It's been another year of format fun in television, with Banijay's Dutch mystery competition series The Traitors emerging as a new global hit, especially in the UK on the BBC. The likes of Big Brother and Survivor, meanwhile, have fronted a reboot commissioning revival that has divided entertainment producers, buyers and sellers.
As the year comes to a close and the world heads into 2023 under threat of recession and belt-tightening, Deadline has highlighted six new formats that could help shape the genre. As is often the case, programs from the Netherlands dominate, with three on our list, while others hail from the UK and Canada. >>> "Noisy And Provocative Social Experiment" |
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The Scripted Six - From Trigger Point to The Empress to Marie-Antoinette, the past year has been another stellar period in the world of international drama as a wealth of streamers splashed cash on shows across the globe and public broadcasters joined together to leverage the best talent in the business. Deadline has identified six of the major launches set to light up the world of scripted in 2023. >>> See The List
Box Office Snowed In - Amid a major blizzard across much of the U.S., which caused power outages and dangerous travel conditions, it was tough sledding at the domestic box office over the holiday weekend. Avatar: The Way of Water led the field, coming in at the lower end of 4-day projections, which are nonetheless expected to see a bump. >>>Holiday Distractions Easing
Best Of The West (End) - There was talent aplenty in the West End this year with the likes of Martha Plimpton, Jodie Comer and Emma Corrin taking center stage. It's been tougher Off West End where the Donmar Warehouse in Covent Garden, the Gate in Camden (formerly located in Notting Hill), Hampstead Theatre in North London and the English National Opera based in the West End have been stripped of their Arts Council England grants. >>> Top Performances, Ensembles
It's A Wonderful Life - George Stevens Jr. looks back on his storied life and career in a new memoir, My Place in the Sun. Deadline's Pete Hammond sits down with Stevens Jr. and talks to him about the book and also the creation of the AFI and the Kennedy Center Honors. >>>Cary Grant's "Law" About Awards Shows
Festivals' Return: A Look Back - After two truncated years, film festivals around the world returned with overflowing in-person events celebrating the best in film. Berlin kicked things off with Carla Simon’s Catalonia-set drama Alcarràs scooping the Golden Bear. The top prizes at Venice, San Sebastian, Sundance, London and Locarno were also all scooped by women filmmakers. Over in Cannes, Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund joined that rare group who have won the Palme d’Or twice with his satire of the super-rich Triangle Of Sadness. >>> Year's Top Film Fest Titles |
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THE DEADLINE Q&A 'All Quiet On The Western Front' Director Edward Berger On Re-Creating The Hell Of WWI: "We Wanted To Drag The Audience Through The Mud" |
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Edward Berger made a splash in 2015 with the sleeper-hit TV series Deutschland ’83, a slow-build spy drama set in the deep freeze of the cold war. This year he went even further back into German history for All Quiet on the Western Front, a brutal retelling of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel about The Great War. The harrowing Netflix production has resonated across the world with its story focused on rookie soldier Paul Bäumer (Felix Kammerer). It has a shot at the International Oscar, having made the 15-title shortlist, with possible recognition also in music and craft categories. >>> Read The Interview |
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“We wouldn’t be in this situation if The Sun did not continue to profit off of and exploit hate, violence and misogyny” - Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's response to an apology after Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper ran a bizarre column from Jeremy Clarkson |
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🔥 Netflix has announced a move into live streaming, and it's beginning with a strong suit: comedy. The debut project will be a Chris Rock stand-up special live from Baltimore on March 4.
🙈 The NFL Network cut away to commercial during the on-field tribute to recently-deceased Steelers great Franco Harris. Steelers owner Art Rooney II was on the field with Harris’ widow, Dana, and son, Dok, when the PA announcer intoned, "Please turn your attention to the video board as we celebrate Franco Harris." The network opted for an Intel ad instead.
🎄 The co-writer and co-producer of one of the all-time great Christmas songs — Mariah Carey’s "All I Want For Christmas Is You" — claims Carey has invented an "alternate story" wherein she created the song as a young girl. The truth, Walter Afanasieff said, is that the two devised the song together while working on material for a Christmas album. "It was like a game of ping-pong," he said of the collaboration.
