CBS news
‘NCIS: Hawai’i’ Star Vanessa Lachey “Gutted”, “Blindsided” By Series Cancellation; Cast & Creators React – Update (April 27)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/ncis-hawaii-cast-reacts-cbs-cancellation-vanessa-lachey-ll-cool-j-1235897052/‘NCIS: Hawai’i’ Canceled By CBS: Franchise’s First Female-Led Series Ending After 3 Seasons (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/ncis-hawaii-canceled-cbs-no-season-4-1235896481/RuPaul’s ‘Lingo’ Game Show Gets Season 2 Premiere Date At CBS (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/rupaul-lingo-game-show-season-2-premiere-date-cbs-1235896500/‘Tracker’ Casts Jensen Ackles In Justin Hartley Series Airdate & Storyline Revealed With First-Look Photo Update (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/tracker-jensen-ackles-cast-justin-hartley-series-1235895583/Tracker: Manifest’s Melissa Roxburgh Cast as Colter’s Sister Dory (April 16)
https://tvline.com/casting-news/tracker-season-1-cast-melissa-roxburgh-colter-shaw-sister-dory-1235200892/‘The Equalizer’ Renewed For Season 5 By CBS, ‘NCIS: Hawai’i’ Still In Limbo (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-equalizer-renewed-season-5-ncis-hawaii-cbs-1235893352/‘FBI: International’ Casts Colin Donnell In Final 2 Episodes Of Season 3 Following Luke Kleintank’s Exit (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/fbi-international-colin-donnell-cast-luke-kleintank-exit-1235894184/CBS Developing ‘The Chonga Girls’ Comedy Series Starring Mimi Davila & Laura Di Lorenzo (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/cbs-developing-the-chonga-girls-comedy-series-mimi-davila-laura-di-lorenzo-1235893993/["The comedy duo of Mimi Davila (Problemista) and Laura Di Lorenzo (Selena: The Series)—who perform as The Chonga Girls— are set to write, star and co-executive produce an eponymous multi-camera comedy series ... The Chonga Girls follows two dangerously confident childhood friends, Mimi and Laura, who move from Miami to Hollywood to realize their dream of becoming famous. But, much to their surprise, they find themselves working at the makeup counter for a department store right off the Walk of Fame."]
Jeff Probst On ‘Survivor’ Season 50 Theme: “We Have Not Come Up With Our Idea Yet” (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/jeff-probst-survivor-season-50-cbs-1235894038/‘Blue Bloods’ Stars Donnie Wahlberg & Bridget Moynahan “Upset And Sad” That Series Is Ending: “We’ve Created Such A Family On Set” (April 23)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/blue-bloods-donnie-wahlberg-bridget-moynahan-series-ending-1235893129/‘FBI International’ Surprise: Luke Kleintank Leaving CBS Drama After Three Seasons (April 23)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/luke-kleintank-leaving-fbi-international-cbs-1235893270/‘CSI: Vegas’ Stars React To Series Cancellation (April 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/csi-vegas-cast-react-cbs-cancellation-marg-helgenberger-1235891018/‘So Help Me Todd’ Creator & Cast React To Series Cancellation [updated] (April 20)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/so-help-me-todd-creator-reacts-cbs-cancellation-skylar-astin-1235890675/----------------------------------------------
CW news
‘Miss USA’ Stays At The CW In Three-Year Deal (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/miss-usa-teen-usa-cw-deal-1235895057/The CW Renewal Status Report: ‘All American,’ ‘Homecoming’ & ‘Walker’ (April 22)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/cw-canceled-renewed-all-american-homecoming-walker-status-1235889923/[Summary: Situation dismal.]
