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Deadline's TV Talk podcast is back for another season, taking listeners all the way to the 76th Emmy Awards ceremony September 15. Today’s podcast is the end of our Phase 1, but, like Arnold said, we’ll be back. It's less than a month until the nominations are revealed for the 76th Primetime Emmy…

Coming into Apple TV+’s WWII drama Masters of the Air, as a cinematographer and trained pilot, Richard Rutkowski’s goal was to capture “the excitement and drama of being a heroic flyer,” while making the audience very aware of “the ramifications of violence.” In telling the story of the famed…

Timothy Van Patten has faced down Tony Soprano, the challenges of Game of Thrones, and all those women on Sex and the City to name just a few of his notable directing gigs. But this season he went in a entirely new direction when he joined with Michael Douglas to present a look at Benjamin Franklin you…

Composer Blake Neely called his score for Apple TV+’s Masters of the Air a tribute to his mentor, the late Michael Kamen. Kamen gave Neely his first job as an orchestrator on Band of Brothers, the first in Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' World War II series trilogy. "It's a love letter to Michael,"…

Graham Yost, showrunner/executive producer/writer of the Apple TV+ series Silo, may be one of the most prolific of all producers working in television these days; his other credits just this year include fellow Apple hits Masters of the Air and Slow Horses…

BAFTA Award-nominee Callum Turner (Masters of the Air, The Boys in the Boat) is joining Neuromancer, a new 10-episode drama based on the sci-fi novel of the same name by William Gibson. Created for television by Graham Roland (Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan) and JD Dillard (The Outsider), Neuromancer follows…

Masters of the Air is the third World War II miniseries from Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, following Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Goetzman said Spielberg's father had been pushing them to do the series about WWII pilots since their first. Related…

My guest this week is Callum Turner. Turner is currently starring in Masters of the Air, Apple TV+’s World War II series following the American airmen stationed in England flying missions in B-17 Flying Fortress bombers. Making the series, in which he plays real-life airman Major John ‘Bucky…

Masters of the Air was a labor of love for executive producers Gary Goetzman, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. The Apple TV+ series marks the third and final installment of the trio’s war drama miniseries, after Band of Brothers and The Pacific. The series took three years to create and cost between…

Austin Butler appears to be a go-to guy when it comes to flight films. During a conversation this week with Josh Horowitz for his Happy Sad Confused podcast at The 92nd Street Y, New York, Butler said he had been in the running for a role in Top Gun: Maverick. But he flew in a different direction…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated screenwriter John Orloff, co-executive producer of the highly anticipated Apple TV series Masters of the Air, has signed with Verve for representation. Masters of the Air, produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and starring Austin Butler and Barry…

UPDATED: Apple TV+ has released the latest trailer for its epic World War II drama Masters of the Air. The trailer opens with Austin Butler’s Maj. Gale ‘Buck’ Cleven promising to write letters to his girl while he is away, because "a girl worth writin' to is hard to find." "Not if you know where to…