👑 King Charles III paid tribute to his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II in his first Christmas message, in which he also spoke of the "selfless dedication" of Britain’s public service workers. "I am reminded of the deeply touching letters, cards and messages which so many of you have sent my wife and myself and I cannot thank you enough for the love and sympathy you have shown our whole family," he said.
💰 Netflix co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos, who are set to take home $34.65 million and $40 million, respectively, according to a new forecast from the company. The tallies are consistent with 2022 compensation figures.
In Brief - The BBC dropped the first teaser trailer featuring the new Doctor Who…Federal prosecutors requested 10 years in prison for Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah. |
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Obituaries
🕯 Dax Tejera, the executive producer of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, died suddenly on Friday of a heart attack. He was 37. Tejera was named executive producer of This Week in 2020, and the show rose to the top among the Sunday morning news programs in adults 25-54. He made his mark by sending its hosts out on location, expanding the show’s focus beyond the typical concentration on Beltway politics. 🕯 Ronan Vibert , the veteran film and television actor who worked with some of the top directors and talent during his long career, died this past weekend at age 58 after a short illness, according to his management. His many films include The Snowman with Michael Fassbender, Saving Mr Banks with Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson, Tomb Raider 2 with Angelina Jolie and the Oscar-winning The Pianist, directed by Roman Polanski. 🕯 Maxi Jazz , lead singer for the British electronic music group Faithless, died Friday, the band confirmed on Facebook. Jazz, whose real name was Maxwell Fraser, "died peacefully in his sleep" at his south London home, Faithless member Sister Bliss announced on Twitter. A cause of death was not given. Jazz was 65. 🕯 Kathy Whitworth , who won more golf tournaments than any man or woman on United States tours, died Saturday. She was 88. Whitworth’s 88 tour victories saw her as the Ladies Pro Golfing Assn. tour leading money winner eight times. She became the first woman pro to win more than $1 million in prize money. Tiger Woods, with 82 victories on the PGA Tour, is the only active golfer anywhere near Whitworth’s total. 🕯 Maggie Thrett, the actress and singer who most memorably played Ruth in the "Mudd’s Women" episode of the original Star Trek , has died, her family announced. She was 76. "Mudd’s Women" is one of the most memorable episodes in no small part because it featured three stunningly beautiful women (Thrett, Karen Steele and Susan Denberg) who seem to have strange powers over the male members of the Enterprise crew. Thrett also appeared on Wild, Wild West, I Dream of Jeannie and McCloud. 🕯 Stephan Bonnar, UFC Hall of Famer, died Thursday of presumed heart complications while at work, according to the UFC. He was 44. Bonnar helped popularize the UFC and bring it into the mainstream when he starred in the first season of The Ultimate Fighter in 2005. It was his bout against Forrest Griffin that had fans glued to television screens. It is regarded as one of the best fights of all time. 🕯 See the 400-plus influential figures we've lost this year in Deadline's 2022 Hollywood & Media Deaths photo gallery. |
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Trending  Congress passed a massive $1.7 trillion year-end spending bill on Friday, with funding boosts for the arts and for public broadcasting. The bill increases funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities by $27 million. Their budgets will now each be at a high of $207 million. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will get a $10 million increase to $535 million. The approvals by the House and Senate also avert a government shutdown.
🔻 Chris Albrecht is expected to vacate his post as President of Legendary Television. He was placed on leave in October after new details from his days at HBO emerged in the book It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO by Felix Gillette and John Koblin. The book details an incident in which Albrecht allegedly choked former HBO executive Sasha Emerson in the summer of 1991 — months after they ended their consensual affair. They were both married. |
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On the Radar
Wed - Kennedy Center Honors broadcast
Fri - A Man Called Otto premieres
Sat - New Year's Eve
Sun - Rose Parade |
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Home For Christmas - Al Roker, 68, returned home from the hospital to which he was admitted earlier this month for ongoing health issues. But this weekend, Roker was able to celebrate Christmas — in matching pajamas, no less — with wife Deborah Roberts and their children, son Nick, 20, and daughter Leila, 24, plus Roker's older daughter Courtney, 35, and Courtney's husband, Wesley Laga. |
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