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David Simon has signed with Gersh for representation, Variety has learned exclusively.

With his new representation, Simon has signed a two-year first-look deal with HBO as well as a premium script deal with Sony Pictures Television. Financial terms of the two deals were not disclosed.

The HBO deal keeps Simon in business with the premium cabler, which has served as his TV home for the better part of three decades. In his time working with the network, Simon has delivered the critically-acclaimed dramas “The Corner,” “The Wire,” “Generation Kill,” “Treme,” “The Deuce,” “The Plot Against America,” “Show Me a Hero,” and “We Own This City.”

“The Wire” is consistently named as one of the greatest TV shows ever made, with Variety recently including it on the list of the 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Simon began his career as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. In that time, he...

Nora Ephron is a celebrated name in the world of hard-hitting, emotional rom-coms, and most of the director’s works have made it into the list of classics. One of those include the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail, which became an instant hit.

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan’s chemistry and the moving storyline made the movie a fan favorite for fluff lovers. However, times have changed and a recent Reddit comment left no stone unturned to diss the movie. The commentator was especially miffed at the ending which showcased a happy reunion between the leads, even after the male lead’s deceptions.

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Tom Hanks established himself as a true performer through his dramatic performances in films like The Green Mile and Forrest Gump. However, the actor once ruled the world...

Star Wars franchise has seen a bit of a downturn in its fortunes in recent years, with several projects being a hit and a miss with the fans. As a result, several fans have blamed Disney for the franchise’s downfall, criticizing the studio for the commodification of the space opera saga started by George Lucas. Therefore, there is a wave of disappointment around the franchise.

Star Wars fans highlighted the positives of Dinsey taking over the franchise (Credit: Lucasfilm).

Despite the generally negative sentiments surrounding the franchise, fans took to social media to discuss the several positive aspects of Disney taking over the franchise back in 2012 and the projects they have released ever since. Fans found plenty of bright spots in the galaxy far, far away under the House of the Mouse, and here are the top 5 positives of Disney Star Wars that will convince haters to change their minds.

With an established track record for telling stories from a female Pov with insight, accuracy and compassion, The Corner Shop director Emma Branderhorst – previously featured on the pages of Dn with Spotless and Ma Mère et Moi – has lent her authorial voice to Piece of Me, an already incredibly successful campaign short raising awareness about the dark side of sexting. The film takes a collaborative and modern approach to its subject matter that was embraced by commissioning Dutch telecommunications company Kpn, Dentsu Creative and singer-songwriter Meau who Branderhorst worked with in order to best focus the piece towards their target teenage audience. The film’s impact already boasts massive social media reach, with over 31.6m views of the campaign online and the engagement of hundreds of schools that are actively educating and spreading awareness of this pervasive issue. The ingenuity of Branderhorst’s campaign film which has undoubtedly led to its success,...

Panchayat Season 2 Delivered The Best Rated Episode Of The Web Series (Photo Credit – IMDb)

Panchayat Season 3 is all set to drop today, and before you jump to this season, we thought of giving you a quick recap of everything that happened in Season 2. The show, led by Jitendra Kumar, has a rating of 8.9 on IMDb and is considered one of the classics of Indian Ott content.

Panchayat Season 2 – Best Moments

The second season we witnessed Sachiv Ji strengthening a bond with Pradhan Ji’s family as an extended family member and hinting at a romance between Abhishek and Rinki (Pradhan Ji’s daughter). However, Abhishek dismisses it. Later, he gets involved in the village development by installing CCTV and making roads while trying to handle the main villain, Bhushan, and his wife, Kranti, who belong to the opposite group.

This season also saw the antagonists on the rise with Vidhayak...

David Simon is developing a new series at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively.

Simon is attached to write and executive produce the drama project, currently titled “The System.” Lily Thorne and Larissa MacFarquhar will also write and co-executive produce, with Kiese Laymon also attached to write.

The project is based on a series of New Yorker articles written by MacFarquhar. The official description states that the show “will examine the foster care and child protective service systems from the viewpoint of family court judges and lawyers, as well as social workers, caretakers, mothers, and the children themselves, and will probe the risks and benefits of removing children from families of origin.”

Should the project move forward, it would be Simon’s ninth HBO series. He is perhaps best known for his work on the critically-acclaimed series “The Wire,” which aired for five seasons at the premium cabler. He most recently...

HBO's miniseries are mandatory viewing for TV fans, with blockbuster hits like Game of Thrones and The Last of Us setting the standard. Short-form TV allows movie stars to shine on HBO, like Al Pacino in Angels in America and Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown. Historical dramas like The Pacific and John Adams bring real events to life, with band of Brothers recognized as one of TV's best miniseries ever.