‘All American’ Season 6 Expanded By The CW (April 22)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/all-american-season-6-expanded-episode-count-1235891984/-----------------------------------------------
NBC news
‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ Moving To Peacock For Season 5 (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/law-order-organized-crime-renewed-season-5-peacock-move-1235894492/Aja Naomi King To Star In ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ NBC Pilot (April 23)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/aja-naomi-king-grosse-pointe-garden-society-nbc-pilot-1235892997/["The drama follows four members of a suburban garden club — Birdie (Melissa Fumero), Alice (AnnaSophia Robb), Brett (Ben Rappaport) and Catherine (King) — all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom."]
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Cable channel news
Poppy Harlow To Depart CNN After 16 Years With Network (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/poppy-harlow-cnn-depart-1235896028/‘Game Of Thrones’ Spinoff ‘10,000 Ships’ Revealed To Be About Queen Nymeria In A Moses-Inspired Story (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/game-of-thrones-spinoff-10000-ships-queen-nymeria-moses-inspired-story-1235894250/RM: HBO passed on this.
‘Outlander: Blood Of My Blood’ Adds 6 To Cast [Starz] (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/outlander-blood-of-my-blood-cast-1235893568/‘The Hunting Wives’ Adds Karen Rodriguez, Michael Aaron Milligan & Hunter Emery [Starz] (April 23)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-hunting-wives-cast-karen-rodriguez-michael-aaron-milligan-hunter-emery-1235892775/["'The Hunting Wives' tells the story of Sophie O’Neil (Brittany Snow) and her family’s move from the East Coast to deep East Texas, where she succumbs to socialite Margo Bank’s (Malin Åkerman) irresistible charms and finds her life consumed by obsession, seduction and murder."]
Sissy Spacek Joins FX’s ‘Dying For Sex’ As Recurring (April 23)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/sissy-spacek-dying-for-sex-fx-1235892233/["'Dying for Sex' is the story of Molly (Michelle Williams), a woman diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer who leaves her husband of 15 years and begins to explore her sexuality."]
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Streaming service news--Apple TV+
Maria Bakalova & 3 Others Join Apple’s Action Adventure Pic ‘Mayday’ (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/maria-bakalova-joins-mayday-movie-clark-johnson-more-also-set-1235895204/["Details as to the film’s plot and their roles are under wraps"]
‘Presumed Innocent’: Apple Moves Up Premiere Date For Jake Gyllenhaal-Led Series (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/presumed-innocent-premiere-date-jake-gyllenhaal-trailer-1235894284/["As reimagined by Kelley, who is an attorney by trade, the 'Presumed Innocent' series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together."]
‘Masters Of The Air’s Callum Turner Joins Apple TV’s New Sci-Fi Series ‘Neuromancer’ (April 23)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/callum-turner-cast-apple-tv-new-sci-fi-series-neuromancer-william-gibson-1235892950/["Created for television by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan) and JD Dillard (The Outsider), 'Neuromancer' follows a damaged, top-rung super-hacker named Case (Turner) who is thrust into a web of digital espionage and high stakes crime with his partner Molly, a razor-girl assassin with mirrored eyes, aiming to pull a heist on a corporate dynasty with untold secrets."]
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Streaming service news--Hulu
Dulé Hill & Sarayu Blue Join Hulu Limited Series ‘Orphan’ (April 22)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/dule-hill-sarayu-blue-orphan-hulu-limited-series-1235891989/["Written by Katie Robbins, the drama series is inspired by the true story of a Midwestern couple, Michael and Kristine Barnett, played by Duplass and Pompeo, who adopt a girl with a rare form of dwarfism. But as they begin to raise her alongside their three biological children, questions emerge around her age and background, and they slowly start to suspect she may not be who she says she is. As they grow to believe their new daughter is a threat, she fights her own battle to confront her past and what her future holds, in a showdown that ultimately plays out in the tabloids and the courtroom."]
