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EXCLUSIVE: The North Road Company’s investment drive continues. Peter Chernin’s company has acquired Little Room Films, the production company established by Jason Hehir, the director behind the hit basketball docuseries The Last Dance. It marks Chernin’s latest investment in the non-fiction space, having invested in Words+Pictures, the company started by former ESPN content chief Connor […]

EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Tosh, former host of Comedy Central’s Tosh.0, is moving into the world of podcasting. The comedian is launch Tosh Show via iHeartPodcasts. It comes three years after the Paramount-owned cable network canceled his show after 12 seasons as part of a pivot out of live-action comedy. Tosh will interview people from all walks […]

The Queer Eye gang is getting smaller. Bobby Berk has revealed that he is leaving the Netflix series after its upcoming eighth season. Berk has been one of the ‘Fab Five’ since the streamer rebooted the reality series alongside Antoni Porowski, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown and Tan France. Berk is known as the interior […]

LA3C Livestream Exploding Kittens is the first time that Netflix developed a TV series and a mobile video game at the same time. The game launched earlier this year and you can now watch a teaser trailer (above) for the animated series that stars the voice talent of Tom Ellis. The series follows the eternal […]

EXCLUSIVE: Cris Abrego, the longtime Banijay U.S. chief who recently set up his own production group with Eva Longoria, is expected to become the new boss of the TV Academy. Deadline understands Abrego is the frontrunner for the position. The election to name the next boss is set to be held next week but sources […]

3 Body Problem will launch on Netflix nearly four years after first being revealed. But fans excited for the sci-drama series from Game of Thrones showrunners will have to wait a little bit longer than previously expected. The series, which comes from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss as well as Alexander Woo (The Terror: Infamy) […]

The studios are lauding their work on the tentative agreement with the actors. The AMPTP put out a statement after striking the deal with SAG-AFTRA, saying that the new three-year contract “represents a new paradigm”. The full details of the agreement have yet to be released but the studios are patting themselves on the back, […]

Vice Media Group is beginning a restructuring process that will see the departure of a number of employees. The youth-skewing broadcaster is undergoing its latest round of layoffs this year as it winds down a number of long-running news programs. Sources told Deadline that less than 100 people are impacted. Vice CEOs Bruce Dixon and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Plimsoll Productions is making some changes to its natural history team. The company, which is behind Disney+/National Geographic’s upcoming seven-part wildlife series Incredible Animal Journeys and the James Cameron-executive produced, Benedict Cumberbatch-narrated Super/Natural, has promoted Mark Brownlow following the departure of Tom Hugh-Jones. Brownlow, who joined the company earlier this year as Executive Producer, becomes Creative […]

Late-night TV has had plenty of superstars appearing since the end of the writers strike. But the end of the actors strike is another story. Stars will now be able to promote films and series that were previously struck, opening the door to a slew of new bookings across The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, […]