No television network has perfected the miniseries like HBO, with many of their releases so great that they should be considered mandatory viewing for TV fans. HBO has been known for its prestige quality television for decades, with series like The Sopranos, Succession, and The Wire standing out as some of the best TV shows ever made. The network has distinguished itself with consistently excellent shows, managing to develop series that are both Award caliber and culturally appealing, with...

Mads Mikkelsen confirms that Bryan Fuller "has a few ideas" for Hannibal season 4, giving hope for its revival. The cast and crew are eager to return to the show, but are waiting for the right opportunity to find a home for it. Despite the long wait, Mikkelsen's confidence in Fuller's vision suggests that Hannibal may finally come back after nearly a decade.

After years of on and off talks about a revival, Mads Mikkelsen offers a very promising update on Hannibal season 4's chances. Loosely based on Thomas Harris' novel series surrounding the titular character, the NBC horror-thriller show scored rave reviews during its three-season run, but never showed strong ratings for the network, being cancelled after a literal cliffhanger ending. The years since have resulted in talks from Mikkelsen, co-star Hugh Dancy and creator Bryan Fuller about a potential season 4 revival or movie expansion.

During a recent interview...

This year, for the first time ever, multiple limited series have each received two simultaneous directing Emmy nominations. These history-making programs – “Beef” and “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” – are both Netflix productions that have amassed 13 TV academy notices apiece, with this being one of eight categories in which they are directly facing off. While it is true that only one of this category’s previous multi-nominated series actually won, the fact that these two new shows take up a majority of their lineup’s slots might very well yield an unusual result.

Either Netflix series would bring the streaming platform its third limited program directing win, following the success of “Unorthodox” in 2020 and “The Queen’s Gambit” in 2021. Also in the running are the category’s first Hulu original movie, “Prey,” and the FX series “Fleishman is in Trouble,” which also hails from a network that has already prevailed here twice.

The Primetime Emmys are not necessarily known for honoring projects featuring casts that are primarily minority/people of color. The TV academy has never, for instance, given the Best Drama Series trophy to such a show. The statuette for Best Comedy Series has been won by a series featuring a largely minority cast precisely once: “The Cosby Show” in 1985. But the category of top limited/anthology/miniseries has paid golden tribute to programs with mostly minority casts a handful of times before, helping give Netflix’s “Beef” with its predominantly Asian American lineup a genuine shot to take home the biggest prize.

“Beef” tied with “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” for the most nominations among all non-regular series programs with 13. It’s presently in the lead among Gold Derby voters in the limited series race with 16/5 combined odds. Its star Ali Wong is also in first place among limited lead actresses,...

The 2023 BAFTA TV Awards took place at Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday evening, honoring the best performances in British television in 2022. The ceremony, which was hosted by comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, paid tribute to an eclectic mix of popular British shows and international hits.

The third and final season of “Derry Girls” was a big winner, with Lisa McGee’s Netflix-distributed series winning Best Scripted Comedy and Best Female Performance In a Comedy Program for Siobhán Mcsweeney.

Kate Winslet also had a big night, winning Best Leading Actress for her role in the Channel 4 series “I Am Ruth.” The series was also honored with a win in the Single Drama category. Best Leading Actor went to Ben Whishaw for his work on “This Is Going to Hurt.” Netflix’s “Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” won Best International Series.

On the unscripted side,...

David Simon tweeted from a WGA strike picket line on Monday that his deal with HBO has been suspended after 25 years with the cable channel. Simon is behind such prestige HBO TV as “The Wire,” “We Own this City” and “Treme,” and won two Emmys for his series “The Corner.”

“On the day that HBO called to suspend my deal after 25 years of writing television for them, I was doing the write thing,” he wrote in a caption to a video of writers chanting, “No contract, no peace.” Simon is not seen in the video he apparently shot himself.

According to an individual familiar with the situation at HBO, some suspensions have been made by phone call, but that letters to that effect have not yet been sent.

#WGAStrong. On the day that HBO called to suspend my deal after 25 years of writing television for them, I was doing the write thing.

Los Angeles, May 4 (Ians) Tasha Smith will join Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the latest installment of Sony Pictures’ ‘Bad Boys’ franchise, reports ‘Variety’.

In ‘Bad Boys 4’, Smith will play Theresa, Marcus Burnett’s (Lawrence) loving and devoted wife, a role previously inhabited by Theresa Randle in the first three ‘Bad Boys’ films. Plot details for ‘Bad Boys 4’ have been kept under wraps.

