“I can’t believe that this was ever anything that I got to do and I felt that the whole way," James Corden tells Deadline. "I have nothing but love and gratitude for all of it. I’m from High Wycombe. The frame of my face doesn’t look like one that should be hosting television show in any way and if it was, it would probably be late-night sports. The overwhelming thing I feel is I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve such memories.”
Corden is proud to have traveled down the same path as Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jon Stewart and Conan O’Brien. “It’s necessary that [late-night] remains in the cultural landscape of America. Stephen [Colbert’s] show, through the election; the way Jimmy [Kimmel] speaks; and the light and the love that Fallon has; Seth’s show, which we’ve watched move and mold itself where he has these segments that are just incredible, true brilliant political broadcasting and funny. I’m so proud to have had a little place in it and I think it’s really necessary to the fabric of America that they remain. It’s an incredible institution to have been part of and it’s one that I will forever support,” he said. >>> The "Gets" He Wishes He'd Gotten |
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'Bob' On A Budget - Of the 13-member series-regular cast of CBS’ comedy Bob ❤️ Abishola, only the two leads, Billy Gardell and Folake Olowofoyeku, will remain series regulars next season on the Warner Bros.-produced project. The others will recur in as few as five episodes in Season 5. >>>Licensing Fee Cut
Disney Drama, Day 3 - In Day 3 of Disney’s second round of layoffs, two senior execs at Disney Branded Television departed. Multiple Disney TV divisions have folded their current series operations into development: Freeform consolidated development and current while ABC combined drama development and current. FX lost a development exec. Multiple Marvel managers were likewise let go. 20th Digital Studio has been dissolved. >>> D23 Hit, As Well
Force Majeure - As negotiations for a new Writers Guild contract enter their final phase, the Association of Talent Agents sent its member-agencies a 22-page summary of the “force majeure” provisions contained in the contracts of the WGA, SAG-AFTRA and the DGA. Force majeure, the ATA notes, “is a provision in a contract that addresses the parties’ obligations if an extraordinary event directly prevents one or both parties from performing.” >>> Invoked In 2007-08 Strike
Lifetime Relationship - Toni Braxton is extending her decade-long relationship with Lifetime and A+E. The Grammy-winning singer, actress, executive producer and entrepreneur has entered into a production deal, in which her Braxtoni Productions will oversee and executive produce multiple projects for the network. >>>An Un-Breakable Bond
'Mr. And Mrs. Smith' Meets 'Dexter' - Julia Hart is set to direct an adaptation of the 2019 Samantha Downing novel My Lovely Wife at Netflix. The story follows ordinary suburban spouses who keep their relationship alive by committing serial murders and getting away with it. Hart will also co-write the script with Jordan Horowitz, who is producing through his Original Headquarters banner along with Brian Kavanaugh Jones and Fred Berger for Automatic and Roy Lee and Miri Yoon for Vertigo. >>> Coveted Gig |
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Stephen Amell chats with Deadline about how his return to the Arrowverse for its swan song came about. Of course, it started with a call from Greg Berlanti, but Amell had one thing he wanted to make sure of before committing. >>> Read The Interview |
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Cara Delevingne, has joined FX’s 12th season of American Horror Story, sources tell us, as a series regular. Delevingne joins already cast Kim Kardashian and AHS regular Emma Roberts. Details of her character are unknown.
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James McAvoy is set to star in Control, a high-concept action thriller that will be directed by Red helmer Robert Schwentke and backed by Studiocanal and The Picture Company. Shooting will begin in Berlin this summer.
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Taye Diggs is set to star in the true crime film series Love & Murder: Atlanta Playboy from Mona Scott-Young of Monami Productions and Eric Tomosunas of Swirl Films. It is set to debut on BET+ later this year. Courtney Miller will direct, based on Ron Stodghill’s book Redbone: Money, Malice and Murder in Atlanta.
Dakota Fanning has added to her already stacked dance card, closing a deal to lead the buzzy supernatural thriller The Watchers, which will mark the feature debut of writer-director Ishana Night Shyamalan. |
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🤔 Two days after Tucker Carson was pink-slipped by Fox News, the former cable host broke his silence. Carlson — who ironically just last week was the host of TV’s top-rated cable news show and among the most powerful people in television — postulated: “Our current orthodoxies won’t last. The people in charge know this, that’s why they’re hysterical and aggressive. They’ve given up persuasion. They’re resorting to force.”
✊ Teamsters leadership, saying their members “do not cross picket lines,” have joined the chorus of unions supporting the WGA in its ongoing negotiations for a new film and TV contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. Those talks are now in their final week, and a strike, if it comes to that, could come as early as next Tuesday.
⚖ After months of battling with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his personally-appointed board over jurisdiction and control of Orlando-based Walt Disney World and its now-besieged special district, Disney took the white gloves off and sued the governor in federal court, citing "a relentless campaign to weaponize government power against Disney in retaliation for expressing a political viewpoint unpopular with certain state officials."
🖥️ Shares in Meta Platforms jumped 12% in after-hours trading Wednesday following the company’s report of better-than-expected first-quarter financials. Meta, parent of social media giants Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, posted total revenue of $28.65 billion. While that was up only 3% from the year-ago quarter, it was about $1 billion better than Wall Street analysts’ consensus forecast.
👀 Angelina Jolie, Reginald Hudlin and Chip and Joanna Gaines are among the boldfaced names on the guest list for tonight’s White House State Dinner for South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol. Jolie is scheduled to attend the dinner with son Maddox Jolie-Pitt. She has visited the Biden White House on reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. |
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Trending  Ghosted starring Chris Evans and Ana de Armas is the most watched movie debut to date for Apple TV+. In the first two days after dropping on April 21, the Dexter Fletcher-directed movie pulled in 328,500 viewers per Samba TV.
🔻 Facebook Watch shelved its Originals, including Red Table Talk, while Mina Lefevre, who was Head of Development and Programming at Meta, is leaving the company. |
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Thu - Comcast, Snap & Amazon earnings; James Corden's final Late Late Show
Sat - Deadline Contenders TV/Docs & Unscripted
Sun - WH Correspondents Dinner
Mon - WGA contract expires; Met Gala; NewFronts begin
Tue - Tony Nominations |
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New Day For Don - Don Lemon stepped out for the first time since CNN suddenly fired him, attending the Time100 Gala with partner Tim Malone. |
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