer Kevin Hart, producer Will Packer and director Malcolm D. Lee. Penned by Moynihan, Night School the series centers on a unique mix of […]

EXCLUSIVE: Documentary filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering have responded to the news this afternoon about Oprah Winfrey’s withdrawal as EP, and cancellation of AppleTV+ distribution on their upcoming untitled documentary about music executive Drew Dixon, who accused Russell Simmons of sexual misconduct. As we heard previously, the doc will still make its world premiere at […]

When PBS executive Perry Simon took the stage at the PBS Television Critics Association press tour to talk about the new quarterly initiatives, it became clear that women are at the forefront of a sizeable chunk of PBS’s 2020 programming. That’s  as part of PBS’s “Trailblazers” initiative centered around the celebration of women’s right to […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is racing to keep Uncharted on track to shoot before the next installment of Spider-Man with Tom Holland. Deadline hears that Ruben Fleischer is atop the list to direct Holland and Mark Wahlberg in the film. Sony was moving on an accelerated track that knocked out Laika’s Travis Knight late last year […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tony Danza has been set for a guest spot on the Fox sitcom Outmatched, whetting the appetite for an imminent return to starring in a sitcom, his first in a long time. Danza was just set for this and will be at the table reading Monday morning as he separately decides between several offers […]

BREAKING: Deadline has confirmed that Oprah Winfrey has just withdrawn as EP on the Untitled Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Documentary and is also pulling the movie from its AppleTV+ distribution. The doc, set to make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month, centers around a former music executive who grapples with […]

Fresh off the success of his HBO comedy special Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw, actor-comedian Lil Rel Howery has been tapped to host the 11th annual AAFCA Awards, which are set for January 22 at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood. Howery has been on a roll since his breakout performance in Jordan Peele’s Get […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Max Winkler-directed drama Jungleland — which pairs Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell in a drama about bare-knuckle boxing — is in the ring with Lionsgate on a deal for North American rights. Several distributors have been into this, but I’m told that Lionsgate is the frontrunner in talks to secure a movie that […]