The upcoming sixth and final season of Disney Television Studios’ mega-hit This Is Us is sure to see some emotionally stirring storylines. In fact, during Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees event, series creator Dan Fogelman said he brought studio execs to tears during a Season 6 story pitch meeting on Zoom. “People were crying to
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Though The Descendants’ animated special, Descendants: The Royal Wedding, last Friday celebrated the marriage of main characters Mal and Ben, the episode also honored their late actor Cameron Boyce, who played Carlos in the Disney Channel franchise. The television special acknowledged the absence of Carlos early on when Mal receives a wedding present of a
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the Season 1 finale of HBO’s The White Lotus. “Now, we are starting down a very dark road,” Shane Patton (Jake Lacy) says in tonight’s episode of The White Lotus, “and you’d better be sure you really want to go there.” While the wealthy man-child’s comments are directed
When the new Starz wrestling drama Heels began production last fall, the pandemic posed challenges that were both very new to the industry and also costly. And when dealing with a high contact sport, the stakes are even higher. “Everybody had to be very disciplined,” executive producer and showrunner Mike O’Malley told Deadline. “We started
John Oliver isn’t too pleased about the new host of Jeopardy! either. The HBO Max host noted his disgruntlement on today’s episode of Last Week Tonight while discussing school mask mandates. Early in the episode, Oliver played a clip of an angry mob accosting a school board member over mask mandates with a man screaming,
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are getting the keys to a beloved Colorado restaurant featured in “South Park” … the real Casa Bonita is theirs, and the deal happened fast. The “South Park” creators announced Friday they struck a deal to become the new owners of the Mexican restaurant made famous by their show, breaking
The first case of the much-talked-about Lambda variant of Covid-19 was reported by Los Angeles health officials on Thursday. But for all the fanfare, Lambda doesn’t seem to have been much of a match for Delta – yet. “We’ve only seen one Lambda variant among tests sequenced in our labs, and this was a sample
Oh, OK. It’s obvious after SurrealEstate Season 1 Episode 5 that my attempts to see into Luke’s future are a major fail. It seems that at every turn, Luke is shown that he’s got to face his past demons no matter how eager he is to run away from them. It never dawned on me
Archer, one of television’s longest-running animated series, is launching its 12th season Aug. 25 on FXX. It is the last season featuring the voice of core cast member Jessica Walter who died on March 24 at the age of 80. With a show so deep into its run, the question whether to continue always comes
During FX Networks’ executive session at the summer TCA virtual press tour, Chairman John Landgraf detailed the company’s rollout plans through June 2022. While listing the series slated to premiere in the first half of 2022 he said, “at long last, the fantastic new drama series The Old Man starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, Amy
Mayim Bialik‘s upcoming role as one of the new hosts of “Jeopardy!” might have been even greater if she just had the time … TMZ has learned According to our Sony Studios sources … “The Big Bang Theory” star became a frontrunner with bosses at Sony to permanently host the game show after guest hosting
EXCLUSIVE: The Lincoln Lawyer is heading to court, literally. In what could become both a very revealing and grueling affair for all concerned, A+E Studios subsidiary Frankl & Bob Films II, LLC have sued ViacomCBS for “millions of dollars” in losses over the latter’s spring 2020 decision not to go ahead with a series based
We’re getting closer to the end, Drag Race fans. The Final 5 became the Final 4 on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 6 Episode 9 with a magical challenge. But, now that the “game-within-a-game” is set for the next round, anything could happen next. Bring on all the shocking gameplay! “Drag Tots” needed some
Ratings controversy is nothing new in the TV trenches, but the streaming shift is amping up the level of angst all around. The Media Rating Council, a government-founded, industry-supported organization that monitors various media stakeholders, fired the latest shot in the long war over measurement. It ripped Nielsen’s “deep-rooted, ongoing performance issues” in a statement
The Television Academy said Thursday that Debbie Allen will receive the 2021 Governors Award, bestowed on the dancer-choreographer-actress-writer-producer-director “for her unprecedented achievements in television and her commitment to inspire and engage marginalized youth through dance, theater arts and mentorship.” Allen will be recognized during the Primetime Emmy Awards telecast September 19 on CBS and Paramount+.
