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Dominic Patten

Dominic Patten

Senior Editor, Legal & Chief TV Critic at Deadline

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Bob Bakish Exit: Shock Ripples Through CBS’ WHCD Party As Paramount CEO Set To Depart – “Who Know...

Confusion and anxiety reigned at a CBS-Politico joint party today ahead of the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, with staffers shocked at news that Bob Bakish, CEO of parent Paramount Global, is set to exit abruptly as early as Monday morning. There have been rumblings about Bakish for days as the company enters the final […]
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Donald Trump Bemoans “Really Bad” WHCD, Biden & Colin Jost After Al...

Donald Trump’s reaction to last night’s White House Correspondents Dinner shows the much-indicted ex-POTUS still sucks at being the butt of a joke. Hours after President Joe Biden and Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost unleashed an arsenal of zingers against Trump from the head table of the 2024 WHCD, the presumptive GOP nominee took to […]
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Man Who Set Himself On Fire Outside Trump NYC Trial Dies In Hospita...

2nd UPDATE, 8:59 PM: Approximately 10 hours after Max Azzarello set himself on fire across the street from Donald Trump‘s criminal trial in Manhattan, the 37-year-old man has died. Azzarello passed away about an hour ago from his burns and other wounds, law enforcement sources confirmed Friday night to Deadline. The Florida resident’s “extreme act […]
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End Of An Indie Era? Sundance Could Leave Park City As Festival Ope...

After nearly 40 years in Park City, the Sundance Film Festival may be pulling up stakes. With its current contract expiring after the 2026 festival, organizers of the iconic Robert Redford-founded indie film shindig in the Utah mountain town said Wednesday that they have opened a bid process for a possible move to a new […]
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Les Moonves Settles With City Of Los Angeles Over Ex-CBS Boss’ “Mis...

UPDATED, APRIL 17, 2:11 PM: Les Moonves has settled his debts with the City of Los Angeles, at least financially. In a meeting of L.A.’s Ethics Commission on Wednesday afternoon, the body voted for a second time on a payout from the multimillionaire former CBS boss. Unlike the February 21 meeting, this time the proposed […]
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Taylor Swift Is “Not Important,” Chides Courtney Love; Hole Singer ...

With a new BBC radio series now launched, Courtney Love is once again proving the power of the adage “go large or go home.” In a wide ranging interview with the UK’s Standard today, the former Hole front woman puts forth her take on some of the biggest names in the music industry. Let’s just […]
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Game On! Top Congressmen Want Disney, Fox & Warner Bros Discovery C...

Two top Congressman want Bob Iger, David Zaslav and Lachlan Murdoch to provide some solid answers about Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and Fox’s proposed sports streaming service. Putting their political feet on the gas, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) want a response by the end of the month, and they want […]

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Biden Vs. Trump Live: Networks & Cable Newsers Exhort Candidates To...

Is 2024 about to become the new 1972? Richard Nixon and George McGovern’s battle for the White House 52 years ago was the last time the Republican and Democratic presidential candidates did not directly debate. With President Joe Biden refusing to say whether or not he will get on a stage with Donald Trump this […]
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Joe Biden Rounds The Bases At Trump’s Expense In Softball Univision...

The contrast between Donald Trump on Univision last year and Joe Biden on Univision Tuesday was night and day, but the result was still pretty much the same. Exactly five months after a controversial interview with the 45th President by Enrique Acevedo, the anchor of Televisa’s En punto was broadcast on the Spanish-language network, a sit-down […]
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Gina Carano “Grotesquely Trivialized The Holocaust,” Disney Says; W...

“Disney had enough.” In a filing Tuesday night to dismiss Gina Carano‘s wrongful-discharge and sex-discrimination lawsuit over being fired from The Mandalorian, the Mouse House states that the former MMA fighter lost her Star Wars series job in 2021 because her decision “to publicly trivialize the Holocaust by comparing criticism of political conservatives to the […]
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Hollywood Guilds Come Out Strong For “Ethical & Transparent” AI Bil...

SAG-AFTRA, IATSE the WGA, and the DGA have united behind a legislative move to put up some new and slightly punitive guardrails around Artificial Intelligence. “Everything generated by AI ultimately originates from a human creative source, says Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director and Chief Negotiator, of a new bill proposed today by Rep. Adam […]