EXCLUSIVE: Kathleen Kennedy has paid fond tribute to Marjane Satrapi, the artist, animator and Persepolis filmmaker who died Thursday at 56. “We’ve lost a true original,” the longtime Lucasfilm president said in part. Read her full remembrance below. Kennedy worked with Satrapi on Persepolis, the filmmaker’s 2007 pic that earned an Oscar nomination for Best […]

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 […]

When Octavia Spencer, the narrator and executive producer of Investigation Discovery’s three-part docuseries Lost Women of Alaska, decided to get involved in telling the story of indigenous women living on societal fringes who were targeted and murdered by serial killer Brian Steven Smith, she had a key goal in mind: “Restoring the dignity of these […]

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 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 […]

As the fallout continues over Scott Pelley’s firing from 60 Minutes and CBS News, his former colleague at the newsmagazine, Steve Kroft, spoke his mind about the turmoil at the show and the division. “This is journalistic interference,” he told Geoff Bennett during an interview Wednesday on PBS NewsHour. “It makes no business sense whatsoever. […]

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 […]

The 47th News & Documentary Emmy Awards has concluded, with Madison Wells’ Prime Minister winning Best Documentary. The Documentary winners were announced Thursday, following the News categories on Wednesday, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City, which also is set to host the Documentary ceremony on Thursday night. See […]

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 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 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 […]

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 […]