Smith, according to ‘Variety’, is best known for her roles as Carol in the drama series ‘Empire’, Ronnie Boyce in HBO’s Emmy-winning series ‘The Corner’ and Angela in Tyler Perry’s ‘Why Did I Get Married?’. She has also directed episodes of ‘Our Kind of People’, ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ and ‘Bel-Air’.

The ‘Bad Boys’ series has Will Smith and Lawrence playing Miami-Dade detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett. The fourth film also features Paola Nunez, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig and ‘Euphoria’ star Eric Dane.

The buddy cop action sequel, Bad Boys 4, will recast one of its long-standing characters, it has been revealed. According to Variety, Empire star Tasha Smith will star as Martin Lawrence’s devoted wife Theresa in the follow-up, taking over from Theresa Randle who has portrayed the character ever since the franchise began back in 1995.

Tasha Smith, who is best known for roles in the likes Empire, The Corner, Power, and First Wives Club on the small screen as well as Why Did I Get Married?, Couples Retreat, and Dolemite Is My Name on the big screen, joins Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys 4, for which plot details are currently being kept under wraps.

While there had been some skepticism over whether Bad Boys 4 would happen following Will Smith’s Oscars behavior and “the slap heard around the world,” the action sequel was confirmed back in January.

eOne and Crime Story Media have partnered with LAist 89.3, Los Angeles’ number one NPR station and podcast company Acast to present the original podcast series, Night Raid. Night Raid tells the story of a chaotic 2014 Swat raid on a home in San Gabriel that resulted in the death of Pomona Police Officer Shaun Diamond and the incarceration of David Martinez.

While the critical moments in the operation occurred in a matter of seconds, the story spans decades - from a contentious relationship between the Atf and a motorcycle club in the the 70’s to two explosive murder trials in 2019 and 2022.

Each week, the series unpacks aspects of that story using interviews, testimony reenactments, and jailhouse and police recordings.

The series is hosted by Molly Miller, who wrote the CrimeStory.com series, “Mongol – The Trial of David Martinez,” upon which the podcast is based. Crime Story Media’s Publisher and Editor,...

Tasha Smith will join Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in the latest installment of Sony Pictures’ “Bad Boys” franchise.

In “Bad Boys 4,” Smith will play Theresa, Marcus Burnett’s (Lawrence) loving and devoted wife, a role previously inhabited by Theresa Randle in the first three “Bad Boys” films. Plot details for “Bad Boys 4” have been kept under wraps.

Smith is best known for her roles as Carol in the drama series “Empire,” Ronnie Boyce in HBO’s Emmy-winning series “The Corner” and Angela in Tyler Perry’s “Why Did I Get Married?” She has also directed episodes of “Our Kind of People,” “Mayor of Kingstown” and “Bel-Air.”

Smith is repped by Greene Talent & Fox Rothschild.

The “Bad Boys” series stars Will Smith and Lawrence as Miami-Dade detectives Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett. The fourth film also features Paola Núnez, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig and “Euphoria’s” Eric Dane.

Lance Reddick, a character actor most known for his role as Cedric Daniels on The Wire, has died at the age of 60.

His representative, Mia Hansen, said he passed away on Friday morning “from natural causes.”

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Reddick started his acting career in the 90s with appearances in The West Wing and New York Undercover.

Later on, he moved from his hometown in Baltimore to New York. There, he auditioned for David Simon for a role in The Corner, an HBO show that came two years before The Wire.

Reddick didn’t get the part, but he did earn his first recurring role on HBO’s Oz, where he portrayed an undercover detective.

Simon eventually cast Reddick in his breakout role as Narcotics Unit Lt. Daniels on The Wire. Although the show never became a hit, it received critical acclaim and grew in popularity after its run.

The world lost one hell of an actor when Lance Reddick passed away at the age of 60 from natural causes on March 17, 2023. The news hit the entertainment industry with pulverizing force, given that Reddick had been doing press for "John Wick: Chapter 4" throughout the week. But his death was especially difficult to comprehend because he cut such a powerful figure in every role. Reddick was in full stride as a character actor, as vital an onscreen force as there was in film and television. This is a profoundly cruel loss.

Reddick was so wonderful in so many things that, as a critic, you feel obliged to point your readership towards his lesser-seen work on "The Corner" and "Corporate." But all that was on my mind when I learned of his passing was Cedric Daniels on "The Wire": the firm, moral, yet institutionally savvy Baltimore police officer who risks...

Lance Reddick, the deep-voiced actor who classed up any film or TV series he appeared in — and he appeared in some classics — has died. He was 60.

