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SHOWTIME

MORNING PRESENTATIONS

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Mr. & Mrs. Smith Fallout

The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Fellow Travelers

PARAMOUNT+

Frasier

HBO | MAX

True Detective: Night Country

APPLE TV+/ LEGENDARY

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Francesca Sloane (Co-Creator/Showrunner/EP)

Maya Erskine (Actor)

Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Co-Showrunner/EP)

Graham Wagner (Co-Showrunner/EP)

Aaron Moten (Actor)

Howard Cummings (Production Designer)

Kiefer Sutherland (Actor)

Annabelle Dunne (Producer)

Matt Parker (Producer)

Ron Nyswaner (Creator/Showrunner/Writer/EP)

Matt Bomer (EP/Actor)

Jonathan Bailey (Actor)

Kelsey Grammer (EP/Actor)

Chris Harris (Showrunner/Writer/EP)

Joe Cristalli (Showrunner/Writer/EP)

Issa López (Showrunner/Writer/Director/EP)

Kali Reis (Actor)

Jodie Foster (EP/Actor)

Leopold Ross (Composer)

Sean Konrad (VFX Supervisor)

Kurt Russell (Actor)

Lettering By ANDREW FOOTIT Cover Illustration By NATHAN HACKETT

APPLE TV+

Masters of the Air

The New Look

SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Gary Goetzman (EP)

Jac Fitzgerald (Director of Photography)

Blake Neely(Composer)

Jack Whittaker (Supervising Sound Editor)

Maya Rudolph (EP/Actor)

Matt Hubbard (Co-Creator/Writer/EP)

Todd A. Kessler (Showrunner/Writer/Director/EP)

Lorenzo di Bonaventura (EP)

LUNCH BREAK

SPONSORS

PARTNERS

CBS

MARVEL STUDIOS/ DISNEY+

AMC/AMC+

PEACOCK

SONY PICTURES

TELEVISION

LIFETIME

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MASTERPIECE ON PBS

HULU

AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Survivor

Loki

Parish

Mr. Monk's Last Case: A Monk Movie

Platonic

Murdaugh Murders: The Movie

Genius: MLK/X

Alice & Jack

We Were the Lucky Ones

Jeff Probst (EP/Host)

Tom Hiddleston (EP/Actor)

Sophia Di Martino (Actor)

Owen Wilson (Actor)

Giancarlo Esposito (EP/Actor)

Skeet Ulrich (Actor)

Tony Shalhoub (EP/Actor)

Andy Breckman (Creator/Writer/EP)

Francesca Delbanco(Co-Creator/Writer/Director)

Nicholas Stoller (Co-Creator/Writer/Director)

Bill Pullman (Actor)

Gina Prince-Bythewood (EP)

Reggie Rock Bythewood (EP)

Raphael Jackson Jr. (Showrunner/EP)

Damione Macedon (Showrunner/EP)

Andrea Riseborough (EP/Actor)

Victor Levin (Creator/Writer/EP)

Joey King (Actor)

Logan Lerman (Actor)

Erica Lipez (Showrunner/EP)

Under the Bridge

SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Lily Gladstone (Actor)

Quinn Shephard (Creator/EP)

Samir Mehta (Showrunner/EP)

NBCUNIVERSAL

APPLE TV+

MORNING PRESENTATIONS

Sunday, April 14, 2024

The Tonight Show Starring

Jimmy Fallon

Lessons in Chemistry

The Morning Show

Silo

Palm Royale

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Expats

Red, White & Royal Blue

Jimmy Fallon (Host)

Lee Eisenberg (Showrunner/EP)

Brie Larson (EP/Actor)

Lewis Pullman (Actor)

Aja Naomi King(Actor)

Charlotte Stoudt (Showrunner/Writer/EP)

Graham Yost (Showrunner/Writer/EP)

Rebecca Ferguson (EP/Actor)

Common (Actor)

Tim Robbins (Actor)

Abe Sylvia (Showrunner/Writer/Director/EP)

Tate Taylor (Director/EP)

Kristen Wiig (EP/Actor)

Josh Lucas (Actor)

Lulu Wang (Creator/Director/EP)

Sarayu Blue (Actor)

Ji-young Yoo(Actor)

Nicole Kidman (EP/Actor) (VIRTUAL)

Sarah Schechter (Producer)

Taylor Zakhar Perez (Actor)

WARNER BROS.

