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Judge Orders ‘Making a Murderer’s’ Brendan Dassey Be Released From Prison
2 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
A judge ordered Monday that “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey be released from prison, under supervision, following the overturning of his conviction, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Dassey, 27, has been serving a life sentence since 2007 after he was convicted on accusations of helping his uncle, Steven Avery, kill 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. Avery remains in prison.
The order, issued by U.S. District Judge William Duffin, comes with several conditions, including that Dassey may not travel beyond the court’s Eastern District of Wisconsin, he may not obtain a passport, and he may not possess a gun or any controlled substances. He is also prohibited from contacting Avery, as well as the family of Halbach.
Dassey will be supervised by the U.S. Probation Office. It was not clear whether Dassey will be released immediately, or if his release could be delayed if the State of Wisconsin files an appeal.
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- Alex Stedman
Gwen Ifill, Longtime PBS Journalist, Dies at 61
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Veteran television journalist Gwen Ifill, the longtime host of PBS’ “Washington Week” and co-anchor of “PBS NewsHour,” has died. She was 61.
A PBS spokesperson confirmed that Ifill passed away Monday after a months-long battle with cancer.
“Gwen was a standard bearer for courage, fairness and integrity in an industry going through seismic change,” Sara Just, “PBS NewsHour” executive producer and Weta SVP, said in a statement. “She was a mentor to so many across the industry and her professionalism was respected across the political spectrum. She was a journalist’s journalist and set an example for all around her. So many people in the audience felt that they knew and adored her. She had a tremendous combination of warmth and authority. She was stopped on the street routinely by people who just wanted to give her a hug and considered her a friend after years of seeing her on TV. We »
- Daniel Holloway
HBO Renews ‘Westworld,’ ‘Divorce,’ ‘Insecure’ for Second Seasons
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HBO has given second season pickups to its trio of new fall series — fantasy drama “Westworld” and comedies “Insecure” and “Divorce.”
The renewals are a welcome relief for HBO and its new programming president, Casey Bloys, after a tough year in which HBO suffered a big miss with the period drama “Vinyl,” amid internal changes. “Westworld” in particular had a lot riding on its success as HBO looks to restock its drama series bench with its tentpole original “Game of Thrones” now heading into its final two seasons, starting next summer.
“It’s fantastic to have a broad-based cultural and ratings hit to build from,” Bloys said of “Westworld.” “That’s a great, great luxury.”
“Westworld” has quickly developed a fanatical following among viewers who parse every detail of the show described as a puzzle-within-a-puzzle set in a resort where humanized robots cater to the out-there whims of high-end patrons. Bloys »
- Cynthia Littleton
Critics’ Choice TV Awards: HBO Leads With 22 Nominations
7 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards announced its list of nominees Monday, with HBO leading the pack with 22 nominations. ABC and Netflix received 14 nominations each, followed by FX with 12. The winners will be announced at the Critics’ Choice Awards gala in Santa Monica on Sunday, December 11. T.J. Miller will serve as the show’s host.
The awards show has been swirled in controversy since sealing an exclusive partnership with Entertainment Weekly earlier this month. The surprise decision essentially turned the Critics Choice Awards into an Entertainment Weekly event. Journalists who quit the Broadcast Television Journalists Association as a result include IndieWire’s Michael Schneider, TVLine’s Michael Ausiello, Variety’s Debra Birnbaum, Buzzfeed’s Jarett Wieselman, TV Guide Magazine’s Matt Roush, Variety’s Maureen Ryan, Media Village’s Ed Martin, and Us Weekly’s John Griffiths. »
- Graham Winfrey
Diablo Cody-Tig Notaro Comedy ‘One Mississippi’ Renewed at Amazon
8 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
“One Mississippi” is getting a second season on Amazon Prime. Season 2 of the critically acclaimed comedy will premiere in 2017 on Prime Video in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Austria and Japan.
Created by Oscar winner Diablo Cody and Emmy nominated comedian Tig Notaro, “One Mississippi” follows a fictionalized version of Notaro as she returns to her Mississippi hometown after her mother suddenly passes away. Kate Robin (“Six Feet Under”) serves as showrunner.
“Making a show as comic and tragic as ‘One Mississippi’ is a risk. Pulling it off with such intelligence and nuance is rare,” said Joe Lewis, Amazon Studios’ head of comedy and drama. “We’re grateful for the audience response and we’re excited to bring them more of Tig and Kate’s brilliance in Season 2.”
Variety‘s Maureen Ryan offered effusive praise for the series when it first hit Amazon Prime in September. “The cumulative power of “One Mississippi” is almost breathtaking, given »
- Oriana Schwindt
‘Walking Dead’ Recap: Negan Offers ‘Service’ With an Evil Smile (Spoilers)
19 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Spoiler alert: Do not read until you’ve watched episode four of this season of “The Walking Dead,” titled “Service.”
