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Spoiler Alert: This post contains details of the Vanderpump Rules Season 11 finale, Episode 15 titled “Plot Twist.”

Marvel Studios Co-President Louis D’Esposito and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige are addressing the rough patch the studio has been through over the last few years.

The Lopez family will have more time to deal with their issues and engagements after Lopez vs. Lopez was renewed for a third season at NBC.

As Stormy Daniels took the stand in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial today, the judge in the case complained to the former president’s lawyer that he could hear his client “cursing audibly” about what was being said.

Reba McEntire is back on network television.

Mike O’Malley’s Extended Family is no longer.

For Jenny Slate, there’s much to love about working as a stand-up comic today.

Archival producers spend their days immersed in history – cultural, political, or personal, depending on the project. Yet, historically, their specialized work has often been overlooked, even though it’s key to the Ken Burns canon and other great documentaries like Man on Wire, 13th, The Fog of War, Apollo 11, How to Survive a Plague, They Shall Not Grow Old, and so many others.

EXCLUSIVE: Phil LaMarr (Kung Fu Panda 4, Futurama), Tara Strong (Loki, Guardians of the Galaxy), and Vico Ortiz (Transparent, Our Flag Means Death) have joined the new animation series Atlantis Rocks, created by actor, producer, and star Coty Galloway, who voiced Avocato, on Warner Bros. animation series, Final Space. The cast is rounded out by Olan Rogers (Creator of Final Space), Dan Brumm (Bluey), Sophia Thomas, Valory Pierce, Bailey Galloway, and Da’Jonte Phillips.

EXCLUSIVE: After a long journey across broadcast, cable and streaming, defying the odds multiple times, Nasim Pedrad’s praised coming-of-age comedy series Chad is coming to an end. A spokesperson for the Roku Chanel, which released Chad’s second season, confirmed to Deadline that the streamer will not be proceeding with future seasons.

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning producer Michael Bostick is joining Jon M. Chu’s multi-media production company, Electric Somewhere as their new Head of Film.

Donald Trump‘s trial on charges that he obstructed justice and withheld classified documents has been delayed indefinitely, a federal judge wrote in an order today.

Ricky Strauss is leaving Apple TV+ after a 16-month stint as Head of Marketing.

The North Road Company has hired Netflix and HBO vet Rochelle Gerson as head of business affairs.

10 countries have triumphed in the first semi-final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, when 16 countries competed to get through to Saturday’s Grand Final.

EXCLUSIVE: A little over a month after Season 3 of Resident Alien wrapped its run on Syfy, the future of the quirky sci-fi comedy-drama is up in the air, I hear. And there is some intrigue over where the series starring Alan Tudyk would continue should it get a fourth season.

Kim Kardashian getting booed during The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady has been edited out by Netflix.

Round 1 of the NHL‘s Stanley Cup Playoffs is in the books, and the ratings are anything but icy. The games averaged 934,000 viewers in the U.S. across multiple networks, making it the second-most-watched first round ever, the league said today.

Baby Reindeer has become a sleeper hit for Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Fire original cast member Eamonn Walker is stepping away from his series regular duties on the hit NBC series after 12 seasons portraying boss Wallace Boden, Deadline has learned.

The great Broadway Crunch of Spring 2024, when 18 new productions opened between mid-March and late April – 19 if you count the commercial transfer of Appropriate – seems to be showing early signs of the inevitable shake-out, with one show (Lempicka) closing soon and a few others already playing to houses with attendance at 80% of capacity or less.

Ahead of its season one finale, NBC is banking on another season of Deal or No Deal Island.

EXCLUSIVE: Pascal Caucheteux’s Why Not Productions is joining Alexander Rodnyansky’s AR Content to produce Beanpole helmer Kantemir Balagov’s first English-language film Butterfly Jam. Goodfellas is set to launch sales on the project in Cannes next week. 

EXCLUSIVE: Production studio Vanishing Angle has announced the production of the ensemble drama Under The Lights, directed by Miles Levin in his directorial debut. Based on an award-winning script by Levin, the film is produced by Vanishing Angle’s Natalie Metzger, and is executive produced by Levin, Matt Miller and Carlos Quesada. UTA is handling world sales. 

Today on Howard Stern, comedian Nikki Glaser revealed the jokes she held back on during Netflix‘s The Greatest Roast of All Time last weekend.

EXCUSIVE: Passing along this confidential information: CNN and BBC Studios have reteamed on a new docuseries that details the inner workings of Cold War operatives in the 1980s. The news network will air Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game at 10 p.m. Sunday, June 2. Watch the trailer above.

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s some buzzy casting. Greta Lee (Past Lives) and Kingsley Ben-Adir (Bob Marley: One Love) are in negotiations to star in director and producer Louis Leterrier’s (Now You See Me) upcoming sci-fi horror film 11817.

It was supposed to be a uniformly joyous occasion. The 22-year-old college hoops phenom and overall No. 1 pick in the WNBA draft, Caitlin Clark, was being introduced to the media and fans of the Indiana Fever, which had drafted her. Then came a back and forth with longtime Indianapolis Star columnist Gregg Doyel. 

In a surprising moment during a regularly scheduled press briefing about public safety statistics, the Columbia University protests, migrant centers, the proliferation of illegal weed shops and Mayor Eric Adams‘ upcoming trip to meet the Pope in Rome, a curveball question pressed Adams on the possible, if unlikely, jailing of former President Donald Trump.

New York’s Public Theater announced its upcoming season at their Astor Place home as well as Central Park’s to-be-reopened Delacorte Theater where the Public will stage Twelfth Night, directed by Saheem Ali, in summer 2025.

EXCLUSIVE: After landing the villain role in Ryan Coogler‘s next project, Jack O’Connell continues to full out his future dance card. Sources tell Deadline that he is set to join the cast of 28 Years Later, a sequel to the original 28 Days Later. Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Ralph Fiennes are also on board the pic, part of a planned trilogy.

CSI: Miami is getting the docuseries treatment.

Oscar winner Peter Farrelly will direct and former Warner Bros Motion Picture Boss Toby Emmerich will produce I Play Rocky, a film about how Sylvester Stallone bet on himself to play the star-making title role in Rocky. CAA Media Finance and FilmNation are selling at Cannes.

EXCLUSIVE: Will Carsola (Mr. Pickles, and Momma Named Me Sheriff) of Liquid Death announced a new animated venture, The Adventures of Murder Man. Carsola will direct, and pen the script along with Mike Cessario. Stew Herrera, Miatta Lebile, Jill Jilbertson, Dave Stewart, and Carsola, will be lending their voices to the project.

EXCLUSIVE: Teri Hatcher (Desperate Housewives) is set to star in the new Lifetime movie The Killer Inside: The Ruth Finley Story alongside Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica) premiering on Saturday, June 29.

Paramount’s Tony & Ziva NCIS spinoff is untitled no more. The two stars of the Europe-set series, Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo, got on Zoom to unveil the moniker of the offshoot Tuesday.