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‘Newlyweds’ Jamie Lee Curtis On Why She “Begged” Her Agents To Get Her Sitcom & Why Multi-Cam Sitcoms Are Primed For Comeback

Jamie Lee Curtis had just wrapped a movie when, during the 1988 pilot season, ABC offered her a half-hour multi-camera pilot. She did it and loved it, so she was bummed out when the network didn’t pick it up to series that May. She went to do another movie, and, while she was filming, A […]

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Chris Carter’s Cut Of ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn’ Gets A Release Almost 20 Years Later Amid Ryan Coogler’s Reboot At Hulu

Chris Carter is finally getting the director’s cut of The X-Files movie he intended to release almost 20 years ago. The X-Files: I Want to Believe — Vrach Frankenshteyn is set to premiere on August 14 on Disney+ and Hulu, as the streamer is also working on a reboot by Ryan Coogler. Originally released in […]

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Nikki Glaser Signs With WME

Comedian Nikki Glaser has taken on a new agency, signing with WME in all areas. This follows eight years at UTA, during which Glaser elevated to become recognized as one of today’s biggest comedy stars. Glaser currently holds three Emmy nominations for her Hulu special Good Girl and her work as host of the 83rd Annual Golden Globes. […]

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Jon Cypher Dies: ‘Hill Street Blues’ Police Chief, ‘Major Dad’ Regular & ‘Masters Of The Universe’ Ally Was 94

Jon Cypher, who played Chief Daniels in scores of Hill Street Blues episodes, was He-Man’s chief ally in 1987’s Masters of the Universe, starred on Major Dad and appeared in dozens of other TV series and films over nearly a half-century, died August 3 at his home in Central Point, Oregon. He was 94. His […]

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Alexa Swinton, David Arquette, Wyatt Oleff & Sawyer Spielberg Set For Demolition Derby Drama ‘Wreckless’ From First-Time Feature Filmmaker Kayla Arend

EXCLUSIVE: Alexa Swinton (Behemoth!), David Arquette (Scarpetta), Wyatt Oleff (It) and Sawyer Spielberg (Masters of the Air) are underway on the Minnesota shoot for Wreckless, an indie sports drama marking the directorial debut of Kayla Arend, who’s working from a script she wrote with Mickey Falcone. Set within the male-dominated demolition derby community of rural Minnesota, Wreckless is a […]

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‘Pluribus’ Duo Vince Gilligan And Composer Dave Porter On Long-Running Collaboration & That Addictive Main Theme – Crew Call Podcast

Of the 18 Emmy nominations for Apple TV’s Pluribus, composer Dave Porter can call dibs on three of ’em: for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series, Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour), and Original Main Title Theme Music. It’s a sweet moment for Porter, for after his 18-year collaboration with series […]

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Sony Pre-Empts ‘The Ballad Of The Ember Knight’; 14th Century-Set Spec By First-Time Scribes Lands Near 7-Figures

EXCLUSIVE: After Christopher Nolan turned Homer’s ancient poem into gold with The Odyssey, maybe Hollywood is ready to take more chances on literate period fare. How else to explain the high level of interest when CAA and Kaplan Perrone went out with the spec script The Ballad of the Ember Knight, a 14th century-set drama […]

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Louisa Krause Joins Dakota Fanning In Apple TV’s Alex Cary Thriller

EXCLUSIVE: Louisa Krause (The Girlfriend Experience, Ray Donovan) is set to star alongside Dakota Fanning in the as-yet untitled Apple TV thriller from Alex Cary (A Spy Among Friends, Homeland). In the series, Fanning stars as an undercover Treasury agent in a multi-billion-dollar international conglomerate with world-changing political and criminal tentacles, who becomes conflicted between her mission and a belief […]

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Damon Wayans To Guest Star On NBC’s ‘St. Denis Medical’ Season 3 Premiere In ‘In Living Color’ Reunion; First-Look Photo

There will be an In Living Color reunion on the set of NBC’s St. Denis Medical. Damon Wayans (My Wife and Kids, Lethal Weapon) will reunite with his former In Living Color castmate David Alan Grier in a guest-starring role on the Season 3 premiere. Wayans will play Dr. Highland, a charming but pompous new doctor at […]

