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Midseason is the new fall. As Hollywood and the broader industry continue to recover from the debilitating dual actors and writers strikes, the 2024 television landscape is coming into focus. All of the broadcast networks have set return dates for most of their shows, but there’s no usual Premiere…

If there was any winner in Thursday night’s first presidential debate, it was CNN. If there was a loser, it was absolutely Joe Biden. Throwing the already tight race into a tailspin for the faltering incumbent almost from the very beginning, the most memorable line maybe Biden's inability to finish…

Saturday Night Live’s Colin Jost has snagged quite an assignment for the 2024 Olympics. The Weekend Update anchor has been tapped to cover the surfing competition from Teahupo'o, Tahiti, part of French Polynesia, for NBCU. This will be the second-ever Olympic surfing competition after the sport debuted…

NBC will air two-hour Toby Keith tribute concert special this August, with a guest line-up to include Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Ashley McBryde, Carrie Underwood and more. Toby Keith: American Icon also will feature Parker McCollum, Jelly Roll, Darius Rucker, Lainey Wilson, The War And Treaty, with…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC is gearing up for its annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks special, which will air live on Thursday, July 4 from 8-10 pm ET/PT on the network and Peacock. It will be followed by an encore presentation at 10 pm ET/PT on NBC. Hosted by four-time Grammy-nominated country artist Mickey…

As Hollywood starts to slow down ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, broadcast networks have some unfinished business — making decisions on several pilots ordered earlier this year. With development no longer confined within the bounds of the traditional TV cycle that comes to an end at the May upfronts…

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago Fire newcomer Jocelyn Hudon has been upped to series regular beginning Season 13, sources tell Deadline. Hudon joined the Season 12 cast in April as Lyla Novak, a new paramedic at Firehouse 51 who at first loves freelancing but reluctantly agrees to join Violet (Hanako Greensmith)…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran television and film director Thor Freudenthal has returned to NBC to direct and executive produce the pilot for the network’s new drama series The Hunting Party, which began shooting today. He’ll remain as a producer for the remainder of the series. The high-concept crime procedural…

This week’s 20 Questions on Deadline guest is Seth Meyers. This year marks Meyers’ 10th year of hosting Late Night With Seth Meyers on NBC, and something he is somewhat less enthused about: another go-round tackling a Trump election campaign. “It is so deeply disappointing that this whole…

Eddie Murphy was back at 30 Rock to promote his latest movie Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F – thirty years after leaving Saturday Night Live. Murphy pulled double duty for NBC late-night this week, appearing on both The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and, for the first time in person, Late Night with S…

NBC has picked up 5 more episodes of St. Denis Medical, bringing the Season 1 order for the single-camera comedy to 18 episodes. The news comes as the mockumentary, from the Superstore duo of Jason Spitzer and Eric Ledgin, is wrapping production on its original 13 episodes, so the back order will…

Station 19 alumna Danielle Savre, who recently wrapped her seven-season run on the Shondaland series, has been tapped for a key recurring role on the second season of NBC’s Found, Deadline has learned. Details of her character are being kept under wraps. The series, which hails from All…