There is a glut of great TV, movies and music to celebrate in 2021.
But it’s been a bumpy ride for awards shows, with many canceled, moved or modified in 2020 as the pandemic waxed and waned. In 2021, the schedule seems a little more steady and awards organizations a little more savvy.
The fall and winter months could…
Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television: The Nominees, out annual award-season event that this past weekend shined a light on panel presentations from 34 Emmy-nominated series featuring 117 cast and creatives from 16 broadcast and cable networks and streamers.
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The upcoming sixth and final season of Disney Television Studios' mega-hit This Is Us is sure to see some emotionally stirring storylines. In fact, during Deadline's Contenders Television: The Nominees event, series creator Dan Fogelman said he brought studio execs to tears during a Season 6 story pitch meeting on…
Disney+'s first TV series launch, the nine-episode WandaVisioncombined a wholly original premise that somehow felt familiar by its blatant homage to classic sitcoms that the witch Wanda conjured to mask her grief in losing her soulmate, Vision, to a brutal death we all saw in Avengers: Infinity War.
Having Wanda mask…
After winning acclaim and Oscars for your two most recent movies, what do you next? Well, if you are Barry Jenkins, whose Moonlight won Best Picture and Original Screenplay for him, and whose If Beale Street Could Talk won an Oscar for Regina King, well you tackle the most ambitious project imaginable, but one that…
Eugene Ashe’s romance drama Sylvie’s Love is a love letter to jazz, Motown music, and 1950s and 1960s Doris Day-like cinema. It is also Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Television Movie after it made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Tessa Thompson stars as Sylvie, a young, affluent woman who falls…
When Paul Bettany was approached for the title role in Alan Ball's Uncle Frank, he was perhaps as skeptical as he was excited. "I'm a big Alan Ball fan, but also sort of a 'glass is half empty' type of fellow, so I went, 'I'm going to get the one sh*t Alan Ball script,'" the actor joked. "I read it and it wasn't, of…
"You wait your whole career for everything to come together the way that this one has, and a lot of it is luck," admitted The Boys showrunner Erik Kripke of the acclaim achieved by the Amazon Prime Video series based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's hardcore, satirical, political and extremely poignant comic…
The category is: live, work, pose!
FX groundbreaking series Pose has ended after three seasons, but its legacy lives on as proof that stories about underserved communities are not only universal but a powerful and necessary tool for representation.
Creator and executive producer Steven Canals was turned out multiple…
Aside from the Paramount Network drama Yellowstone completing a third season as cable TV's most watched show, the drama received its first Emmy nomination, for Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Contemporary Program.
The MTV Entertainment Studios-produced series stars Kevin Costner and is written by Taylor…
Producer Robin Roberts was joined by star and fellow producer Danielle Brooks at Deadline's Contenders Television: The Nominees awards-season event for Lifetime’s panel on Robin Roberts Presents Mahalia, which has been Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Television Movie.
The biopic on the late great gospel superstar…
Although fans of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale may have been surprised to see Elisabeth Moss’ June finally cross over into Canada and out of the evil grasp of Gilead in Season 4, the writers have been planning for that moment for some time. And while her arrival to the north didn't erase all the mental and physical…