Born in 1962 in Baltimore, Reddick's initial passion was for music; he attended the Peabody Preparatory Institute and completed a summer program on music theory and composition at the Walden School as a teenager. After earning his Bachelor of Music degree from Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, he relocated to Boston, Massachusetts in the 1980s to start attending the Yale School of Drama in 1991.

Reddick began his screen career in the mid-1990s, guesting on such series as The Nanny and New York Undercover. Later in the decade, he appeared on the big screen in films including Great Expectations and The Siege before recurring on HBO’s Emmy-winning 2000 miniseries The Corner, which was based on David Simon’s book. The same year,...

Refresh for updates... The Wire actors Wendell Pierce and Isiah Whitlock Jr. and creator-ep David Simon are among the Hollywood colleagues, friends and fans paying tribute to John Wick and The Wire star Lance Reddick, who died today at 60.

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“A man of great strength and grace,” writes The Wire co-star Wendell Pierce. “As talented a musician as he was an actor. The epitome of class. A sudden unexpected sharp painful grief for our artistic family. An unimaginable suffering for his personal family and loved ones. Godspeed my friend. You made your mark here. Rip”

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Lance Reddick, a prolific actor who played Charon in all four John Wick films and was a series regular on The Wire, Fringe and Bosch among dozens of other roles spanning a quarter-century, died today. He was 60.

His rep at Portrait PR confirmed the news, saying he died of natural causes but not providing other details.

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The actor had been doing interviews for the upcoming John Wick: Chapter Four starring Keanu Reeves just this week. He also was set to appear in the franchise-spinoff pic Ballerina.

Reddick began his screen career in the mid-1990s, guesting on such series as The Nanny and New York Undercover.

Two decades beyond its pilot episode, HBO crime drama "The Wire" signaled a creative upheaval in cable TV. Called the great American novel put on screen by some and a Greek tragedy writ large by others, the show explored, in uncommon depth, the social and political nuances of the failed "war on drugs" that had been chugging along since 1971. Focused on an array of Baltimore characters and unpacking a different institution over each of its five seasons, creator David Simon and a formidable team of writers defied the neatly enclosed constraints of episodic television and proved viewers can immerse and invest themselves into a cumulative narrative that builds upon the last. It's a conceit that found success with concurrent HBO series like "The Sopranos" and "Oz," the latter of which had a greater influence on "The Wire" than anyone knew.

In a 20th anniversary interview with the New York Times,...

Over its five seasons in the early aughts, David Simon's HBO series "The Wire" threw viewers off every now and then. The creator originally sold the show to HBO CEO Chris Albrecht and entertainment division president Carolyn Strauss as an inverted cop-and-criminal drama -- one that broadened the horizons of Simon's previous Emmy-winning HBO series, itself an adaptation of his 1997 book co-written with homicide detective Ed Burns. 

In print and on screen, "The Corner" cast an exasperated glare over the war on drugs, showcasing its failure through the distilled microcosm of a destitute Baltimore family -- what "The Corner" director Charles S....

The post Fans Weren't The Only People Put Off By The Wire's Seasonal Whiplash appeared first on /Film.

Scripted limited-run dramas inspired by recent, buzzy true-crime tales have recently oversaturated the market. And yet for as many as there are, notably few have drawn from what is arguably America’s most consequential (and most intractable) criminal justice phenomenon. The problem of dysfunctional policing and its disproportionate impact on communities of color has been largely ignored by scripted television, save for occasional arcs on the fictional police dramas whose rose-tinted views of police work have contributed to that very issue. (The quality of such well-intentioned episodes generally ranges between “Not totally humiliating” and “May induce cringe spasms.”)

The recent exception is “When They See Us,” Ava DuVernay’s gut-wrenching retelling of the Central Park Five case, which remains a potent example of how myopic and flawed police investigations can ruin lives. That show drew its power from how relevant the issues it explored remain three decades since the real-life incident that inspired it.

It’s disappointing to report that, contrary to its IMDb page, Treat Williams does not appear in all six episodes of “We Own This City,” George Pelecanos and David Simon’s new HBO miniseries, adapted from the book by Justin Fenton. But the good news is that when he finally does turn up in the penultimate episode, the show has generated such weight that his appearance has the proper power; for an epic saga of police corruption, nothing could feel more like the Pope giving his blessing than a cameo by the star of “Prince of the City.”

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And that 1981 Sidney Lumet film really does feel like the template for “We Own This City,” perhaps more than Simon’s previous work – even “The Wire,” its most obvious point of comparison, to say nothing of the cops-and-dealers angles of “The Corner” or...

Exclusive: Vivian Bang, the co-writer and star of the Sundance Film Festival debut White Rabbit, has boarded the New Line ensemble comedy The Parenting for HBO Max.

