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Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticOver three weeks after he was declared the winner of the 2020 election, Joe Biden’s transition to the White House has finally officially started.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic(UPDATED with Michigan Governor reaction) Donald Trump has proven a loser yet again today as Joe Biden’s massive victory in Michigan received official certification from state officials.After introductory discussion and then hours of comments from the pubic and passionate county clerks, Michagan’s four-member Board of State Canvassers on Monday voted 3-1 to confirm the President-elect’s nearly 155,000-vote victory in the Lake State in the November 3

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAs television production continues to ramp up in Hollywood and coronavirus cases surge in America, Hunters and The Right Stuff are heading out West, thanks to some very generous tax credits from the state of California.Amazon Prime’s Nazi chasing series and the latest adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s space race novel from Disney+ are the 21st and 22nd shows to relocate to the Golden State since the California Film Commission-run program was raised to $330

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAs coronavirus cases surge across America again, United Talent Agency is going after Vigilant and Federal insurance in court for millions for leaving them unprotected during the pandemic.“Instead of honoring its promises to UTA, Vigilant has wrongfully withheld the policy benefits that UTA is entitled to receive – and that it needs to weather the circumstances associated with the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and actions to ‘flatten the curve,’ rebound from

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: It probably won’t show up on Judge Judy’s newly announced court series for IMDbTV, but the multi-million dollar legal battle between Judith Sheindlin and Rebel Entertainment Partners is turning into even more of a bareknuckle brawl.With a history of indirect litigation over the past few years, both sides are now directly flinging terms like “vicious” and “baseless character assassination” at each other – and that’s just the polite

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticIt was a good night for the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday Night Football, but it was a really big night for Grey’s Anatomy fans as Patrick Dempsey’s McDreamy returned after a five-year absence.Last night the Shonda Rhimes medical drama dedicated its two-hour Season 17 season premiere to frontline healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: They say you can’t take on City Hall, but someone forgot to tell Sir Lady Java.Now Pose star Hailie Sahar and Genius: Aretha director Anthony Hemingway have teamed to bring the onetime performer and long-time LGBTQ activist’s story to life on the big screen.As you can see in the video below that Emmy winner Hemingway has put together, Good Trouble alum Sahar is slated to play the famed female impersonator – and Sir Lady Java very much

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Shut down for almost two weeks because of the coronavirus positive results among the crew, Reagan is back in front of the cameras, and with the 40st POTUS’ first wife cast.The Dennis Quaid-led and Sean McNamara flick resumed production on November 5 in Oklahoma after getting the green light from medical officials.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Don Cheadle’s Radicle Act banner and HBO Max are taking it to the Max, literally and figuratively.The AT&T-owned streamer has inked a development deal with the Emmy nominee’s production company for the dark comedy created by Camilla Blackett, I’ve learned.With the Fresh Off Boat, Skins and Newsroom scribe Blackett on-board as showrunner Max focuses on a black millennial woman who is trying to juggle her intense professional life and

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAfter several weeks of partially losing the political plot, Saturday Night Live came out blazing tonight as Donald Trump’s reign of error begins to end, at least officially.In a throwback to the first SNL after the election of 2016, the skit saw Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump give a concession serenade, kind of.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAmerica broke another record for new coronavirus cases yesterday and one of the new infections is the White House Chief of Staff. Mark Meadows has tested positive for COVID-19, a source close to the administration confirmed to Deadline.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticWhile the race to become the next District Attorney of Los Angeles County has not been officially called, George Gascón increasingly looks likely to defeat incumbent Jackie Lacey’s bid for a third term.With thousands of ballots to come in throughout the region, Gascón is ahead of Lacey by 229,022 votes.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticDonald Trump and Joe Biden are going to have to watch what they say and their time saying it at the final Presidential debate later this week.To stop the dumpster fire lit by the constantly interrupting ex-Celebrity Apprentice host at the first meet-up between the candidates back on September 29, the Commission on Presidential Debates revealed today that they are going to turn off one contender’s microphone while the other speaks on Thursday in

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom said today that new guidelines on theme parks and team sports events are coming tomorrow“We are going to break up the theme parks,” the Governor announced in his COVID19 and wildfires update just now.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticDanny Masterson will face charges of rape, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge ruled this morning.In a masked and socially distanced hearing in DTLA, Judge Eleanor Hunter rejected the defense stance that the case against the former That 70s Show star should be tossed out under the statute of limitations.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight’s Lovecraft Country Season 1 finale“As an artist, I make art to start conversations, and one always hopes their art is a reflection of the times,” says Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green in a definite understatement of the discourse and timeliness of the HBO series that wrapped up its first season tonightBased on Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel of the same name, the Green, Jordan Peele and J.J.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAfter months of slipping out of having to actually sit down for the $50 million defamation lawsuit that he launched against Amber Heard, Johnny Depp may have run out of moves.“Plaintiff John C. Depp, II shall …appear for three successive days in counsel for Defendant’s offices in Virginia …or at such other place in Northern Virginia designated by counsel for Defendant, from November 10-12, 2020, beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAfter all the concerns about threats to democracy in the pursuit of ratings, Thursday’s dueling town halls between Donald Trump on NBC and Joe Biden on ABC ended up being a very good night for Savannah Guthrie, a very very good night for the Atlanta Braves and an excellent night for the former Vice-President.Sitting down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos and voters at Philadelphia’s Constitution Hall on what should have been the night of the

