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Jake Kanter International TV EditorNetflix has had to take down Season 2 of hit British comedy Derry Girls in the UK just days after uploading the show following a mix-up over rights.After tweeting last week that Derry Girls was ready to stream, Netflix today backtracked: “UPDATE: it looks like we were a bit early with this one so have had to take season two down for now. We’ll let you know when it’s coming back as soon as we can.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorHillary Clinton was the guest Monday on The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah, and the former Secretary of State and presidential candidate talked about Donald Trump, Roger Stone, voter suppression and the one thing one everyone’s mind — what she’s been up to in isolation.After discussing the 100th anniversary of American women getting the right to vote and her work with the nonprofit Onward Together, she got to the really important stuff.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorBryshere Gray, who played Hakeem on the Fox drama Empire, was arrested near Phoenix today after his wife told police he assaulted her for hours and choked her unconscious at their home Sunday night.Local police said the actor was arrested early Monday outside his home in suburban Goodyear, AZ. Officers said Gray initially refused to come out of the house, so a SWAT team and crisis negotiations were called in to assist.He was taken into custody without incident a little after 7 a.m, and was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on domestic violence charges.Goodyear Police said they responded to a 911 call made at about 10:15 p.m.

Peter White Television EditorThe Tonight Show returned to the studio tonight with Jimmy Fallon kicking off with an emotional message to viewers.Fallon, sitting on a stool in the middle of the studio, rather than behind the traditional desk, and dressed in a sweater and sneakers rather that his usual suit, said that “any type of normalcy feels great” during the COVID-19 pandemic.“As a New Yorker, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped get us back to where we are now,” he opened. “To all the states, going through the tough parts, friends in Florida, Texas, Arizona, California.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“We should also point out to the ghouls that are beating their chest in triumphant at the destruction of a young man that self-righteousness also has its costs,” said Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson tonight on his top-rated primetime show after one of his top writers was exposed for frequently posting racist, sexist and homophobic comments on a legal message board.“We are all human, when we pretend we are holy, we are lying,” Carlson continued in what was a defiant flag planting where some expected contrite remorse.

FOX4 News.Related: Transgender woman fatally shot in parking lot of Dallas apartment complexThat witness also said that Walker eventually caught up to the woman, stood over her, and fired multiple shots while she was on the ground.According to the affidavit, the witness claimed Walker and the victim had gotten into a dispute over a video of an intimate counter of the two that Mack was threatening to post on Snapchat, reports Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA.Police later found a post on Richey’s Facebook that read: “Brand new video on my private snap in jusssst a minute, y’all have to see how nasty I got with this [explicit slur].”Walker is currently being held in Dallas County jail.

David Robb Labor EditorEXCLUSIVE: Ron Valentine, business agent of IATSE Stagehands Local 33 in Los Angeles, says he doesn’t expect concerts, sporting events and theatrical productions to return with audiences until 2021. Even so, he’s hopeful that the show will go on, even if it has to be without live audiences.“We have been in discussions with employers to think about virtual concerts and private fundraisers at our venues such as the Hollywood Bowl or the Greek Theatre to keep the employer in business, as well as our members employed,” he told Deadline.

Peter White Television EditorLate-night comedy writers have faced a few challenges when it comes to writing jokes during a global pandemic and the presidency of Donald J. Trump.The writers for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show tell Deadline about the pros and cons of that process as well as how they’ve adjusted to writing for a house-bound Trevor Noah and how they plan to celebrate their eventual return to the studio.Head writer Dan Amira says that he has adjusted to working under lockdown “terrifyingly well”.

Peter White Television EditorAmber Ruffin has become a breakout star thanks to her appearances on Late Night With Seth Meyers during quarantine.This included the writer and performer taking over the top of the NBC late-night show during the Black Lives Matters protests, detailing her own run-ins with police.So, it’s no surprise that NBCU streamer Peacock is keen to get her own late-night show, The Amber Ruffin Show, up and running as quickly as possible.Meyers, who is an exec producer on the show, which was originally unveiled as part of Peacock’s first tranche of original programming, told Deadline, “It’s hard to say what’s going to happen in the fall but we’re still very hopeful that you’re going to get to see it sooner rather than

