‘Yellowjackets’ Creators, Melanie Lynskey, Tawney Cypress Celebrate “F*cked Up Women” – Contenders TV

Christina Ricci addressed some of the most out-there fan theories for what will happen in Season 2 of her addictive Showtime series, “Yellowjackets” on Thursday’s episode of “The Tonight Show.”Despite the fact that the stranded women’s soccer team eventually turns to cannibalism to survive — a plot point still left hazy by the Season 1 finale —  Ricci debunked the popular supposition that they end up eating Shauna’s baby. While Shauna, played by Sophie Nélisse as a teen and Melanie Lynskey as an adult, does have a teenager in the contemporary storyline, her 1996 pregnancy does not match her daughter’s age, leading to rampant speculation to what happened to the baby, who would have been born before the rescue.Ricci said she’d heard of that theory and wondered if it was true, since the survivors are so traumatized by what happened in the wilderness years before.

NEW YORK -- From joking on the “Ozark” set with Jason Bateman, to getting show notes from Stephen Sondheim, Katrina Lenk’s career has hit a sweet spot.The actor is in the enviable position of starring in the popular Netflix show and the hit Broadway musical “Company” simultaneously. Lenk plays Clare Shaw, the head of a family-owned pharmaceutical company with some shady dealings on “Ozark,” which begins airing the last seven episodes of the series April 29.Lenk said shooting the final season of “Ozark” took an entire year due to pandemic delays, but she was grateful to have a job when Broadway shut down.

Can anyone beat Zendaya? That is the question for the Emmys as the “Euphoria” star looks to land her second Lead Actress in a Drama Series statue over the past three ceremonies. At this point, she’ll face some competition from four-time winner and seven-time nominee Laura Linney of “Ozark,” but the rest of the field is unclear.

Something old, something new, and a lot of competition. The 2022 Lead Actor in a Drama Series category is going to give the Emmys headaches and should prompt those in charge to consider expanding the category from six to 10 nominees.

The final episodes of Netflix’s hit series Ozark are coming soon and the cast stepped out for a big premiere this week!

A second season of the psychological mystery drama Undone is coming to Amazon Prime Video.

Josh Brolin says that Chris Pratt was the right man for the job of dinosaur wrangler in “Jurassic World”.

Clayton Davis One of the biggest stars and standouts of Showtime’s “Yellowjackets,” Christina Ricci, will be submitted in the supporting actress drama category, Variety has learned exclusively. She’ll now compete alongside her young co-stars — Ella Purnell, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher and Samantha Hanratty.

Darren Criss, who just welcomed his first child into the world three days ago, is celebrating the opening of his Broadway play American Buffalo!

A deadly secret. Jessica Biel plays a housewife with a killer instinct in Hulu’s upcoming miniseries Candy, based on a shocking true crime story from the 1980s.

Jessica Biel gets herself into deep trouble as Candy Montgomery — who may or may not be involved in the death of her best friend — in the trailer for Hulu’s new true crime series “Candy.”The show follows Biel’s Candy, a 1980s housewife and mother, who is seeking freedom from conformity in her life, taking up an affair with her friend’s husband.But, when Lynskey’s character ends up dead, suspicion falls on Candy.“Candy” stars Biel, Lynskey, Timothy Simons, Pablo Schreiber and Raúl Esparza.It will launch on Hulu Monday May 9, and air across five nights. The finale airs May 13.Three-time Emmy nominee Robin Veith (“Mad Men,” “The Act”) wrote the pilot script.

The Alliance for Women in Media Foundation today announced the winners of the 47th Annual Gracie Awards, honoring exemplary programming created by, for and about women in radio, television, cable and interactive media.

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television, which launched the TV awards season this weekend with 48 series and almost 150 panelists converging at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles to discuss their buzzworthy shows in front of a full house of industry voters.

Uber writer-producer Taylor Sheridan is excellent at keeping secrets, namely how Casey Dutton’s vision quest at the end of Season 4 of Yellowstone changes the character as he moves forward. But star Luke Grimes wouldn’t have it any other way.

Steve Martin and Martin Short took turns ribbing each other at their Contenders TV panel for Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building. However, when they got serious about the mystery-comedy, the stars insisted they rarely ad lib.

Danny Strong still remembers the anger he felt while researching the opioid crisis that would lead to the creation of Dopesick. Before writing the Hulu limited series that would Michael Keaton and Kaitlyn Dever, Strong was shocked to learn how the Sackler family, the founders and owners of Purdue Pharma, caused “so much destruction to so many people and got away with it.”

EXCLUSIVE: If you’re a rabid fan of Mayans M.C., you may have recognized an ear — yes, an ear — of a popular actor in one of the drama’s teasers for the new season. At the Contenders Television panel for the FX series, executive producer Elgin James confirmed the ear belongs to Manny Montana, who will join the cast after playing Rio on NBC’s .

Ghosts could make easy jokes about sounds that go bump in the night but then that wouldn’t make it the breakout comedy that CBS needs it to be. So says the cast of the hit freshman comedy, which took center stage at Deadline’s Contenders TV event at Paramount Studios.