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'It’s time for change," former Empire star Terrence Howard said today announcing he is suing CAA over allegedly screwing him financially over the hip hop soap's blockbuster six season run.  "We need accountability. We need access. We need to be able to share in the profits." In a press conference…

Jussie Smollett could soon be back behind bars after an Illinois appeals court today backed the ex-Empire actor's disorderly conduct convictions stemming from a faked hate crime and playing fast and loose with the truth with Chicago cops. "We affirm the judgment of the circuit court of Cook County,"…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+ International is investigating Mafia Spies. The streamer has ordered a six-part premium doc series, based on Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro by Thomas Maier, who wrote the book that Showtime's Masters of Sex was based on. The series…

Prime Video has rounded out the fifth and final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel with a stellar list of guest stars and a key recurring. Hank Azaria (Brockmire), Sutton Foster (The Music Man), Darren Criss (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story), Danny Strong (Dopesick) and Sean Gunn…

FX has rounded out the series regular cast for its hourlong pilot The Answers, the network’s adaptation of Catherine Lacey's novel. Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars) is set to star alongside Raul Esparza (Retreat), Krys Marshall (For All Mankind), Melanie Field ( A League Of Their Own), Pallavi Sharda (Weddi…

EXCLUSIVE: David Corenswet has been tapped as the male lead in hourlong pilot The Answers, FX’s adaptation of Catherine Lacey’s novel, from Sorry for Your Loss creator Kit Steinkellner, Dopesick creator Danny Strong, Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky and 20th Television. The story, which…

Catherine Lacey's novel The Answers is being adapted for television by Sorry for Your Loss creator Kit Steinkellner, Dopesick creator Danny Strong and Requiem for a Dream director Darren Aronofsky with Gillian Robespierre (A Teacher) directing. The quartet have scored a pilot order for the project…

For our final TV Talk podcast of the Emmy season, naturally Deadline Chief Film Critic and Awards Columnist Pete Hammond and Deadline Chief TV Critic Dominic Patten thought they would take a shot at calling some key races, not just in terms of what will win, but also in their individual views what should win. And…

With must-see projects like Dopesick, Recount and Game Change under his belt, Danny Strong knows a thing or two about how to craft the perfect, ripped-from-the-headlines yarn that’s sure to generate Emmy heat. Here, the writer-director-actor (what, you don’t remember him from Saved by the Bell: The New Class?) gives a…

Dopesick, the Hulu drama series starring Michael Keaton, Kaitlyn Dever and Peter Sarsgaard, tells the story of the opioid crisis in the U.S. between 1996 and 2007. Creator Danny Strong said during a panel discussion at Deadline's Contenders Television: The Nominees event that there's still a chance of justice against…

The Hulu limited series Dopesick earned a whopping 14 Emmy nominations on Tuesday, including a first-ever directing nod for creator Danny Strong for helming the finale. Here, the two-time Emmy-winning creator behind HBO’s hit movies Game Change and Recount talks about the impact his limited series had on viewers, and…

For many who tuned into Hulu’s Dopesick — the eight-part series about the country’s worst drug epidemic — it probably marked the first time they heard of the Sackler family and the role their pharmaceutical company played. It was a responsibility that both creator Danny Strong (Recount, Game Change) and the cast…