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Kountry Wayne, the Southern comic who landed major streaming releases for his first two specials, has an unusual origin story. While many comedians have built audiences through social media, Wayne took a more specialized route: He zeroed in on vertical micro-dramas, a format that helped him…

Warning: This podcast and write-up has spoilers about the ending of tonight’s first episode of HBO/DC’s Lanterns We can’t even say it in a blunt, straight sentence. But, first episode in, something crazy happened to Kyle Chandler’s O.G. Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, in a time jump. It’s an…

There’s a 1970s movie sensibility in Steve Conrad’s HBO limited series DTF St. Louis, which tells the story of a bromance between two co-workers, a River City TV weatherman played by Jason Bateman and his hearing-impaired interpreter played by David Harbour. The former gets the latter into a kinky…

The score is now Disney+ 1, Netflix 1. Disney’s streaming service has struck a deal with former Manchester United footballer and emerging media magnate Gary Neville for podcasts from his Global Studios-owned company, The Overlap. This follows Netflix branching out into football podcasts…

For over 75 years, Mel Brooks has been making people laugh. Hard. He's brought to the screen Mongo, Lili Von Shtüpp, the grandson of a certain mad scientist (aka Young Frankenstein), Frau Blücher ("A little Ovaltine, perhaps?), Louis XVI ("It's good to be the king"), Max Bialystock, Leo Bloom…

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline's strand in which, each fortnight, we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films making a splash internationally. The industry is more global than ever and breakout projects are appearing in pockets of the world all the time, making it hard to keep track, so we'r…

Of the 18 Emmy nominations for Apple TV’s Pluribus, composer Dave Porter can call dibs on three of ’em: for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series, Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour), and Original Main Title Theme Music. It’s a sweet moment for Porter, for after his 18-year…

Disney+ and Hulu have inked a video podcasting deal with iHeartMedia for six iHeartPodcasts titles, including Hey Jonas! from the Jonas Brothers, which kicks things off on August 14. Also on the slate are Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim, Pod Meets World, Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald…

President Barack Obama is known for his prodigious list making. He's also an avid reader. So the 44th President is bringing two of his favorite hobbies together in a new podcast series. He is hosting A Great Book with Barack Obama for Amazon's Audible. It forms part of his first-look deal with…

Just after he turned 100, David Attenborough achieved the extraordinary. The famed naturalist and author earned not one but two Primetime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Narrator this year, one for the Netflix documentary A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough, the other for the National…

EXCLUSIVE: Wave, the next-gen digital entertainment company, has inked a deal with comedians Langston Kerman and David Gborie to oversee ad sales and distribution for their comedy podcast, My Momma Told Me. The pod joins Wave’s expanding comedy slate, which as of last winter, includes So True wit…

2026 finds comedy at a moment of reinvention across platforms. The last decade has seen stand-up boom, with artists able to bootstrap their own careers like never before. TV comedy has enjoyed a golden moment of its own, though feature comedy continues to struggle to regain its footing as a…