On the eve of becoming Paramount+ with Showtime, the streamer purged a phalanx of programming including a number of original series, original movies and Nickelodeon content. Inside Amy Schumer was among them.
The series returned to Paramount+ after six years for its fifth season – a season that Paramount was hoping could score an Emmy nomination to compete against the likes of SNL and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
However, Emmy voters hoping to take a last minute watch on Paramount+ before Monday night's voting deadline will have been disappointed after it was one of the latest titles to be scrapped from the streaming service. >>>Full List Of Movies & Series Scrapped |
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"Our Mission Feels More Urgent Than Ever" - Queer advocacy group Out in Hollywood released its third annual list of the best unproduced queer-focused television pilot scripts of the past year. The scripts that made it to the list underwent a blind evaluation process overseen by Out in Hollywood’s Board of Directors featuring an all-queer-identifying panel of judges conformed of proudly Out producers, studio and network executives. >>> The List
British Broadcasting Controversy - BBC Director General Tim Davie was in contact with a senior government official on the day he suspended Gary Lineker, raising questions about whether he was pressured to punish the presenter for breaking impartiality rules. Deadline has obtained documents under a Freedom of Information Act request that provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how Director General Tim Davie responded to the crisis. >>>"Explosive" Evidence
Striking Results - CreativeChaos and Above the Clouds have teamed up for a feature documentary about a group of youth climate activists. This Is Planet Z follows a group of mostly young women of color who conceptualized, organized and mobilized youth across the United States. Their actions culminated in 7.5 million people striking on September 20, 2019, encouraging young voter turnout that influenced the 2020 presidential election. >>> 2024 Effort Underway
'Fat Astronauts' Preps For Launch - Comedian Tom Segura confirmed to Deadline that he has a feature, Fat Astronauts, in active development. The sci-fi comedy emerges from a concept by his longtime friend and 2 Bears 1 Cave podcast co-host Bert Kreischer, which Kreischer first shared with fans in 2020. “The draft that we got is so funny right now,” Segura said vis-à-vis Fat Astronauts. >>> Duo To Star |
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Amber Heard was in Sicily for the Taormina Film Festival and the world premiere of In the Fire, a Conor Allyn-directed drama about a collision between science and religion in a tug-of-war over a troubled but gifted youth marked for death by a zealous priest who calls the shots in a small town in Colombia in 1890. Heard plays an American psychiatrist the boy’s father calls in to work with his son, a youth who was blamed by his father, the local priest and the townsfolk for the death of the boy’s mother. “It might not be obvious to other people, but I’ve been acting my whole adult life, since I was 16,” Heard said. “As crazy as it sounds to say, that means I have decades in this industry. I’m not telling you I have this amazing film career, but what I have is something that I’ve made, myself, and it has given me a lot to be able to contribute. The odds of that in this industry are really improbably but somehow, here I am. I think I’ve earned respect for that to be its own thing. That’s substantial enough. What I have been through, what I’ve lived through, doesn’t make my career at all. And it’s certainly not gonna stop my career. So let’s talk about this movie.” >>> Read The Interview |
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🏆 Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, and veteran film editor Carol Littleton have been voted Honorary Oscars, and the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. All will be presented on Saturday, November 18, during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 14th annual Governors Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
👋 The Price Is Right aired its final episode from Television City on Monday. The iconic CBS game show, produced by Fremantle, is leaving the Los Angeles studio complex where it has taped since its 1972 relaunch. The daytime staple will relocate to Haven Studios, a new facility in nearby Glendale, in which Fremantle is an investor with a long-term lease.
🎭 A stage musical adaptation of the Fannie Hurst novel Imitation of Life and its film version are under development at Universal Theatrical Group, with Lynn Nottage writing the book and John Legend handling the music and lyrics. Liesl Tommy is attached to direct. |
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Trending  CNN aired the audio recording of a 2021 meeting in which former President Donald Trump discussed having secret documents he did not declassify. The network ran the audio on Anderson Cooper 360. In it, Trump seemed to be showing the documents to others in the room as they had a discussion about Gen. Mark Milley.
🔻 President Donald Trump was heard discussing having secret documents he did not declassify in an audio recording of a 2021 meeting which was aired by CNN. The network ran the audio on Anderson Cooper 360. In it, Trump seemed to be showing the documents to others in the room as they had a discussion about Gen. Mark Milley. |
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Obituaries
🕯 Lew Palter, who played Isidor Straus in James Cameron’s Titanic and a Supreme Court justice in First Monday in October, has died. He was 94. Palter died of lung cancer May 21 at his Los Angeles home. CalArts, where Palter was a longtime faculty member, shared news of his death on Twitter.🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries |
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On the Radar
Tue - Paramount+ with Showtime rebrand launches
Thu - The Witcher S3 premiere
Fri - SAG & DGA contracts expire; Karlovy Vary FF, Essence Festival of Culture begin |
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Pink Palace - Just in time for the release of Warner Bros.’ Barbie movie on July 21, a hot-pink DreamHouse appeared in Malibu, complete with a disco roller rink, gym, giant sandbox, second-story pool slide, dirt bike and a cowboy themed, hot-pink bedroom. Turns out, the promotional property is available for a limited time on Airbnb. Bookings for two, one-night stays begin July 17. |
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