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It’s April, the month when Deadline usually launches its Pilot Panic feature, where we track buzz on the broadcast pilots as they go through production and testing. Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders SEE ALL This year, there is no pilot production or testing, there actually isn’t much of anything typically associated with pilot […]

Courtesy of CORE Ed Note: When natural disasters strike, most of us quickly write checks and say, ‘I wish I could do more.’ At that moment, there is a good chance Sean Penn is on a plane headed toward the wreckage. We saw post-Hurricane Katrina pictures of Penn in a small motorboat, braving the flood waters to […]

After what was reportedly an intense bidding war, Netflix has landed the rights to an Ava DuVernay-directed documentary on the late rapper, Nipsey Hussle. The film is a co-production between DuVernay’s ARRAY and Hussle’s Marathon Films. Netflix took the rights in the deal, which is supposedly worth eight figures and in the teens. Deadline’s report […]

Are you tired of non-Black writers writing bad film or television dialogue for Black characters? So is Tyler James Williams. The actor tweeted about his frustration with writers, garnering over 7,000 retweets and over 37,000 likes. In his tweet, Williams asked non-Black writers to “please stop writing Black ‘slang’ dialogue for your Black characters. It always […]

The recipients of the 13th annual Television Academy Honors were announced Wednesday the honors include Watchmen and Queen Sugar. Starring Regina King, HBO’s Watchmen is set 34 years after the events of the comic book of the same name. The HBO adaptation also deals with racism and racial violence in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Created by Ava DuVernay, Queen Sugar chronicles the Bordelons, […]

The coronavirus pandemic has led to Universal and MGM moving Candyman to Sept. 25 from its original June 12 release date. Candyman‘s move to Sept. 25 puts the Will Packer-produced musical Praise This off the 2020 calendar, at least for now. It is currently undated. The Candyman move is one of many studios have been making while trying to make sense of […]

Amanda Schwab/Starpix/Shutterstock The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has pledged $6M to help those motion picture industry employees and their families who have been effected by the financial strain of the coronavirus. Of that amount, $4M will be dispensed to The Actors Fund, which helps below the line workers and performers, and the Motion Picture […]

Actors’ Equity Association Actors’ Equity, whose membership has been jobless since the COVID-19 shutdown of live theaters across the country, is offering dues relief to those members who need it. The union’s $87 spring basic dues payment, customarily billed in May, has been extended to July 31, and late fees for basic dues and initiation […]

  Shutterstock Check back for updates … The coronavirus has hit the television industry hard, and the fallout has only begun. Dozens of series have halted production or had their starts delayed as the outbreak continues to spread. Have a look at our list of broadcast, cable, streaming and international series below. We will update this post when […]

Alan Messer/Shutterstock In a 1962 radio interview, the famed R&B disc jockey Magnificent Montague asked Sam Cooke to define soul music in eight bars. Cooke’s response — a wordless hum that curved gently around an imagined melody with inexplicable poignancy — was so spot-on that it should have been transcribed as sheet music in dictionaries. […]