Новости за 30.03.2022

EXCLUSIVE: The Ultimate Surfer has wiped out. ABC has canceled the water-based competition series after one season. The show premiered in August 2021 and ran for eight eps but it struggled to find a big wave of fans with its opening episode being boarded by less than 1.5M viewers and a 0.3 in the demo. […]

Editor’s note: The Deadline Watchlist is a feature spotlighting small-screen specials, events and can’t-miss episodes of ongoing series each week. 1. Grammy Awards: Hey, it’s been four days since the last live show on broadcast television! Time for another one. The annual Grammys party has been moved to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where […]

The end is nigh for CBS’ veteran drama Bull, which will wrap its sixth and final season on Thursday, May 26, the network said today. It also set season-finale dates for 19 other drama, comedy and unscripted series. See the list below. TV Cancellations Photo Gallery: Shows Ending In 2022 & Beyond Bull has had […]

Netflix announced the cast for its Bridgerton spinoff limited series focused on a young Queen Charlotte‘s rise to prominence and power and they include franchise stars Golda Rosheuvel, Adjoa Andoh and Ruth Gemmell. The trio will reprise the roles they popularized in the original series: Queen Charlotte, Lady Agatha Danbury and Lady Violet Bridgerton, respectively. […]

Paramount+ has set a June debut for the third season of Robert and Michelle King’s popular series Evil. The dark and twisty drama will return on Sunday, June 12, with new episodes rolling out weekly on the streaming service. You can watch a teaser, which includes the premiere date announcement, below. Starring Katja Herbers, Mike […]

EXCLUSIVE: As Bill Compton would say, bloody good: Author Charlaine Harris, whose bestselling book series about vampires inspired the hit series True Blood on HBO, is going into the podcasting biz. She’s teaming with Realm to write a yet-to-be-named, multi-episode series that will launch in 2023. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to be partnering with Realm on […]

Netflix announced today that Karl Urban (The Boys), Zaris-Angel Hator (The Power), Jared Harris (Foundation), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Boxing Day), Dan Stevens (Gaslit) and Kathy Burke (Tinker Tailor Solider Spy) will topline The Sea Beast, its upcoming animated film from Academy Award winner Chris Williams (Moana, Big Hero 6). Pic is set in an era when terrifying beasts […]

Paul Herman, a Brooklyn-born actor who appeared in such classic mob movies as Goodfellas, Once Upon a Time in America and The Irishman but is probably best known for his portrayal of club owner Peter “Beansie” Gaeta in The Sopranos, died Tuesday. He was 76. His death was announced on Instagram by Sopranos co-star Michael […]

EXCLUSIVE: Shudder has locked down rights to the critically acclaimed feature Mad God, directed by two-time Academy Award-winning artist, animator and filmmaker Phil Tippett. The experimental animated project 30 years in the making will hit limited theaters and debut on AMC Network’s premium service for genre fare on June 16. In Mad God, a corroded diving […]

EXCLUSIVE: Taylor Misiak, who stars in FXX comedy series Dave, has got new representation. Misiak has signed with CAA in all areas. It comes as Dave was renewed last month for a third season. In the comedy series, Misiak plays Ally, Dave’s ex-girlfriend and a teacher. After breaking up in season one, she and the […]

EXCLUSIVE: After helming such critically acclaimed original musicals like Sing Street and Once, John Carney is now ready to try his hand at the musical biopic as he is set to direct the untitled Bee Gees pic for Paramount Pictures. The studio has also hired John Logan to write the script.  Graham King of GK Films produce along with […]

Matthew Baskharoon is joining United Talent Agency as an agent in the unscripted TV department. Based in the Los Angeles office, Baskharoon will work alongside UTA Partner Darnell Strom and the culture & leadership division. “Matthew is not only a terrific agent but also an incredible human, said Matt Rice, UTA head of TV and […]

Wild Symphony, the children’s book by No. 1 New York Times best-selling author Dan Brown, is getting a big screen animated feature adaptation from Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman and MGM. For the first time ever, Brown will adapt his own book for film with Goldsman producing under his Weed Road Pictures with Greg Lessans. The movie is pitched […]

Kirill Serebrennikov, the prominent Russian director of film and theater, has had his widely-condemned fraud sentence commuted and has subsequently left the country. On Monday, a Moscow court moved to cancel the three-year prison sentence and erase his criminal record after half of the term had passed without any parole violations, according to local reports. […]

Bruce Willis’ family today announced the 67-year-old Die Hard, Armageddon and Pulp Fiction star is “stepping away” from acting as a result of health issues. Chief among those is aphasia, a condition that, according to the Mayo Clinic, “that robs you of the ability to communicate. It can affect your ability to speak, write and […]

Jeremy Doig has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer for Disney Streaming. There, he will lead the technology organization and global technology strategy for The Walt Disney Company’s portfolio of direct-to-consumer streaming services. A 30-year veteran in online media, Doig brings to Disney deep technical experience in architecting and implementing global technology visions at global scale. He […]

Concordia Studio, the award-winning executive producers of this year’s Academy Award-winning Summer Of Soul (…or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), has announced four new exceptional filmmakers selected as part of the studio’s 2022 class of fellows for their signature program, The Concordia Fellowship. The chosen recipients of the Fellowship are creators with the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Producers Andrew Bendel and Alistair Maclean-Clark of Blue Horizon Productions have optioned the memoir Sea Dragons, Yvonne Foley’s story of how she believed she had been abandoned in Liverpool by her Chinese father as a child only to find out many years later that he and other sailors had been deported. Foley only discovered […]

Damon Buffini, a Founding Partner of global investment firm Permira, is to chair the BBC’s Commercial Board, a move that reflects the corporation’s desire to generate more investment from BBC Studios, as it unveils an Annual Plan that includes targets for 25% working class representation and hints at incoming cuts. Buffini will take on the […]

EXCLUSIVE: A last-ditch attempt to convince the UK’s Culture Department (DCMS) to extend the £500M ($680M) insurance backstop beyond April 30 has been taking place behind the scenes this week, led by major broadcaster and indie groups, with Pact CEO John McVay warning productions may have to shut down when the backstop ends. Deadline understands […]

Oscars co-host Amy Schumer has weighed in on the shocking incident in which Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the Dolby during Sunday night’s ceremony. In a post to her Instagram late Tuesday night, Schumer said she was “still triggered and traumatized” and “waiting for this sickening feeling to go away from what […]

EXCLUSIVE: PAW Patrol and Bob the Builder creator Keith Chapman has partnered with London indie Snipple Originals to co-create and develop ground-breaking animated kids TV shows. Under his Keith Chapman Productions banner, Chapman and Snipple will create character-driven animated IP for the upper pre-school market. The veteran UK kids TV exec is already developing Paco & the […]

Doubling down on investment and expanding its offer in Japan, Prime Video has unveiled a slate of new Japanese originals including a reboot of iconic game show Takeshi’s Castle and a local adaptation of anthology series Modern Love. The streamer revealed the lineup at a showcase event in Tokyo today, where it also announced it […]

Russell T Davies’ It’s a Sin and Jack Thorne’s Help, two hard-hitting Channel 4 shows about societal issues, have dominated this year’s BAFTA TV Awards nominations, taking six and four nods apiece. Incorporating BAFTA Craft noms, which run concurrently with the TV Awards, HBO Max co-production It’s a Sin picked up 11, including for Mini-Series, Writer […]

“It was not a good look for Will,” said Bill Maher today of Will Smith’s reaction to Chris Rock’s joke at the Oscars. “I could make a case that we’ve all be under a lot of pressure and a lot of emotion — and I understand a lot of emotion running through him, but that […]