Bill Clotworthy, the standards and practices exec lovingly referred to as “Dr. No” by the cast and crew of Saturday Night Live, died on Thursday in hospice, in Salt Lake City, UT. He was 95. The executive’s son, actor Robert Clotworthy, confirmed the news to Deadline. Born on Jan. 13, 1926, in Westfield, New Jersey, William Griffith Clotworthy
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UPDATED with schedule changes: NBCUniversal is airing programming from the Tokyo Olympic Games across a wide swath of its broadcast, cable and digital properties, the programming schedules for which are constantly shifting this year. Deadline is updating this list daily from multiple official sources. See schedule below for full event listings. NBCU’s Peacock streaming service
Saturday Night Live’s annual will-they-stay-or-will-they-go debate is alive and well. The conversation over whether any key cast members will leave the fabled NBC institution is getting louder with rumors and gossip swirling around the likes of Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Cecily Strong and Colin Jost. However, Deadline understands that SNL supremo Lorne Michaels
Two days after it was announced Maria Taylor was parting ways with ESPN, the network’s former NBA Finals pregame and halftime host made her debut on NBC, doing Olympics coverage, no less. NBC Olympics mainstay Mike Tirico introduced Taylor, whom he called a new member of “our NBC Sports and NBC Olympic family,” on Friday
UPDATED with complete schedules: NBCUniversal will air programming from the Tokyo Olympic Games across a wide swath of its broadcast, cable and digital properties. The Games take run from July 23-August 8 in the Japanese capital. NBCU’s Peacock streaming service will launch a Tokyo Olympics destination on July 15 that features extensive live coverage of
The Opening Ceremony for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics isn’t until Friday, but televised competition on NBCUniversal channels actually kicks off Tuesday night with three softball games, one of which features the much-vaunted Team USA. The U.S. team is the most decorated program in the sport’s history, winning three consecutive Olympic Gold Medals in 1996, 2000
NBC penned in their special series debut after the Tokyo Olympics with Family Game Fight!, hosted by Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard. The reality game show series is set to premiere Sunday, August 8 at 10:30 PM ET, immediately after the Olympics Closing Ceremony. There will be a time-period premiere with an all-new episode on
Ultimate Slip ‘N Slide, NBC’s new reality competition series that scored the plum post-Olympics slot for its premiere, has been pulled from the schedule, sources close to the production confirmed to Deadline. The move comes a month after production was shut down due to a non-Covid illness outbreak among the show’s staff. The show was
EXCLUSIVE: NBC has opted not to renew missing plane drama series Manifest for a fourth season. The decision came down Monday night, just hours before the options on the cast were to expire Tuesday and amid a strong showing of Manifest on Netflix where it has been #1 in the U.S. for the past three
Jimmy Fallon got choked up on Monday’s episode of The Tonight Show, as he welcomed his first full studio audience since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. “Welcome to The Tonight Show, everybody. We have comedy, we have celebrities, we have music,” said the host, who brought a reduced-capacity audience back to 30 Rock on March
EXCLUSIVE: (UPDATED WITH HFPA RESPONSE) As the beleaguered Hollywood Foreign Press Association pledges to reform itself, Netflix has declared that its will not be working with the Golden Globes group until it gets its act together, to put it mildly. “Like many in our industry, we’ve been waiting for today’s announcement in the hope that
NBC has given a series order to Ordinary Joe, its drama pilot starring Jimmy Wolk from House veterans Russel Friend and Garrett Lerner and The Batman writer/director Matt Reeves and his 6th & Idaho banner. The project, which co-stars Natalie Martinez, Charlie Barnett and Elizabeth Lail, is a co-production of 20th Television, Universal Television, a
EXCLUSIVE: Filming on NBC’s Law & Order: Organized Crime has been suspended following a positive Covid-19 test in Zone A, which includes the cast and those in direct contact with them. Following industry protocols, state and county safety guidelines and the NBCU Production Playbook, those in close contact were asked to self-isolate and contact tracing has
EXCLUSIVE: World of Dance, the nonscripted competition series featuring and exec produced by Jennifer Lopez, is coming to an end. NBC has no plans to bring the show back for a fifth season. Season 4, which featured 12 episodes, aired between May and August 2020. World of Dance was notable by its absence in network’s
President Biden is giving a primetime address on Thursday night and the networks are shuffling their schedules accordingly. The President will mark the one-year anniversary of the shutdowns linked to the Covid pandemic in the U.S., which has led to the death of over 525,000 Americans. ABC, NBC and Fox have confirmed to Deadline that