She joins Brian Cox, Edie Falco, Lisa Kudrow, Dean Norris, Nik Dodani, Brandon Flynn and Parker Posey in the Craig Johnson directed, Kent Sublette scripted movie.

In the pic, a young couple, Rohan and Josh, host a “meet the parents” weekend at a cozy rental house in the country, only to find it is already inhabited by a 400-year-old poltergeist.

Chris Bender and Jake Weiner are producing via their Good Fear Content

Bang played played the role of ‘Jenny’ in Netflix’s hit romcom Always Be My Maybe with Ali Wong, Randall Park, Keanu Reeves and recently appeared on HBO’s comedy series Room 104. She starred in the Warner Bros./TB sitcom Sullivan and Son for three Seasons and as ‘Sun,’ a...

Dune, West Side Story and Nightmare Alley were among the big film winners at the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ 69th Golden Reel Awards, which were handed out during a virtual ceremony tonight. See the full list below.

Denis Villeneuve’s Warner Bros epic Dune won for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing – Feature Effects/Foley, Guillermo del Toro’s noir remake Nightmare Alley picked up the trophy for

Feature Dialogue/Adr, and Steven Spielberg’s Warner Bros musical redo West Side Story took the Feature Music prize.

Other feature film winners tonight included Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon (Animation), Greenwich Entertainment’s The Rescue (Documentary) and China’s Cliff Walkers (Foreign Language).

Small-screen Golden Reel winners included HBO’s Succession, Netflix’s The Witcher and Love, Death + Robots, Amazon’s The Underground Railroad, Disney+’s The Beatles Get Back, Paramount+’s Infinite and Hulu’s Only Murders in the...

The Motion Picture Sound Editors said today that Anthony “Chic” Ciccolini III will receive the 2022 Mpse Career Achievement Award during the group’s annual awards ceremony in March.

Ciccolini has designed and edited sound for scores of films and TV shows and is best known for his long association with filmmaker Ron Howard. He has served as supervising sound editor on a dozen Howard-director films ranging from the 1986 comedy Gung Ho and Apollo 13, to Best Picture Oscar winner A Beautiful Mind and 2011’s The Dilemma.

Howard is being honored with this year’s Mpse Filmmaker Award.

“From the heart-pounding excitement of Apollo 13 to the infectious wit of Sex and the City, Chic Ciccolini has consistently found imaginative ways to enrich stories with sound,” Mpse president Mark Lanza said. “He puts his heart and soul into every project and has served as a generous mentor to many of his industry peers.

“The Wire’s” Felicia Pearson and Ed Burns are teaming up to develop a limited series based on Pearson’s life, Variety has learned exclusively.

The show is currently titled “A.K.A. Snoop” and would delve into the hardship Pearson endured growing up in Baltimore. Burns and Pearson are co-writing the series. Burns will executive produce along with Philip Michelson of Moondog Films. No network or streaming service is currently attached.

Born three months premature to a crack addicted mother, Pearson was given little chance of survival at birth. She ultimately grew up as a gay Black woman in a foster home in a neighborhood plagued by drugs and violence. She dealt drugs as a teenager before being convicted of second degree murder and spending over six years in prison.

After her release, she met “The Wire” star Michael K. Williams, who brought her to the set. She was subsequently written into the show,...

David Simon isn’t messing with Texas, he’s done with the place — at least as a location.

The Wire creator took to social media this week to announce and reiterate he will not film an upcoming Lone Star-set HBO project in the state due to the odious abortion ban law recently put in place.

If an employer, this is beyond politics. I’m turning in scripts next month on an HBO non-fiction miniseries based on events in Texas, but I can’t and won’t ask female cast/crew to forgo civil liberties to film there. What else looks like Dallas/Ft. Worth? https://t.co/q6Py6XikYh

— David Simon (@AoDespair) September 20, 2021

Already heading to the courts due to a challenge by the federal government and at least two suits arising out of a San Antonio physician revealing in the press this past weekend that he had recently performed an abortion in Texas,...

The Primetime Emmy Awards were unable to capitalize on its historic and diverse nomination fields, with all major acting trophies going to white actors.

Actors that were seen as solid contenders included Billy Porter and Mj Rodriguez (“Pose”), the late Michael K. Williams (“Lovecraft Country”) and Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang (“Saturday Night Live”) — but in the end, all ended up empty-handed.

Michaela Coel, nominated for four Emmys, picked up the writing limited category for “I May Destroy You,” the third time a Black creative has won the category and first for a Black woman. Past Black winners have included David Mills (“The Corner”), Anthony Hemingway (“American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson”) and Stephen Williams and Christal Henry (“Watchmen”).

