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Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Lovecraft County episode ‘A History of Violence’ on HBO. Tread carefully.EXCLUSIVE: “There was an operative sentence that came to me at the beginning, and it had to do with Jurnee Smollett calling me on a Saturday early early early in the morning,” explains director Victoria Mahoney of how she came to direct tonight’s ‘A History of Violence’ episode of Lovecraft Country.“She said a sentence

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s Power Book II: Ghost series premiere on Starz.“The man who killed James St. Patrick is (long pause) Tommy Egan,” declares Naturi Naughton’s Tasha St.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticWhat a difference a pandemic can make.Almost nine months after coming up short in its long battle with now Disney-owned Fox over snatching two executives back in 2016, Netflix is locked and loaded to start the whole thing up again with an appeal kicked off tonight.“This case is about Fox’s abusive behavior in its quest to curtail its employees’ freedom to seek new and better opportunities,” says the streamer an opening brief submitted late Wednesday

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA new proposal to settle sex crimes claims against Harvey Weinstein should be DOA, says lawyers representing several of the now incarcerated producer’s victims.“Filed in the middle of the night to avoid attention, the latest Weinstein settlement plan is more offensive than the version that was rejected by Judge Hellerstein,” declared Douglas Wigdor and Kevin Mintzer this morning (READ IT HERE).

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: The executive bench at Anthony Hemingway’s production company just got significantly deeper.Whitney Davis and Sean Hoagland have joined Anthony Hemingway Productions as VP, Development & Production and SVP, Television respectively. The duo of CBS alums will take the big perspective on creative development, production, and diversity and inclusion efforts at the Genius: Aretha director’s two-year old shingle.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic(We will continue to update this post) The death of Chadwick Boseman tonight has sent shockwaves through Hollywood at the loss of a man who was as full of grace as he was talent.The Black Panther star passed away Friday from colon cancer at the age of 43 years old. Boseman had been battling the disease since 2016, the year he first appeared as T’Challa in the Russo Brothers’ directed Captain America: Civil War.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“President Trump recognized that one of the small ways to instill a sense of normalcy in people’s lives was to bring back entertainment options,” Dana White bellowed tonight of the Republican National Convention.“The President went above and beyond to help all sports leagues involved figure out a way to overcome the challenges of staging live professional sporting events in the middle of a pandemic,” the UFC boss added not long before the

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticLess than four months after leaping over from the Walt Disney Company, Kevin Mayer has resigned as the CEO of TikTok.“In recent weeks, as the political environment has sharply changed, I have done significant reflection on what the corporate structural changes will require, and what it means for the global role I signed up for,” Mayer wrote today to staff at the ByteDance controlled short video-sharing app.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticRoman Polanski won’t be voting on the winners for the 93rd Academy Awards, a California judge decided Tuesday.At a downtown hearing this morning, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Strobel concluded that the disgraced Oscar winner had been given more than enough of a heads up by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018 before the organization tossed out the longtime member.As long hidden or accepted cases of sexual harassment and

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA former TMZ production assistant and on-air contributor has filed a discrimination and retaliation complaint with the federal government today against Harvey Levin and Warner Bros Entertainment that could lead to a lawsuit down the line.“Ms.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticDonald Trump began the first day of the 2020 Republican Convention ranting against CNN, MSNBC and even his beloved Fox News.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticBREAKING… Lori Loughlin’s husband Mossimo Giannulli will be going to prison for five months later this year for his role in the nationwide college bribery scheme.“I deeply regret the harm my actions caused my daughters, my wife,” the fashion designer said this morning in half hour hearing over his efforts to get his children in top tier schools by spurious means.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“Hey everybody, it’s me, Kamala.”The history making Vice-Presidential nominee for the Democrats broke from tradition tonight with a pre-speech appearance at the party’s virtual convention.Less than two hours before Kamala Harris is set to give her acceptance speech as the first woman of color on a major American political party ticket, the California Senator injected some live drama into the proceedings with her cold open and a call to vote.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Judge Judy is still on the air, but today the long-running successful syndicated series launched a new spinoff – in court.Just over two weeks after Rebel Entertainment Partners filed a $5 million breach of contract complaint against former Manhattan family court judge Judy Sheindlin and a collection of CBS entities, the small screen judicial heavyweight has instigated a big bucks counteroffensive.That salvo is a more than $22 million

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: Ricky Kirshner had been working on Democratic National Conventions since the first time Bill Clinton was nominated, but the realities of the coronavirus pandemic this year saw the Emmy winning producer to literally move the show across the nation at very short notice.“We built a show that was anchored in Milwaukee, with a center in Milwaukee, where we would kind of roll out on to a much bigger set,” Kirshner says from the control room in

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticIf federal prosecutors get their way, Lori Loughlin is less than a week away from two months in federal prison for the Fuller House star fraudulently paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to get her daughters admitted into a top-tier school.“The government respectfully requests that the Court impose the agreed-upon dispositions: a term of imprisonment of five months, a $250,000 fine, and 250 hours of community service for Giannulli; and a term of

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticMovie theaters are still shuttered for the most part in what is usually blockbuster season, but some potentially big flicks just got some big bucks to shoot in California, eventually.Netflix’s Russo Brothers-directed The Gray Man, the Jessica Chastain starrer Losing Clementine and an untitled Jordan Peele project set at Universal were among the nine films allocated $50,053,000 collectively in the last round of Golden State tax credits.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticWith more Emmy nominations that any other show this year, HBO’s Watchmen has become the one to watch, literally and figuratively.“A lot of people did not watch Watchmen when it actually aired so they are watching it now while they are quarantining or while they are isolating,” Regina King said during Deadline’s Contenders Television: The Nominees all-day event, regarding the nine-episode run of the now almost prophetic Damon Lindelof-created

