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Cover Story: The 'Widow's Bay' Team Reveals Secrets, Stories & Season 2 Hopes If you don’t have a t-shirt that says, “I survived Patricia’s sunset cocktails,” what are you even doing? You could also get yourself a notebook with “Are you mad at something I said?” scrawled on the cover in wonky handwriting, or a tote bag with “Sorry, forgot my purse” on the front. All that merch is unauthorized too — that’s how huge the fan following is for Widow’s Bay — the @AppleTV comedy series sleeper hit that’s set the Emmy polls on fire. How to explain the unique cozy-scary-hilarious appeal of a show about a small, haunted island in Massachusetts and its hapless inhabitants? With rip-roaring storytelling, authentic East Coast vibes and a cast — led by the left-field comedic talents of Matthew Rhys — here’s something special that we didn’t know we all needed. Deadline sat down with creator-showrunner Katie Dippold, EP-Director Hiro Murai and some Widow’s Bay inhabitants to find out how the [Vienna] sausage was made… Read Now: deadline.com/2026/08/widows-…
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Netflix has found its leads for 'Icebreaker,' its series adaptation of Hannah Grace‘s bestselling novel. Daisy Jelley ('How To Have Sex') will play Anastasia “Stassie” Allen and Connor Simos ('Subversion') will portray Nate Hawkins in the college hockey romance drama series. Read more details here: deadline.com/2026/09/icebrea… (Photos: Michael Shelford, Sally Flegg)
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EXCLUSIVE: Karl Glusman has joined the cast of 'Giant Void,' the upcoming independent sci-fi drama from writer-director Michael Reisinger, with 'The Blair Witch Project' co-creator Eduardo Sánchez boarding as an executive producer deadline.com/2026/09/blair-w…
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Disney has unveiled premiere date for Steven Knight’s Oasis documentary on Disney+ and Hulu. The feature will land on October 9, just two weeks after tickets to Oasis’ next round of tour dates were snapped up, including some shows in the U.S. deadline.com/2026/09/disney-…
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Netflix has found its leads for 'Icebreaker,' its series adaptation of Hannah Grace‘s bestselling novel. 'How To Have Sex's Daisy Jelley will play Anastasia “Stassie” Allen and 'Subversion's Connor Simos will portray Nate Hawkins in the college hockey romance drama series deadline.com/2026/09/icebrea…
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Taylor Swift won the night’s top award at the MTV Video Music Awards, taking home a Moonperson trophy for Video of the Year for “The Fate of Ophelia.” The singer made a special mention to Dolly Parton, whom she called “the ultimate showgirl.” deadline.com/2026/09/taylor-…
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EXCLUSIVE: The shape of distributor Banijay Rights is beginning to form. One of the big distribution winners of the Banijay-All3Media mega-merger has emerged as Rachel Job, who we hear is in line for a senior content role, with long-serving execs such as Simon Cox, Claire Jago and Maartje Horchner exiting deadline.com/2026/09/banijay…
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After eight years and countless entries in the expanding onscreen universe, 'Star Wars' is revisiting the Skywalker family with its next project. Deadline can confirm that Lucasfilm has tapped 'Skeleton Crew' co-creator Jon Watts (director of 'Spider-Man: Homecoming,' 'Spider-Man: Far From Home' and 'Spider-Man: No Way Home') to helm the first installment in a new trilogy of the Skywalker Saga, which is being penned by Simon Kinberg ('X-Men: Dark Phoenix,' Prime’s 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith'). Read more details here: deadline.com/2026/09/star-wa… (Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection)
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BBC and BritBox comedy-drama 'Ludwig' has gone from strength to strength as it becomes the UK’s most-watched scripted launch of the year so far deadline.com/2026/09/bbc-lud…
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If you pay any attention to the BBC, you will know Britain’s national broadcaster is on the horns of a funding crisis. Luckily for the BBC, there’s a potential solution: It’s called charter renewal. Every decade, the broadcaster sits down with the government and thrashes out its future, agreeing its funding for the years ahead, and making detailed decisions about its governance and operating guardrails deadline.com/2026/09/what-is…
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But here’s the rub: Neither the government nor the BBC have wholeheartedly set out their preferred way of achieving this ambition, leading to what Deadline hears is growing unease on both sides about a lack of vision for the BBC’s future. Read the full story here: deadline.com/2026/09/what-is…
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