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Is your favorite TV show coming back for another season? To find out, click through Deadline’s 2024 list of series renewals, which covers broadcast, cable and streaming. We update this list often, so check back to see which comedy, drama, reality, docuseries, animation and other programs have been given new seasons so…

Hollywood and the entertainment industry lost a number of giants during 2023, from Norman Lear, Raquel Welch, Harry Belafonte, Matthew Perry and André Braugher to Tony Bennett, Tina Turner and Robbie Robertson. Here is Deadline’s annual tribute to those who left us during the past year, with each photo in the gallery…

MONDAY AM writethru: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he’s delivering the motion picture industry a $9 billion-plus year at the domestic box office, a feat many thought was unimaginable with the lack of a mega-tentpole over the holiday, coupled by a Q4 impacted by the double strikes. The numbers…

In a cinematic landscape filled with talent, certain performances stand out. From the quiet intensity of Greta Lee in Past Lives to the commanding presence of Taraji P. Henson in The Color Purple, this collection of actors make up some of my favorite performances of the year of films I saw. Each actor…

The year 2023 was an eventful year for filmmaking, but several independent movies stood out among critics and audiences as major successes. Some films may have passed under the radar with audience, but accolades at film festivals prove that big budgets aren’t necessary for cinematic success. Notable highlights in…

In a year that was defined by as much drama off-screen with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes as there was on-screen, 2023 saw the era of Peak TV come to a bruised end, but not without getting a few last solid punches in. Ted Lasso sputtered to a pretty standard end as heavyweights Succession and Reservat…

Despite delays due to the pandemic, devastating writers and actors strikes, corporate shakeups and some fine movies getting lost either in the shuffle or in the streaming larder, 2023 has turned out to be an excellent year overall for films. That alone is something of a miracle, as well as a…

There was a moment in the past year when dozens of media and political reporters found themselves in the same room, sitting patiently for hours, essentially doing nothing but speculating about what was about to happen. That’s generally a fraught scenario, but in this case, it was a bit fortuitous in…

Roku was a champ. Lionsgate surged and Netflix jumped. Tech shares went bananas in 2023. Big media stocks had a mixed year of transition dominated by Hollywood strikes with linear television declines and streaming losses. Paramount fell. Disney and Fox were basically flat on the year. Giants Comcast…