Forget the cottage, we’re heading to the palace. Jacob Tierney, the creator and showrunner of “Heated Rivalry,” is set to write, direct, and executive-produce “Alexander,” a new period drama about Alexander the Great and his tutor Aristotle, Netflix announced Thursday. Jason Bateman and Michael Costigan of Aggregate Films also will executive-produce the series alongside Brendan Brady … Read more
Netflix Early on in Netflix’s new comedy “Vladimir,” Rachel Weisz’s character breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to us viewers, which of course recalls a similar device in “Fleabag.” (Side note: Where have you gone, Phoebe Waller-Bridge? The world needs more from you than playing an … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: How’s this for range? Jacob Tierney, creator of the wildly popular contemporary gay romance Heated Rivalry, will be tackling ancient male friendship — and mentorship — next. Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to Alexander, a drama about the teen years of Alexander the Great from Tierney and fellow Heated Rivalry executive producer Brendan … Read more
Courtesy of NBC There have been tougher entries to the Special Victims Unit than Det. Jake Griffin’s… but there have been far easier ones, as well. Griff, as Corey Cott’s character is known, first showed up on “Law & Order: SVU” at the start of this season and instantly … Read more
Starz Steven S. DeKnight’s “Spartacus,” which aired on Starz from 2010 to 2013, brought the sword-and-sandal genre to the small screen with roaring success. The series starred Andy Whitfield and, following Whitfield’s death in 2011, Liam McIntyre as the titular Roman gladiator-turned-revolutionary in a gritty, R-rated take … Read more
Look out, Coop: Someone might be onto your highly illegal side hustle. Apple TV has released the full trailer for Season 2 of the Jon Hamm-led drama “Your Friends & Neighbors” — which you can watch above — and in it, Coop seems to be putting his life back together … Read more
The bad news, after watching the first trailer for Hulu’s “The Testaments”: It appears that Gilead hasn’t fallen quite as quickly as the end of “The Handmaid’s Tale” made it seem like it might. The good news, though? The recently released footage also appears that there … Read more
Welcome to Rendering, a Deadline column reporting at the intersection of AI and showbiz. Rendering examines how artificial intelligence is disrupting the entertainment industry, taking you inside key battlegrounds and spotlighting change makers wielding the technology for good and ill. Got a story about AI? Rendering wants to hear from you: jkanter@deadline.com. It’s been a big week for media M&A fans. … Read more
CNN‘s senior international correspondent Frederik Pleitgen and his team crossed the border into Iran on Thursday and are now headed to Tehran. CNN said it was the first U.S. network to enter the country since the start of the war. Outlets have shown images from Tehran provided by wire services and other sources. U.S. correspondents … Read more
The Match Factory has unveiled a raft of sales for award-winning Berlinale titles Queen at Sea by Lance Hammer and Rose by Markus Schleinzer. Hammer’s intimate family dementia drama Queen at Sea won the Silver Bear Jury Prize as well as a Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance, shared by Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall. … Read more