A record number of 49 non-Anglo creatives were recognized in the acting and reality competition categories. While many didn’t expect anyone to unseat Jason Sudeikis (“Ted Lasso”), Jean Smart...

Variety's Awards Circuit is home to the official predictions for the upcoming Emmys ceremonies from film awards editor Clayton Davis. Following history, buzz, news, reviews and sources, the Emmy predictions are updated regularly with the current year's list of contenders in all categories. Variety's Awards Circuit Prediction schedule consists of four phases, running all year long: Draft, Pre-Season, Regular Season and Post Season. The eligibility calendar and dates of awards will determine how long each phase lasts and is subject to change.

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Awards Prediction Commentary: Enjoying his very first Emmy nomination for directing,...

In this era when the lines have blurred between film, television, and streaming entertainment, it’s increasingly common for artists to cross over between the different media. And this year is no exception. In the last decade, filmmakers Steve McQueen and Barry Jenkins won Oscars for their historic films “12 Years a Slave” (2013) and “Moonlight” (2016), respectively. Now they could win Emmys for “Small Axe” and “The Underground Railroad.”

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McQueen won Best Picture as a producer of “12 Years a Slave,” which made him the first (and to date only) Black producer to win that award. It was also the first film by a Black director to win Best Picture. Now he’s an Emmy contender for Amazon’s “Small Axe,” his five-film anthology that explores the experiences of West Indian immigrants in England. It was so loved...

The ongoing social media debate about which urban crime drama is better — Snowfall or The Wire — is happening in large part because the former is arguably enjoying its best season to date.

The fact that the FX offering, with its Season 4 finale airing this Wednesday (10/9c), is drawing comparisons to one of the most compelling shows to ever air on television is a testament to the late Snowfall co-creator John Singleton’s ability to build a series that has strengthened over time. Last week’s penultimate episode, for instance, charged into our living rooms with nonstop tension and three bloody deaths.

AT&T TV has become the official overall brand partner for The Crib Around the Corner (Tcatc), TikTok’s first all-Black creator house. The company–a division of AT&T that comprises its streaming TV offerings in the U.S.–will sponsor Tcatc’s five creators until Aug. 31, 2021. Tcatc launched last month, and includes TikTokers Dare Ajibare (one million followers), […]

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David Simon and George Pelecanos are returning to HBO — and Baltimore — with a limited series based on the true story of the infamous Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force, Variety has learned from sources.

Simon and Pelecanos will write and executive produce the drama, which is titled “We Own This City.” It is based on the book of the same name by journalist Justin Fenton.

HBO declined to comment.

The series brings Simon and Pelecanos back to the streets of Baltimore, with the pair previously having worked together on the iconic HBO series “The Wire.” Simon created and executive produced the series, with Pelecanos having worked on the show as a writer and producer. The pair also worked together on the HBO drama “Treme” and “The Deuce” for the premium cabler. Simon co-created and executive produced “Treme” and “The Deuce,” while Pelecanos was a writer and executive producer on the former...

During his monologue Tuesday, Jimmy Kimmel talked a lot about all the recent stupid or bad things Donald Trump has done (it’s a lot). And while it was all pretty unsettling, Kimmel managed to put a fun spin on one them with a supercut of all the times Trump has incorrectly claimed that the U.S. is “rounding the corner” when it comes to Covid-19.

“Even though the pandemic appears to be getting worse, even though the virus is on the rise, in almost every state and all over the world, fear not, because the president says we’re rounding the corner,” Kimmel said during his monologue to introduce the gag.

The clip, featuring jaunty whistle music, showed more than 20 times Trump has used the phrase. At first, it would just show video footage of Trump saying it, but as the supercut continued Kimmel began interspersing footage of horrible...

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since the beginning of this millennium, but it has indeed been two decades since our worries about Y2K were over, and our world had not yet been impacted by the tragic events of September 11, 2001. In the year in-between these historical events, “Mission Impossible 2,” “Gladiator” and “Cast Away” ruled the big screen, while on the small screen now-classic comedies drew us to our TV sets each week, the popularity of cable television was becoming a huge influence on the medium, we rooted for a beloved TV star with a surprising challenge and a new series dominated the 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards on September 10, 2000.

Garry Shandling hosted the event in which “The West Wing” dominated as the big winner, with record-breaking wins in its freshman season. Winning its first of four consecutive Emmys for Best Drama Series, the presidential drama beat out established favorites “ER,...

