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David Zayas (Dexter) has been tapped to replace Timothy Busfield in a pulled episode of Law & Order: SVU. NBC shelved the episode, titled “Corrosive” and scheduled to air January 15, which was to feature Busfield in a guest-starring role as a judge. The decision came days after an arrest warrant…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Ray Romano has been tapped to star in HBO Max drama pilot How to Survive Without Me, from Greg Berlanti, Bash Doran and Warner Bros TV. Romano will play the patriarch in the family drama, written by Berlanti and Doran from a story the duo co-wrote with Robbie Rogers, which…

Clea DuVall (Poker Face) and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Spider-Man: No Way Home) have joined the cast of HBO’s The Last of Us for its upcoming third season. Deadline can reveal exclusively that DuVall will play a seraphite in the adaptation of Naughty Dog’s popular game. Lendeborg will portray Manny…

Netflix has been doubling down on India, and today unveiled new projects with Hansal Mehta, Anil Kapoor, Sunny Deol and Saif Ali Khan among others. As part of the streamer’s continued round of local slate announcements, Netflix’s VP of Content, India, Monika Shergill said “a decade of streaming…

EXCLUSIVE: Cory Michael Smith (Mountainhead), Vic Carmen Sonne (The Girl with the Needle) and Tamara Podemski (Murderbot) have joined Daniel Zolghadri (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You) in The Temple, a horror film from directors Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis which we first reported on in November 2024…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Smiley (Bad Sisters), Danny Huston (The Aviator), Camille Cottin (Call My Agent!), and Ulrich Thomsen (Lanterns) have joined the cast of The Riders, A24’s new film from Academy Award-winner Edward Berger, based on the Tim Winton novel of the same name. Taking place in multiple…

EXCLUSIVE: Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions, Cole Hauser’s American Outlaw Entertainment and MGM Television are teaming on a series adaptation of the book Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker, Doug J. Swanson’s definitive deep dive into the life…

John Cho (Murderbot, Searching) has been cast in the new Apple TV series The Off Weeks, starring and executive produced by Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain, from director Michael Showalter, showrunner Alissa Nutting and Apple Studios. In The Off Weeks, when divorce throws writing professor Gus…

EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Moten (Fallout) and Clancy Brown (Promising Young Woman) are among new additions to the cast of Nightwatching, the forthcoming thriller based on Tracy Sierra’s debut novel that stars Mila Kunis and Corey Hawkins. Character details are under wraps. Others rounding out the cast…

EXCLUSIVE: Elsbeth Season 3 will welcome beloved stars Mark Linn-Baker (Succession, Perfect Strangers), Joanna Gleason (The West Wing, The Good Wife/Fight), and Didi Conn (Grease, Benson), who will appear together in Episode 16, alongside the previously announced Griffin Dunne. Linn-Baker will…

Nancy Meyers’ next feature is officially moving forward at Warner Bros after the studio took it in turnaround from Netflix in 2023. It’s Meyers first time behind the camera in 11 years, since writing and directing Warner Bros’ Anne Hathaway-Robert De Niro comedy The Intern. The previous…

EXCLUSIVE: Meredith Hagner (Search Party), Guy Burnet (Landman) and Freya Mavor (Skins) have joined Scorn, Topic Studios’ erotic thriller from Search Party‘s Sarah-Violet Bliss. Character details are under wraps. As previously announced, Adria Arjona and Kingsley Ben-Adir lead the…