Editor's note: No Morning Rush on Monday in observance of Presidents' Day
A24'S NEXT BIG BET IS ON UNSCRIPTED TV |
| THE INDIE FILM DARLING HAS HELD TALKS WITH ABC, CBS, FOX AND NBC AS 'NEIGHBORS' DEBUTS TODAY |
HBO docuseries Neighbors, which launches on Friday, is the first unscripted series to emerge from A24, the hipster film and TV studio that counts Marty Supreme, Materialists, Uncut Gems, Euphoria and Beef amongst its credits.
What makes Neighbors an A24-style show? Well, it’s hard to explain, but it just feels A24. The studio has leaned into the auteur of it all and Neighbors is no different. It’s also exec produced by Josh Safdie, who has become one of the studio's recent kingmakers.
Welcome to A24 unscripted. The company, as ever, is clearly trying to come at things from a different angle.
A24 is currently developing a reality cooking competition based on the video game Overcooked for Netflix, and Deadline understands it has held talks with the likes of ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC, which are still the biggest buyers of unscripted. It is also keen to find an entertainment format that works for broadcast as well as streaming and premium cable. >>>Exploring Subgenres |
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Fox Renewal Status Report - The Fox bubble is shaping up to be very small this season, with the vast majority of the network’s scripted lineup poised for renewal. That includes Fox’s drama contingent, with all four shows consistently charting on Hulu’s daily Top 10 during their runs. >>>Visual Comfort Food
Jenni Connor Reups With 20th - Jenni Konner has renewed her overall deal with 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios. The Girls alumna is working on two 20th TV series, Nobody Wants This and Hulu’s Deli Boys. >>> Several In Development
Cuts In Netflix's Product Division - Netflix's product division has pink-slipped workers across middle management and admin divisions. Sources familiar with the layoffs note they amount to several dozen, or less than 1% of the 6,000-employee division. >>> New CTO
Amazon Goes 'Country' - Amazon MGM Studios has secured Country Roads, an original concept from Oscar-nominated writer Allison Schroeder, which comes from Seven Bucks Productions. >>> Oscar Nominee
World Premiere - Slow Horses star Sophie Okonedo is relishing her role in Berlin competition movie Mouse, but she's anything but a "leading lady," she told our International Editor-at-Large. >>>Breaking Baz
'Wire' Stars Reunited - Dominic West and Clarke Peters are saddling up and headed Beyond The Silk Road. The alums of one of seminal HBO series The Wire have headed to Kyrgyzstan for what promises to be one of the buzziest docs on sale at the London TV Screenings. >>>Important Crossroads
Netflix Bottles 'Flies' - Netflix has bagged the U.S. rights to Jack Thorne's Lord of the Flies TV adaptation. We understand several buyers were known to be keen on the buzzy drama series, which is for the BBC in the UK and Stan in Australia. The deal is one of a glut distributor Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has snagged for the show. >>> List Of Buyers |
CBS has unveiled first trailer for the new FBI spinoff series CIA, starring Tom Ellis and Nick Gehlfuss as odd-couple partners in fighting crime. The leading pair help set up the trailer and the show’s first season in this interview.
CIA follows by-the-book FBI Special Agent Bill Goodman (Gehlfuss), who is loaned out to a clandestine CIA/FBI taskforce and finds himself teamed with secretive and roguish CIA Agent Colin Glass (Ellis). Together, they will work on covert operations in New York, uncovering international plots, terrorist cells and geopolitical secrets. "This is a new template of sorts," says Gehlfuss of the Wolf Entertainment series.
CIA premieres February 23 at 10 p.m. ET/PT, following a new episode of FBI. >>>Q&A |
The highest-profile role of this year’s broadcast pilot season has been filled — David Boreanaz has closed a deal to headline NBC's reboot of The Rockford Files. The Angel, Bones and SEAL Team alum will succeed James Garner as James Rockford.
ExclusiveNcuti Gatwa, Thandiwe Newton, Maxine Peake and Danny Sapani are set to star opposite Michaela Coel in First Day On Earth. The series is Coel’s next drama series for HBO and the BBC following her award-winning I May Destroy You.
ExclusiveColman Domingo is set to join Kerry Washington and James Marsden in An Innocent Girl, Jaume Collet-Serra's next film for Netflix. Chloe East also stars in the psychological thriller, about a young and ambitious woman seduced by a high-powered D.C. couple.
ExclusiveCorey Hawkins and Kelvin Harrision Jr. are in talks to join the cast of the Focus Features and Amblin Entertainment feature adaptation of Death of a Salesman. Jeffrey Wright and Octavia Spencer are set to star.
ExclusiveJason Clarke is set for a role alongside Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo in the live-action Gundam movie from Legendary, which is eyeing Netflix as its distributor. |
BY THE NUMBERS $290M - Ticket sales for 'The Wizard of Oz' at The Sphere since last August |
MORE NEWS ✌️ Following the likes of Chappell Roan, Orville Peck and Abby Wambach, DJ and record producer John Summit is threatening to leave Wasserman Media Group. “If Casey Wasserman doesn’t step down, I will not remain with the agency,” he wrote on X.
🙏 As James Van Der Beek's fans and loved ones mourn the actor’s death at age 48, supporters have come together for his wife Kimberly and family. Following the launch of a GoFundMe on Wednesday, the crowdfunding campaign has already surpassed its $1.5 million goal in the 24 hours since it went live.
🤖 Studios are calling on the Chinese owner of TikTok, ByteDance, to cease the use of copyrighted works in a new AI model, which has drawn attention for a Brad Pitt vs. Tom Cruise deepfake.
✂️ The BBC is setting a target to cut around 10% of its spending over the next three years, which would amount to hundreds of millions of pounds of savings. The move is one of the last acts of Director General Tim Davie.
🧟♂️ AMC Networks is poised for another payday from The Walking Dead as its current streaming deal with Netflix nears its end. The 177 episodes in the original series, which ended in 2022, are due to return to AMC Networks’ control “in less than a year,” CEO Kristin Dolan said, and talks have begun between the companies about a potential renewal.
❤️ Prime Video international originals boss Nicole Clemens has said Mercedes Ron’s Culpables movies – the Spanish romantic YA trilogy Culpa Mia, Culpa Tuya and Culpa Nuestra – have now been watched by more than 100 million viewers worldwide.
👩🏼 The Handmaid’s Tale sequel The Testaments will be given its world premiere at this year’s Series Mania. Showrunner Bruce Miller and members of his creative team, including producer Warren Littlefield, will attend the premiere.
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OBITUARIES
🕯️ Susan Grode, a pioneering attorney who specialized in animation and fine art with clients including The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, died this week of natural causes in Los Angeles. She was 86. 🕯️ 2026 Deaths Photo Gallery |
| ON THE RADAR
Sat - Valentine's Day
Sun - Last Week Tonight returns; NBA All-Star Game; Spirit Awards
Mon - Presidents' Day
Tue - Lunar New Year
Wed - 56 Days premieres |
Crossover Moment - Bridgerton's Yerin Ha and Heated Rivalry's Hudson Williams attend Gold House's Lunar New Year Gold Celebration at Chinese Tuxedo in NYC. |
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