| 'DMV' AND 'WATSON' FACE DIFFERING CHALLENGES AS SPACE ON SLATE TIGHTENS AND NETWORK WEIGHS OPTIONS |
Once again, CBS has gone for a blitz of early renewals. Ten more existing scripted series punched their tickets for the 2026-27 season yesterday, including the NCIS franchise, dramas Tracker and Matlock and comedy Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.
Factoring in recent pickups for rookies Sheriff Country and Boston Blue and previous multi-year renewals for FBI and Ghosts, the only CBS scripted series currently on the air whose fate remains in limbo are sophomore drama Watson and freshman comedy DMV. Both are on the bubble for next season.
Space for Watson will be tight on the drama side with 10 hourlong scripted series already renewed. DMV's non-renewal is more of a head-scratcher. The single-camera workplace comedy, averaging 65% on Rotten Tomatoes, got off to a strong start. >>>Factors
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CBS Renews 'Survivor,' 'The Amazing Race,' 'Matlock,' 'Elsbeth,' 'Tracker,' 'Georgie & Mandy,' 'NCIS' Trio And 'Fire Country' |
Deadline Exclusives & Originals |
De Luca & Abdy's Big Year - Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy have had a $4 billion-plus global box office year, and now garnered 30 Oscar nominations. We chatted with the duo about their hot streak, which has made Warner Bros. a prized studio for acquisition by Netflix and maybe Paramount. >>> Q&A
Oscar Nominations Analysis - It was abundantly clear Ryan Coogler's terrific Sinners was going to run the table and land a nomination in every category in which it was eligible. The only real question was would the great Delroy Lindo make the cut, or newcomer Miles Caton instead after he got the Actors Award nomination. >>> Pete Hammond's Take
Jeremy Boreing's Life After 'Daily Wire' - In his first interview since exiting The Daily Wire almost a year ago, Jeremy Boreing talks to Deadline about his decade at the company, public bust-ups, right-wing podcasters missing out at the Globes, and his work as a film and TV producer, including the company’s most ambitious project, Arthurian epic The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin , which launched this week. >>> Read The Interview
Lively-Baldoni Latest - The trial over Blake Lively's sexual harassment and smear campaign claims against Justin Baldoni is still set for May, and the parties are still going through the motions of court-ordered settlement talks. But a hearing Thursday may provide a look at where this It Ends With Us battle is really going. >>> Summary Judgment Ruling Looms
Peacock's 'Ponies' - Peacock's Ponies, starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, uses Cold War Moscow as backdrop for a comedic buddy spy thriller. In an interview with Deadline, creators Susanna Fogel and David Iserson discuss the efforts at authenticity on the show, cliffhangers, the burning questions left by the finale, the prospects for a second season and what we might expect from it. >>> Read The Interview
K-Content Craze - Netflix's Korean content craze has helped the streamer to more than four billion views, with a plethora of hits proving that demand goes far deeper than Squid Game. A Deadline analysis can reveal that Korean-language titles across film and TV have amassed at least 4.5BN streams since Netflix first started publishing views in “What We Watched” reports from July 2023. >>> Data |
| Leonardo DiCaprio Hits Rare Air With 8th Oscar Nom; Talks Props, Viral Moments, Validation Of Studio Risk-Taking & ‘One Battle After Another’ |
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar nomination Thursday morning for One Battle After Another puts him in such rarefied air that before our eyes he’s transforming from the actor of his generation to one of the most accomplished actors ever.
This marks the eighth overall nomination for DiCaprio, who won Best Actor for The Revenant. His six Best Actor nominations tie him with Richard Burton and Daniel Day-Lewis for most all time.
DiCaprio spoke with Deadline shortly after his nomination. His focus was not on himself but rather his Oscar-nominated castmates and writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson.
The conversation was a reminder that sometimes when you take risks and swing for the fences from your heels, you hit home runs. >>>Read The Interview |
QUOTABLE "Pretty crazy" - Ryan Coogler reacting to a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations for 'Sinners' |
exclusiveDermot Mulroney's character on NBC's Chicago Fire, Battalion Chief Dominick “Dom” Pascal, will spend some off-camera time in the latter part of Season 14. While Pascal is away, fans will meet a new addition to the series, to be played by Rob Morgan. In a recurring role, Morgan will play Battalion Chief Hopkins, who has a long, haunted past.
ExclusiveSadie Stanley (Karate Kids: Legends) has been cast as a series regular in the upcoming Netflix drama series Poser. She joins the previously announced Daisy Jelley and Annie Murphy.
exclusiveRosanna Arquette has joined the cast of Prime Video's Ballard for its upcoming second season. She is set to recur as Jenny Ballard, Renée Ballard’s (Maggie Q) estranged mom. |
BY THE NUMBERS $45.8M - Disney CEO Bob Iger's fiscal 2025 pay, up 12% over 2024 |
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📱 TikTok has announced a long-awaited deal for a majority American-owned joint venture. The JV’s three managing investors include Silver Lake, Oracle and MGX, each holding 15%.
🖥️ Three new episodes of the fifth and final season of Stranger Things dropped on Christmas Day, helping the series rack up 6.89B minutes viewed from December 22 to 28. This interval’s tally marks the third-largest weekly total ever reported.
✍️ Substack, whose text-based subscription platform has reshaped the media business since launching nearly a decade ago, has launched a TV app. The app is in beta and is thus far only available on Apple TV and Google TV.
👋 AMC Networks Chief Financial Officer Patrick O’Connell is stepping down in order to pursue “an opportunity outside of the media industry,” the company said Thursday.
👩 Former Top Gear exec Lisa Clark has been appointed as Commissioning Executive on the upcoming Saturday Night Live UK. She'll work with Sky's unscripted team on the highly-anticipated British version of the hit American studio show. |
ON THE RADAR
Fri - Real Time season premiere
Sat - Teyana Taylor hosts SNL
Sun - NFL Conference Championship games
Mon - CA Post launches
Tue - BAFTA & WGA Awards nominations announced
Thu - Bridgerton Season 4 premieres |
Paying Respects To A Legend - Anne Hathaway, Liz Hurley and Anne Wintour were among the stars, models and fashion royalty paying their respects to legendary fashion designer Valentino as he was laid to rest in Rome on Friday. The designer, born Valentino Garavani, died January 19 at the age of 93. |
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