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It’s the weekend — the perfect time to relax with a good story — so check out this week’s picks from Deadline’s long-read features…

The Brussels-based International Union of Cinemas (UNIC), representing exhibitors in 39 European territories, has said the European Commission's conditions for its recent approval of Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery should have gone further. The body was reacting to the EC's…

Nick Offerman is sitting in what looks like a large closet. We're on Zoom to discuss his two Emmy nominations — for his role of Vice President Chester A. Arthur in Netflix limited series Death by Lightning; and for Apple TV's comedy series Margo's Got Money Troubles, in which he plays Jinx, a…

Back in the early 1980s two talented young performers from Ontario first worked together on SCTV — stars-in-the-making John Candy and Martin Short. All those years later, they're paired together again, this time in the race for Primetime Emmy recognition. Candy and Short are the focus of…

Jason Bateman has two vastly diverse limited series in Emmy contention right now: HBO Max's DTF St. Louis, in which he plays Clark, a guileless weatherman swept up in a murder mystery alongside David Harbour and Linda Cardellini; and Netflix's Black Rabbit, where his facial-hair-afflicted gambler…

The original incarnation of The Muppet Show lasted five seasons and 120 episodes, from 1976 to 1981, and in that time some of the biggest names in show-business lined up to take the stage alongside Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. A notable exception was the late Elizabeth Taylor, who…

Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn, the creator and star of Apple TV drama series Pluribus, have the kind of easy camaraderie that comes from logging over a decade of prestige television together. Their rapport first sparked back in 2015, with the follow-up to Gilligan's Breaking Bad —  the crime series…

"Funny story for you," I tell Michelle Pfeiffer. She's sitting across from me in the Deadline office, the picture of elegance. I also suspect that she might be fun. I hadn't meant to tell her this anecdote, but here we are, so I push on: "I went to high school in England with a boy who had your…

When Euphoria premiered in 2019, Zendaya was still a burgeoning Disney Channel star; Sydney Sweeney was still searching for her stepping stone from guest and recurring actor to leading lady; Jacob Elordi was known as the heartthrob from The Kissing Booth; Hunter Schafer had never acted professionally…

In FX's Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette, Sarah Pidgeon took on the role of a woman so iconic that the actor's hair color sparked a major furor before a single frame had even aired. Alongside Paul Anthony Kelly as JFK Jr., Pidgeon plunged back in time to 1990s Manhattan, and a…

Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, is one of the most iconic actresses of the 1950s to grace the silver screen in Hollywood. Her time was cut short at the age of 36 but her legacy lives on as one of the most intriguing figures of the 20th century. Here, we look back at her life in photos beginning as a…