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Tracker Season 2 and the fifth season of The Equalizer will be premiering earlier than originally planned, giving CBS’ Premiere Week a boost. The Season 2 debut of Tracker, originally scheduled for Sunday, October 27, will now air Sunday, October 13 (8-9 PM ET/PT) kicking off Premiere Week and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Equalizer‘s Lorraine Toussaint is set as a series regular opposite Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks in Prime Video's thriller series The Better Sister, based on the novel by Alafair Burke. Hailing from Tomorrow Studios, which will co-produce with Amazon MGM Studios, The Better…

CBS has picked up a fifth season of drama The Equalizer, starring and executive produced by Queen Latifah, for 2024-25. As Deadline reported last week, the renewal was fully expected, with the delay related to lead studio Universal Television negotiating a deal with Queen Latifah. It recently…

Third in a series on broadcast network series renewals. CBS will have some painful cancellation decisions to make this spring. With three new drama series, NCIS: Origins, Matlock and Watson, on tap for next season, S.W.A.T. surprisingly uncanceled and the Australian NCIS: Sydney, originally only intended…

Absence does make the heart grow fonder as viewers have welcomed the return of the broadcast scripted series after a long delay due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Ratings have been strong all around, including for all nine Wolf Entertainment procedurals from Universal Television — the Law & Order…

Denzel Washington has played former spy Robert McCall in 2014’s The Equalizer, 2018’s The Equalizer 2, and will reprise the role in the franchise’s upcoming The Equalizer 3. In an interview with NME, Equalizer director Antoine Fuqua revealed he’s considering deploying AI technology to de-age…

EXCLUSIVE: Canadian streamer Crave has inked a long-term deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), taking first window rights to blockbuster films following their theatrical and home entertainment runs. From April 2023, the Bell Media-owned network will be the exclusive Canadian streaming home of…

EXCLUSIVE: The holiday season has arrived and Deadline has your exclusive first look at the trailer for Must Love Christmas, starring The Equalizer’s Liza Lapira. The CBS TV movie premieres on December 11. From Mark Amato, Must Love Christmas follows a renowned romance novelist (Lapira) famous for…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS‘ The Equalizer is on break until February, but Deadline has your exclusive first look at scenes from episode 308 introducing Mel’s (Liza Lapira) siblings to be portrayed by Camille Mana and Trevor Salter. In the final beats of Sunday night’s episode titled “Paradise Lost,” Mel is hot…

EXCLUSIVE: Donal Logue (Sons of Anarchy, Vikings) and Gloria Reuben (ER, Mr. Robot) have joined the cast of CBS’ The Equalizer for Season 3. The Queen Latifah starrer returns with new episodes on October 2. Logue will portray Colton Fisk, one of the CIA’s most decorated agents, an ex-CIA union chief in the Middle East…

A pair of reruns of 60 Minutes helped CBS to dominate Sunday in total viewers in broadcast primetime, while repeats of America’s Funniest Home Videos and Celebrity Family Feud kept ABC in the 18-49 winners circle. The only new programming Sunday was a fresh episode of Duncanville (0.1 rating in adults 18-49, 520,000…

There were a number of winners at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards, ranging from Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo and Ye, but the annual ceremony couldn’t quite take home any primetime prizes on Sunday. Per fast affiliates, the 2022 Billboard Music Awards delivered an average 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo and 2.11 million…