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NBC’s ‘Line Of Fire’s Josh Safran & Peter Krause Tease New Series

NBC’s upcoming drama series Line of Fire is bringing together the star fire of Peter Krause and Hope Davis to TV on September 21. Krause and Hope participated in a special panel discussion this morning alongside executive producer Ben Spector, showrunner and EP Joshua Safran, and EP Jenna Bush Hager. Line of Fire follows a family […]

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Jacob Elordi Circling Ari Aster’s Next Film At A24 Starring Scarlett Johansson

EXCLUSIVE: After taking a much needed break, Oscar-nominee Jacob Elordi has landed on his next project as sources say he is in talks to co-star opposite Scarlett Johansson in the Ari Aster and A24 thriller Scapegoat. Aster is directing the pic from a script he penned. A24, who has released his past four films, as the […]

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CAA Signs Ashley Gill & Grant Gibbs Of Musical Comedy Duo A Twink And A Redhead

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Grant Gibbs and Ashley Gill, the comedy duo known as A Twink and a Redhead, for representation. A pair of comedians, musicians and digital creators, Gibbs and Gill’s content reaches millions of viewers across social platforms. Currently, they’re on a musical comedy tour that has packed major venues across North America, […]

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Mariska Hargitay’s Best ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Episodes To Re-Air On NBC

NBC will host a special Law & Order: Special Victims Unit marathon featuring the best of Mariska Hargitay’s episodes Thursday, Sept. 10, as a tribute to the upcoming Emmy Awards host. Two days prior, fans will enjoy the Season 28 premiere of the popular procedural on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Hargitay won […]

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Connie Nielsen & Stana Katic Join Wyatt Russell-Led Monsterverse Series For Apple TV

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary’s new Monsterverse series for Apple TV has added Connie Nielsen (Gladiator, Wonder Woman) and Stana Katic (Castle, Absentia) to its expanding cast led by Wyatt Russell, who also executive produces. Character details are under wraps. Nielsen and Katic also join the previously announced Millie Brady, Pilou Asbaek, Corey Stoll, Ralph Ineson and Nyasha Hatendi. From showrunner Joby Harold, the series […]

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Julianne Moore To Star In New Play ‘Faydra’ Off Broadway

Oscar and Emmy winner Julianne Moore is set to play the title role in Faydra, a lusty new play by In the Next Room Tony nominee Sarah Ruhl that will have its world premiere Off Broadway next year. Per the logline of the modern take on the Ancient Greek myth of Phaedra: Aphrodite aims her […]

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‘Harry Potter’ TV Series Actress Bel Powley “Strongly Disagrees” With J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Views

Bel Powley, who plays Petunia Dursley in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone TV series, is not holding back her thoughts on author J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans views. “I strongly disagree with J.K. Rowling’s views on gender,” she told The Telegraph. “I think that the trans community deserve safety and dignity and respect and […]

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Jerry Katzman Dies: Former WMA President Was 89

Jerry Katzman, a 30-year veteran of the William Morris Agency who served as President and Vice Chairman in the 1990s and helped shape modern television packaging, died Aug. 9 in Los Angeles surrounded by family. He was 89. Born in a showbiz family, with a producer father and an actress mother, Katzman graduated from Beverly […]

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O-T Fagbenle Signs With Artists First

EXCLUSIVE: Artists First has signed O-T Fagbenle for management. An actor, director, writer and creator, Fagbenle is best known for his role of Luke Bankole, husband of Elisabeth Moss’ June Osborne, in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, which ran for six seasons. More recently, he’s appeared alongside Elizabeth Banks and Matthew MacFadyen in the Peacock series The Miniature Wife. […]

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Peacock Sets Premiere Date For ‘Dig’ Starring Amy Poehler & Hugh Laurie

Comedy series Dig, which reunites Amy Poehler and Parks & Recreation executive producer Michael Schur, will hit the small screen this fall. Premiering November 23, Dig centers a team of dedicated archaeologists (and some less-dedicated college students) who spend their summer working on a dig site in Greece, where they discover a rare artifact that […]

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Caitríona Balfe Stars In Alfonso Cuarón Horror Thriller Series ‘Ascension’ Ordered By Apple TV

