The size of the devastating wildfires across large swaths of Los Angeles have forced thousands of residents to flee over the past 24 hours. The Palisades Fire evacuation zone nearly doubled on Tuesday evening with wind speeds fanning the flames expected to increase overnight before lessening somewhat just before dawn on Wednesday. Late Tuesday, reports of injuries began to filter out while The Reel Inn and Topanga Ranch Motel on PCH at Topanga Canyon Boulevard were destroyed. The City of Santa Monica issued an evacuation order for all areas of the city north of San Vicente while multiple evacuations were also issued in Topanga Canyon, Altadena and a portion of Pasadena. All schools in Malibu will be closed again today.
The City of Malibu has urged residents to evacuate, especially those with animals or livestock. LA Mayor Karen Bass has issued a mandatory evacuation call in Sylmar, in the eastern San Fernando Valley. The blazes have also led to the cancelation of several industry events around town including the in-person SAG nominations and a handful of premieres. >>>List Of Canceled Events & More Updates |
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Hip Hop Doc - Hip hop stars Nelly and Ashanti welcomed their first child together last year and the pair have now added to that with a new docuseries. Deadline understands that Peacock has ordered a new series following the pair and that it is currently filming. It comes from Critical Content, the company behind Netflix documentary Sly and MTV’s Catfish, who will produce with the pair, real names Nelly Haynes and Ashanti Haynes. >>> No Strangers To Unscripted TV
Endemol Shines Bright - While the last 12 months have been a particularly rough one for the majority of unscripted producers, Sharon Levy, who runs Endemol Shine North America isn’t one of them. In a sea of fewer greenlights, reduced orders and rising costs, the Banijay-owned company had a pretty solid 2024 (and first week of 2025) with big series on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC. It is also now looking to move into the talent competition space with Star Academy. >>> Based On French Format
Fill ‘Er Up - Wonder Project, the recently launched faith-based indie studio from Kelly Merryman Hoogstraten and Jon Erwin, has launched development on The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, an adaptation of the New York Times bestselling novel by Fannie Flagg, to be produced by and star Country Music Hall of Fame member Reba McEntire. >>> Callie Khouri To Direct
'The Fall Of Ruby Franke' - Ruby Franke is a YouTube mom vlogger who had millions of followers but was sentenced to years in prison for child abuse. She is also now set to be the subject of a three-part docuseries at Hulu. The streamer has ordered Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke. The series, which will premiere on February 27, comes from Passion Pictures, the company behind Max’s Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. >>> Firsthand Family Accounts
Design Detective - Baz Bamigboye recently spent time with A Complete Unknown costume designer Arianne Phillips to find out how she turned “detective” to source vintage outfits for Timothée Chalamet and his co-stars. “That’s the job. I say costume designers are people detectives,” commented Phillips while visiting a display of costumes and sets from the film. >>> 67 Costume Changes For Chalamet
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Forgive Jeremy Strong if he feels like he and his The Apprentice cohorts are stuck in an extended Twilight Zone episode.
Donald Trump long was a pariah to Hollywood, but that description is a better fit for how the town has treated The Apprentice.
At the recent Golden Globes, Strong was upended by his former Succession co-star Kieran Culkin in the Supporting Actor category. That left Strong’s most indelible Globes moment being the green velvet Loro Piana suit and bucket hat he wore in a seat much further back in the Beverly Hilton ballroom than when he was winning Globes for Succession. With Oscar nominations just ahead, is there room for Strong in the role of his career so far as ruthless lawyer/Trump mentor Roy Cohn?
Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. had a wide-ranging discussion with the actor to consider that and more. >>>Read The Interview |
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Casting About
David Zayas, Jack Alcott and James Remar will join Michael C. Hall in the Paramount+ with Showtime Original series Dexter: Resurrection in series regular roles. Production begins on the new series this month which will premiere in the summer.
ESX Entertainment has set western Day of Reckoning starring Billy Zane, Zach Roerig and Cara Jade Myers . Pic follows put-upon lawman John Dorsey (Roerig), who on the verge of losing his wife and his job as sheriff, posses up with a bullish U.S. Marshall Butch Hayden (Zane) to hold outlaw Emily Rouse (Myers) hostage.
Taylor Kitsch might be ready to relive some memories and reprise his Friday Night Lights role in Peacock’s upcoming reboot. Universal Television is working on a new version of the sports drama series, and Kitsch says he has been contacted. “I’ve been asked, and we’ll leave it at that,” the actor said on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw. ABC on Tuesday named the 25 women who will compete for Grant Ellis’ affections on Season 29 of The Bachelor, which premieres Monday, January 27 at 8 p.m. EST. |
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📺 The DGA has revealed nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2024. The marquee Dramatic Series race features three episodes of FX’s Shōgun, which will face off against episodes of HBO’s True Detective: Night Country and Netflix’s The Diplomat.
🔈 Nominees for the 2025 Cinema Audio Society Awards, which celebrate excellence in sound mixing for film and television, were revealed on Tuesday. Vying for the Motion Pictures: Live Action statuette are the sound-mixing teams behind four of the 10 top-grossing non-animated films of 2024 — Deadpool & Wolverine, Dune: Part Two, Gladiator II and Wicked — along with the young Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown.
🏔 Paramount Global and Comcast have renewed a set of distribution agreements to continue delivering Par’s portfolio of broadcast, entertainment, news and sports brands across Xfinity platforms.
🗳 The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a $1 billion expansion of the legendary Television City studio lot.
🙅🏻♂️ Piers Morgan is exiting Rupert Murdoch's News Corp media empire after three years to take ownership of his Uncensored YouTube channel. Deadline first revealed he was unlikely to renew with News Corp last September. |
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1.42 million - Number of square feet of new development at Television City |
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Obituaries
🕯️ Peter Yarrow, a five-time Grammy winner who co-founded the hit-making folk-pop trio Peter, Paul & Mary and co-wrote its memorable “Puff the Magic Dragon,” died Tuesday of bladder cancer at his New York City home. He was 86. 🕯️ Richard Cohen, a former senior producer on CNN and CBS News who was married for 38 years to Today anchor Meredith Vieira, died of following a two-month battle with pneumonia December 24 after living with multiple sclerosis for more than five decades. He was 76. 🕯️ Actor, writer, director Keller Fornes, who portrayed Griffin in Great American Family‘s County Rescue series, passed away on December 19 in Eastland, Texas. A cause of death was not disclosed. He was 32. 🕯️ Jean-Marie Le Pen , the far-right politician who founded France's National Front party, died after several weeks in a care home. 🕯️ Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2024: A Photo Gallery |
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On the Radar
Wed - DGA & SAG Awards nominations; New York Film Critics Circle awards ceremony; Shifting Gears premiere on ABC
Thu - WGA, ASC & ADG Awards nominations; The Pitt premiere on Max
Fri - Donald Trump to be sentenced in hush-money case
Sat - NFL playoffs begin |
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Clearing A Path - A bulldozer clears cars that were blocking the roadway where evacuees abandoned them in a panic when gridlock hit Tuesday in L.A.'s Pacific Palisades neighborhood. |
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