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Deadline on Monday launched its streaming site for Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted, showing off the full panels of all 20 shows that participated in Saturday’s all-day showcase of the year’s best in nonfiction, unscripted and late-night programming as Emmy season ramps up. Click here…

A few years ago, filmmakers Emma Schwartz and Mary Robertson remember taking note of video compilations from old Dan Schneider series that showed children and young teens “enacting scenes that are arguably sexual in nature.” “One example you see Ariana Grande squeezing a potato, or Ariana Grande…

After winning the Emmy earlier this year for the final season of Trevor Noah's hosting stint, The Daily Show surprised just about everyone with the announcement that its multiple Emmy-winning previous star Jon Stewart would be returning to host Monday editions during this election year, while other…

Casting for Netflix's reality competition series Squid Game: The Challenge was a unique challenge: finding 456 diverse and international lead characters. Casting director Erika Dobrin described the gargantuan task by saying, "I don't think that's ever quite been done before on the scale it was done…

Can you tell who has a “good” voice and who has a “bad” voice just by looking someone in the face who is lip-syncing to a song? This is the question posed to participants weekly on the Fox game show I Can See Your Voice, hosted and created by Ken Jeong. “The whole show is predicated on, is this a…

Before Jojo Siwa decided to join Season 2 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test on Fox, the pop star considered herself a “very sheltered” celebrity whose small-screen career involved dancing, not jumping out of helicopters or rappelling down mountains. “I made a joke that I was wrapped in bubble…

National Geographic’s Queens isn’t your typical nature documentary series. From the first episode, it flips the script on what one might expect out, instead diving deep into the love, loss and resilience of the matriarchal societies in the animal kingdom. And it all started with that very first…

The second season of The Traitors saw the surprise return of one of its stars from Season 1 as well as a number of updates to its Scottish castle. Expect a few more twists and turns in Season 3 of the Peacock series. Speaking at Deadline's Contenders TV: Documentary + Unscripted event, host…

It's been over 40 years since the pioneering hip hop group Run-DMC formed in Hollis, Queens, but Darryl "DMC" McDaniels insists, "I remember everything like it was yesterday." He appeared at Deadline's Contenders Television: Documentary & Unscripted virtual event to discuss the Peacock docuseries King…

The success of the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building has exposed a new generation of viewers to the comedic brilliance and appeal of Steve Martin. But the actor-writer has been appearing onscreen since the late 1960s – and performing even before that, to smaller audiences, as a kid magician at the…

The Apple TV+ docuseries The Super Models hearkens to the 1990s when four extraordinary beauties ruled the covers of fashion magazines and popular culture: Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista. "It was a time when music and art and fashion were all coming together…

Ahead of preparing for his latest documentary The Dynasty: New England Patriots, director and executive producer Matthew Hamachek didn’t know much about the NFL team other then its ability to win Super Bowls. However, he quickly found a focus once the interview process revved up. “Whenever I have…