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticNBC are taking a lot of heat today for scheduling a primetime town hall with Donald Trump tonight opposite Joe Biden on ABC, including from the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host himself.“So you know I’m being set up tonight,” Trump just told a reelection campaign rally in North Carolina.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“See the whole board,” a chess-instructing Martin Sheen’s President Josiah Bartlet tells Rob Lowe’s Sam Seaborn in HBO Max’s A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote.Originally uttered in 2002’s “Hartsfield’s Landing” episode of the multiple Emmy winning political drama, the Aaron Sorkin penned words hang heavy in the digital air during these final weeks before this year’s election.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticWith just over three weeks to go before Election Day and polling near zero, increasingly desperate contender Kanye West has put out his first campaign ad today with prayers of convincing voters to write him in on their ballots – more than once.“America,” the notoriously baffling and seemingly baffled rapper and fashion designer declares at the top of the spot.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticIt’s not quite business as usual in these unusual times, but everything is pretty much on schedule at CBS Studio Center in Studio City on Monday despite an ongoing protest over the armed clash between Armenia and Azerbaijan.Angered by a KCAL-TV report on a pro-Armenian “March for Peace” rally held Sunday in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills, about 100 protestors blocked traffic at ViacomCBS’ San Fernando Valley facility this morning.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: ABC is planting some heartland drama with Empire co-creator Danny Strong and Hung co-creator Colette Burson.The Disney-owned network has put The Growing Season is development from the duo, I’ve learned.The show is based on Sara Frey’s recently published The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life–and Saved an American Farm.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe mystery of the fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head at the vice-presidential debate with Senator Kamala Harris was revealed tonight on Saturday Night Live – and it was  a high-tech bedeviled Joe Biden.Maya Rudolph told the New Yorker Festival earlier this week that while she was anxious about how to translate the first and only VP debate of the 2020 campaign into a SNL opener tonight, the material “kind of wrote itself” once the languid fly

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticChris Wallace wasn’t able to do it in the first and maybe only Presidential debate, but Twitter is now trying to reign Donald Trump in for election night and perhaps beyond.“We do not allow anyone to use Twitter to manipulate or interfere in elections or other civic processes, and recently expanded our civic integrity policy to address how we’ll handle misleading information surrounding these events,” the social media platform announced on its blog

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticSagging in the polls, COVID-19 infected Donald Trump has been rage tweeting all day, but his doctor claims the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host is ready to return to the campaign trail this weekend.On Thursday evening, the White House dropped a “Health Update” from Trump’s physician that “based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the President’s safe return to public engagements” on Saturday – as

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticFrom the day it was announced, we all knew that a vice-presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence was going to be something different, and not just because of the plexiglass and other coronavirus safety measures.Having said that, anemically moderated by USA Today’s Susan Page, the 9-10 PM ET sit-down between the first woman of color on a national ticket and the incumbent VP was a rather traditional event in this decidedly untraditional

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticIn an election full of ludicrous theatrics, Mike Pence may have hit a new high and low simultaneously in the latest Republican swipe at Kamala HarrisJust hours before the former Governor of Indiana faces Senator Harris in the first and only Vice-Presidential debate of the campaign, the GOP incumbent’s team has revealed they have put aside a ticket for Tupac Shakur.Yep, you read that right.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA Lone Star state grand jury has indicted Netflix over the controversial Cuties film.According to the September 23 indictment out of Tyler County, Texas, the Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos-run streamer “knowingly promote visual material which depicts the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age at the time the visual material was created, which appeals to the prurient

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe first and only Vice-Presidential debate between Senator Kamala Harris and Mike Pence is still happening on October 7 at the University of Utah, but the candidates literally won’t be within spitting distance of each other because of the coronavirusAs COVID-19 infected Donald Trump prepares to leave Walter Reed Medical Center today, teams for the California Senator and the former Indiana Governor have agreed to put plexiglass between the would-be

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticTurns out the Hollywood Foreign Press Association don’t think being member of the organization is really that helpful in Tinseltown.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight’s The Walking Dead  Season 10 semi-finale.“It was just such an epic finale, but it was an epic year,” says The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus of tonight’s long delayed “A Certain Doom” Season 10 finale.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAfter a day of confusion and coronavirus chaos from the White House, Donald Trump has just released a video that is clearly aimed to calm political nerves over his health condition.“I came here, wasn’t feeling so well,” the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host said in footage from Walter Reed Medical Center posted on his Twitter feed.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe coronavirus infected Donald Trump is doing “very well” under a new treatment at Walter Reed Medcal Center but his reelection campaign manager now has tested positive for the disease.Just minutes after the former Celebrity Apprentice host’s White House physician Sean Conley issued another update on his boss’ condition, Bill Stepien has become the latest but surely not the last aide to now have COVID-19.Deputy Campaign Manager Justin Clark has

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAs a COVID-19 infected Donald Trump arrives at a military hospital today, Barack Obama offered “best wishes” to his successor and First Lady Melania Trump in their battle against the harsh virus.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA coronavirus infected Donald Trump may be employing the ultimate Rose Garden strategy, but challenger Joe Biden is out on the campaign trail today after testing negative for the disease.Having left his home in Delaware about an hour ago, the former Vice-President is currently in the air on his way to Michigan for an event at a Grand Rapids’ union hall.