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterABC won Sunday’s primetime with the return of Celebrity Family Feud, which held steady at a 0.7 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.08 million viewers. The network’s game show block also included fresh episodes of Press Your Luck (0.6, 3.70M) and Match Game (0.5, 3.28M), both holding steady.On CBS, 60 Minutes (0.5, 6.98M) climbed from last week in the demo and topped audience numbers for the night.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: We can tell you first that Amblin Partners is reuniting with Tate Taylor, who directed the studio’s box office and award-lauded hits The Help and The Girl on the Train. The new feature project is Miss Macy and it’s based on the true story of Trisha Mitchell Coburn and her life after she meets her mentor “Miss Macy”. Three-time Emmy winner Jean Smart will star as Miss Macy and serve as EP.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: On the heels of her debut feature film, Pink Skies Ahead, writer/director Kelly Oxford’s spec feature script, Son Of A Bitch has been put into development at HBO Max with Oxford being brought on to direct.In the vein of Bridesmaids, the script is a raucous comedy about a young stoner who tries to maintain her popular party girl image after she discovers she’s fallen pregnant.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThat’s a wrap on Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, which saw Oscar Isaac and co recently return to film the last few remaining days on the movie after a virus-related delay.Deadline was the first to tell you that the pic was heading back on set this month after being forced to shutdown back in March when a cast member tested positive for the virus just five days away from the end of shooting.Director Schrader has now taken to his Facebook page to confirm that production has now been completed, posting that it wrapped last night in Biloxi, Mississippi.The pic, which stars Isaac as a former serviceman who lives a spartan existence playing cards before he moves into the world of high-stakes poker, got

The Deadline Team (Press Association) Johnny Depp has said he did not intend to headbutt Amber Heard during an alleged heated row between the couple at their Los Angeles penthouse.In his final day in the witness-box during his libel trial with British newspaper The Sun, he told the High Court that he grabbed his ex-wife to “lock her arms” in an attempt to stop Heard, 34, attacking him and said he had not been violent to her in any way.Depp, 57, was answering questions on an alleged incident on December 15 2015, “the night before Ms Heard was due to be filming for an appearance on the James Corden show, The Late Late Show.” The incident is one of 14 allegations of domestic violence, all denied by Depp, relied on by News Group Newspapers in

Dominic Patten, Anthony D'Alessandro Kelly Preston died today her husband John Travolta has revealed.The 57-year old Twins and Jerry Maguire star passed away Sunday after a long fight against breast cancer.Hawaii-born Preston’s spouse of nearly 30 years and her Gotti co-star  took to social media late tonight in a heartfelt post: It is with a very heavy heart that I inform you that my beautiful wife Kelly has lost her two-year battle with breast cancer. She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many.  My family and I will forever be grateful to her doctors and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Center, all the medical centers that have helped, as well as her many friends and loved ones who have been by her side.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterYouTube star Nicole Thea died on Saturday morning. She was pregnant and her son, who she planned on naming Reign died as well.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAmanda Kloots, wife of the late Broadway actor Nick Cordero, has posted details of his memorial service online today, a week after he died from coronavirus complications.Kloots shared the “celebration” of Cordero’s life and shared a photo with herself and Cordero’s 13-month-old son, Elvis.“I said, ‘Nick would have wanted this to be a celebration. Let’s try to laugh, share great stories and sing for him and to his memory,'” Kloots recounted.

Gregory Poirier EDITOR’S NOTE: Much was written about maverick Boyz N The Hood director John Singleton when he died early last year. In the wake of the George Floyd murder, there are several treatments of the Black Wall Street atrocity in the offing, but Singleton and Gregory Poirier had the field all to themselves when they collaborated on Rosewood, a drama woven from historic events of the 1923 Rosewood massacre in Florida, when a white mob killed black people and destroyed their town.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerPresident Donald Trump was once again out on the links today at his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA, taking some time away from the pressures of Washington.As per usual, the trip was monitored by the White House Press Corps., which selects representatives from the wire services, wire photos, television, print and radio to report the President’s activities to the larger pool of media.The reports are typically fact-based and dry, and are used to simply monitor what’s going on so that there isn’t a mob of reporters crowding the motorcade – the President went here, the President met with X&Y, the President did this and that.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorMatt Strauss, a veteran Comcast exec who took the helm of NBCUniversal streaming service Peacock last fall, knew one thing for certain when he started: He wasn’t creating a copycat offering.“TV tends to be very dynamic,” he told Deadline in an interview ahead of Peacock’s July 15 nationwide expansion. “It’s current.

Ted Johnson As reporters rushed to post many of the juicy anecdotes and scorching analysis from Mary Trump’s new book this past week, they might have missed that the memoir also is a media critique.In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, set to be published Tuesday, the niece of President Donald Trump still seems a bit surprised that, through his entire career, her uncle, whether by design or impulse, has used distraction to his advantage.“The media failed to notice that not one member of Donald’s family, apart from his children, his son in law and his current wife, said a word in support of him during the entire campaign,” she writes.They are noticing now, obviously, as headlines were blasted out