Deadline’s Strike Talk Podcast Week 19: Will This Never End? Capitol Hill Pols Parse Labor Dispute And The Destructiveness Of A Pyrrhic Victory

There’s a crisis at the border: migrants stranded in desperate conditions, steel and barbed wire barriers thrown in their path. 

Fugees reunited during a performance by Ms. Lauryn Hill at New York City’s Global Citizens Festival last weekend.The legendary rap trio performed together on stage on Saturday (September 23), playing ‘How Many Mics’, ‘Ready or Not’, Killing Me Softly With His Song’ and ‘Fu-Gee-La’.The show was part of Hill’s current North American tour, which is a celebration of the 25th anniversary of her Grammy award-winning debut album ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’.

Josie Gibson has shone a big light on her This Morning co-stars and what she thinks of them, having been on-screen with many over the last few months since Phillip Schofield's departure from the show.The TV morning favourite shared her honest verdicts on lots of her co-star hosts, including Andi Peters and Rochelle Humes, and in classic Josie style, the loveable Bristolian presenter didn't have a bad word to say about anyone. When The Mirror asked the blonde beauty who her favourite co-host was, of course, praised them all. She said: "Dermot [O’Leary] is such a laugh and great with Reg when he comes on set.

Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny are bringing their romance to fashion week!

Billy Ray, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director and producer who has used his downtime during the Hollywood labor strife between shifts on the picket lines to turn Strike Talk into a tour de force that has demystified the issues and explained the inflection point that made this standoff unavoidable, this week strikes his most hopeful tone in the 21 podcasts he has done so far.

This is Day 143 of the WGA strike and Day 70 of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italy’s Indiana Production – which has just become part of pan-European studio Vuelta Group – is staying true to its roots with production kicking off this month on gender swap movie “Romeo is Juliet,” directed by quality comedy specialist Giovanni Veronesi, just as the company expands its horizons. This latest title in Indiana’s slate stars A-lister Sergio Castellitto and Pilar Fogliati (“Romantiche”) who plays an actress named Vittoria who after being brutally rejected by a cynical stage director when she auditions to play Juliet in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” decides to reinvent herself as a man to audition for Romeo and gets the part.

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…,” Charles Dickens wrote in A Tale of Two Cities. The same phrase could describe the state of the documentary industry. 

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Drew Barrymore isn’t bringing back her daytime talk show “The Drew Barrymore Show” until the strike ends, after all. The decision comes a week after the actor was criticized for saying “The Drew Barrymore Show” would premiere on Sept. 18 in compliance with WGA guidelines and without writers.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy are speaking out more about the lawsuit that Michael Oher filed against them.

As this seemingly endless Hollywood-hobbling strike hits week 20, Billy Ray seeks input from two veterans of the business – a vet TV exec, Peter Aronson, and a columnist, The Ankler’s Richard Rushfield — on how we got to this point and what needs to happen to get people working again. Among the points covered: how the AMPTP’S decision to chase the Netflix streaming model has had calamitous results, the high price of the signatory’s PR false messaging, and what has to happen in next week’s resumption of talks to get Hollywood back to work. Things are getting desperate — Bill Maher & Drew Barrymore are getting flamed on social media for resuming their shows, sans writers. Their reasoning; after five months without a paycheck waiting for the guilds and studios to make a deal, employees on those shows who are not members of the guilds are starving.

Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy claim in new court docs that they referred to the NFL alum as a ‘son’ in the ‘colloquial sense.’

Dermot O'Leary gushed over Holly Willoughby and the rest of his fellow This Morning presenters as he chatted to Lorraine Kelly on Wednesday.

Welcome to the premiere episode of Doc Talk, our new podcast hosted by Oscar-winning writer-director John Ridley and Deadline’s documentary editor Matt Carey. We’re kicking off with a deep dive into a signature power of documentary: The capacity to right a grave wrong in the criminal justice system by freeing a wrongfully convicted prisoner. Only a handful of major nonfiction filmmakers has achieved this extraordinary feat, springing men and women who faced Death Row or life sentences.

Howard Stern’s fear of Covid has begun to spark arguments between him and his wife, Beth Ostrosky.

Republic Pictures President Dan Cohen and producer Annabelle Dunne were among the main representatives of William Friedkin’s last film The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial at its posthumous world premiere at Venice Film Festival over the weekend.

Ava DuVernay is making history today. In Venice with Origin, which world premieres in the Sala Grande this evening, she is the first African American female filmmaker to ever have been selected in competition at the world’s oldest festival. DuVernay earlier told Deadline’s Dominic Patten, “Venice was a big goal. It feels like a real full-circle moment.”

Eva Longoria is all about the vibes. It’s all about the vibes baby!!!Kylie Jenner gets dirty.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers through the Season 1 finale of “One Piece,” now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s bestselling manga “One Piece” launched Friday, giving fans their long-awaited chance to compare the eight-episode first season to its print and anime versions. The manga takes place in a fantastical world where pirates and marines battle for control over the Blue Sea.

We’ve reached Labor Day and the close of this endless summer labor dispute that has stretched 18 weeks with no end in sight — many who had pegged Labor Day as the likely resolution now point to Thanksgiving. Deadline Strike Talk host Billy Ray engages Jennifer Fox, producer of such films as Michael Clayton, Nightcrawler, The Last Duel, and the Sundance sensation Magazine Dreams. They dig into the current labor stalemate and how AMPTP might find common ground with WGA and SAG-AFTRA. And they also engage the plight of the producers who assemble projects from inception, don’t get paid until production stars, and are the first to be asked to take a haircut on their fees. Producers don’t need an alliance. What they need is a union, Ray and Fox argue.