We certainly don’t need another reason to wish the coronavirus gone and Broadway back in business, but here’s one anyway: Ben Platt wants to return to the stage. “Hankering,” is the word he uses. “I’m looking at film offers and scripts, but once it's possible,” Platt says, “I'm certainly looking to get back on…
A five-time Emmy winner, who was awarded a Career Achievement Award in Television in 2012, Lou Eyrich's career as a costume designer was not something she imagined for herself at an early age.
"It just kind of came to me," Eyrich notes, in the latest installment of Deadline's Production Value video series. "[Costume…
EXCLUSIVE: Ruderman Family Foundation has unveiled its latest "Seal of Authentic Representation" honors which recognizes films and television series which demonstrate a commitment toward full inclusiveness in popular culture. The disability rights organization is honoring This Is Us, See, Atypical, Spare Room and The P…
The Politician is set to return next month with new plot twists. Netflix has set Friday, June 19 for the Season 2 premiere , and unveiled first look photos for the upcoming season of Ryan Murphy’s dark comedy series.
The show centers on Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, who…
A Tony and Grammy Award winner known for originating the title role of Broadway smash Dear Evan Hansen, Ben Platt earned his first Golden Globe nomination this morning, for his turn in Netflix original comedy series The Politician.
"To be in the conversation is just really amazing," Platt told Deadline today. "I love…
On the heels of his breakout role on Ryan Murphy’s upcoming Netflix series The Politician, David Corenswet has been cast as a lead and will serve as an executive producer on another Murphy Netflix series, the drama Hollywood, which has a straight-to-series order at the Internet TV network.
Few details are known about…
The new NFL season is well underway and the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards have come and gone. Now comes the kickoff of the fall TV season beginning tonight.
With more than a dozen new shows on CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox over the next couple of weeks plus more on cable and streaming, panning for gold in the river of content…
When Bette Midler says, “This is gonna be fun,” who are we to disagree? In this just-released teaser for Netflix’s upcoming Ryan Murphy series The Politician – the first look at Midler and Judith Light – politics does indeed look, well, fun. If a little deadly.
Premiering on September 27, the series – check out the…
Jessica Lange hasn't been a regular on American Horror Story in four years, but all it took for her to snag her ninth Emmy nomination was just a few minutes on screen over two episodes in Season 8, Apocalypse. For this short but brilliant turn reprising her Season 1 role as Constance Langdon, Lange could potentially…
Netflix has released the first trailer for Ryan Murphy’s darkly comic series The Politician ahead of its September 27 premiere.
It centers on Payton Hobart (Ben Platt), a wealthy student from Santa Barbara, California, who has known since age seven that he’s going to be the President of the United States. But first he…
A multifaceted FX drama looking at three segments of society in '80s New York, including the world of ball culture, Pose was a challenging project to cast, in the sense that it was going where no TV series had gone before.
At a moment in time when onscreen representation is still seriously lacking, particularly when…
During the Pose panel at PaleyFest, Ryan Murphy revealed tons of news for the hit FX series and he also spilled some casting news about his forthcoming Netflix series The Politician. He announced that Bette Midler and Judith Light will be joining the cast and Pose writer and director Janet Mock will helm an…