Erik has been a full-time journalist in Los Angeles for more than 35 years, the past 29 covering Hollywood. Before joining Deadline in 2013, he spent nearly 17 years at The Hollywood Reporter, rising to managing editor. He also wrote about music for THR; did hundreds of concert and TV reviews; covered such events as the Cannes Film Festival, NATPE and MIFED; and worked closely with the web team. Before that he was a cities editor at The Orange County Register after serving as managing editor of the Los Angeles Daily Commerce.
The roster covers hundreds of broadcast, cable and streaming programs debuting throughout 2025, including many still listed as TBA (to be announced). It includes series premieres and season debuts, shows returning from hiatus and some one-offs such as live sports and awards shows but not movies or…
David Travis, a pioneer in the home-video field who became a marketing executive for several Silicon Valley companies, has died. He was 79. A family rep said Travis died August 30 of metastasized colorectal cancer at the Motion Picture & Television Fund home in Woodland Hills, CA.
Travis was…
The 2025 AFI Fest will end with some beautiful noise. The 39th edition of American Film Institute’s annual event has set the world premiere of Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson’s Song Sung Blue as its closing-night film on Sunday, October 26.
The Focus Features pic from writer-director Craig Brewer…
Ted Mann, a writer-producer who won an Emmy for producing NYPD Blue and also earned nominations for producing Homeland and Deadwood and for writing Hatfields & McCoys, has died. He was 72.
Our sister site Variety said his daughter Elizabeth Mann revealed that Mann died September 4 of lung…
UPDATED with latest:Emmy season is upon us, and film awards aren’t all that far behind — time to look at what’s ahead trophy show-wise.
Here is a list of awards shows and nominations dates ahead. Check back often for updates.
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13: MacGuffin Awards (Property Masters…
Everybody knows one, and every garden grows one.
We have the first trailer for Song Sung Blue, starring Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson in the true-life tale of two down-on-their-luck musicians who form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band that changes their lives. Have a look above.
“I’m not…
Rick Davies, the co-founder, singer and songwriter of the hit-making British progressive rock band Supertramp, died of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, on Saturday, September 6, at his home in East Hampton, New York. He was 81.
His death was announced today on Supertramp’s website…
Harold Matzner, the philanthropist, businessman and cultural architect known as “Mr. Palm Springs” who transformed the Southern California desert city and revived and led its film festival, died Thursday in Palm Springs after a brief illness. He was 88.
Born on July 4, 1937, in Newark, NJ…
UPDATE: A judge has denied a couple’s request to demolish Marilyn Monroe’s former Brentwood home, which the city has declared a cultural landmark.
Brinah Milstein and her husband, producer Roy Bank, bought the Brentwood residence in July 2023 for $8.35 million and obtained a demolition permit…
EXCLUSIVE: Tom Brady is going from the hot seat to a cold plunge. The NFL legend is set as Kevin Hart’s first guest on Season 12 of the comic and actor’s digital series Cold as Balls, which premieres September 9 on the LOL Network YouTube channel.
Taped before a live studio audience, Brady’s…
Joe Bugner, a boxer who went the distance with Joe Frazier once and Muhammad Ali twice — once for the heavyweight title — and later became an actor and pro wrestler, died Monday in Brisbane, Australia. He was 75.
The British Boxing Board of Control confirmed his deaths but did not provide…