The Big 4 and the CW have taken strikingly different approaches to setting their 2020-2021 season lineups and their messages to advertisers because of the disruption due to the coronavirus pandemic. They are the latest moves in the game of 3-D chess that buyers and sellers are playing as they are forced to reconsider many business practices that have prevailed for half a century.
Beyonce and Jay-Z face a copyright infringement lawsuit in Los Angeles for allegedly using a monologue voiced by an uncredited Jamaican choreographer for their 2018 track “Black Effect” without permission, according to court papers obtained today.
In the suit, filed late Tuesday in federal court, dancer Lenora Stines…
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released reports today indicating that the pilot of the helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others became disoriented by thick fog.
Pilot Ara Zobayan was actually descending, but reported that he was climbing when the crash occurred, the NTSB reports said. Zobayan…
Kevin Costner wasn’t intending to be headlining a regular continuing TV series when he signed on to star as John Dutton, the complex man who controls the largest ranch in America, in the Paramount Network series Yellowstone, which returns for its third season Sunday. He says he was told it was just one limited…
President Donald Trump isn’t in favor of National Football League players kneeling during the national anthem. But he believes that the original kneeler, former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, should get another chance to play in the league.
Trump previously has been famously against kneeling during the anthem…
Now that the last broadcast network (ABC) has set its 2020-21 schedule, the next question for the TV business is how and when networks will sell upfront advertising that helps keep the lights on.
Madison Avenue marketing plans are on an uneven footing due to COVID-19, and the typical upfront negotiations held in the…
UPDATED with ABC interview: As news outlets began to report details in John Bolton’s new memoir on Wednesday, ABC News released an excerpt from his interview with Martha Raddatz, in which Bolton blasts his former boss Donald Trump.
Raddatz asks Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, how he would describe…
Neal McDonough, who has recently been seen on shows like Yellowstone, Altered Carbon and the Robert Zemeckis series Project Blue Book, has signed on to star in Red Stone, an indie thriller written and directed by Derek Presley. McDonough, who also serves as an executive producer on the film, will star alongside Dash…
Editors' Note: Deadline's?Reopening Hollywood?series focuses on the complicated effort to get the industry back on its feet while ensuring the safety of everyone involved. Our goal is to examine numerous sides of the business and provide a forum for leaders in Hollywood who have a vision for how production could safely…
Two long-running ABC comedy series, Modern Family andFresh off the Boat, ended their runs this past season. Both have been exploring spinoffs.
The Fresh Off the Boat offshoot was more fully formed. Set up as a potential backdoor pilot episode of FOTB this past season, the project, tentatively titled Magic Motor Inn…
Comedian/actor Chris D’Elia has spoken out about allegations that he harassed underage girls on social media.
“I know I have said and done things that might have offended people during my career, but I have never knowingly pursued any underage women at any point,” D’Elia said in a statement obtained by Deadline. “All…
Hasan Minhaj has been hosting Netflix's Patriot Act since October 2018 and, in that time, he has taken on subjects including Amazon, Indian elections and controversially Saudi Arabia.
Minhaj, who was previously a correspondent for Comedy Central's The Daily Show and was Jon Stewart's last hire, is now producing the…
