Television

CBS’ previously announced competition series The Activist — to be hosted by Usher, Priyanka Chopra-Jonas, and Julianne Hough — is shifting its format to documentary special amid criticism, producers Global Citizen and Live Nation revealed on Wednesday. “The Activist was designed to show a wide audience the passion, long hours, and ingenuity that activists put
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was in Berlin this morning to open the streamer’s new DACH Headquarters (Germany, Austria and Switzerland). Greeting a room of executives and content creators – including Jantje Friese (Dark, 1899), Anna Winger (Unorthodox), who just signed an overall deal with Netflix, Matthias Schweighöfer (Army of Thieves), Christian Schwochow (Munich – The
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The CW is continuing its interest in international series. The youth-skewing network has acquired Professionals, a loose remake of the Christian Slater-fronted action movie Soldiers of Fortune for Scandinavian SVOD service Viaplay. The series, which was first revealed by Deadline in 2019, stars Smallville’s Welling as Vincent Corbo, a top-tier security operative, who is paid to protect the interests
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The classic Chucky film horror franchise is making the leap to television with the upcoming USA/Syfy series from Child’s Play creator Don Mancini and Channel Zero creator Nick Antosca, with Brad Dourif returning as the voice of Chucky alongside the movies’ Jennifer Tilly. In the eight-episode series, which premieres Oct. 12 for a Halloween run, after a
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The Met Gala is back after a year off due to COVID, and it looks like the stars were chomping at the bit to put on their best suits and dresses in a return to normalcy. This year’s hosts include Keke Palmer, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman, Timothee Chalamet and Naomi Osaka — and they’ve already
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Netflix and Unorthodox creator Anna Winger and her production company Airlift Productions have set a multi-year creative partnership. The overall deal will see Winger and Airlift develop and produce international drama series for the streamer. The first project for the partnership will be Transatlantic (working title), a drama series set during the 1940 refugee crisis
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Canadian-born artist Yanic Truesdale is best known for playing the crotchety concierge Michel Gerard — who graced the Independence Inn with his French finesse and deranged dietary drama — on The WB’s classic American dramedy “Gilmore Girls.” Yanic Truesdale shared the small screen with a cool cast of characters including Melissa McCarthy as the bossy
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EVIL is at its best when it’s mired in gray areas. EVIL Season 2 Episode 9 portrayed that gray area beautifully, failing to offer a good explanation for anything but suggesting plenty of reasons to don your conspiracy theory hats. The stories had many facets, and discussing them should be a good time. Kristen’s children
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Months before the chaotic final weeks of the withdrawal from Kabul, CNN had started work on America’s Longest War: What Went Wrong in Afghanistan, debuting at 9 PM ET on Sunday and hosted by Jake Tapper, in which eight of the 11 commanding generals were interviewed and their remarks offer a candid assessment of the
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The first of three 2021 Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremonies is underway, and Deadline is updating the winners list live as they are announced. Have a look at the trophy recipients and the night’s remaining nominees below. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will hand out Emmys in 37 categories tonight, with this year’s
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Bill Maher donned a checked weatherman’s sport jacket for a moment tonight – actually – to stand in front of a simple map of fire and floods and make a simple request — “Just build pipelines from where the water is to where the water isn’t.” “On this side of the country, it doesn’t rain,
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EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor, writer, and producer X Mayo in all areas. Most recently, The Daily Show writer shared a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for “Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.” As an actress, Mayo will next appear in the upcoming NBC comedy series, American Auto. On the big screen, she played supporting roles in
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CBS’ CSI revival, CSI: Vegas, features a cast mixing original stars William Petersen, Jorja Fox and Wallace Langham, joined by several newcomers, Paula Newsome, Mandeep Dhillon, Matt Lauria and Mel Rodriguez. In addition to Petersen, Fox and Lanhgam, original cast member Paul Guilfoyle is set to reprise his role as Brass in two episodes. And
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