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Luigi Caiola, who co-founded the Broadway production and investment company Caiola Productions with his sister Rose and participated in the development of more than 50 shows, died November 26 at his home in Miami. He was 64.

His death was announced by his family. A cause has not been determined.

A managing member of B&l Management LLC, a New York City real estate development company founded by his father Benny Caiola in 1974, Luigi Caiola, along with sister Rose Caiola, launched Caiola Productions in 2011 out of their shared passion for the theater. The entity has been involved in dozens of Broadway shows, including Tony Award winners Dear Evan Hansen, The Color Purple, Once on This Island, Company, All the Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the recent revival of Parade.

Born on September 15, 1959, Caiola was a fervent activist for the LGBTQ+ community. Having survived New York’s devastating AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s,...

When Golden Globes nominations were announced on Wednesday, one of the many, many surprises was Bryan Cranston’s bid for Showtime’s “Your Honor” in the Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor category. Though Cranston cracked our predicted top 10 contenders, we didn’t anticipate that he’d beat out the likes of Paul Mescal (“Normal People”), Hugh Jackman (“Bad Education”) and Chris Rock (“Fargo”).

See ‘The Crown’ leads 2021 Golden Globes nominations with 6, followed by ‘Schitt’s Creek’ with 5

Even more surprising than Cranston’s bid at the Globes is his shocking snub at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Thursday. Not only was he better positioned for a nomination at SAG, in sixth place, according to our combined odds, but he has a much better track record with this awards body. Cranston has 12 career nominations at SAG and five victories as an individual or ensemble member for “Breaking Bad,” “Argo” and...

Four years ago Bryan Cranston pulled off a huge upset at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in the TV movie/limited series acting category, winning for HBO’s “All the Way.” Lightning could strike twice for him in the same category this year for his performance in Showtime’s limited series “Your Honor,” in which Cranston plays a New Orleans judge who violates his own ethical standards to save his son from the brutal consequences of an accidental crime.

Currently ranked seventh in our combined odds based on the predictions of over 1,700 Gold Derby users as of this writing, Cranston sits two slots outside of our predicted line-up, which currently includes last year’s Emmy winner Mark Ruffalo (“I Know This Much Is True”), Ethan Hawke (“The Good Lord Bird”), Hugh Grant (“The Undoing”), Hugh Jackman (“Bad Education”), and Brendan Gleeson (“The Comey Rule”). Paul Mescal (“Normal People”) is currently sixth,...

The following post contains minor spoilers for The Stand‘s series premiere.

One of the most recognizable names in The Stand‘s considerable cast never even appears on screen.

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For those who watched Thursday’s premiere of the Stephen King adaptation and thought they heard Bryan Cranston voicing the president of the United States, your ears did not deceive you: That is the Emmy-winning Breaking Bad vet playing Potus,...

Leaning into dark characters has paid off for Bryan Cranston. After he spent seven seasons on a network sitcom, “Breaking Bad” minted the actor as one of the most decorated of the past two decades with four Emmy Awards, five SAG trophies and a Golden Globe. Cranston returns to TV to plumb the depths of morally gray areas again in the new Showtime miniseries “Your Honor,” which premieres Sunday.

Inspired by the Israeli show “Kvodo,” “Your Honor” finds Cranston’s New Orleans judge Michael Desiato compromising his ethics to save his son Adam (Hunter Doohan) after he’s involved in a hit-and-run that kills the son of a local crime boss (Michael Stuhlbarg). Hailing from writer Peter Moffat, director Edward Berger, and executive producers Michelle King and Robert King, “Your Honor” explores the lengths to which Cranston’s father will stretch his morals and the lengths the system will allow him to do so.

There’s no shortage of Donald Trump impressions in the media these days, some great, some questionable. Alec Baldwin won an Emmy for his hilarious portrayal of the president as an unhinged buffoon on “Saturday Night Live.” The latest in what will likely be a long string of portrayals over the next few years comes from Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, who is chilling as a scheming, impulsive presidential candidate turned president-elect in Showtime’s “The Comey Rule.”

SEE2020 Emmy winners: Full list in all 23 categories at the 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards

Jeff Daniels stars as FBI Director James Comey opposite Gleeson as Trump in this two-part event series that tells the story of two powerful men whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course. Based on Comey’s tell-all book “A Higher Loyalty,” which was adapted by writer and director Billy Ray (“Captain Phillips” and...

Bryan Cranston’s iconic run as Walter White on “Breaking Bad” earned him six Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, which might be why anticipation is sky high for “Your Honor.” The 10-episode Showtime limited series features Cranston in his first major lead television role since “Breaking Bad” ended in 2013, and the actor is once again diving head first into a charismatic and corrupt anti-hero.