Apple TV has greenlighted Ascension, a new drama from Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón (Disclaimer, Roma). Caitríona Balfe, in her return to television after the end of Outlander, is starring and executive producing. Ascension will be co-showrun by Natalie Erika James and Christian White (Apartment 7A, Relic). It is written by James, White, Alfonso Cuarón and […]

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Made In L.A., The Paramount Strategy: ‘Clueless’ Series & Viola Davis’ ‘Ascent’ Among Recipients In Latest TV Tax Credit Allocations

In a purely Made In Hollywood irony, one arm of the California government is helping Paramount’s MAGA backed and legally challenged $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery as the state Attorney General leads an antitrust lawsuit to shut David Ellison’s big dream down. As Deadline told you last week, Ellison could find some success […]

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Tedde More Dies: Teacher In ‘A Christmas Story’ Who Had Dozens Of Other Credits Was 79

Tedde Moore, who played Ralphie’s teacher Miss Shields in the holiday classic A Christmas Story as part of a long screen and stage career, has died. She was 79. Her family wrote on social media that she died August 5 in Huntsville, Ontario, but did not reveal a cause of death. “On Wednesday August 5th […]

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‘Paper Tiger’ Trailer: Adam Driver And Miles Teller Are Brothers In Harm’s Way In James Gray’s NYC Drama

Neon on Monday released the trailer for Paper Tiger, the drama written and directed by James Gray that had its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The pic, starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller, is gearing for a November 13 limited release date in the heart of awards season. First […]

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Lisa Ann Walter Hosting 2026 Astra TV Awards; Honorees Include William H. Macy, Shawn Hatosy & More

The Hollywood Creative Alliance (HCA) is back with its 6th annual Astra TV Awards, announcing this year’s host and its latest batch of honorees. Hosted by Lisa Ann Walter, this year’s awards ceremony is set for Saturday, Aug. 15 at InterContinental in Los Angeles, to be live-streamed at 7pm on YouTube, celebrating excellence across television […]

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Run-A-Muck Developing Torrey Peters’ “Stag Dance” For Film; Novella Part Of 2026 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Collection

EXCLUSIVE: Run-A-Muck, the recently launched, creator-led media company from Pamela Drucker Mann, Ilene Chaiken, and Jennifer Beals, is developing a feature adaptation Stag Dance, a recent novella by Torrey Peters, with the search for a writer and director currently underway. A genre-defying psychological thriller, Stag Dance is the title novella from Stag Dance: A Quartet, a collection of Peters’ […]

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Netflix Wraps Upfront, Doubling Ad Commitments; Women’s World Cup Inventory Nearly Sold Out

Netflix said Monday it has closed its upfront sales process, hitting its target of nearly doubling its ad commitments. In reporting quarterly earnings last month, Netflix execs reaffirmed their expectation that ad revenue will hit $3 billion in 2026, twice the 2025 level. The streaming giant is in the fourth year of its exploration of […]

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L.A. Creator Sachin Kumar Launches Prema Creative Co. With Vertical Comedy Series About Indian-American Actor In Hollywood

EXCLUSIVE: L.A.-based creator Sachin Kumar – known as SCKACHI – has launched his own company with a vertical comedy series about the life of a working actor. Kumar’s Prema Creative Co. is producing 14-part series Typecast, which rolls out with two episodes weekly from September 7. Grayson Shapiro is making his directorial debut with the […]

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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong On How His Son Helped Make ‘Nimrods’ Feel “Current,” Potential Of ‘American Idiot’ Movie Musical: “We Talk About It”

Nearly 30 years after the album after which the movie is named, Green Day is using their own coming-of-age story to reach a new generation in Nimrods. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who teamed up with co-writer/director Lee Kirk on the movie premiering Aug. 14, told Deadline that it was “fun to have a project” on […]

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Jane Krakowski & Angourie Rice Star In Coming-Of-Age Drama ‘Nice Eggs’ From Director Amanda Lipitz

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Krakowski (30 Rock) and Angourie Rice (The Last Thing He Told Me) have wrapped on the New Jersey shoot for Nice Eggs, an indie coming-of-age drama marking the narrative feature directorial debut of Amanda Lipitz. Written by Sandi Farkas, Lipitz’s collaborator on the scripted podcast Motherhacker, Nice Eggs watches as a young woman comes of age by […]

