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UPDATED with airdate and episode synopsis: Justin Hartley’s Colter Shaw has found his brother. Hartley announced Thursday in a video on Instagram (see below) that Jensen Ackles has been cast as Colter’s estranged brother Russell on CBS’ drama series Tracker. The network revealed Friday that Ackles…

Dermot Mulroney blames the cake. As sports reporter Michael O’Neal in My Best Friend’s Wedding, Mulroney expected many doors would fly open after his star turn. "I was sitting there ready for the gift with purchase that was supposed to come along with being in a popular movie, and instead, I…

EXCLUSIVE: No decision has been made official, but sources tell Deadline that New Line is the favorite to land the package that is based on the biography The Chris Farley Show with Paul Walter Hauser attached to play the legendary comedian. The pitch is based on the book by Farley’s brother Tom Farley Jr…

Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) and Bowen Yang (SNL) have been tapped to star in a reimagining of Ang Lee’s classic romance The Wedding Banquet from filmmaker Andrew Ahn (Fire Island), Deadline can confirm. The original film’s co-writer and producer James Schamus will join Joe Pirro in…

Leanne Morgan’s current tour is called Just Getting Started, and the 58-year-old comedian is living up to that with a comedy series and two more specials at Netflix. The streamer has given a 16-episode order to an untitled multi-cam sitcom, headlined by Morgan in her TV acting debut and executive produced…

Netflix has expanded the Season 2 cast for To All The Boys spinoff series XO, Kitty, as production gets underway in Seoul. (You can watch a start of production clip below). Audrey Huynh (ANZBBGRL, Wyrm) has joined as a new series regular, and Sasha Bhasin (Brave the Dark) and Joshua Lee (Gangnam Project)…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple and Skydance have welcomed four to the cast of their action adventure pic Mayday from writer-directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley: Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), Marcin Dorocinski (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One), Lovell Adams-Gray (Power Book II…

Netflix’s Heartstopper has added three to its Season 3 cast including Jonathan Bailey (Fellow Travelers, Bridgerton), Hayley Atwell (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Captain America: The First Avenger) and Eddie Marsan (Back to Black, Ray Donovan). The show returns with 8 new episodes in…

It’s been a long time coming. In a new promo for his directorial project IF, John Krasinski and Steve Carell met up for the first time in years. "Reunited and it feeeeels so gooooood!" the Quiet Place filmmaker wrote in a social media post. "[Carell] happens to be a dear friend," Krasinski says…

Three-time Emmy winner Julia Garner is boarding New Line's Weapons opposite Josh Brolin. The pic comes from writer-director Zach Cregger. who made the 2022 New Regency horror film Barbarian. Barbarian, released via 20th Century Studios, opened at No. 1 after pulling in a 93% Rotten Tomatoes critics…

Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway) has signed on to star alongside Kelvin Harrison Jr., Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Halle Bailey in Universal’s untitled coming-of-age musical from director Michel Gondry and producer Pharrell Williams. No word yet on the role Henry will be playing. Written by Martin Hynes and…

Chicago Med alum Colin Donnell has been cast as a guest star in the final two episodes of FBI: International‘s third season, sources confirm to Deadline. Donnell’s character is being under wraps, but his introduction to the series follows the exit of original cast member Luke Kleintank. As we exclusiv…