“Your Honor” stars Cranston as Michael Desiato, a respected New Orleans judge whose teenage son, Adam (Hunter Doohan), is involved in a hit-and-run. Forced to cover up the crime in order to protect his son, Michael finds himself in a high-stakes game of lies, deceit, and impossible choices when it’s revealed the person his son killed is the son of Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg), the much-feared head of a crime family. The supporting cast also includes Carmen Ejogo, Isiah Whitlock Jr.,...

Six months after NBC’s “The Good Place” aired its finale, the Television Academy announced nominations for the 2020 Emmy Awards and, in the process, celebrated the series with six nods, including recognition for Outstanding Comedy Series, as well as a nomination — his first — for William Jackson Harper as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

By the time Harper was cast as Chidi Anagonye, the show’s anxious ethical expert and moral philosopher, the actor had been bouncing around Hollywood for nearly a decade, with guest appearances on “High Maintenance,” “Person of Interest,” as well a stint on “The Electric Company.” But with his casting on “The Good Place,” Harper was suddenly centerstage on a beloved new series from a cherished TV creator. It was enough to turn his life upside down. Theoretically.

See, Harper isn’t like Chidi. A far cry from his character’s overwhelming neuroticism, in a recent interview with IndieWire,...

In what has been a growing trend in recent years at the Emmys, this year’s crop of TV movies under-performed in the nominations. I thought films like “Bad Education” and “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie” would have done a lot better than they did given their strong reviews and the high-profile talent attached. This is especially ironic during an era when streaming movies are getting more and more popular at the Oscars. So what gives?

SEE2020 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 72nd Emmy Awards

“Bad Education” earned only two Emmy noms: Best TV Movie and Best Movie/Limited Actor (Hugh Jackman); Emmy darling Allison Janney didn’t even earn a nomination for her supporting performance as a corrupt school official. “El Camino” did a little better with five nominations including Best TV Movie, but none of its actors made the cut, not even Aaron Paul,...

Exclusive: In his first foray into the premium TV series marketplace, uber producer Dick Wolf is prepping American Babylon, a period drama chronicling the epic story of the creation of Las Vegas – the American Dream written in blood and neon. He has partnered on the project with long-time collaborator Tom Thayer, Pulitzer Prize winner and The Pacific writer Robert Schenkkan and The Pacific creator Bruce C. McKenna.

The marquee pitch, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, will be taken out to premium cable networks and streamers later this month.

Created by Schenkkan and written by him and McKenna, American Babylon is inspired by “The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America“ by Sally Denton & Roger Morris, to which Universal Television has acquired the rights.

It chronicles the rise of Las Vegas through the intersecting struggles of three families: Young mobster Sammy Wise and his iron-willed wife,...

Exclusive: On the heels of her debut feature film, Pink Skies Ahead, writer/director Kelly Oxford’s spec feature script, Son Of A Bitch has been put into development at HBO Max with Oxford being brought on to direct.

In the vein of Bridesmaids, the script is a raucous comedy about a young stoner who tries to maintain her popular party girl image after she discovers she’s fallen pregnant. Oxford set up the script originally at Warner Bros in 2012, her first feature script when she had developed a huge Twitter following for her biting humorous essays.

Oxford’s ascension to director comes after her feature debut Pink Skies Ahead, based on the essay No Real Danger from her second book, When You Find Out The World Is Against You. The dramedy starring Jessica Barden and produced by Stampede Ventures was scheduled to premiere at SXSW, before all of the...

HBO has set Coastal Elites, a comic satire special centered around five characters from New York to Los Angeles coping with politics and the pandemic. Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever (Unbelievable), Dan Levy (Schitt’s Creek), Sarah Paulson and Issa Rae (Insecure) star in the special from Paul Rudnick and Jay Roach. It’s slated for premiere in September.

Produced entirely under quarantine, the special, written by Rudnick and directed by Roach, “tells stories of breaking down and breaking through in the summer of 2020 that are funny, searing, poignant and now,” according to HBO.

Exploring our current world of deeply divided politics and the universal pursuit of human connection during a pandemic, Coastal Elites features a series of confessionals from five main characters, played by Midler,...

Hugh Jackman earned rave reviews for his performance as a corrupt school superintendent in HBO’s telefilm “Bad Education,” which makes him an Emmy contender for Best Movie/Limited Actor. But is it a disadvantage these days to star in a TV movie? Telefilms aren’t as prominent as they have been in the past, especially when you compare them to the way limited series and anthologies have exploded in the last 10 years. Indeed, if Jackman wins the Emmy he’ll be the first to take this prize for a standalone film in seven years.

See‘Bad Education’ reviews: ‘Courageous’ Hugh Jackman and ‘wonderfully restrained’ Allison Janney play small-town crooks

The last such winner was Michael Douglas, who won in 2013 for playing famed entertainer Liberace in Steven Soderbergh‘s biopic “Behind the Candelabra,” which also aired on HBO. The year after that Benedict Cumberbatch also won for a TV movie,...

The trailers for upcoming HBO miniseries “I Know This Much is True” advertise, “Academy Award nominee Mark Ruffalo, Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, Emmy winner Rosie O’Donnell, Emmy winner Archie Panjabi, with Academy Award nominee Juliette Lewis and Emmy winner Kathryn Hahn.” With such a deep bench and Ruffalo the Best Movie/Limited Actor front-runner for his dual role as twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey, “I Know This Much is True” is a formidable contender for a Best Movie/Limited Supporting Actress nomination, but for which star?

SEEour rundown on the “Mrs. America” supporting actresses.

Honorable mention: Juliette Lewis as Nedra Frank

Nedra is a scholar whom Dominic hires to translate an Italian manuscript for an autobiography by his late grandfather. Anyone who tunes into the premiere might want to nominate Lewis, who is unhinged and unpredictable in an uncomfortable nine-minute scene when she shows up unexpectedly at Dominic’s door one night.

Like Vice and Game Change before it, the Nicole Kidman-starrer feels as if it’s favouring awards prestige over political impact

You won’t see adverts for Bombshell on the Fox News network, which is both unsurprising and part of the problem. Bombshell details the toxic regime of Fox News boss Roger Ailes (played by John Lithgow), serial abuser of both female journalists and news journalism itself, though the focus is on the women who brought him down, played by Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie. It is a story for our #MeToo/fake news times, but Bombshell is unlikely to live up to its title in terms of real-world impact. Fox remains the Us’s most watched cable news network. Last year it drew its largest audience ever.

Bombshell is the latest in a series of films and TV shows targeting the Murdoch empire. Already last year we had The Loudest Voice,...

Chicago – In the midst of these divisive times, there is always Fox News to further contribute to that divisiveness. The legacy of that news channel may ultimately be for the settlement of their sexual harassment lawsuits. Director Jay Roach (“Game Change”) explores the particulars of the situation in his new film “Bombshell.”

’Bombshell,’ directed by Jay Roach

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The targets of the harassment are the notable women of Fox News, including Megyn Kelly (Charlize Theron) and Gretchen Carlson (Nicole Kidman), along with a newcomer, Kayla Pospisil. Their main harasser is Fox News architect Roger Ailes (John Lithgow), and the incidents go on for years before Carlson takes legal action. This is searing and true story, and speaks to the culture of Fox News in general. Theron, Kidman and Robbie are remarkable in their portrayals, coming from their roots in the entertainment industry, and the changes that occurred so...

Mo’Nique has signed on for the lead role in the independent action-adventure “Mother Trucker.”

The movie is written by J. Oyer Tomas, former HBO executive producer, and set during the Congressional impeachment hearings to remove President Richard Nixon from office. Nixon resigned in 1974.

Mo’Nique will portray a mother, struggling with anger management issues, who is forced to steal her suddenly deceased husband’s trucking haul to provide for her daughter. On their cross-country adventure she discovers the truth behind her husband’s death and vents her rage upon his racist killers.

“I knew this was unique from the jump, because of the countless scripts we’ve read together, the only other time my husband said ‘this is special’ was for a little movie named ‘Precious,’” Mo’Nique said.

“Mother Trucker” is conceived by Tomas, who has directed, written and produced commercial and short-form promotional content for HBO series “The Sopranos,...

Sorry, Darren Criss, but your reign as the youngest Screen Actors Guild Award winner for limited series/TV movie actor looks to be short-lived. “When They See Us” star and Emmy champ Jharrel Jerome is the frontrunner to take the prize in January, and like Criss just did, he’d destroy the record.

Criss was nine days shy of his 32nd birthday when he prevailed on Jan. 27 for “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story,” becoming the first person in his 30s to win the award and shaving nine years off of the previous record held by Gary Sinise, who was 40 when he won for “Truman” in 1996. Sinise took home a second statuette two years later, for “George Wallace,” and currently occupies two spots in the top five youngest winners.

At 22, Jerome would, obviously, be the first twentysomething to win — just like he was at the Emmys — and knock off another nine years.

Winning an Oscar is no laughing matter, which is perhaps why so many comedy directors have turned to more serious subject matter to strike gold in recent years. Like Adam McKay (“The Big Short” and “Vice”) and Peter Farrelly (“Green Book“) before them, Todd Phillips (“Joker”) and Jay Roach (“Bombshell”) could be the latest to enter the awards race for proving their mettle in dramas.

Phillips is the man behind raunchy laffers like “Road Trip” (2000), “Old School” (2003) and the “Hangover” trilogy (2009-2013). Now he’s in the Oscar conversation this year for co-writing and directing the dark DC Comics origin story “Joker.” Meanwhile, Roach is remembered for helming the first two “Meet the Parents” movies (2000 and 2004) and all three “Austin Powers” films (1997-2002). Now he’s getting buzz for the Fox News sex scandal drama “Bombshell.”

See ‘Bombshell’ Q&a: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and company on sexual harassment, reclaiming...

The Gold Derby TV Decade Awards were announced on Monday, November 4, and “Breaking Bad” was the Best Drama Series from 2010-2019 according to more than 1,500 registered Gold Derby users who cast their votes in October. Elsewhere, “Veep” claimed Best Comedy Series, while Ryan Murphy pulled a Mike Nichols-like sweep in the long form races. Scroll down to see the complete list of winners.

“Breaking Bad” premiered in 2008, but it gradually grew from an underdog drama overshadowed by its AMC sister show “Mad Men” to a full-blown pop cultural phenomenon by the time it ended in 2013. Now, more than six years later, it has been remembered as the best dramatic achievement of the decade. Not only did it claim Best Drama, Bryan Cranston also won Best Drama Actor, Aaron Paul claimed Best Drama Supporting Actor, Anna Gunn was the runner-up for Best Drama Supporting Actress, and the show’s final-season...

It’s almost time, dear readers! Halloween is less than two weeks away, and I don’t know about you, but the one thing that always got me primed for October 31st were all the Halloween-themed TV specials that would come out every year. And if you’re someone who enjoys all the seasonal offerings on the small screen as well, here’s a look at a ton of different specials and classic horror series that are perfect to binge for the rest of October.

Enjoy!!

Classic TV Series:

Tales From the Cryptkeeper (Multiple Seasons)

You can stream all three seasons currently on Tubi TV.

Chillers (Season 1)

You can currently stream season 1 on Amazon Prime.

Masters of Horror (Multiple Seasons)

Every episode from season 1 and season 2 is currently available on Tubi TV.

Dark Shadows (Multiple Seasons)

You can stream multiple seasons currently on Hulu & Amazon Prime.

Bump in the Night...

Reeling from his divorce from Jane Fonda, French director Roger Vadim made his first American movie for MGM. Unlikely as it seems today, the scuttlebutt at the time was that Rock Hudson’s love scenes with the numerous high school nymphets went All The Way! The buzz helped turn this gently smutty black-comic mystery into a substantial hit, although now it plays like a time-warp precursor to Skins.

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Reeling from his divorce from Jane Fonda, French director Roger Vadim made his first American movie for MGM. Unlikely as it seems today, the scuttlebutt at the time was that Rock Hudson’s love scenes with the numerous high school nymphets went All The Way! The buzz helped turn this gently smutty black-comic mystery into a substantial hit, although now it plays like a time-warp precursor to Skins.

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On Sunday nights, millions of viewers watch Brian Cox deliver a gargantuan performance as Logan Roy on HBO’s Emmy-winning drama series “Succession,” but eight times a week Cox steps into the shoes of the truly towering, historical figure Lyndon B. Johnson in “The Great Society” on Broadway.

“The Great Society,” the second play about President Johnson from Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Schenkkan, opened on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 1. Its predecessor play “All The Way,” which depicts Johnson’s first year in office from 1963-64 after the death of John F. Kennedy, bowed in 2014 and won the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Actor for Bryan Cranston. Cranston would later reprise the role for an HBO film adaptation, which landed him a SAG Award win and Emmy, Golden Globe, Critics’ Choice, TCA, and Gold Derby nominations.

Depicting Johnson’s full term as President, “The...

As Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society begins pulling you back back back to a cultural moment that rivals our own in meanness, division and barrel-scraping crumminess, Brian Cox would seem to have the toughest job on Broadway. Portraying the accidental president who succeeded the martyred one only to land waste deep in one big muddy after another, Cox must convince his audience that he can match, hog-tie and serve up like so much barbecue a personality as big as the Lone Star State itself.

I mean, just imagine having to follow Bryan Cranston.

If you’ve seen HBO’s robust Succession, you already know Cox seems up for just about any challenge tossed his way, including the role of Lyndon Baines Johnson in the second of Schenkkan’s two-part bio-drama. The first installment, All The Way, debuted on Broadway in 2014, winning Cranston a Tony Award for his uncanny performance...

The Great Society is currently in previews, ahead of its October 1 opening night. The play, written by Robert Schenkkan, is the sequel to the play All The Way, which played on Broadway in 2014. These plays work together to celebrate Lyndon B. Johnson's legacy. In honor of Lbj's return to Broadway, we're looking back on All The Way's Broadway journey in 2014.

