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EXCLUSIVE: LA’s 3Point0 Labs has continued its signing spree by adding Saudi-American producer DH’BAB Productions to its ranks.

The strikes are behind us, Emmy season is upon us, and it’s time to hear from the creatives and talent behind some of the TV season’s most talked-about nonfiction programs. Deadline’s daylong Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted virtual event will offer just that this weekend, giving awards-watchers a chance to kick back at home and take in the tales.

Paramount+ has renewed the animated preschool series Dora for a second season.

Outlander: Blood of My Blood has added 6 new actors to its cast including Sally Messham (A Small Light, The Hunt For Raoul Moat) as “Mrs. Fitz,” Ellen’s maid at Castle Leoch and Murtagh’s aunt. Terence Rae (The Cyclops, Black Dog) will be playing “Arch Bug,” who’s working as a bodyguard to Clan Grant; Sadhbh Malin (Conversations with Friends, Love Rosie) will be playing “Jocasta Cameron,” the feisty youngest child of the MacKenzie clan; and Ailsa Davidson (Heathers, Halo) will be playing her sister “Janet MacKenzie,” the fifth and final MacKenzie sibling.

LuckyChap, the producing team Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Josey McNamara behind Barbie and Saltburn will team with multiple-Tony-winning Broadway producing veterans Sue Wagner and John Johnson (Stereophonic, Lempicka) to present a world premiere stage musical next fall from Marla Mindelle, the co-author and original star of the Off Broadway hit musical-comedy Titaníque.

EXCLUSIVE: Charades and New Europe Films are joining forces to co-sell Oscar-winning Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes’ long-awaited new feature Orphan, as the production gears up to commence shooting in and around Budapest this June.

EXCLUSIVE: Nina Lederman, Sony Pictures Television’s (SPT) global scripted boss, is exiting amid the slowdown.

The BBC has unveiled a landmark natural history series on insects as its head of unscripted brands the notion that the streamers are taking over “utter bollocks.”

EXCLUSIVE: Rotterdam competition title Small Hours of the Night from Daniel Hui (Demons, Snakeskin) and SXSW premiere Adrianne & The Castle by Shannon Walsh (The Gig is Up, Illusions of Control) have landed international reputation via non-fiction agency Indox. 

EXCLUSIVE: Sunrise Films and Vertigo Releasing have acquired North American and UK distribution rights on the Danish horror-thriller The Girl in the Trunk. The film will be released on digital download across both territories on May 28. 

“Most British producers will find themselves very welcome in America.”

News networks descended on Central London this morning to cover an astonishing scene as six horses ran wild through the streets, some covered in blood.

The Roundup: Punishment, the fourth film in the blockbuster Korean franchise, has set a new all-time opening day presales record in its home market. Releasing there today, the crime actioner that stars and is executive produced by Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee), had amassed over 834,000 ticket reservations as of Wednesday morning local time, accounting for 95.5% of all sales, according to local reports. 

Jane Campion will be heading to Switzerland this summer to receive an honorary award at the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, running from August 7 to 17.

The director of Mr Bates vs the Post Office has urged the creation of a “mechanism” for British broadcasters to continue to tell campaigning stories as he communicates a desire for his smash ITV drama not to become a “unicorn.”

EXCLUSIVE: German-based TV event Seriencamp will return to Cologne in June and has a raft of key industry players signed up for its upcoming tenth edition.

Any British broadcaster who breaches general election programing rules will be hit with an Ofcom sanction, the regulator has said, a warning likely informed by a number of GB News breaches over the past year.

Australian police has called on the public to help in a manhunt for Home and Away star Orpheus Pledger.

Famke Janssen is not sure what Marvel has planned for the X-Men saga but doesn’t shut the door on the idea of reprising her role of Jean Grey / Phoenix.

Brooke Shields is running for president of the Actors’ Equity Association after Kate Shindle announced she would step down after a nine-year tenure.

Bethenny Frankel is putting her podcast Just B Divorced on pause as she grieves the death of her mother.

Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo and Judy Greer reunited to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 13 Going on 30.

Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe starred in The Nice Guys in 2016, but the movie didn’t get a sequel despite its positive reviews.

SPOILER ALERT: This article details The Valley Season 1, Episode 6, “Congrats on Your Hair Loss.”

EXCLUSIVE: So long, Scott Forrester: Luke Kleintank, one of the original cast members of FBI: International, is leaving the CBS series.

Lisa Vanderpump is defending Andy Cohen after a series of allegations made against him by former Bravo stars.

Zendaya wonders why her kissing scenes get a lot of attention when she’s just doing her job.

Megan Thee Stallion’s former personal cameraman is taking the Mean Girls actress and Roc Nation to court for creating an “intolerable” and “hostile abusive work environment.”

DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot will now go on Sept. 27 instead of Sept. 20.

Jo Ann Ross, whose lengthy run as the head of ad sales at CBS represented a breakthrough for a woman in the traditionally male-dominated field, is formally winding down her tenure at Paramount Global.

One part of the Megalopolis distribution puzzle could be close to falling into place in France.

The news last weekthat Participant Media would be shutting down shocked the entertainment industry, but it hit the documentary community with particular force. 

EXCLUSIVE: Former A3 agent Lucas Goldsmith has joined Amplified, the management/production company launched recently by Industry Entertainment’s Adam Levine, Brandy Rivers and Michael Hepburn.

EXCLUSIVE: With his series Baby Reindeer becoming a massive hit for Netflix, Richard Gadd has signed with UTA for representation.

Thandiwe Newton is the latest to join the Season 2 cast of Wednesday, sources confirm to Deadline.

Lisa Rinna says she’s open to returning to Melrose Place after news hit that a revival was in the works.