Dustin Diamond‘s presence will be felt over and over and over this weekend … ’cause a NASCAR sponsor’s ready to unveil his special stock car honoring the late actor. Dan Block, the president of Insurance King, has chosen this Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series Verizon 200 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as the race where he’ll
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the season finale of FXX’s Dave. In the Season 2 finale of Dave, our titular character faces a make-or-break moment not only in his rapping career, but also in his relationship with one of his best friends. As the episode opens, Dave (Dave Burd, aka Lil Dicky)
It’s no secret by now that Good Trouble is at its absolute best when The Coterie crew and their extended family that keeps growing comes together. And Good Trouble Season 3 Episode 15 delivered with a beautiful, fun, heartwarming hour that put our beloved Alice in the spotlight as she shared her heritage, family, and heart
Jess is alive! After the majority of In The Dark Season 3 Episode 6 was spent trying to find out her living status and location, we got our answer. Jessica is alive, for now, but she left the hospital before Murphy and Felix could even see her. Why is the show so stressful? Murphy’s reaction to
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar and Emmy Award-nominated POV Shorts, from American Documentary, is set to premiere its fourth season via PBS and streaming at POV.org on Sept. 6. This season will feature 13 new diverse, short nonfiction films across 7 episodes tackling the complexities of family, identity, and community. “This is a deeply affecting group of films,
EXCLUSIVE: Metro Public Relations, the communications and creative marketing company founded by Tess Finkle, has upped Partner, President & COO Laura Michael to CEO, also adding five new members to its senior entertainment team. Laura Jalaie joins as SVP, Strategy & Communications, with Bree Jones now serving as VP of Consumer Communications & Culture; Kathryn White
Play video content Spike’s Car Radio Jay Leno‘s a well-known motorhead, but apparently he’s a stuntman too … based on this crazy footage of him gripping the nose of an airplane in mid-flight!!! The former ‘Tonight Show’ host is on Wednesday’s ep of “Spike’s Car Radio” hosted by comedian and auto enthusiast Spike Feresten, and
EXCLUSIVE: ITV has set the cast for its upcoming adaptation of Sara Collins’ period drama The Confessions of Frannie Langton. Karla-Simone Spence, who starred in Paramount Pictures’ feature Blue Story as well as BBC series Wannabe and Gold Digger, leads the cast as Frannie Langton. Langton is the young protagonist born into a life of
The truth came spilling out from all sides when the unit became part of a strike team going after Nicte Batan. Petra warned Tally before they left on Motherland: Fort Salem Season 2 Episode 8. But Tally and Abigail were too full of themselves, and Raelle was too rattled by her mother’s second death and Scylla’s
AT&T is in talks to sell WarnerMedia’s celebrity gossip site TMZ to Fox, Deadline has confirmed, in yet another deal paring down the telco’s entertainment assets, one that comes as it prepares to spin off Warner and merge it with Discovery. That $43 billion-deal was announced in May and may not close until the middle
At the height of my wrestling and boy band obsession, I wrote a crossover fan fic in which *NSYNC’s Justin Timberlake dated a WWE wrestler who was best friends with the Hardy Boyz and Lita. It was not good. On the other hand, Starz’s upcoming drama Heels (premiering Sunday, Aug. 15 at 9/8c; I’ve seen
All bad things must come to an end in the Season 6 trailer for Netflix’s supernatural series Lucifer. Netflix unveiled the latest glimpse at the series’ sixth and final season on Tuesday. The trailer sees Tom Ellis’ Lucifer Morningstar preparing to assume his place as God. But even when the promises of Heaven await him,
Netflix and Ava DuVernay will continue to battle Linda Fairstein‘s defamation lawsuit over her portrayal in “When They See Us” … a judge just denied their bid to toss the suit out of court. According to new legal docs obtained by TMZ … a federal judge in Manhattan ruled Monday Linda’s defamation suit plausibly alleged
EXCLUSIVE: UK publicists Donna Mills and Emma Jackson, longtime reps at London-based Premier Communications, have launched new publicity agency Tapestry London. The company will specialise in actor and filmmaker representation, with the majority of their clients based in Europe and represented by the company globally. Their impressive roster of clients includes Michaela Coel, Michael Fassbender,
Things are getting JUICY. This was another hour full of non-stop information, but everything is coming together now, and the story is congealing in a way that feels natural and like we’re on the cusp of experiencing the best season of the series thus far. Roswell, New Mexico Season 3 Episode 3 was all about Maria’s