Today's conversation is with Emmy Award and multiple NAACP Image Award-winning film, television and stage veteran Joe Morton. Morton is perhaps best known for his role as Rowan Pope in the television series 'Scandal.' Morton's television credits include a recurring role as lawyer Daniel Golden on 'The Good Wife,' on the Network five seasons as scientist Henry Deacon in the Emmy-nominated series 'Eureka' 'The Cosby Show' spinoff 'A Different World' the Kyra Sedgwick-produced 'Proof' and 'Grace Frankie.' In 2016 he portrayed the role of Roy Wilkins alongside Bryan Cranston in the Emmy-nominated biopic 'All the Way,' adapted from the Tony Award-winning Robert Schenkkan play.

A new Broadway season is gearing up, and there are currently nine productions of plays set to open this fall. Could we be seeing any of them contend at this year’s Tony Awards? Below, we recap the plot of each play as well as the awards history of its author, cast, creative types, the opening, and (where applicable) closing dates.

“Betrayal” (opens September 5; closes December 8)

In the third Broadway revival of Harold Pinter’s 1978 award-winning play, the story charts a compelling seven-year romance, thrillingly captured in reverse chronological order.

The original Broadway production received Tony nominations for star Blythe Danner and director Peter Hall. This production is coming in after a successful run in London’s West End earlier this year. The cast includes Emmy nominee Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton, SAG winner Charlie Cox, and is directed by Laurence Olivier Award winner Jamie Lloyd.

“The Height of the Storm...

Broadway’s fall season kicked into gear last week, with no fewer than eight new shows in previews, including three that just began performances. Overall box office, alas, was pretty much stuck in the summer doldrums, with total receipts of $29,320,908 up a measly 1% over the previous week – and that’s with three additional shows running.

Total attendance of 254,824 was up by a barely-worth-noting .4%.

Keep in mind, a hefty percentage of the newcomers were at subscription-heavy (so discount priced) non-profit theaters, keeping receipts low. Also, none of these shows had been reviewed – so raves, pans or anything in between hadn’t yet gotten the word out. That said, only one show attracted some big-spending ticket buyers. More about that Lin-Manuel Miranda-related exception below.

In order of opening nights, the newcomers are:

The Height of the Storm, opening tomorrow at the Samuel J. Friedman, the Manhattan Theater Club presentation of the...

Jimmy Eat World shared a new song, “All the Way (Stay),” from their 10th studio album, Surviving, set to arrive October 18th via RCA Records.

“All the Way (Stay)” arrived with an accompanying video, directed by Daniel Carberry, which features the parallel stories of two drifters who spend their time smoking in abandoned bowling alleys, playing pool, getting naked in laundromats and eating some very messy burgers.

“‘All The Way (Stay)’ extolls the virtues of letting people discover the real you while exposing your vulnerabilities,” the band said in a statement.

A raft of newcomers and previewers on Broadway’s box office roster kept the industry tally afloat last week, with a total of 29 productions reporting a combined weekly gross of $29,092,571. That’s a 12% jump over the previous week, with total attendance rising a commensurate 13% to 253,685.

The figure loses a bit of sparkle, though, when the roster count is considered – the 29 shows were four more than the previous week’s 25. Most of the newcomers just haven’t caught fire yet, nearly all of the buzzed-about previewers, from The Great Society to Slave Play, grossing well below their potentials.

But keep in mind, with the exception of Freestyle Love Supreme at the Booth, all of the newcomers are non-musicals; no one’s expecting Hadestown welcomes. So on that note, and in order of opening nights:

Derren Brown: Secret, the ecstatically reviewed evening of illusion and trickery, opened at the Cort Theatre last night,...

Broadway box office was down nearly 10% from the previous week’s Labor Day holiday tourist bulge, with the 25 productions grossing a total $25,965,471. Attendance of 224,402 was steady with the prior week, though should have been better: The roster count was up by two over the previous week’s 23 shows.

Just about every production on the roster, though, reported a box office slip from the week before, not surprising given the back-to-earth post-holiday frame (figures reflect the week ending Sept. 8).

A few newcomers helped a tad, though opener Betrayal, the gloriously reviewed Harold Pinter revival starring Tom Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox, reported a modest dip due to the Sept. 5 opening night comps and the week’s press seats. The production took in $623,475, a negligible .5% slip, with attendance at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre at 7,718, a strong 93% of capacity.

Beginning previews was the much-anticipated The Great Society, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan...

