EXCLUSIVE: Don McKellar, co-creator of HBO’s Emmy-nominated miniseries The Sympathizer, has signed with Gersh for representation. McKellar co-wrote and co-showran The Sympathizer miniseries, which aired earlier this year on HBO. The series stars Robert Downey Jr., who received an Emmy nomination for…

The In Memoriam segment on Sunday night’s Emmy telecast paid respects to Shannen Doherty, Chance Perdomo, Martin Mull, Richard Lewis and many more TV luminaries lost in the past eight months. Shelley Duvall and SCTV cast member Joe Flaherty, however, were two notable omissions from the revamped…

Both Robert Downey Jr. and Da’Vine Joy Randolph landed Emmy nominations this morning, hot on the heels of their Oscar wins for Oppenheimer and The Holdovers. While Poor Things Oscar winner Emma Stone was also expected to be nominated this morning for her turn on Showtime’s The Curse, she wound up being…

There may have not been as much television in 2024 so far as in previous years, but there was a Hell of a lot of great TV in the first half of this year. The harsh beauty of FX's Shōgun, the depths of Baby Reindeer and Big Mood, the wit of Diarra from Detroit, and the surprising scope of X-Men '97…

Deadline's TV Talk podcast is back for another season, taking listeners all the way to the 76th Emmy Awards ceremony September 15. Today’s podcast is the end of our Phase 1, but, like Arnold said, we’ll be back. It's less than a month until the nominations are revealed for the 76th Primetime Emmy…

Editor's note: Deadline's It Starts on the Page features standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2024 Emmy contention. "What they want to hear, Sir, is that we still share a purpose: the Mission Civilization, a faith in the good fight, the American way, et cetera," double agent the Captain…

For Australian Vietnamese actor Hoa Xuande, the Vietnam War was a compilation of incredibly sad yet impactful stories shared by family members that up until recently, he didn’t fully understand. But since joining the cast of the HBO miniseries The Sympathizer, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer…

What works theatrically? And how do you turn a ‘no’ into a ‘yes’ for a passion project in an everchanging entertainment landscape where there’s a push and pull between the big screen and streaming? Deadline On today’s…

Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane rarely put in anything less than stellar performances, but the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee are rarely as good as they are in Netflix’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full. In a fortnight that has seen the premieres of Hulu's Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough starring Un…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of the first episode of HBO’s limited series The Sympathizer, which premiered on April 14. "All right, see you stateside," says Robert Downey Jr's Claude quips with some gallows humor to Hoa Xuande's The Captain near the end of the first episode of HBO's Th…

The HBO Original limited series The Sympathizer has a premiere date. Based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Sympathizer debuts Sunday, April 14 at 9 p.m. The seven-episode series stars Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Toan Le, Phanxine, Vy Le, Ky Duyen, Kieu…

HBO has released the official teaser trailer and a new photo for the original limited series The Sympathizer, which will premiere in 2024. They provide a glimpse at the four characters played by Robert Downey Jr. who executive produces the series alongside co-showrunners Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar…