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EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has axed its splashy version of U.S. survival format Alone after one season.

Netflix has announced the start of principal photography on action thriller Ad Vitam led by French star Guillaume Canet.

Following a tough few months that has seen mass layoffs, Canadian national broadcaster CBC has welcomed a one-year investment of CA$42M ($30.4M) from the federal government.

EXCLUSIVE: Industry and Rye Lane star David Jonsson is writing his first television drama series.

EXCLUSIVE: The Arab Film Club, a popular monthly film club on Arab cinema based in London, is expanding. 

EXCLUSIVE: ITV Studios is leading the race to invest in Hartswood Films, the storied British scripted producer behind hits including Sherlock and The Devil’s Hour.

Zendaya not only stars in Luca Guadagnino‘s Challengers but is also a producer in the film written by Justin Kuritzkes.

The USC School of Cinematic Arts has announced that Miky Lee will deliver the 20024 Commencement address.

Mayim Bialik is giving her take on the docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

Eva Mendes praised Ryan Gosling‘s Cuban accent in the “Can’t Tonight” Saturday Night Live sketch.

The college basketball season may be over, but Caitlin Clark helped lead ESPN to one more audience record before going pro.

Seth MacFarlane is opening up about possibly ending Family Guy after 22 seasons.

EXCLUSIVE: Duplass Brothers Production recently wrapped production on the Katie Aselton-directed feature Magic Hour, starring Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting, Hamilton). Aselton (Old Dads, Legion) stars alongside Diggs in the project which she co-wrote with Mark Duplass.

Warner Bros/DC Studio’s Superman has cast Pruitt Taylor Vince as Jonathan Kent, the Earth citizen father of Krypton native Superman.

EXCLUSIVE: Terrence Terrell (Giants, Obliterated) has signed with Ascend Artists Representation.

A new film and TV studio funded via a portion of a £24M ($30M) government investment has become the latest to launch in the UK.

EXCLUSIVE: The action film stars Peter Jae (Darkness of Man), Josh Kelly (General Hospital), UFC fighter Ashlee Evans-Smith to star in James Cullen Bressack latest film The Workout.

The BBC‘s £700M ($870M) out-of-London masterplan has been criticized for having an “incomplete” evaluation process and lacking a “coherent approach.”

With spring break simmering to 8% K-12 on break, and 1% colleges off, it’s hodgepodge at the weekend box office until 20th Century Studios’ Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes arrives to a $50M+ opening during the second weekend of May.

Christina Applegate revealed that she turned down an offer to star on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.

Katie Couric called out her former Today co-anchor, Bryant Gumbel, over his alleged “sexist attitude” about her maternity leave from the NBC morning show.

Rebecca Minkoff is joining The Real Housewives of New York City Season 15, Deadline has learned.

After the runaway success of Netflix and Tim Burton‘s Addams Family stand-alone series Wednesday starring Jenna Ortega, the streamer renewed it for second season in January 2023. That decision came less than three months after the eight-episode Season 1 premiered, eventually becoming the most-watched original series ever on the streamer ever with more than 252 million views to date, far surpassing Stranger Things‘ Season 4, Dahmer and Season 1 of Bridgerton on the all-time list.

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EXCLUSIVE: M88 has signed actor Simu Liu (Shang-Chi) for representation.

EXCLUSIVE: Ariana Greenblatt is joining the ensemble of Lionsgate’s Now You See Me 3 joining the all-star ensemble of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher Dave Franco and Mark Ruffalo, who are all expected to return. Ruben Fleischer is on as director. Eric Warren Singer, Seth Graham Smith and Mike Lesslie penned the script.

FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel finds it shocking that U.S. law prevents foreign ownership of old media assets but has nothing to say about new media — including wildly popular TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese company. A bill passed by the House last month that would require parent ByteDance to divest TikTok or see the app banned appears to have stalled in the Senate. But if it ever “makes it to the President’s desk, he should absolutely sign it.”

Broadway‘s spring newcomers continued pulling in the city’s tastemakers, tourists and the merely curious last week, with overall box office down about 10% from the previous week but most new shows filling at least 90% of their seats.

We’ll be seeing a new face in Season 2 of Netflix‘s Wednesday. Steve Buscemi has joined the cast of the Jenna Ortega-led series in an undisclosed role, sources confirm to Deadline.

EXCLUSIVE: Margaret Qualley has pulled out of playing Amanda Knox in Hulu‘s upcoming limited series for scheduling reasons.

New York Mayor Eric Adams visited the scene outside the Manhattan criminal courthouse, where media outlets and reporters have stationed themselves as Donald Trump‘s hush money trial takes place inside.

Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) has been tapped for a role in the newest film from Wes Anderson, Deadline can confirm.

There soon might be a picket line on Sesame Street.

EXCLUSIVE: Chernin Entertainment has preemptively acquired an untitled erotic thriller pitch from Emily Siegel, Deadline can exclusively reveal.

3 Body Problem clocked another week atop Netflix‘s TV charts — though it appears to have been a slow week for the streamer’s series.

EXCLUSIVE: Lucy Freyer (Paint), Malik Elassal, Owen Thiele (Dollface), Amita Rao and Jack Innanen (The Dessert) have been cast as the leads of FX‘s ensemble comedy pilot Snowflakes, written by former The Tonight Show scribes Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw and to be directed by Jonathan Krisel (Baskets).