Robert Schenkkan’s Broadway-bound The Great Society, his second Lbj play following the celebrated All The Way, has completed casting and set an opening night for Tuesday, October 1 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Joining the previously announced Brian Cox (as Lyndon B. Johnson) will be Marchánt Davis as Stokely Carmichael, Brian Dykstra as Adam Walinsky, Barbara Garrick as Lady Bird Johnson, David Garrison as Richard Nixon, Ty Jones as Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Christopher Livingston as James Bevel, Angela Pierce as Pat Nixon, Matthew Rauch as Robert McNamara, Nikkole Salter as Coretta Scott King and Tramell Tillman as Bob Moses.

Previews begin on the previously announced Friday, September 6 for a strictly limited 12-week engagement.

The newcomers join the previously announced Cox, Grantham Coleman as Martin Luther King Jr., Marc Kudisch as Richard J. Daley, Bryce Pinkham as Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Frank Wood as Senator Everett Dirksen, Gordon Clapp as J. Edgar Hoover,...

Bryan Cranston and his Moonshot Entertainment production company are leaving Sony Pictures TV for a multi-year overall deal at Warner Bros. Television Group.

Cranston launched Moonshot Entertainment in 2013 with a deal at Sony TV, the studio behind his Emmy-winning series Breaking Bad. James Degus soon joined him as president and will move with Cranston to Wbtvg. During the company’s run at Sony TV, it produced series Sneaky Pete for Amazon, which Cranston co-created and had a recurring role on; the stop-motion animated SuperMansion for Sony’s Crackle; The Dangerous Book For Boys for Amazon; and Electric Dreams for Channel 4 in the UK and Amazon.

“I launched the company six years ago with an insatiable curiosity to discover unique, character-based storytelling, which has been a key to Moonshot’s success,” Cranston said. “My producing partner, James Degus, and I are excited to continue the journey at Warner Bros., where...

Bryan Cranston and his Moonshot Entertainment production company have signed an exclusive multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. TV Group.

Cranston and producing partner James Degus will develop original series for linear TV, on-demand and streaming platforms. Moonshot’s series will be produced in association with either Warner Bros. Television, Warner Horizon Scripted Television, Warner Bros. Animation or Blue Ribbon Content, the Television Group’s digital division, depending on the platform.

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Also Read: New Warner Bros CEO Ann Sarnoff on Studio's Culture: 'I'll Bring My Style'

“I launched the company six years ago with an insatiable curiosity to discover unique, character-based storytelling, which has been a key to Moonshot’s success. My producing partner, James Degus, and I are excited to continue the journey at Warner Bros., where we will expand on an eclectic slate of ideas that aim to connect with the heart and mind,...

Bryan Cranston is the latest name to join the rush of content deals which are sweeping the business.

The actor and his Moonshot Entertainment production banner have signed a new overall deal with Warner Bros’ TV Group. The deal is described as an exclusive multi-year pact for Cranston’s producing services.

Under the pact, Cranston and his Moonshot producing partner James Degus will develop original television series ideas across multiple platforms including streaming, cable, broadcast and digital. Moonshot’s series will be produced in association with either Warner Bros. TV, Warner Horizon Scripted Television, Warner Bros. Animation or Blue Ribbon Content, Wbtv’s digital division, depending on the platform.

“I launched the company six years ago with an insatiable curiosity to discover unique, character-based storytelling, which has been a key to Moonshot’s success. My producing partner, James Degus, and I are excited to continue the journey at Warner Bros.,...

Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue), Bryce Pinkham (A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder) and Frank Wood (Side Man) have joined the cast of Broadway’s upcoming The Great Society, playwright Robert Schenkkan’s follow-up to his Tony-winning All The Way play about President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The new cast announcements follow last week’s news that The Great Society will begin performances Friday, September 6 at Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater for a 12-week limited engagement. Brian Cox will play the 36th President of the United States.

Clapp will play J. Edgar Hoover, Pinkham will be Robert F. Kennedy and Wood has been cast as Senator Everett Dirksen.

The Great Society is the second of Schenkkan’s two-play Lbj project. Bill Rauch will direct, as he did with All The Way. The latter play won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play and Bryan Cranston took the Tony for his lead role as Lbj.

Brian Cox, star of HBO’s “Succession,” will play Lyndon B. Johnson in this fall’s Broadway production of Robert Schenkkan’s “The Great Society” — the follow-up to his Tony-winning play “All the Way” that secured Bryan Cranston a Tony of his own as the Texas political giant who became the 36th president of the United States.

Performances will begin a 12-week run on September 6 for a still-to-be-announced official opening at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. The show includes two dozen locations and 50 characters, including Richard J. Daley, Martin Luther King Jr. and Hubert Humphrey (Richard Thomas).

Actors playing Richard Nixon, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Coretta Scott King, Lady Bird Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Governor George Wallace and Robert McNamara are still to be cast.

