Jimmy Kimmel is interviewing James Talarico today but his interview will only stream on YouTube after the late-night host said pressure from the FCC has prevented Disney from airing it on ABC. The Texas Democrat, who is running for Senate, responded to the news and called the move the “most dangerous form of cancel culture”. […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline10 Sept
Janelle Rodriguez, who has been a key figure in building streaming platform NBC News Now and also has overseen NBC Nightly News and breaking news and specials, is departing the network. Rodriguez, who has served as executive vice president of programming, wrote in a memo to staffers pn Thursday, “I’ve spent a long time thinking […]
Deadline•Ted Johnson10 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Myriad Pictures will launch world pre-sales at TIFF on Stealing From Pablo, a thriller inspired by true events and directed by Carlos V. Gutierrez (Stay Safe) and produced by FJ Productions. The film is due to star Noah Schnapp (Stranger Things), David Mazouz (Gotham), and Seu Jorge (City of God). Based on real events […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman10 Sept
Leslie Bibb is going for a three-peat at HBO following her starring role in Season 3 of The White Lotus, for which she shared an Actor nomination, and her recent guest stint on Hacks, which earned her a 2026 Emmy nomination. In a competitive situation, HBO has landed for development The Rush Whisperer, a comedy […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva10 Sept
A series adaptation of romance author Kennedy Ryan’s Before I Let Go has been in the works at Peacock for over three years. Today, the project received a series order from the NBCUniversal streamer. Deadline broke the news in 2023 that the book would be adapted into a series with exec producers including Malcolm D. […]
Deadline•Peterdeadline10 Sept
SPOILER ALERT: This post spoils the entire first season of Crew Girl now out on Netflix. Just as Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) has adjusted to her new life as coxswain of Easton Prep’s all-boys rowing team, while navigating a love triangle between her two teammates Cam Dillinger (Kyle Clarke) and Josh Regis (Samuel Braun), another […]
Deadline•Dessi Gomez10 Sept
Mariska Hargitay, coming off her own double Emmy win last weekend, is gearing up to host the Primetime Emmys on Monday, and there’s none better than Jimmy Kimmel, a three-time host himself, for some advice. Hargitay sat down with Kimmel Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about her documentary , My Mom Jayne, […]
Deadline•Denise Petski10 Sept
After the Toronto Film Festival last year yielded the highest-grossing fest acquisition ever at the box office with Obsession ($512 million worldwide), and with the arrival of a new market, the million-dollar question heading into this year’s TIFF that kicks off Thursday is whether there will be a spike in independent feature sales. There’s a […]
Deadline•Anthonypauldalessandro10 Sept
The Muppet Show has become the unlikely flag bearer for The Disney Company at the 2026 Emmy Awards. The Disney+ special won the most trophies of any program across the Disney portfolio, four, after the first two ceremonies last weekend, accounting for more than a quarter of the company’s overall haul with an excellent 67% […]
Deadline•Nellie Andreeva10 Sept
While crews toiled away building out the Peacock Theater ahead of Monday’s 78th annual Emmy Awards, host Mariska Hargitay sparkled in the sun as she rolled out the blue carpet alongside the show’s producers. She may have spent nearly three decades investigating heinous crimes on NBC’s Law & Order franchise, but she knows how to […]
Deadline•Katie Campione10 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: VMI Worldwide, Verdi Productions and Source M+P have wrapped killer bee movie Stung in Rhode Island. From writer-director Colin Minihan, the film follows Jess (Iris Apatow), Maya (Odeya Rush) Brooke (Annarah Cymone) and Rachel (Neela Jolene) “as their innocent girl’s night sleepover spirals into a living nightmare when their home is overtaken by a […]
Deadline•Andreas Wiseman10 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Jeremiah Watkins has just released his third full-length special, Crazy Pizza, on YouTube. Watch it above. Taped at The Comedy Vault in Batavia, Illinois, the special finds Watkins navigating life as the father to an alleged serial killer toddler and his wife’s anger in the bedroom, while riffing on alternatives to hitting your kids, his […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar10 Sept
Antonin Baudry’s political biopic De Gaulle and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes competition drama Minotaur are among the five titles that have been shortlisted to represent France in the Best International Oscar race at the 99th Academy Awards. Announced this afternoon by the CNC, France’s national film board, the full shortlist includes De Gaulle and Minotaur alongside […]
Deadline•Zac Ntim10 Sept
Asa Germann (Gen V) is set for the role of Angel in the new X-Men movie from Marvel Studios, sources have confirmed to Deadline. Reps for Marvel couldn’t be reached for comment. Germann had previously been rumored for the role of Cyclops, which went to Kit Connor. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963, Warren […]
Deadline•Matthewgrobar10 Sept
Mike McFarland, known as the English voices of Master Roshi and Najirobe in Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, Buggy the Clown in One Piece and many other anime works, died September 10 of brain cancer. He was 56. Also a script writer, director and line producer, McFarland was one of the original and most […]
Deadline•Denise Petski10 Sept
A live capture of Oh, Mary!, the hit, award-winning Broadway and West End stage comedy written by and starring Cole Escola will debut on HBO in 2027, the network announced today. The program is the filmed capture of the July 28, 2026, performance that took place at the Trafalgar Theatre in London’s West End, with […]
Deadline•Greg Evans10 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Low Lies the Land, a documentary set in the winemaking Piemonte region of Italy, may become the toast of Toronto. The film featuring a rich bouquet of families engaged in viticulture hosts its world premiere Friday at TIFF. We have your exclusive first look at Emanuele Gerosa’s film in the clip above. “Nestled among […]
Deadline•Matthew Carey10 Sept
Billy Porter, Billy Zane and Jessica Vosk will star in an unusual one-night-only Broadway musical being produced by the financial technology company Ramp as a promotion for the company’s bill-pay platform. Bill Pay The Musical, a fully staged, original musical comedy “about bills” has been created for the the fin-tech company by a creative team […]
Deadline•Greg Evans10 Sept
EXCLUSIVE: Ross Butler and Marc Evan Jackson are among the newly-announced cast joining Sayani Gupta (Delhi Crime) in Arya. The film, which is written and directed by Neil Tuli, follows Arya (Gupta), a disciplined piano teacher from a prestigious Indian conservatory. Per the synopsis, she reluctantly takes an assignment in northern Minnesota, hoping to rescue […]
Deadline•Stewart Clarke10 Sept