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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 Alan Cumming […]

Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse has some new investors. The company, which includes production companies including Campfire and Spoke Studios as well as partnerships with Jimmy Kimmel’s Kimmelot and David Chang’s Majordomo Media, has secured investment from Alignment Growth, the investment vehicle from Jeff Bewkes and Kevin Tsujihara. Alignment Growth, which raised $360M to put into media and […]

Clue is set to get another crack at the remake treatment. Sony Pictures has landed the TV and film rights to the board game that was turned into the iconic 1985 movie starring Tim Curry. Sony Pictures Television and TriStar Pictures closed the competitive deal with Hasbro Entertainment, which has been shopping the rights about […]

Watch Latin American Music Awards Netflix is heading to cheerleader try outs for its latest sports docuseries. The streamer has ordered America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. It comes after Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making The Team ended its 16 season run on Paramount cable network CMT in 2022. At that time, Cheerleader director Kelli Finglass, who […]

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is staging the world’s first wildlife reality competition show. The streamer has ordered The Hungry Games: Alaska’s Big Bear Challenge, a three-part series narrated by Flight of the Conchords star Rhys Darby. The series, which is a co-production with global natural history brand Love Nature, follows the bears of Alaska’s Katmai National Park […]

Max Cutler, the former Spotify executive who oversaw the audio streamer’s deals with the likes of Alex Cooper and Joe Rogan, is launching his own company. Cutler, who founded Parcast Studios, which Spotify acquired in 2019 for $56M, left Spotify as part of a reorg last year. He is now launching PAVE Studios, which will […]

Apple is turning the story of the Hollywood con queen into a documentary series. The streamer is launching Hollywood Con Queen, which tells the story of a scam that targeted the likes of Kathleen Kennedy, Sherry Lansing, Amy Pascal, Wendi Deng Murdoch and Stacey Snider, on May 8. The series comes from Tiger King and […]

EXCLUSIVE: USA Network is encouraging a group of contestants to stay anonymous with its latest unscripted competition series. The NBCUniversal cabler has ordered The Anonymous (w/t) from Studio Lambert, the All3Media-backed production company behind series such as Peacock’s The Traitors and Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge. The series is a game of social strategy where […]

EXCLUSIVE: Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry are cooking up two new projects with Netflix. Deadline can reveal that the pair have two non-fiction projects in production at the streamer. They form part of the overall deal that she and her husband, Harry, The Duke of Sussex, signed with the company in 2020 […]

The Roost Podcast Network, servicing podcasts including This Past Weekend with Theo Von, has a new owner. Talent management company Night, which represents YouTubers such as MrBeast, has acquired the company from Warner Bros. Discovery. The studio shut down Rooster Teeth, which was part of Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment, earlier this […]

EXCLUSIVE: Earthday 365, the FAST channel founded by Pamela Anderson and K2 Studios, is expanding its distribution in the U.S. The channel has launched on Amazon’s Freevee service. This comes after its February launch on Pluto TV in the U.S. The channel features 2,500 hours of content including series, specials, and IMAX documentary films such as […]

EXCLUSIVE: Bone Valley, the podcast that explores the innocence of Leo Schofield, who has served nearly 35 years for the murder of his wife, despite another man confessing to the crime, is set to be turned into a scripted television series. The podcast comes from Lava for Good, the company founded by record executive-turned-activist Jason […]

EXCLUSIVE: Bree Frank has joined Evolution Media. Frank, who was formerly SVP of Physical Production for Unscripted at Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, has joined the Amazon MGM Studios-owned company. She joins the Vanderpump Rules and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills producer as Senior Production Executive. In traditional terms, that’s equivalent to SVP, Production and Operations. It […]

EXCLUSIVE: HarbourView Equity Partners, the investment company that bought into Charles D. King’s Macro last year, is putting more money into the film and television business. The company, which was founded by Sherrese Clarke Soares, has invested in LatinX-focused company Mucho Mas Media. This comes ahead of the release of Mucho Mas’ film The Long […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Music’s Global Podcast Division has acquired podcast production company Neon Hum. Neon Hum is behind series including Dinner’s On Me, led by Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson and true-crime franchise Smoke Screen. The move comes five years after Sony Music announced a strategic investment in Neon Hum, which was founded by Jonathan Hirsch. […]

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm on HBO. Curb Your Enthusiasm is over, for now, at least. The fact that the final scene was on an airplane, with Susie Greene, played by Susie Essman, shouting at Larry, as always, felt symbolic, given that landing the plane for a series […]

Aunt Linda returned for some new movie reviews. Kristen Wiig’s angry, middle-aged film critic was back on SNL’s Weekend Update to give her hot take on Barbie and Oppenheimer. Wiig has appeared as Aunt Linda three times before tonight including twice in 2006 and once in 2010, while she was a cast member of the […]

Adventure travel series Destination X has been officially picked up to series by NBC. The show is expected to air on the network in 2025 and the U.S. version of the Belgian format will be produced by production company Twofour, which is also making a separate British version for the BBC. The greenlight marks the […]

Universal Studio Group has found its new business affairs chief – three months after the departure of Masami Yamamoto. Former eOne exec Blossom Lefcourt has been hired as Global Head of Business Affairs. She was previously EVP, Global Business & Legal Affairs, Television and left in January. Lefcourt oversaw all overall and first-look deals, including […]

Banff, the Canadian television event set in the Rocky Mountains, continues to attract top U.S. execs with Channing Dungey the latest addition. Dungey, who is Chairman and CEO at Warner Bros. Television Group, will give a keynote at the event, which is held at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta between June 9 […]