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A day after wrapping its two-day, 35-panel Contenders Television extravaganza to kick off the small-screen awards season, Deadline has launched the event’s streaming site featuring the full panel videos. Click here to launch the streaming site. This year’s Contenders, live from the DGA…

Star and executive producer David Oyelowo and Lawmen: Bass Reeves creator, showrunner and executive producer Chad Feehan said Reeves' family values were what made him stand out. Oyelowo plays Reeves, a U.S. Marshal after the abolition of slavery. "The way in for a global audience should be not just…

In Paramount+'s imported Australian romantic comedy series Colin from Accounts, the star-crossed lead couple Ashley and Gordon's meet-cute starts saucy but ends not-so-cute when, spotting him behind the wheel and liking what she sees, she impulsively flashes her nipple; distracted, he accidentally hits a…

Cixin Liu's 3 Body Problem trilogy was considered unadaptable, but D.B. Weiss, David Benioff and Alexander Woo did it for Netflix. Even though Season 1 is streaming, that doesn't mean they've solved Season 2. The trio joined Deadline’s Contenders TV event Sunday to discuss the adaptation, and Weiss…

The strike may have delayed and abbreviated the third season of Abbott Elementary but Quinta Brunson went into it feeling pretty confident that her comedy wasn’t going anywhere: she was told that ABC had picked up the series for a fourth season. While appearing at Deadline’s Contenders TV on Sunday…

Contenders Film: Los Angeles photo studio hosted talent at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles as cast members of Television stopped by including Josh Lucas and Kristen Wiig from Palm Royale; Jimmy Fallon;  Chris Perfetti, Quinta Brunson, William Stanford Davis and Tyler James Williams from Abbott Elementary…

As the star, co-creator, executive producer, writer and director of Showtime's dark comedy series The Curse, Nathan Fielder admitted he and his collaborator Benny Safdie were committed to infusing the show's satirical take on an unscripted HGTV home-flipping series with as much a sense of reality – or…

When Guy Ritchie’s crime comedy series The Gentlemen debuted on Netflix in March, it came in at #1 Global Top 10 for English-Language Series, garnering 1.2B minutes viewed in its first four days on the platform, according to Nielsen. That being said, will there be a Season 2? “It wasn’t genuinely…

What started off as a creative fantasy story unintentionally became hyperrealistic in Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij's hit limited series A Murder at the End of the World. The writing duo, who also served as co-creators, directors and EPs of the FX series, sat down at Deadline's Contenders TV event…

The mother of all reunions is not over yet: Chuck Lorre said at Deadline’s Contenders TV on Sunday that Charlie Sheen will return for a cameo (or two?) in season 2 of Max’s Bookie. The former star of Two and a Half Men showed up in season one as himself in the Sebastian Maniscalco comedy. The…

Taylor Zakhar Perez said he was thinking about Pride and Prejudice, 10 Things I Hate About You and more classic romances when filming his big romantic scene in Prime Video’s hit Red, White & Royal Blue. Perez plays Alex, the son of the President (Uma Thurman) who falls in love with British Prince Henry…

When actress-producer Nicole Kidman and filmmaker Lulu Wang set out to produce Expats, a miniseries adaptation of the novel The Expatriates, for Prime Video, they were committed to building both an acting ensemble and a writers room that would bolster the female-driven vision behind the…