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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…

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…

Halfway through True Detective: Night Country, Kali Reis' character experiences a loss so traumatic it would make most people lose their minds. Steely State Trooper Evangeline Navarro has but one way of coping with the situation: She instigates a brawl, in essence begging for a physical manifestation of…

She has two Best Actress Oscars and five nominations including one most recently for 2023’s Nyad. She received her first for 1976’s Taxi Driver when she was only 14. Add to these impressive accomplishments, three BAFTA awards, three Golden Globes, and an…

Editor’s note: Deadline's It Starts on the Page features standout limited or anthology series scripts in 2024 Emmy contention. HBO’s True Detective came back after a five-year break with the franchise’s first female protagonists, played by Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, and its first female creator…

The only person who knows for certain what happens to Detective Navarro at the end of HBO’s True Detective: Night Country is Kali Reis herself. “I have my own interpretation for Navarro, but I have not shared that with a soul,” Reis shared during the Deadline TV Contenders panel for the series…

When it comes to keeping the momentum for storytelling, writers from hit shows such as True Detective: Night Country, Irish hit dramedy Faithless and British superhero comedy Extraordinary all have different approaches for making returnable television series.  Speaking at the inaugural screenwriting…

True Detective is coming back for a fifth season at HBO. Issa López, who served as showrunner for True Detective: Night Country, the fourth and most successful iteration of the crime franchise, will oversee the next installment as part of an overall deal she signed with the network. It's yet to…

Nic Pizzolatto, creator of the True Detective franchise, has been vocal about his distaste for Season 4 of the HBO drama that stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Although Pizzolatto is credited as executive producer for the fourth season, he was not involved with the series that Issa López wrote…

Kali Reis is responding to True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto after repeated passive-aggressive comments against the fourth season of the HBO anthology series. Pizzolatto created the franchise for the premium cable network, with the first season starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson…

A whole lot of crime buffs tuned in to see whether Danvers and Navarro would solve the mysterious deaths of those eight naked scientists. HBO on Monday said the season finale of the anthology’s fourth season attracted 3.2 million cross-platform viewers, marking a Sunday viewing season high for the…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains plot points from the finale of True Detective: Night Country. HBO’s crime anthology finished its fourth season Sunday with Detectives Liz Danvers (Jodie Foster) and Evangeline Navarro (Kali Reis) enjoying a rare moment of peace after solving the mysterious deaths of…