All is quiet in Alexandria. “The Walking Dead’s” “Service” opens with three minutes of near silence, as Michonne and Rick wake up next to each other, she slips quietly out the front door and he perches baby Judy on his shoulder. For a moment, it feels like this might be a flashback to a time before Negan murdered two members of their group and brave, indomitable Rick was reduced to a quivering wreck, but no: This is the new normal, or as close to it as they’re going to get.
Negan arrives unexpectedly and ahead of schedule, the better to keep Alexandria’s residents perpetually off-balance. He appears first as a shadow on the safe zone’s gate, whistling like Peter Lorre child murderer in “M.” He’s just as bad up close, and »
- Sam Adams
'Westworld' Creators Explain "Terrible," "Devastating" Game-Changing Reveal
16 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
[Warning: This story contains massive spoilers for the seventh episode of HBO's Westworld.] "Have you ever questioned the nature of your reality?" It's a question posed all throughout Westworld, as technicians and scientists analyze and diagnose the hosts. Indeed, it's a question often posed by Bernard Lowe (Jeffrey Wright), the park's main scientific mind second only to founder Robert Ford (Anthony Hopkins). It's not a question he often asks himself, however — and based on the ending of the show's seventh episode, it's certainly one he'll be asking himself a lot moving forward. In the episode, "Trompe L'Oeil,"
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CBS Gives Full-Season Orders to ‘Man With a Plan’ and ‘The Great Indoors’
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CBS has given full season orders to Matt LeBlanc’s “Man With A Plan” and Joel McHale’s “The Great Indoors,” picking up an additional six episodes of each of the freshman comedies, Variety has learned.
With the additional episode orders, now all five of CBS’s new fall series have landed full-season orders, joining “Kevin Can Wait,” “Bull” and “MacGyver,” which were all recently picked up with 22 episodes. “Man With A Plan” and “The Great Indoors” will have slightly shorter first seasons with a total of 19 episodes for each.
Additionally, CBS has also given a shortened full season order for medical drama “Code Black” for its second season, ordering three more episodes for a total of 16 for Season 2.
A favorite of the network, “Code Black’s” numbers have fallen from its first season, but is averaging 7.94 million viewers and a 1.5 in its Wednesday night time slot in the adults 18-49 demo. The »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
BBC Wants More Shows Starring ‘The Great British Bake Off’s’ Mary Berry
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The BBC is keeping Mary Berry, until recently a judge on the U.K.’s most-popular show, “The Great British Bake Off,” tied to its apron strings with yet another starring role in a food-themed series.
The U.K. public broadcaster has commissioned Endemol-Shine’s Sidney Street to produce “Mary Berry Everyday,” which celebrates traditional British cuisine. The BBC previously ordered the same production company to serve up “Mary Berry’s Absolute Favorites” and “Mary Berry’s Foolproof Cooking.” Earlier this month, the broadcaster commissioned “Mary Berry’s Secrets From Britain’s Great Houses” from Shine TV, which follows the company’s “Mary Berry’s Easter Feast” last year.
In “Mary Berry Everyday,” the culinary guru will “celebrate the food and ingredients she turns to most as she proves that you don’t need an exotic larder or a chef’s repertoire to create delicious dishes every night of the week,” according »
- Leo Barraclough
Comedian Brett Gelman Severs Ties With Adult Swim Over Lack of Female Representation
32 minutes ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Comedian Brett Gelman has taken to Twitter to announce that he has “severed ties” with comedy network Adult Swim in the wake of the recent controversy surrounding their lack of female creators.
Splitsider reports that the “Dinner in America” star and creator will no longer work in tandem with the network, specifically pointing to Evp/creative director Mike Lazzo’s recent Reddit post that attempted to explain away the channel’s lack of female creators — as was reported earlier this year, they currently have zero projects from women currently in the works — by announcing that “women don’t tend to like conflict” when it comes time to write and produce comedy.
Adult Swim’s Mike Lazzo Takes to Reddit to Defend Lack of Female Creators https://t.co/fjxE8FYx7z This Is The Reason I Have Severed Ties
— Brett Gelman (@brettgelman) November 14, 2016
Gelman also noted that his decision stemmed »
- Kate Erbland
Elvis Presley Documentary Directed By Thom Zimny To Premiere On HBO
34 minutes ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
An untitled HBO Entertainment documentary about the life and music of Elvis Presley from Sony Pictures Television is wrapping production this month and will debut on a yet-to-be announced date on the network. Directed by Emmy and Grammy winner Thom Zimny (The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town, The Ties That Bind), and written by Alan Light, the three-hour, two-film presentation takes the audience on a comprehensive journey from Elvis' childhood through… »
‘South Park’s President Trump – Er, Garrison – Meets A Constituent In Second Post-Election Episode
42 minutes ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
South Park always has been known for its timeliness, and its irreverence, so it’s natural that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone would have another post-election episode ready to go a week after the presidential election. Those who have followed the current 20th season of Comedy Central’s signature toon know that the Mr. Garrison character was campaigning for president — with running mate Caitlyn Jenner — against Hillary “Turd Sandwich” Clinton. Well, the ballots have… »
Chris Meloni To Star In Syfy Pilot ‘Happy!’
