Deadline Launches Its Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted Streaming Site

Stephen Colbert brought back in-studio guests to “The Late Show” with a struggle.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert welcomed its first in-studio guest in over 14 months with an arm wrestling contest.

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Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television awards-season event, which this past weekend shined a light on 49 buzzy scripted programs from 21 broadcast and cable networks and streamers in our biggest Contenders showcase yet.

Stephen Colbert appeared on behalf of his CBS late-night show during Deadline’s Contenders Television all-day awards-season event and admitted he was eager to get back to having an audience for his hit series, which has been essentially shooting from a storage closet at the Ed Sullivan Theatre in New York.

For a second year in a row, Deadline’s Contenders Television is going virtual, and we are about to take off with an astonishing 128 creatives and stars appearing in the all-day event that will feature a total of 21 networks and 49 shows. This again is the must-see happening of the TV awards season and it promises to be our biggest yet as we pull out all the stops to give voters a kind of one-stop shopping opportunity to check out the top contenders for TV’s highest awards.

Actor Seth Rogen believes Texas Sen.Ted Cruz could benefit from smoking some marijuana with the funnyman amid their ongoing Twitter sparring. Rogen, who launched his own marijuana company Houseplant in March, appeared on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Thursday where he was asked to weigh in on his and Cruz's public bashing of one another on Twitter.

The Twitter back-and-forth between Seth Rogen and Ted Cruz is “not a feud.”

Stephen Colbert mocked the GOP’s latest attempt to try to prove the 2020 presidential election was rigged in favor of Joe Biden on Monday’s “Late Show,” where he tore into the Cyber Ninjas security firm attempting to find traces of bamboo on Maricopa County ballots to tie them to China.“Maricopa already had two official audits right after the election, both of which revealed exactly zero shenanigans,” Colbert said.

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When Amy Schumer first discovered she was pregnant, she could never have predicted the tough road the pregnancy would take her on, much less that it would be the subject of a three-part documentary miniseries for HBO Max.