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Liz Hannah is certainly having a good season, with strong buzz for not one but two top Limited Series Emmy contenders, both on Hulu. For The Girl From Plainville, which stars Elle Fanning as the controversial Michelle Carter, who was convicted of essentially bringing about her boyfriend’s suicide, Hannah was creator…

If you are currently an unemployed television producer in the industry, Ben Winston might be the reason why. Winston is unquestionably one of the busiest, most versatile producers working today. A look at the Television Academy’s own Emmy Awards site is proof positive of that, listing 28 nominations and 10 wins…

Creator. Writer. Director. Producer. Star. Amy Schumer does it all on her new Hulu series Life & Beth, but then she has been doing it all for quite a while now. Coming on the heels of her hosting gig on that very memorable Oscars show, this project allowed her to spread her wings, even directing herself in four of the…

Amanda Peet has up to this point been known as quite a successful actress with a knack for picking a lot of smart movies in which to appear. The list includes Syriana, Something’s Gotta Give,  The Way Way Back, Identity Thief, Please Give, The Whole Nine Yards, Changing Lanes, and many more. On television her credits…

While at the Cannes Film Festival last month I got the chance to sit down on the beach and talk with the multi-talented Lee Jung-jae, the SAG Award-winning and heavily Emmy-buzzed star of Netflix’s international phenomenon Squid Game. He was at the world’s most famous film festival though to premiere his first…

With 25 Emmy nominations, six wins, induction into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 2017, and as a past two-time president of the Writers Guild, John Wells is one of the most respected and honored members of the industry. His string of successful shows speaks for itself and includes such titles as The West Wing…

Jessica Biel not only is finding numerous meaty roles for herself these days, she has, with producing partner Michelle Purple, found a way to get them made. Her latest is the Hulu limited series Candy, which details a shocking crime that happened 42 years ago in a small Texas town where a wife and mother took an ax to…

Ozark fans are in mourning this Memorial Day with the realization that this highly acclaimed Emmy winning series has come to an end on Netflix, but Chris Mundy, Executive Producer and Showrunner for all its 44 episodes since its 2017 debut  as well as writing credits on several episodes including the finale, believes…

From his long-running gig doing “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live to hosting his own successful talk show in Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC, you might say the star has carved out a similar career trajectory as his predecessor in both jobs, Jimmy Fallon. But Seth Meyers marches to his own drummer and has…

A new season of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens begins today with my conversation with Danny Strong, a writer, director, producer and actor who has become one of the most prolific creators in television. His current limited series for Hulu, Dopesick, is heavily buzzed for Emmy attention and has already…

So what does esteemed director Joe Wright have in common with Steven Spielberg? After a long career behind the camera they both finally made their first musical this year, Spielberg of course with his West Side Story remake, and Wright taking on a stage musical version of the evergreen story of Cyrano…

There can be no question that Aaron Sorkin is one the most prolific screenwriters out there, if not the most prolific. I would say he is right up there with the late great Paddy Chayefsky in terms of consistently turning out brilliant movies on the page, and that of course includes Sorkin’s Oscar-winning script for The…