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Podcasts From Jonas Brothers, Ego Nwodim, ‘Scrubs’ Stars Among 6 Heading To Disney+ & Hulu In Licensing Deal With iHeartMedia

Disney+ and Hulu have inked a video podcasting deal with iHeartMedia for six iHeartPodcasts titles, including Hey Jonas! from the Jonas Brothers, which kicks things off on August 14. Also on the slate are Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim, Pod Meets World, Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald from Scrubs stars Zach Braff […]

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‘Newlyweds’ Jamie Lee Curtis On Why She “Begged” Her Agents To Get Her Sitcom & Why Multi-Cam Sitcoms Are Primed For Comeback

Chris Carter’s Cut Of ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn’ Gets A Release Almost 20 Years Later Amid Ryan Coogler’s Reboot At Hulu

Nikki Glaser Signs With WME

Jon Cypher Dies: ‘Hill Street Blues’ Police Chief, ‘Major Dad’ Regular & ‘Masters Of The Universe’ Ally Was 94

Alexa Swinton, David Arquette, Wyatt Oleff & Sawyer Spielberg Set For Demolition Derby Drama ‘Wreckless’ From First-Time Feature Filmmaker Kayla Arend

‘Pluribus’ Duo Vince Gilligan And Composer Dave Porter On Long-Running Collaboration & That Addictive Main Theme – Crew Call Podcast

Sony Pre-Empts ‘The Ballad Of The Ember Knight’; 14th Century-Set Spec By First-Time Scribes Lands Near 7-Figures

Louisa Krause Joins Dakota Fanning In Apple TV’s Alex Cary Thriller

Damon Wayans To Guest Star On NBC’s ‘St. Denis Medical’ Season 3 Premiere In ‘In Living Color’ Reunion; First-Look Photo

NBC’s ‘Line Of Fire’s Josh Safran & Peter Krause Tease New Series

Jacob Elordi Circling Ari Aster’s Next Film At A24 Starring Scarlett Johansson

CAA Signs Ashley Gill & Grant Gibbs Of Musical Comedy Duo A Twink And A Redhead

Mariska Hargitay’s Best ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Episodes To Re-Air On NBC

Connie Nielsen & Stana Katic Join Wyatt Russell-Led Monsterverse Series For Apple TV

Julianne Moore To Star In New Play ‘Faydra’ Off Broadway

‘Harry Potter’ TV Series Actress Bel Powley “Strongly Disagrees” With J.K. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Views

Jerry Katzman Dies: Former WMA President Was 89

O-T Fagbenle Signs With Artists First

Peacock Sets Premiere Date For ‘Dig’ Starring Amy Poehler & Hugh Laurie

Caitríona Balfe Stars In Alfonso Cuarón Horror Thriller Series ‘Ascension’ Ordered By Apple TV

Made In L.A., The Paramount Strategy: ‘Clueless’ Series & Viola Davis’ ‘Ascent’ Among Recipients In Latest TV Tax Credit Allocations

Tedde More Dies: Teacher In ‘A Christmas Story’ Who Had Dozens Of Other Credits Was 79

‘Paper Tiger’ Trailer: Adam Driver And Miles Teller Are Brothers In Harm’s Way In James Gray’s NYC Drama

Lisa Ann Walter Hosting 2026 Astra TV Awards; Honorees Include William H. Macy, Shawn Hatosy & More

Run-A-Muck Developing Torrey Peters’ “Stag Dance” For Film; Novella Part Of 2026 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Collection

Netflix Wraps Upfront, Doubling Ad Commitments; Women’s World Cup Inventory Nearly Sold Out

L.A. Creator Sachin Kumar Launches Prema Creative Co. With Vertical Comedy Series About Indian-American Actor In Hollywood

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong On How His Son Helped Make ‘Nimrods’ Feel “Current,” Potential Of ‘American Idiot’ Movie Musical: “We Talk About It”

Jane Krakowski & Angourie Rice Star In Coming-Of-Age Drama ‘Nice Eggs’ From Director Amanda Lipitz

Podcasts From Jonas Brothers, Ego Nwodim, ‘Scrubs’ Stars Among 6 Heading To Disney+ & Hulu In Licensing Deal With iHeartMedia

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