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