Bill Rauch (“All the Way”) will direct the production, which depicts the tumultuous times that led to the conclusion of the Johnson presidency...

He may not have sought nor did he accept a return to the White House, but Lyndon B. Johnson is coming back to Broadway: The Great Society, a companion play to Robert Schenkkan’s Tony-winning All The Way, will begin performances in September, with Brian Cox as the 36th President of the United States.

Also in the cast will be Richard Thomas, Marc Kudisch and Grantham Coleman (Amazon Studio’s upcoming Against All Enemies) making his Broadway debut as Martin Luther King Jr.

All The Way won the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play and Bryan Cranston took the Tony for his lead role as Lbj. All The Way director Bill Rauch will return in that capacity for The Great Society.

While the earlier play chronicled Lbj’s efforts on behalf of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the new play depicts the tumultuous events building to the conclusion of the Johnson...

Amy Stoch and Hal Landon Jr. have signed on to reprise their original roles for “Bill & Ted Face the Music,” while “SNL” star Beck Bennett is set to join the cast.

Stoch and Landon Jr. will reprise their roles as Missy and Ted’s father (police chief Chet Logan), respectively. Bennett will round out the Logan family as Deacon Logan, Ted’s younger brother.

Keanu Reeves will again portray Ted “Theodore” Logan and Alex Winter will reprise his role as Bill S. Preston, Esq. Other cast members include Scott Mescudi — best known by his stage name Kid Cudi — William Sadler, Samara Weaving and Brigette Lundy-Paine. “Bill & Ted Face the Music” will follow up 1989’s “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” and 1991’s “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.”

Dean Parisot (“Galaxy Quest”) will direct from a script by original creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon. Scott Kroopf (“Limitless”) will produce...

A group of celebrated actors will bring a little life to the Mueller Report later today with a special one-night-only live reading. The reading will feature selected excerpts from the special counsel’s report, which bears the onerous official title “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.” With a little direction and a lot of famous names, Annette Bening, Kevin Kline, and John Lithgow will bring the words of the report to life.

They headline a stacked cast that also includes Justin Long, Piper Perabo, Michael Shannon, Jason Alexander, Gina Gershon, Wilson Cruz, Joel Grey, Alyssa Milano, Kyra Sedgwick, Alfre Woodard, and Zachary Quinto, Frederick Weller, Ben McKenzie, Noah Emmerich, and Aidan Quinn. As if that weren’t enough of a draw, Sigourney Weaver, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Mark Hamill will also make brief appearances.

The event is titled “The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts,...

For only the third time this decade, none of the acting winners at this year’s Tony Awards did so for their Broadway debut. This is the 21st time that this has happened over the 73-year history of these top theater honors. Most of the winners were actually on the opposite end of the spectrum, winning for the first time after years of Broadway experience and several nominations to their name including André De Shields, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Stephanie J. Block. Check out the complete list of winners here.

The previous instances of Broadway debuts being shut out at the Tonys were in: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2001-2003, 2012 and 2017.

Below, you can see the names of all 96 people who have won Tonys for their debut on the Great White Way.

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James Corden’s opening number

Tony-winning host James Corden started the show on the couch — which happened to be located center stage at Radio City Music Hall. And he followed with a live musical extravaganza, featuring the casts of just about every nominated show and playful teasing of television in favor of live theater.

Bob Mackie wins his first Tony

The three-time Oscar nominee picked up his first Tony Award for designing the bedazzled costumes for “The Cher Show,” a bio-musical about his longtime friend. “This is very encouraging for an 80-year-old,” he joked on stage.

Jez Butterworth goes off script

The playwright ditched the prepared description of his Best Play nominee, “The Ferryman,” to give a shout-out to his wife, nominee Laura Donnelly, who gave birth to their two children during the run of the show in London and New York (and whose family history inspired the Irish-set drama...

Following his 2014 Tony Award for best actor as President Lyndon B. Johnson in Robert Schenkkan’s play “All the Way,” Bryan Cranston is looking to add to his trophy collection this year with his performance as Howard Beale in “Network.” The deranged anchorman — who’s famously “mad as hell and not going to take this anymore” — is the latest in a string of iconic roles for the actor, best known for playing chemistry teacher-turned-drug lord Walter White in the AMC series “Breaking Bad” (earning him a Golden Globe and four acting Emmys along the way). On a more lighthearted note, Cranston starred as goofy father Hal in Fox family sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle.” He was first mentioned in Variety in an announcement on Jan. 13, 1982, when he signed with Leonard Grant & Associates for personal management.

