Treegate just became a thing. City Controller Kenneth Mejia has vowed to look into the newly pruned Ficus trees outside of Universal’s Gate 8, after picketers drew attention to their thinned branches while marching in 90-degree-plus heat. Pine trees on the opposite side of Barham weren’t touched, and…

The cottage industry of cable series and streaming documentaries about UFOs may be set for a boom as bi-partisan Congressional efforts aimed at increasing transparency around what the U.S. Government knows about so-called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (previously known as UFOs) have gained major momentum…

After two weeks reigning over Netflix’s English-language series, Season 3 of The Witcher has been dethroned. The Lincoln Lawyer Season 2 is the new champ for the week of July 10 to July 16 with 8.3M views across five episodes. The first five episodes hit Netflix on July 6 and debuted at No. 2 on the l…

Writers Guild of America West members paid more dues than ever before on record earnings in the year before the ongoing strike, although a good part of that may be due to a speed-up in pre-strike production. Exact figures aren't available because the guild did not include earnings and employment…

It's Day 5 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 79 of the WGA strike.  Rachel McAdams, The Simpsons' James L. Brooks, Succession duo Alan Ruck and Justine Lupe, Jaleel White, who played Steve Urkel, and spiritual advisor/Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson were some of the broad range of people out…

CMT has pulled from their programming Jason Aldean’s music video “Try That in a Small Town,” Deadline has learned. The song was released May 18 of this year with the music video to accompany it dropping on July 14. The lyrics have been controversial as many have interpreted them as being…

EXCLUSIVE: Marie Moore will be leaving her post as SVP Communications working across multiple Warner Bros. Discovery ad-supported TV networks and streamer Max. Her last day will be Aug.4. This is Moore’s second tour of duty at WBD. The respected longtime PR executive was brought back to…

Prime Video has released several first-look images for Marnie Dickens’ Wilderness, from Firebird Pictures. Written and created by Dickens, based on B.E. Jones' novel of the same name, Wilderness is a twisted love story, where a dream holiday and a supposedly "happily-ever-after" quickly turn into a…

Peyton Manning and Netflix are searching for more quarterbacks to profile in a second season of their NFL docuseries. Manning, who exec produces Quarterback, which starred Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota, revealed that the streamer had greenlit the series for a second…

UPDATED, 12 PM: Showtime has released the official trailer and key art for Season 6 of Lena Waithe’s critically acclaimed drama series The Chi. New challenges await Kevin (Alex Hibbert), Jake (Michael Epps) and Papa (Shamon Brown Jr) and the rest of the Chi fam in the upcoming expanded season. Season 6…

It’s Day 5 of the SAG-AFTRA strike and Day 79 of the WGA strike.  Writers and actors on strike simultaneously for the first time in more than 60 years fanned out across Manhattan on Tuesday morning with renewed demands for better pay, more job security and limits on the use of artificial intelligence…

Big-name SAG-AFTRA members took to the picket lines outside major studios again today after joining forces last week with WGA strikers who walked out on May 2. Protests are expected outside the studios and networks in Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere across the U.S. This marks the first strike for actors in the…