The executive producers of the animated comedy Family Guy on Fox say they are phasing out jokes about gay people. Rich Appel and Alec Sulkin told Deadline’s sister publication TV Line that the long-running show is evolving, although still decidedly politically incorrect. The Seth MacFarlane series features the…

An equipment malfunction at a Cirque du Soleil performance last night in Washington state stopped the show and caused the rest of the program to be cancelled. The show in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, Washington ended when a hydraulic system hose broke. Audience members were showered with what the company claimed was…

“There’s actually a story arc for the house in Season 4 and it’s the same parallel arc for the characters: Everything is falling apart,” says Grace and Frankie production designer Devorah Herbert, who this year counts her second consecutive Primetime Emmy nomination in the half-hour narrative production design…

This week, watch Pete Hammond reviews of the basketball comedy Uncle Drew as well as Dominic Patten’s thoughts on the season 5 premiere of Power. There are also new episodes of the New Hollywood Podcast and the Crew Call Podcast for your ears as well as Deadline’s Contenders Emmys video series for your viewing…

From Patrick Melrose to Vida to She’s Gotta Have It, this week’s slate of videos and podcasts are filled with the talented women of Hollywood. In this week’s The Actor’s Side, Pete Hammond talks to Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Jason Leigh. Known for her roles in Last Exit to Brooklyn and the classic Fast Times at R…

From Arrested Development and Ozark star Jason Bateman to the cast and showrunner of Queen Sugar to our Contenders Emmys video series, there are tons of Deadline videos and podcasts to catch up on from the past two weeks. In addition to chatting with This Is Us star Mandy Moore, Pete Hammond talked to Jason Bateman…

From Homeland to The Americans to Legion, this week’s roundup of videos and podcasts feature some potential Emmy candidates as TV FYC season gains momentum. For The Actor’s Side, Pete Hammond sat down with stage and screen legend Mandy Patinkin to talk about Homeland and his successful career. Before the series finale…

This week’s roundup of Deadline’s video series and podcasts includes an array of guests that will give you something to watch and listen throughout Memorial Day weekend. Behind The Lens goes on location to the French Riviera and the Cannes Film Festival, where Pete Hammond sat down a few days ago with Oscar-winning…

Dear White People creator Justin Simien, GLOW actor Marc Maron, and Edi Gathegi & Otmara Marrero from Sony Crackle’s tech thriller StartUp were on this week’s slate of podcasts and videos at Deadline. As Marc Maron tells Pete Hammon in the latest edition of The Actor's Side, the GLOW actor talks about how he got the…

Anyone who has heard the scores of award-winning composer Dan Romer knows the emotion that flows through his music. Making a splash in 2012 with Ben Zeitlin’s socially conscious fairy tale Beasts of the Southern Wild—a little, lovingly made indie that went on to receive four Oscar nominations—Romer’s presence has been…

This week’s slate of videos and podcasts on Deadline include a queen, hip-hop legends, and Oz’s first Latina Dorothy. Watch the videos and listen to the podcasts in the roundup below. When the Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated Claire Foy sat down with Pete Hammond for the latest edition of my Deadline video…

Hala Bahmet, whose work on Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story earned her an Emmy nomination, takes Deadline behind the scenes of NBC’s hit drama This Is Us in the third installment of the Production Value video series. Sitting down in her office on the Paramount lot, Bahmet explained what has driven her in her career…