The Plot Against America, earned a single Emmy nomination for cinematography on July 28, two decades ago, David Simon's first HBO project, 2000's The Corner, earned four noms and won three Emmys — for outstanding miniseries; outstanding directing for a miniseries, movie or a special (for Charles S. Dutton); and outstanding writing for a miniseries or a movie (for Simon and David Mills).

The corner in question refers to the junction of Fayette and Monroe streets in Baltimore, where Simon, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, and his co-writer, former Baltimore police detective Ed Burns,...

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This year marks the 20th anniversary of Allison Janney winning her first (of seven!) Emmy Awards. The future Oscar winner was part of “The West Wing” sweep at the 52nd Emmys, which took place September 10, 2000 in ABC’s ceremony hosted by Garry Shandling. Heading into the ceremony many awards pundits thought HBO’s “The Sopranos” would prevail after being bested the previous year by ABC’s “The Practice.” However, it was yet another victory for broadcast networks as NBC’s political drama triumphed for what would be a record-tying run of four consecutive wins. (“The Sopranos” would have to wait until 2004 to finally be named TV’s Best Drama Series.) Watch Janney’s Emmys flashback video above.

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Clutching her trophy at the podium, Janney proclaimed, “I’m standing here for one reason, because of the sheer inspiration I’ve received from watching other actresses over my life,...

David Simon is an Emmy-winning writer and producer whom critics have praised for decades, but to date the only Emmys he has won were Best Miniseries and Best Movie/Mini Writing for “The Corner” back in 2000. Can he finally get back into the winner’s circle with his latest limited series “The Plot Against America” with its timely subject matter?

That’s right, Simon hasn’t won an Emmy in 20 years, which means he didn’t win for “The Wire,” he didn’t win for “Treme,” he didn’t win for “Generation Kill,” he didn’t win for “Show Me a Hero,” and he hasn’t won for “The Deuce.” Of all those slights, “The Wire” probably looks the most egregious in hindsight since it is remembered as one of the most accomplished dramas of television’s post-“Sopranos” golden era. He did receive two writing nominations for it — one...

Exclusive: Rome and Generation Kill executive producer Anne Thomopoulos is reuniting with her former HBO boss Chris Albrecht at Legendary Global.

Thomopoulos has joined the joint venture between Legendary and Albrecht as a partner, and comes from CAA’s Global Television department. She has been tasked with focusing on identifying and acquiring international content that Legendary Global can develop, produce and finance for local and global platforms.

Thomopoulos and Albrecht are reuniting after a successful run together at HBO, where Albrecht served as chairman and CEO and Thomopoulos created and oversaw the network’s dramatic series department. Kicking off with Oz, she first established HBO’s miniseries division with projects including From the Earth to the Moon, Band of Brothers and The Corner, before going on to exec produce Rome and Generation Kill.

She subsequently served as exec producer on Camelot for Starz, where she had a first-look producing deal.

Carmi Zlotnik has signed an exclusive producer deal at Apple TV Plus, Variety has confirmed.

The news comes days after it was announced that he would be stepping down president of programming at Starz. Zlotnik’s deal with Apple will begin next month, as he transitions from his post at the premium cabler.

Zlotnik has been with Starz since 2010, overseeing the development and production of “Power,” “Outlander,” “American Gods,” “Vida,” “The Girlfriend Experience,” “The White Queen,” “Black Sails,” “Magic City,” and ”Spartacus,” in addition to the forthcoming “High Town,” and “Power” spinoffs, including “Power, Book II: Ghost.”

Prior to Zlotnik’s time at Starz, he served as head of operations for global media at Img, and before that, as an exec at HBO. At HBO, he served as executive vice president of new media programming and exec VP of creative operations, business development and new media, and helped to kickstart...

Exclusive: Carmi Zlotnik, who just stepped down as President of Programming at Starz, has signed an exclusive producer deal with Apple. Zlotnik’s deal with Apple will begin next month, as he transitions from his post at the Lionsgate-owned network. The pact comes as the streamer is looking to expand its slate of originals worldwide.

Since joining Starz in 2010, Zlotnik oversaw the development and production of such series as Power, Outlander, American Gods, Vida, The Girlfriend Experience, The White Queen limited series franchise, Black Sails, Magic City and Spartacus as well as upcoming High Town, and the Power spinoffs including Power, Book II: Ghost.

Zlotnik arrived at Starz following a stint at Img as Head of Operations for Global Media. Prior to Img, he had a long tenure at HBO where he held various senior management positions, including Evp New Media Programming and Evp Creative Operations, Business Development & New Media,...

Carmi Zlotnik, Starz’s president of programming, is exiting the company after a decade with the premium cabler to “pursue new creative endeavors,” Variety has learned.

