NBA incumbent Warner Bros. Discovery plans to match Amazon's new basketball rights deal that’s said to be in the $1.8 billion range, Deadline hears. WBD's exclusive negotiating window with the League ended in April with no agreement and although talks continued the NBA is said to have settled on…

Jimmy Kimmel is setting out to help his fellow SAG-AFTRA members once again. A recent casting notice for Jimmy Kimmel Live! calls for actors who are just shy of qualifying for health insurance. They must be within $1,401 of meeting the minimum requirement to be considered for the role, according to…

The bad news continues for on-location production in Los Angeles, especially for television projects. The city and county's film office said today that local on-location filming declined by 12.4% from 2023 during the second quarter ended June 30, recording only 5,748 shoot days (read the full report…

Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to three different dates for a vice presidential debate against Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Donald Trump’s running mate. CBS News would host the debate. In a statement Wednesday, a Biden campaign official said, “On May 16, Vice President Harris accepted the…

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has called on Joe Biden to drop out of the presidential race, arguing that he has “serious concerns” that the president can’t win. “President Biden has been one of the most consequential presidents in our nation's history, and his lifetime of service as a Senator, a Vice…

The Angel City Football club said today it's entered into a definitive agreement with Willow Bay, Dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and Bob Iger, CEO of Disney that will make the couple the new controlling owners of the team. Deadline broke the news earlier this month…

A new study confirms what many women in TV production already suspect: males continue to outnumber females when it comes to how reality shows are made. Men make up 58.4% of executive producers, supervising producers, and show creators, while women only make up 41.5%, according to a study commissioned…

EXCLUSIVE: Bonnie Abaunza will be feted this Thursday by the ACLU of Southern California with the Advocates for Justice Award.  She will be bestowed with the honor by Spectrum News 1 anchor, Giselle Fernandez.  Abaunza has been a longtime supporter of the ACLU and served on its Foundation…

Nikki Haley told the Republican National Convention that “Donald Trump has my strong endorsement, period,” mending fences with the former president after a bitter primary race in which she had called him “not qualified” for office. “We have a country to save, and a unified Republican Party is…

Savannah Chrisley, the reality star, blasted prosecutors in her speech at the Republican National Convention, claiming that her parents were “persecuted” by the justice system “due to our public profile and conservative beliefs.” Her parents, Todd Chrisley and his wife Julie Chrisley, stars of the…

Kari Lake, the former TV news anchor and U.S. Senate candidate, used a moment of her speaking slot at the Republican National Convention to express a common theme: Bashing the media. “Welcome to everybody in this great arena tonight. We love you all. Actually, actually, wait a minute. I don’t mean…

East End Studios has broken ground on its downtown Los Angeles Arts District facility, East End Studios Mission Campus. Demolition and excavation are currently underway with the vertical phase of construction set to begin this summer. The project, with a total cost of approximately $230 million, is…