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Streaming service news--Max
Kevin Spacey Doc Series Picked Up By Max In U.S. As First Trailer Revealed (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/channel-4-kevin-spacey-doc-max-trailer-1235896256/----------------------------------------------------
Streaming service news--Netflix
‘Dead Boy Detectives’ Bosses On Developing New Netflix Series Within ‘The Sandman’ Universe, Their Idea Of Hell (Literally) & Potential Season 2 (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/dead-boy-detectives-bosses-netflix-series-interview-tease-season-2-1235895335/Leanne Morgan Teams With Chuck Lorre For Netflix Sitcom, Gets 2 More Comedy Specials On Streamer (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/leanne-morgan-netflix-comedy-series-chuck-lorre-specials-1235895030/‘XO, Kitty’ Adds 3 To Season 2 Cast As Production Begins [Netflix] (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/xo-kitty-season-2-cast-1235895118/‘Heartstopper’ Adds Jonathan Bailey, Hayley Atwell & Eddie Marsan To Season 3 [Netflix] (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/heartstopper-casts-jonathan-bailey-hayley-atwell-eddie-marsan-season-3-1235894685/Netflix Joins ‘The Thursday Murder Club’, Chris Columbus & Amblin Entertainment’s Feature Adaptation Of Big-Selling Richard Osman Novel (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/netflix-joins-thursday-murder-club-spielberg-columbus-richard-osman-1235895306/["The story [with Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan and Ben Kingsley in lead roles] follows a group of elderly friends in a retirement home who gather to solve murders for fun, but find themselves caught in a real case."]
Netflix Medical Drama ‘Pulse’ Adds Néstor Carbonell, Santiago Segura, Ash Santos, Jessica Rothe & Arturo Del Puerto (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/netflix-pusle-nestor-carbonell-santiago-segura-ash-santos-jessica-rothe-arturo-del-puerto-1235893755/‘Baby Reindeer’ Star & Creator Richard Gadd Has Message For Viewers: “Please Don’t Speculate On Who Any Of The Real Life People Could Be” (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/baby-reindeer-richard-gadd-message-viewers-speculate-real-life-identities-1235894129/Steve Carell To Star Opposite Tina Fey In Netflix Comedy Series ‘The Four Seasons’ (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/steve-carell-joins-tina-fey-in-the-four-seasons-netflix-1235893627/["based on the 1981 Universal film of the same name"]
‘Wednesday’ Season 2: Everything We Know About The Cast, Premiere Date & More (April 23)
https://deadline.com/feature/wednesday-season-2-everything-we-know-1235796717/‘Wednesday’ Adds Thandiwe Newton To Season 2 Cast (April 23)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/wednesday-thandiwe-newton-season-2-1235893034/‘Atlas’ Trailer: Jennifer Lopez Is Humanity’s Only Hope In Brad Peyton’s Sci-Fi Action Film For Netflix (April 23)
https://deadline.com/video/atlas-trailer-jennifer-lopez-movie-netflix/Mila Kunis Says She & Ashton Kutcher Won’t Return For ‘That ’90s Show’ Season 2 [Netflix] (April 22)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/mila-kunis-ashton-kutcher-not-return-that-90s-show-season-2-1235892055/Netflix Boards TV Adaptation Of ‘A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder’ Starring ‘Wednesday’s Emma Myers (April 22)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/netflix-boards-a-good-girls-guide-to-murder-emma-myers-1235891367/["'A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder' follows Pip Fitz-Amobi (Myers), who is investigating the death of a schoolgirl five years ago. Andie Bell was deemed to have been murdered by her boyfriend Sal Singh but smart and single-minded Pip isn’t so sure and she’s determined to prove it."]
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Streaming service news--Paramount+
Julia Garner’s ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ Prequel ‘Apartment 7A’ To Launch In Fall On Paramount+ (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/apartment-7a-julia-garner-to-star-in-paramount-prequel-natalie-erika-james-to-direct-1235896226/["When a struggling young dancer (Garner) suffers a devastating injury, she finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promises her a shot at fame. Set in 1965 New York City, the film tells the story prior to Roman Polanski’s horror classic 'Rosemary’s Baby,' exploring what happened in the apartment before Rosemary moved in."]
