Television

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Kosminsky will not start writing scripts for the BBC’s Grenfell drama until after the findings of the landmark inquiry into the national tragedy have been published, Deadline understands. The BBC unveiled three-parter Grenfell earlier this week, the result of five years worth of research and interviews, which will continue now that the project
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As Paramount Global prepares to report quarterly earnings Thursday, with CEO Bob Bakish presiding and Shari Redstone happily ensconced as non-executive chair, a new book is bringing forth some interesting (and at times lurid) revelations about the company’s tortuous journey. Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy, a tale
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Cutting Edge Media Music, a division of a firm that has provided music services for films, TV series and video games including John Wick, Stranger Things and Red Dead Redemption, has secured $100 million in new financing. Nashville-based Pinnacle Financial Partners, which already had a relationship with Cutting Edge, led a consortium of financial backers.
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EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has defended its decision to produce glossy adverts for Huawei and Chinese state media, saying the contracts are important to funding its international journalism. Sean O’Hara, the BBC’s Executive Vice President of advertising, said the corporation reports on China “without fear or favour” despite a Deadline investigation revealing that it has commercial
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Chris Stapleton took the stage of Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona to perform the U.S. National Anthem. The singer-songwriter’s rendition of the “Star-Spangled Banner” was emotional and inspiring. However, the moment that took the night was CODA star Troy Kotsur that performed the anthem using American Sign Language (ASL). Although
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Howard Bragman, one of Hollywood’s top crisis management experts whose clients included Sharon Osbourne, Monica Lewinsky, Stevie Wonder, Chaz Bono and many more, died peacefully in his sleep Saturday night after a private battle with acute monocytic leukemia. He was 66, just days shy of his 67th birthday. Bragman graduated from the University of Michigan
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Seven-time Emmy-nominated TV producer and marketing executive Adam Jordan has moved to the nonprofit sector by taking a role as the new senior director of the Lollipop Theater Network.  He will be working directly with cofounder and Executive Director Evelyn Iocolano. Lollipop Theater Network brings current movies, celebrities, and interactive entertainment to pediatric patients nationwide
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Ridley Scott and his Scott Free Productions banner is getting in on the true-crime trend. The director is exec producing a four-part documentary series for Hulu that comes from ABC News Studios’ burgeoning slate. Still Missing Morgan documents two parallel kidnapping cold cases as investigators uncover new leads in the case of missing six year
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