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EXCLUSIVE: German doc maker Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion is lining up feature-length projects on former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and another from the UK’s Lucy, the Human Chimp director Alex Parkinson. Deadline can reveal the Reeperbahn Special Unit 65 producer, which we last week reported had sold to Leonine Studios, is working on The Netanyahu Paradox and Lost at Sea – The Longest

Trevor Noah has set his exit date. The Daily Show host will end his time in the hot-seat on Thursday December 8. It comes after the comedian surprised everyone, including his ViacomCBS boss Chris McCarthy and his colleagues, after announcing his departure during an afternoon taping on September 29. Noah shocked late-night fans by announcing

Maya Jama has been named the next host of the UK’s Love Island. Jama replaces Laura Whitmore, who left earlier this year citing “certain elements of the show I’ve found very difficult that cannot be changed.” Jama is the third host of ITV Studios-produced Love Island since its reboot several years ago and will take

More than three years after Reed Hastings said Netflix wants to be on BARB, the UK ratings agency has its wish. BARB will begin reporting Netflix ratings data in the same way it reports local UK broadcasters, digital channels and pay-TV platforms from November 1. BARB subscribers will be able to see overall viewing to

EXCLUSIVE: ITV Studios is taking celeb drag contests international through British reality format Queens For the Night. Ahead of Mipcom next week, the Love Island firm has taken production rights in each territory where it has a non-scripted production base and distribution rights for the format and finished versions (excluding the UK) worldwide. In the

Another wave of Warner Bros Discovery post-merger layoffs is coming. We hear multiple divisions of the merged company will be impacted, with Warner Bros. Television Group considered a main target. The staff reductions are expected this week, as soon as Tuesday. Speculation about the pending downsizing started spreading like wildfire Monday morning. Reps for WBD and

Comedy star John Cleese is returning to British TV by making a show for right-leaning channel GB News. The Monty Python and Fawlty Towers star, who campaigns against ‘wokeism’ and ‘cancel culture,’ will become a presenter on the network, which launched in the UK last year with an ethos to present an alternative to rivals

The Titans will be returning to HBO Max starting Thursday, November 3 for their fourth season, the streaming platform confirmed. After the two-episode premiere, one episode will be dropped weekly through December 1. More episodes from Season 4 will be released in 2023. Watch a teaser trailer for the brand-new season in the video posted

Britain’s favourite cookery show has been accused of cultural appropriation by some of the country’s top Mexican chefs. The Great British Bake Off aired a Mexican-themed episode this week in the UK, with the contestants’ dishes including tacos and tequila. In addition, hosts Matt Lucas and Noel Fielding wore sombreros, shaking maracas. Adriana Cavita, a

The Walking Dead is airing its final episodes on AMC and the show made a final appearance at New York Comic Con. The network unveiled the Dead City spinoff and also dropped the opening minutes of Episode 1118, which you can preview in the video above. Additionally, the cable network shared preview photos of Episode

Chris Wallace, the CNN Anchor and host of Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? on HBO Max, had a startling confession during his segment on Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher. During a conversation between Maher and Wallace lamenting today’s conservative/liberal polarization of the news, Wallace traced the problem back to the golden days of three major

UPDATED with more testimony. Actor Anthony Rapp detailed what he called an “alarming” episode of sexual coercion involving Kevin Spacey when Rapp was 14 years old to close the second day of testimony in a $40 million lawsuit in U.S. Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan. During about an hour on the witness stand after a

EXCLUSIVE: This year’s Mipcom will place co-productions “front and centre” as the market moves with the times, according to Lucy Smith, who runs the annual RX France event. The Cannes market is introducing a 1000 sqft Producers Hub for the first time – where producers with projects in the early stages can meet and discuss

Cobra Kai topped the Nielsen streaming chart for the week of September 5 to 11, as titles from four competing streaming services surpassed 1 billion minutes of viewing for the first time. The fifth season of Netflix’s Karate Kid reboot drew more than 1.7 billion minutes of streaming from 50 available episodes. Sony Pictures Television’s

EXCLUSIVE: Bernie Ecclestone has slammed Formula 1 documentaries currently on the market and said audiences will prefer the “reality” of his upcoming series Lucky!, which Deadline can reveal has added a trio of broadcast and streaming partners. DAZN, Discovery+ and Star+/ESPN Latin America have boarded the eight-part program, which comes from Senna producer Manish Pandey and tells

Banijay is set to acquire Australia’s Beyond International. The Big Brother and MasterChef firm has entered into a Scheme Implementation Deed to buy Beyond, which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Once the deal closes, Beyond will cease being publicly traded and be a wholly owned subsidiary of Banijay. Financial details were not disclosed.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Director of Local Language Originals for the CEE, Anna Nagler, has outlined the streamer’s ambitions in region, as its biggest drama series from the region, High Water, launches globally today. In an exclusive interview, Nagler said the streamer’s “doors are open” to creatives and their ideas in Central and Eastern Europe, as Netflix pushes

EXCLUSIVE: When a network starts releasing the statistics on views for a trailer, then you know anticipation for a show is pretty freaking big. That’s what the Paramount Network experienced with the release of the season 5 teaser for Yellowstone, which begins with John Dutton (Kevin Costner) swearing in as Montana’s governor. Watch it above.

Federation Studios is producing and distributing a documentary about British rockstar Pete Doherty’s addiction problems. Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin comes from more than 200 hours of footage filmed over a 10-year period by his partner, the director-musician Katia deVidas. The 90-minute show, which launches at Mipcom, will show the Libertines frontman plunging