‘Mayor Of Kingstown’: Jeremy Renner Goes To Battle With Russian Mob In Season 3 Trailer [Paramount+] (April 25)
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Streaming service news--Peacock
Peacock Is “Seeing Traction” From Combo Of Sports And Entertainment, Comcast President Mike Cavanagh Says Update (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/comcast-edges-wall-street-q1-estimates-peacock-subscribers-1235894555/‘Law & Order: Organized Crime’ Moving To Peacock For Season 5 (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/law-order-organized-crime-renewed-season-5-peacock-move-1235894492/‘Days Of Our Lives’ Brings Back Kristian Alfonso For Brief Return To Pay Tribute To Late Bill Hayes [Peacock] (April 22)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/days-of-our-lives-brings-back-kristian-alfonso-tribute-late-bill-hayes-1235892153/----------------------------------------------------
Streaming service news--Other services
Nacelle Company Unscripted Series ‘Billy Corgan’s Adventures In Carnyland’ Sets Premiere Date (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/billy-corgans-adventures-in-carnyland-sets-premiere-date-at-cw-1235892596/["an eight-episode unscripted series that’s set to premiere on The CW app and cwtv.com on May 14th. ... Directed by Volk-Weis and Ian Roumain, the series pulls back the curtain on how the legendary frontman of alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins takes on the world."]
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International series news
‘Beyond Paradise’ Renewed For Season 3 Plus Christmas Special By BBC & BritBox (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/beyond-paradise-renewed-bbc-season-3-christmas-special-1235896293/‘Run The Burbs’ Canceled After 3 Seasons (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/run-the-burbs-canceled-no-season-4-the-cw-1235895654/BBC Natural History Boss On Combatting “Market Saturation” With ‘Game Of Thrones’-Style Narrative Series ‘Kingdom’ (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/bbc-natural-history-kingdom-game-of-thrones-creative-cities-convention-1235893539/Long-Running ITV Drama ‘Vera’ To End After 14 Seasons (April 22)
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Audio series news
‘This Is Us’ Stars Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown & Chris Sullivan Launch Rewatch Podcast (April 26)
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Series in development
Sam Raimi Teams With ‘10 Cloverfield Lane’ Scribes Campbell & Stuecken On ‘I’m The Grim Reaper’ Series (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/sam-raimi-im-the-grim-reaper-campbell-stuecken-1235894296/["'I’m the Grim Reaper' centers on Scarlet, a young woman who wakes up in the ninth circle of hell with no idea how she got there. Satan offers to send Scarlet back to Earth if she’ll work as his reaper. But it doesn’t take long for Scarlet to realize that Satan’s offer is even worse than she feared. The story slots perfectly into Raimi’s wheelhouse, striking a deft balance between scares, gore and humor."]
ACE Entertainment Developing Suzanne Young’s YA Horror Novel ‘In Nightfall’ For Television (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/in-nightfall-tv-series-in-development-ace-entertainment-1235894161/["The book takes place in the quaint town of Nightfall, Oregon, where it isn’t the dark you should be afraid of — it’s the girls. Theo and her brother, Marco, threw the biggest party of the year. And got caught. Their punishment? Leave Arizona to spend the summer with their grandmother in the rainy beachside town of Nightfall, Oregon — population, 846 souls. This small town is cute when it’s not raining, but their grandmother is superstitious and strangely antisocial. Upon their arrival she lays out the one house rule: always be home before dark. But Theo and Marco are determined to make the most of their summer, and on their first day they meet the enigmatic Minnow and her friends. Beautiful and charismatic, the girls have a magnetic pull that Theo and her brother can’t resist. But Minnow and her friends are far from what they appear. And that one rule? Theo quickly realizes she should have listened to her grandmother. Because after dark, something emerges in Nightfall. And it doesn’t plan to let her leave"]
Yvonne Orji Developing Yaa Gyasi’s Novel ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ For Sony Pictures Television (April 22)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/yvonne-orji-developing-yaa-gyasi-novel-transcendent-kingdom-sony-pictures-television-1235891679/["The second novel by the Ghanaian-American author is told from the perspective of Gifty, a neuroscientist in training studying the behavior patterns in mice as it relates to depression and addiction. Bouncing back and forth between her present-day life in the Bay Area and her childhood as a first-generation Ghanaian growing up in rural Alabama, Gifty is on both a methodical and a spiritual journey to make sense of the suffering she’s seen all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family’s loss, she still finds herself hungering for facets of her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive."]
