When allowing cameras for the Fox Sports documentary You See L.A. into the lives of her players, UCLA women’s basketball head coach Cori Close, who just led the Bruins to a national championship, tried to stick to the wisdom of one of the school's guiding sports lights.
"I had the incredible…
Documentary filmmaker Rebecca Miller was acquainted with the subject of her latest, Apple TV's five-part Mr. Scorsese, through her husband Daniel Day-Lewis, one of legendary director Martin Scorsese's cinematic muses. But when it came to getting the filmmaker to commit to opening up about his life…
The popularity of the female-led '90s-era musical festival Lilith Fair was enough to tell the story behind its origins, Ally Pankiw, director of the Hulu documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, explained at Deadline's Contenders Television: Documentary panel, but even more importantly, "it was…
When Octavia Spencer, the narrator and executive producer of Investigation Discovery's three-part docuseries Lost Women of Alaska, decided to get involved in telling the story of indigenous women living on societal fringes who were targeted and murdered by serial killer Brian Steven Smith, she had a…
Despite its smash success when the adaptation of novelist John le Carré's espionage thriller The Night Manager first aired, it took a decade for a second incarnation of the Prime Video/BBC series to return to television – but the creative team vows it won't take nearly that long to complete a…
As HBO's nail-biting financial thriller Industry preps for its fifth and final season, the cast is eager to push the envelope as far as they possibly can.
"All I’ll say is this show has pushed it and pushed it and pushed it each season, and I just know for certain that we’ll push it again," said…
While audiences may think thatPrime Video’s Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat found another rare unicorn of a decent, likable human being in the show's real-life main character Anthony Norman, the executive producers say they think there are plenty more people out there who fit that bill.
"I…
It: Welcome to Derry creator/director/executive producer Andy Muschietti continues to mine author Stephen King's source novel for compelling nuggets he can expand and refine into prequel story arcs for HBO's horrific hit limited series, having settled on the core of the first season.
Muschietti…
Shailene Woodley's Paradise character Annie may have memorized every nook and cranny of Elvis Presley's Memphis estate Graceland, but the actress herself hasn't made the pilgrimage there in the wake of her affecting performance in the show’s second season.
"I still have yet to be to go to the…
When it came to finding the right tone for MGM+ and Prime Video's Spider-Noir, executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller immediately signed on to star Nicolas Cage's novel inspiration: 70% Humphrey Bogart and 30% Bugs Bunny.
"One of the things that you don’t think about with Noir is that…
Glen Powell had to face his fears about the face of Hulu's Chad Powers as co-creator, executive producer and star, even if that face typically is literally buried under layers of prosthetics.
"I think it’s always good to go into work scared," Powell, who recently completed filming the sports come…
After mining his own personal history to great acclaim in Baby Reindeer, Richard Gadd joked that for his next project, he "kind of ran out of a few things to draw upon." But while Half Man is wholly fictional, there a lot of him in it.
"I wanted to sort of challenge myself in a different realm,"…