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Jeff Daniels (“To Kill a Mockingbird”) and Bryan Cranston (“Network”) are the two Best Actor in a Play frontrunners in our Tony Awards predictions, but this potential showdown would definitely not be the first between them. Daniels and Cranston have faced off twice at the Emmys, with each taking a win. So who will win Round 3 at the Tonys?

The pair first dueled at the 2013 Emmys for Best Drama Actor. Cranston was seeking his fourth win for “Breaking Bad,” while Daniels was contending with the first season of “The Newsroom.” Cranston and reigning champ Damian Lewis (“Homeland”) were favored — there was also a pre-scandal Kevin Spacey for the first season of “House of Cards” — but Daniels pulled off the surprise victory. His win has largely been credited to the lengthy monologue he delivers in the pilot, his episode submission, which is precisely the type of material you want under the old tape system.

Handicapping an unreleased, untitled film’s Oscar chances in March is a risky prospect at best, but the recent announcement that Lionsgate’s movie about political Svengali and former Fox News president Roger Ailes will be released on December 20 raises alarm bells for any awards watcher, especially with its starry cast and its strong pedigree behind the camera. Could it turn out to be this year’s “Vice”?

The upcoming film focuses on the downfall of Ailes following accusations of sexual harassment. Two-time Oscar nominee John Lithgow plays the disgraced Ailes. Oscar winner Charlize Theron (who also produces the film) portrays Fox personality Megyn Kelly. Oscar winner Nicole Kidman co-stars as her colleague Gretchen Carlson. And taking on the role of Fox media mogul Rupert Murdoch is Malcolm McDowell. The cast also includes big names like Margot Robbie, Allison Janney and Connie Britton.

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Olivia Colman and Regina King both left Sunday’s Oscars with a little gold man in tow, with the former earning Best Actress for “The Favourite” and the latter taking Best Supporting Actress for “If Beale Street Could Talk.” But only one of them could win — and did — when they dueled at the Emmys more than two years ago.

In 2016, the two were nominated for Best Limited Series/TV Movie Supporting Actress for “American Crime” (King) and “The Night Manager” (Colman). They were up against two other Oscar champs, Kathy Bates (“American Horror Story: Hotel”) and Melissa Leo (“All the Way”), and Sarah Paulson (“American Horror Story: Hotel”) and Jean Smart (“Fargo”). Smart was the odds-on favorite, but King walked off with the statuette (watch below).

King has become an Emmy queen as of late. That was her second straight upset in the category for “American Crime,” and she was...

“You’ll know before the dance is through that you’re in love with her and she’s in love with you.”

That lyric is from the very first Best Song Oscar winner, “The Continental,” from the 1934 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical, “The Gay Divorcee.” It’s a celebration of the power of dance to ignite the flames of desire.

Now “Shallow,” a more clear-eyed view on matters of the heart (“Ain’t it hard keeping it so hardcore?”) from “A Star Is Born” is part of that Academy Award tradition. But the fact is, such honored love songs are becoming a rarity.

It used to be that romantic tunes regularly caught Oscar’s ear. Occasionally, a song of yearning like 1939’s “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz,” “When You Wish Upon a Star” from 1940’s “Pinocchio” and “White Christmas” from 1942’s “Holiday Inn” broke through. There...

Amazon’s TV series based on the 1992 film A League of Their Own won’t necessarily have the same characters who hit a home run in the 1992 film.

Saying they still were in discussions with the creators, Amazon TV Co-Head Vernon Sanders added “I would say..there be a group of new characters but some nods to the original.”

It’s been nearly a year since Deadline confirmed that Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and Broad City co-creator/star Abbi Jacobson would write and executive produce the comedy series based on the ’92 film from Sony Pictures TV – a fictionalized account of the real-life World War II-era, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

The film, directed by Penny Marshall, starred Tom Hanks as team manager Jimmy Dugan, Geena Davis as Dottie Hinson, Madonna as “All The Way” Mae Mordabito, Lori Petty as Kit Keller, Rosie O’Donnell as Doris Murphy, Anne Ramsay as Helen Haley,...

Bryan Cranston is coming back to TV. The “Breaking Bad” star will headline Showtime’s new limited series “Your Honor,” the network announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association press tour.

From “The Good Wife” and “The Good Fight” executive producers Robert and Michelle King, the 10-episode series is a legal thriller set in New Orleans. Cranston, who will also serve as an executive producer, will play a respected judge whose son is involved in a hit-and-run that leads to a “a high-stakes game of lies, deceit and impossible choices,” per the logline. Peter Moffat, whose British series “Criminal Justice” was the basis of HBO’s “The Night Of,” will serve as showrunner and pen multiple episodes.

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“Peter, Michelle and Robert have crafted an original thriller with gut-wrenching suspense, raw emotion and moral complexity,” Gary Levine,...