June Diane Raphael & Paul Scheer Star In ‘DINKS’ Improv Comedy Pilot Ordered By Amazon MGM Studios From Marta Kauffman & Lionsgate TV (April 22)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/june-diane-raphael-paul-scheer-dinks-improv-comedy-pilot-marta-kauffman-amazon-mgm-studios-1235891297/["'DINKS' (Dual Income No Kids) is about Josh (Scheer) and Charlie (Raphael), a couple who, in absence of a marriage or kids, decide to literally build a life together by renovating their nightmare of a dream house."]
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Ratings
‘The Resident’ Climbs To No. 2 On Nielsen Streaming List Thanks To Updated Audience Measurements (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-resident-viewership-nielsen-streaming-list-changes-1235895571/‘Baby Reindeer’ Cements Sleeper Hit Status After UK Audience Surges In Second Week On Netflix (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/baby-reindeer-ratings-sleeper-hit-netflix-1235894543/‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ Has Record Debut Weekend As Roku Channel’s Most-Watched On Demand Title Ever (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/the-spiderwick-chronicles-viewership-premiere-weekend-roku-1235893970/‘Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver’ Tops Netflix’s Film Chart As ‘Baby Reindeer’ Stalks To Top Of TV List (April 23)
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The business of TV
Comcast’s Brian Roberts Sees $35M Pay Package In 2023; Compensation For Liberty Media & AMC Networks CEOs Set As Last Proxies Trickle In (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/comcast-ceo-brian-roberts-2023-pay-package-1235896196/Roku Q1 Results Show Benefits Of Streaming Price Hikes (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/roku-q1-earnings-show-streaming-price-hikes-1235895379/Writers Guild Of Canada “Overwhelmingly” Votes To Authorize Strike Action, CMPA Says “Labor Dispute Would Be Extremely Damaging” To Industry (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/writers-guild-canada-vite-authorize-strike-action-cmpa-1235894681/Hollywood Contraction Hits Star TV Packages: “It’s A Head-Scratcher” (April 24)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/hollywood-contraction-star-tv-packages-1235880727/Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish’s 2023 Pay Totals $31.3M, Down Slightly From Prior Year (April 22)
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Obituaries
Marla Adams Dies: ‘The Young And The Restless’ Daytime Emmy Winner Was 85 (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/marla-adams-dead-the-young-and-the-restless-daytime-emmy-winner-was-85-1235896844/Terry Carter Dies: ‘Battlestar Galactica’ & ‘McCloud’ Actor Was 95 (April 23)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/terry-carter-dead-battlestar-galactica-mccloud-actor-1235892892/Meg Bennett Dies: ‘The Young And The Restless’ Star Who Played Julia Martin Was 75 (April 21)
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Other News
‘Judge Judy’ Repeats & ‘Hot Bench’ Renewed Through 2025-26 In Syndication (April 26)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/judge-judy-hot-bench-renewed-syndication-1235896602/ATX TV Festival Expands 2024 Lineup With Programming From ‘Hacks,’ ‘Animal Control,’ ‘Resident Alien,’ ‘Interview With A Vampire’ & More (April 25)
https://deadline.com/2024/04/atx-tv-festival-expands-2024-lineup-hacks-animal-control-resident-alien-interview-with-a-vampire-1235895309/
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