Zlotnik has been with the company since 2010, overseeing the development and production of “Power,” “Outlander,” “American Gods,” “Vida,” “The Girlfriend Experience,” “The White Queen,” “Black Sails,” “Magic City,” and ”Spartacus,” in addition to the forthcoming “High Town,” and “Power” spinoffs, including “Power, Book II: Ghost.”

He will consult with Starz to support the transition, according to the company. Zlotnik’s exit follows the departure, nearly a year ago, of Starz CEO Chris Albrecht, after which the top post was left vacant.

“Carmi’s track record speaks for itself,” said Jeffrey Hirsch, Starz’s president and CEO, in a statement. “He has been a valued member of the Starz team for nearly a decade, helping to build the Starz original programming team and strategy from...

Exclusive: Carmi Zlotnik, President of Programming at Starz, will be leaving the Lionsgate-owned network after 10 years. Zlotnik will be exiting his post at the end of the month but will continue to consult with Starz throughout the transition while firming up his next career move.

.Zlotnik’s departure has been in the works for awhile. He became the most senior Starz executive with programming background following the March 2019 departure of CEO Chris Albrecht. Zlotnik has been working closely with Jeffrey Hirsch, who has been running the premium network since Albrecht’s exit, first in his previous role as COO and currently as Starz President and CEO, a position Hirsch was promoted to in September. During that period, Zlotnik continued to shepherd Starz’s development and current series while also exploring new career opportunities. Meanwhile, Hirsch’s search for a new top programming executive is well underway. He is expected...

Exclusive: Former For Better or Worse star Tasha Smith is set as a series regular opposite Whitney Cummings and Lisa Kudrow in Good People, Amazon’s half-hour comedy pilot from Empire co-creator Lee Daniels and 2 Broke Girls co-creator Cummings, Amazon Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios.

Written by Daniels and Cummings, Good People revolves around three generations of women — played by Kudrow, Cummings and Totah — working in the ombudsman’s office of a college that navigates the current cultural climate, the concept of feminism across different generations and the struggle to reconcile socially constructed ideas with current ethical views regarding complex issues such as sex, race, class and gender.

Smith will play Shar Johnson, head of the campus health center. She and Hazel Miller (Cummings) are friends from when they went to college there. Shar is exasperated by PC culture and the focus on performative activism, instead of “real” problems...

The true-crime limited series “When They See Us” has received glowing reviews from critics, and because it premiered on May 31 on Netflix, the last day of Emmy eligibility, it has a chance to be honored by the television academy this summer too. But one race might be especially historic. Only five black women have ever been nominated for a Primetime Emmy for directing, but none have won. So if Ava DuVernay prevails this year for Best Movie/Mini Directing, it would be unprecedented.

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The five nominated women were as follows:

Debbie Allen — “The Debbie Allen Special”

Millicent Shelton — “30 Rock”

Dee Rees — “Bessie”

Beyonce — “Lemonade”

Ava DuVernay — “13th”

DuVernay won two Emmys for the criminal justice documentary “13th” — Best Documentary Special and Best Nonfiction Writing — but the directing prize went instead to Ezra Edelman (“O.J.: Made in America...

Exclusive: Kary Antholis, President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, will be leaving the company after more than 25 years. Following Antholis’ exit, HBO Films president Len Amato will expand his current role to also assume Antholis’ responsibilities in his new post as President, HBO Films, Miniseries and Cinemax Programming.

“Len has had a distinguished career leading HBO Films to award-winning results,” said HBO President of Programming Casey Bloys. “He is uniquely qualified to add HBO Miniseries and Cinemax to his responsibilities; and we are thrilled that he will now be overseeing these three areas.”

The departure of Antholis comes amidst sweeping changes at WarnerMedia following At&T’s acquisition of Time Warner, which have included the recent arrival of Bob Greenblatt as chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment and Direct to Consumer, overseeing HBO, and the departure of HBO CEO Richard Plepler.

Antholis, who will stay through June, was among a number of veteran...

The National Review offered an apology to the students of Covington Catholic High School on Tuesday after deputy managing editor Nick Frankovich wrote that their behavior toward Omaha tribal elder Nathan Phillips had been comparable to spitting on the cross.

“In this business, all we can do is own up to mistakes when they happen. We apologize to our readers and especially to the Covington students, who didn’t need us piling on,” the magazine’s editors wrote in a piece titled “The Covington Affair.”

“Nick was operating off the best version of events he had on Saturday night, and writing as a faithful Catholic and pro-lifer who has the highest expectations of his compatriots, not as a social-justice activist,” they continued. “As soon as better evidence emerged, we deleted the post.”

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