Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Miller was acquainted with the subject of her latest, Apple TV’s five-part Mr. Scorsese, through her husband Daniel Day-Lewis, one of legendary director Martin Scorsese’s cinematic muses. But when it came to getting the filmmaker to commit to opening up about his life and career, it required a little bit of an […]

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is underway with French filmmaker Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss serving as the opening-night pic. Among the headline filmmakers debuting new works on the Croisette this year are previous Palme d’Or winners Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda, two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and American indie veteran Ira Sachs. The […]

The ebb tide is nigh for Broadway’s Beaches. The musical based on the 1988 Garry Marshall movie has set an early closing date after getting blanked at the Tony Awards nominations a couple of weeks ago. The last day at this beach will be May 24. The show starring Jessica Vosk and Kelli Barrett had […]

We have the winners of the 47th annual Sports Emmy Awards, which were handed out at Tuesday night’s ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in Manhattan. Roy Wood Jr., who co-hosts CNN’s Have I Got News for You, hosted the show, produced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, that honored […]

The Critics Choice Association got down to its real nitty gritty today, revealing the winners of its eighth annual Real TV Awards. Peacock’s adventures in treachery The Traitors was the top dog, scoring five prizes including Best Competition Series and Best Host for Alan Cumming. The Traitors winner Rob Rausch and contestant Lisa Rinna were […]

Marcia Lucas, who won an Oscar for editing the original Star Wars and scored a nom for American Graffiti, both directed by her then-husband George Lucas, and worked with Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, died May 27 of cancer in Rancho Mirage, CA. She was 80. Her family’s attorney, Deidre Von Rock, confirmed the […]

Ernest Chambers, a prolific TV writer-producer whose 60-year career working on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, My Three Sons, The Dick Van Dyke Show and dozens of specials and variety shows that landed him 11 Emmy nominations, has died. He was 97. A family representative told Deadline that Chambers died May 30 in Los Angeles […]

Jeffrey Lane, an Emmy-winning writer and producer with TV credits spanning the sitcom Mad About You, dramas Cagney & Lacey and Lou Grant, soap opera Ryan’s Hope as well as Tony Awards broadcasts and the Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, died May 20 in New York following a lengthy illness. He was 71. Over the […]

The Set Decorators Society of America is out with the nominees for its 2025-26 SDSA Awards for Television, which recognizes a number of series that wrapped in recent months. The list includes such shows as Euphoria, Stranger Things, Hacks, Outlander, The Boys, For All Mankind and The Neighborhood. See all of the nominations below. Covering […]

Here is Deadline’s annual list of premiere dates for new and returning TV series. Updated daily, the roster covers hundreds of broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting throughout 2026, many still listed as TBA (to be announced). It includes series premieres, season debuts, shows returning from hiatus and some one-offs such as live sports and […]

The popularity of the female-led ’90s-era musical festival Lilith Fair was enough to tell the story behind its origins, Ally Pankiw, director of the Hulu documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, explained at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary panel, but even more importantly, “it was also the first time that someone had really stood up to […]

David May, a two-time Grammy-winning producer who worked many of music’s biggest names and was a former longtime VP at Warner Records and Rhino Entertainment, has died. He was 68. Deadline confirmed that he died April 13 in Nashville of natural causes. Specializing in new audio formats and mastering, May worked on projects ranging from studio […]