NFL Regular Season Games Draw Record Viewers For Broadcast & Streaming – Deadline
If there’s one thing the broadcast networks can rely on, it’s pro football. The NFL regular season came to an end over the weekend, after delivering record-breaking viewership for 18 weeks across Fox, NBC and CBS. CBS managed an impressive 23.5M average total viewers for…
Supreme Court Sides with Defense on Death Row Case
The state forensics lab that handled the evidence in Areli Escobar’s capital case was so bad that Texas officials closed it for good five years after a jury sentenced the then 32-year-old to death in 2011. The evidence in the case was so tenuous that…
Broadway Box Office Drops Back To Earth After Holiday Week – Deadline
Broadway box office took the expected drop last week, declining nearly 30% (to $37,394,931) from the previous week’s holiday-pumped $52M figure. Attendance for the 32 shows was down about 12% (to 275,834), but remained at a solid 92% of total capacity. The reason for the…
Read Samuel D. Hunter’s Screenplay For Brendan Fraser Movie – Deadline
Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races. Darren Aronofsky held the movie rights to Samuel D. Hunter’s award-winning 2012 play The Whale for a decade before he finally got the elements he…
Imagine Television Ups Natalie Berkus To Senior Vice President – Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: Television executive and producer Natalie Berkus has been promoted to Senior Vice President at Imagine Television, where she will continue to develop series across both drama and comedy. “We’re thrilled for Natalie to be growing her role within the Imagine TV team,” said Kristen…
Gains & Growing Pains – Deadline
A flying ace, rampaging dinosaurs, Marvel, DC, Minions and battling blue aliens on a distant planet were among the highlights of 2022 for the Hollywood studios at the global and international box office. Still, it was yet another year of transition, with worldwide grosses reaching…
Scientists Uncover the Most Compact Ultracool Dwarf Binary System in Existence
An extraordinary finding in the world of astronomy reveals the closest binary star system yet discovered, with two ultracool dwarf stars revolving around each other in a remarkably short period of time. These two stars are in such proximity that a complete orbit takes less…
C-SPAN Returns To Government-Controlled Feed Of U.S. House Proceedings – Deadline
UPDATE: C-SPAN has formally asked House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to cover floor proceedings by installing a few additional cameras in the chamber. The letter from C-SPAN co-CEO Susan Swain follows widespread praise that the network received for its coverage of last week’s speaker vote. Because…
No Apocalypse On ‘Megalopolis – Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: “I love my cast, I love what I’m getting each day, I am on schedule and on budget, and that’s what is important to me,” Francis Ford Coppola told Deadline from the Atlanta set of Megalopolis. The iconic filmmaker disputed a trade report that…
Gavin Newsom Unveils California Film & TV Tax Credit Program Extension & Refunds – Deadline
A projected $22.5 billion deficit has California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposing some belt-tightening and program cuts, but the financial sun is still shining bright on the state’s more than $400 million film and television tax credits program. Putting forth a $297 billion 2023-24 state budget…