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Midseason is the new fall. As Hollywood and the broader industry continue to recover from the debilitating dual actors and writers strikes, the 2024 television landscape is coming into focus. All of the broadcast networks have set return dates for most of their shows, but there’s no usual Premiere…

HBO is getting into the Richard Gadd business. The premium cable network has come on board Lions, the BBC drama series created by the Baby Reindeer creator and star. The British public broadcaster unveiled the project in February, two months before Gadd became a massive international star thanks…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO is rounding out the cast for Welcome To Derry (working title) its It prequel series starring and executive produced by Bill Skarsgård. Alixandra Fuchs (Hatfields & McCoys), Kimberly Guerrero (The English), Dorian Grey (Transplant, Star Trek: Discovery), Thomas Mitchell (Gangland Underco…

The Harry Potter television series is starting to take shape. Succession duo Francesca Gardiner and Mark Mylod have signed up as its writer and director, respectively. This comes four months after Deadline revealed that Gardiner was one of three finalists to win the prize to reboot the classic…

Don't expect many big-budget tentpole scripted series originating at Max. Warner Bros. Discovery is changing its strategy when it comes to big-budget series and titles such as the upcoming Harry Potter series and IT prequel Welcome to Derry will no longer be Max Originals but will instead be HBO…

Lanterns is moving from Max to HBO and has received an official series order. The redeveloped adaptation of the Green Lantern comic comes from Chris Mundy, Damon Lindelof and Tom King. It is part of a new strategy to move expensive scripted series from the streaming service to the linear network…

When Comcast-owned Sky Deutschland cancelled its usual drama event at the Munich Film Festival at short notice last summer, it came as a surprise. That surprise quickly turned to shock and bitter disappointment when the pay-TV giant revealed it wasn't simply nixing a networking bash, it was exiting the…

Hello, and welcome to the Scene 2 Seen Podcast! Today, I'm chatting with Johnnie Ingram and Stephen Warren. The duo have won an Emmy, Peabody Award, Television Academy Honor and three GLAAD Awards as creators and executive producers of the HBO docuseries We’re Here, whose fourth season premiered April…

Editor’s note: Deadline's It Starts on the Page features standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2024 Emmy contention. "Don't worry. He's what we want," exclaims deposed despot Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) to her last loyal aide Herbert Zubak (Matthias Schoenaerts) of a citizen who has come…

While DP Florian Hoffmeister had just scored his first Oscar nomination coming into True Detective: Night Country, for his stunning work on Todd Field’s Tár, showrunner Issa López almost declined to meet with him for the fourth season of HBO’s acclaimed crime anthology, having previously met with 10 other…

Olivia Cooke discusses a sex scene that was ultimately cut from House of the Dragon. The star of the HBO fantasy series, who plays Alicent Hightower, said she filmed an “animalistic” and “carnal” sex scene, which didn’t make the final cut. "It was messy as fuck. It wasn't beautiful, and that was…

Updated with the Latest: Five new cast members have joined HBO’s A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms in addition to a new director, and production is underway in Belfast, Ireland. In April 2023, HBO announced it had ordered the show, tentatively titled A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight…