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EXCLUSIVE: Sinqua Walls (American Soul) is set as a series regular in At That Age, NBC's ensemble drama pilot from Carla Banks-Waddles, Malcolm D. Lee, Debra Martin Chase and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Created, directed and based on an original idea by Lee and written by Banks-Waddles,…

EastEnders actress Jessica Plummer has joined Gugu Mbatha-Raw and David Oyelowo in HBO Max and BBC One’s limited series The Girl Before. Deadline revealed the adaptation of JP Delaney's bestselling psychological thriller in January, and Plummer has signed up to play Emma in the series. It represents one of her first…

Vir Das, Rob Delaney, Galen Hopper, Samson Kayo, Guz Khan, Nick Kocher, Ross Lee, Harry Trevaldwyn and Danielle Vitalis have joined the cast of Judd Apatow’s next comedy The Bubble at Netflix. Karen Gillan, Maria Bakalova, Iris Apatow, Fred Armisen, David Duchovny, Keegan-Michael Key, Leslie Mann, Pedro Pascal and…

Anthony Boyle is set to co-star opposite Austin Butler and Calum Turner in Apple Studios’ Masters of the Air, from Playtone and Amblin Television. The limited series, which will be produced by the companies, reunites Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman following their Emmy-winning work on Band of Brothers…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Peacock has landed Poker Face, a mystery drama starring Russian Doll‘s Natasha Lyonne from Rian Johnson, his T-Street banner and MRC Television, with a 10-episode straight-to-series order. This marks the first TV series for Knives Out and Start Wars filmmaker Johnson who is the…

EXCLUSIVE: Veteran actor Jacob Vargas has joined the cast of Steven Soderbergh's next film, the New Line Max Original feature KIMI, with Zoë Kravitz on board to star. Byron Bowers and Jaime Camil are also on board. The film will premiere exclusively on HBO Max. David Koepp penned the script and will produce with…

A major question about Adam McKay’s untitled Lakers series for HBO — who will play Pat Riley — has been answered. Oscar winner Adrien Brody has been tapped to star as the former Los Angeles Lakers head coach in the drama series based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dyn…

Tom Hiddleston has been tapped as the male lead opposite Claire Danes in the Apple TV+ drama series The Essex Serpent, adapted from Sarah Perry's bestselling novel of the same name. Written by Anna Symon and will be directed by Clio Barnard, The Essex Serpent follows newly widowed Cora (Danes) who, having being…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be meeting Dr. Stacy in an upcoming episode of ABC’s A Million Little Things. I’m Sorry creator Andrea Savage, who did a voiceover as the character in an episode in 2018, is returning to reprise her role in a multi-episode arc, appearing on camera in one episode. Savage’s Dr. Stacy is a no-nonsense…

EXCLUSIVE: Devere Rogers (My Spy, Sherman’s Showcase) has been cast as a series regular opposite Patti LuPone and Erinn Hayes in OK Boomer, a multi-camera comedy pilot from creator Todd Linden (Happy Endings, Alexa & Katie), the late Jamie Tarses' Fanfare and Sony Pictures TV. Written by Linden and to be directed by…

The Wonder Years has found its new Kevin Arnold. Elisha “EJ” Williams has been tapped to star as Dean, the new Kevin in ABC’s The Wonder Years single-camera comedy reboot pilot, from Dave exec producer Saladin Patterson, Fred Savage and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels. Savage, who played Kevin in the original dramedy…

EXCLUSIVE: One Night In Miami star Kingsley Ben-Adir will play a lead opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Mendelsohn in Secret Invasion, the upcoming Marvel series for Disney+, Deadline has learned. In Secret Invasion, Jackson and Mendelsohn reprise their MCU characters Nick Fury and the Skrull Talos, respectively, who…