1 hour ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Underground star Chris Meloni is set as the male lead in Syfy pilot Happy!, based on Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's graphic novel. Meloni will play Nick Sax. Once a rock star detective for a major metropolitan police force, Nick lost it all. Now he’s a broken, down-and-out hired killer who makes just enough money to support a steady diet of booze, drugs and sarcasm by carrying out hits for the mob. After one hit goes wrong, his life is forever changed by a tiny… »
‘The Simpsons’ Addresses Its 2000 Prediction Of Donald Trump Presidency
1 hour ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Face it: The Simpsons has been right about a lot of things. When you air 600-plus episodes over 28 seasons and counting, you’ll bound to hit the mark now again. But the venerable Fox toon doesn’t seem all that thrilled with its prediction of a Donald Trump presidency — the one it made during a 2000 episode titled “Bart To The Future.” Well, if admitting one’s mistakes is the first step to redemption, or whatever, then The Simpsons has begun its own personal healing… »
The Flash: Will Speedster Dreams Turn Into Wally's Reality? Or a Nightmare?
1 hour ago | TVLine.com | See recent TVLine.com news »
This Tuesday on The Flash (The CW, 8/7c), Wally’s dream of being a speedster turns into… well, an actual dream, when his slumber is interrupted by visions of exactly that. Is this some sort of affirmation that he is fated to be super-fleet of feet? Or might this mark his first step toward an eeeevil reality?
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Wally’s “visions of this alternate life” indeed excite more than confuse him, seeing as they appear to support his theory — held ever since he and Jesse Wells got »
Jason MacLeod Elected New Head Of Animation Guild
1 hour ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Jason MacLeod has been elected business rep of the Animation Guild, Iatse Local 839, succeeding Steve Hulett, who is retiring December 6 after 27 years at the helm of the union. Hulett, currently the longest serving union leader in Hollywood, spent a decade as an animation writer at Walt Disney Animation Studios in the 1970s and 1980s before taking the leadership role at the guild in 1989. This election marks only the second turnover in the office since 1978. "I'm very… »
Audience Network Orders Tim Ferriss Series Produced By Vince Vaughn
1 hour ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
At&T Audience Network has greenlit a new original series, Fear(less) with Tim Ferriss, featuring self-help guru Tim Ferriss, for premiere in 2017. The show, which will be filmed in front of a live audience, will be executive produced by Vince Vaughn's Wild West Productions. Fear(less) With Tim Ferriss features in-depth, long-form conversations between bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor Ferriss and top performers, focusing on how they've overcome fears and made… »
Gwen Ifill’s Death: Reactions From Media & Political Worlds, Including President Obama
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Refresh for latest…PBS newscaster Gwen Ifill’s death this morning, at age 61, is top trending worldwide on Twitter, as comments pour in from both the media industry and the political word she covered. "She not only informed today's citizens, but she also inspired tomorrow's journalists," @Potus says of Gwen Ifill. pic.twitter.com/ok0KBm38lV — PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) November 14, 2016 It is sad to hear that Gwen Ifill has passed away. Gwen was a veteran… »
‘Making A Murderer’ Subject Brendan Dassey Ordered Released By Judge
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A U.S. Magistrate Judge in Wisconsin has ordered Making a Murderer subject Brendan Dassey released from federal prison while prosecutors appeal his overturned conviction. Judge William Duffin today ordered Dassey released with multiple conditions as court proceedings continue. Dassey, one of two men whose murder convictions were chronicled in the hit Netflix docuseries, was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 for his alleged participation in the death of 25-year-old… »
The Net Worth of Each of The Blacklist Cast Members
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On The Blacklist, James Spader plays Raymond “Red” Reddington, who is not only a former government agent but now a fugitive of the most-wanted variety. After surrendering to the FBI, he has a special offer for them. The one main condition, which nobody understands at first, is that he will only work with Elizabeth Keen, played by Megan Boone, who has only recently graduated from Quantico. Red makes an agreement with the FBI regarding helping them with putting away some major criminals from the blacklist, of course, which is a long list that he himself put together. The very first
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- Nat Berman
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