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticA potent tale of generational trauma, loss, immigration, hope and reconciliation, HBO’s I Know This Much Is True is a dual-role tour de force from Mark Ruffalo.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“It really has been the unexpected gift that really gave back to us in many ways,” Schitt’s Creek co-creator and star Daniel Levy said of the acclaimed comedy’s six-season run.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic#blackAF creator Kenya Barris is making the move from fictionalized documentary to a real documentary on high-profile attorney Ben Crump.In the works for the past several pivotal months, the as-yet untitled film on the lawyer is set to stream on Netflix next year.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe long road to getting Harvey Weinstein out West to face rape charges hit a new roadblock today.Mired in technical difficulties and coronavirus restrictions today, the initial gathering before Erie County Court Judge Kenneth Case has now been moved to December 11 at 9:30 AM ET, according to the local D.A.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s doubleheader Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series finale.“Cool.”That’s the last word spoken tonight in the very last episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticBryan Lourd stepped out today from behind the CAA curtain to express both hope for a post -COVID-19 return of movies and the theater going experience and an agreement with the WGA over the contentious practice of packaging – if the Guild will pick up the phone.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticDue in part to public health circumstances beyond everyone’s control, the WGA isn’t going to trial against WME and CAA over packaging fees next spring after all.“The parties’ threshold discovery disputes and the COVID-19 pandemic have created significant litigation delays, which have caused unforeseeable delays in the discovery process,” lawyers for the guild and the uber-agencies told a federal judge Tuesday.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticThe coronavirus pandemic may have delayed a new season of The Walking Dead but the $300 million legal deathmatch over the zombie apocalypse series shows no signs of giving up the ghost.Finally heading towards a jury trial in April 2021, CAA and ex-TWD showrunner Frank Darabont’s long simmering profits participation lawsuit against AMC flared up again late yesterday as both sides submitted a flurry of new filings to the New York Supreme Court.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticOver two years after ABC shelved a highly political episode of Black-ish over creative differences,” series creator Kenya Barris says the originally February 22, 2018 scheduled ‘Please Baby Please’ is finally going to see the light of day – on Hulu.“On November 2017, we made an episode of black-ish entitled ‘Please, Baby, Please,’ ” the EP explained today in a post on social media of the once censored show.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticCAA’s Bryan Lourd will take over as the keynote speaker for the 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium Wednesday, replacing Bob Greenblatt, the former Chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment.In a virtual sit-down interview with powerhouse attorney Ken Ziffren, the uberagency Managing Partner and Co-Chairman will now be the yearly media conference’s marquee attraction in a session that goes online on August 12, at 5 p.m. PT.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co and Nia Long are teaming up with Sony Pictures TV to bring the saga of on power, race  and political intrigue of Goldie Taylor’s 2018 best seller Paper Gods to ABC.Fatal Affair and Dear White People’s Long will star and executive produce the project in development with Get Lifted co-founder Mike Jackson and showrunner Tash Gray.Paper Gods spotlights the struggles and battles professionally and personally

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticComing off windfall global licensing sales of Mad Men last month, Lionsgate is now digging a little deeper into its library to bring Weeds to market later this year.“We’re readying our next big property Weeds for syndication in the fall,” Jon Feltheimer said Thursday after the company’s latest earnings report was released. Seeding the sales ground again, the CEO’s statement picks up on his own remarks last November.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticJudge Judy is heading back to court, but not in the way the fans of the soon to end syndicated series probably assume and it looks to partially be Les Moonves’ faultLess than six months after former Manhattan family court judge Judy Sheindlin and Rebel Entertainment Partners settled their long running legal battle over big bucks in missed contractually obliged payments from the two decade and more running show, the latter is now suing the former and

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticOver six months before the 78th annual Golden Globes are set to air on NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association today finds themselves awkwardly exposed in the legal spotlight.“The HFPA is so focused on protecting its monopoly position and tax-free benefits that it has adopted Bylaw provisions that exclude from membership all objectively qualified applicants who might possibly compete with an existing members,” declares a revealing antitrust

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticDelayed by the coronavirus pandemic, the Cynthia Ervio starring Genius: Aretha doesn’t yet know when it will resume production nor who will be playing one of the music business’ most powerful executives in the legendary singer’s life.“We have not set an actual date yet,” said director and EP Anthony Hemingway today of when the cameras could be turned on again.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticHBO’s In Treatment is officially back in session and, along with TBS’ Daniel Radcliffe fronted Miracle Workers, coming to California thanks to some generous tax credits from the state.Though there are no definite details on if Gabriel Byrne will be returning as psychotherapist Paul Weston in the premium cabler drama that first ran from 2008 to 2010.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticDespite having the Oscar winning Reversal of Fortune made from his book of the same name, it seems Alan Dershowitz this week had the difference between fact and fiction painstaking explained to him by one of ViacomCBS’s top lawyers over Jeffrey Epstein.“If we understand your letter correctly, you are complaining about a line spoken by a fictional character, in an episode of the fictional series The Good Fight,” wrote the company’s Jonathan Anschell

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of Beyoncé’s Black Is King film. Mere hours after the near presidential funeral for Rep.