TELEVISION

NETFLIX

Bookie

SHOWTIME

The Gentlemen A Murder at the End of the World

The Curse

Chuck Lorre (Co-Creator/Writer/Director/EP)

Nick Bakay (Co-Creator/Writer/EP)

Sebastian Maniscalco (EP/Actor)

Omar J. Dorsey (Actor)

Theo James (Actor)

Kaya Scodelario (Actor)

Daniel Ings (Actor)

Brit Marling (Co-Creator/Writer/Director/EP/Actor)

Zal Batmanglij (Co-Creator/Writer/Director/EP)

Nathan Fielder (Creator/Showrunner/Writer/ Director/EP/Actor)

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SPONSORS PARTNERS

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CBS STUDIOS

NETFLIX

AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS

Sunday, April 14, 2024

Abbott Elementary

Quinta Brunson (Creator/EP/Actor)

Tyler James Williams (Actor)

Chris Perfetti (Actor)

William Stanford Davis (Actor)

Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Colin From Accounts

3 Body Problem

SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

David Oyelowo (EP/Actor)

Chad Feehan (Creator/Showrunner/Writer/EP)

Harriet Dyer (Co-creator/Writer/EP/Actor)

Patrick Brammall (Co-creator/Writer/EP/Actor)

David Benioff (Showrunner/Writer/EP)

D.B. Weiss (Showrunner/Writer/EP)

Alexander Woo (Showrunner/Writer/EP)

WEDNESDAY

Big SmallPicture,Screen

Get ready for a jam-packed, juggernaut weekend of the best in television

By David Morgan

Welcome to Deadline’s Contenders

Television: Los Angeles, a veritable smörgåsbord of awards-worthy television for your Emmy voting perusal. With the Oscars barely in the rearview, it’s time to shift your focus to the small screen in a big way. And when we say ‘big’, we mean a two-day extravaganza, with 20 networks and streamers showcasing 35 shows, ranging from drama to action to documentaries to comedies.

Apple TV+ is bringing a whopping seven shows: Masters of the Air, Lessons in Chemistry, The Morning Show, Silo, Palm Royale, The New Look, Loot, and in co-production with Legendary, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Prime Video has four, with Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Fallout, Expats and Red, White & Royal Blue, and Showtime is bringing three: Fellow Travelers, The Curse and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. We’ll also have TV gems from Paramount+, CBS Studios, Hulu, Netflix, National Geographic, NBCUniversal, Sony Pictures Television, Lifetime, Masterpiece on PBS, AMC/AMC+, ABC, Marvel Studios/Disney+, Warner Bros. Television and FX.

As you’ve come to expect, our stage will once again be packed with stars, including Rebecca

Ferguson, Common and Tim Robbins (Silo), Kristen Wiig and Josh Lucas (Palm Royale), Kiefer Sutherland (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), Maya Erskine (Mr. & Mrs. Smith), Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson and Sophia Di Martino (Loki), Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman and Aja Naomi King (Lessons in Chemistry) and Lily Gladstone (Under the Bridge). It’s a veritable who’swho of household names here. How about Bill Pullman (Murdaugh Murders: The Movie), Andrea Riseborough (Alice & Jack), David Oyelowo (Lawmen: Bass Reeves), Theo James and Kaya Scodelario (The Gentlemen) and Giancarlo Esposito (Parish)?

And if you’re a fan of iconic TV stars, you can dig into Frasier with Kelsey Grammer and hear Tony Shalhoub chat all things Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie. Check out the schedule in this guide for our full, extensive talent lineup.

From the other side of the camera, we have plenty of creators and showrunners too. Like Lee Eisenberg (Lessons in Chemistry), Graham Yost (Silo), Abe Sylvia (Palm Royale), Samir Mehta (Under the Bridge), Charlotte Stoudt (The Morning Show), Chuck Lorre and Nick Bakay (Bookie), Lulu Wang (Expats) and Quinn Shephard (Under the Bridge).

Our Deadline Contenders events have become a staple in the run-up to the Emmys over the last few years, giving voters the chance to spend a couple of days with the biggest creative forces in the business and get their takes on the birth of the shows that we love.

And it’s not all homework. We’re going to feed you breakfast and lunch and treat you to raffle prizes to boot. So now just sit back, relax and enjoy as our expert Deadline staffers lead television’s best and brightest in conversation.

“It's time to shift your focus to the small screen in a big way.”

MODERATORS Meet the

The Deadline staffers who’ll be guiding you through this year’s Contenders

YOUR MODERATORS

NELLIE ANDREEVA

Co-Editor-in-Chief, Television

● Nellie's insightful analysis and thorough coverage of TV deals, pilot season, markets and executives makes her one of the most respected journalists covering the television business today. Before joining Deadline in 2010, Nellie worked for 10 years at The Hollywood Reporter where she covered TV for the trade's online and print editions. Before that, she worked as a journalist covering television and radio for Investor’s Business Daily. Nellie’s interest in the television industry extends back to her homeland of Bulgaria, where she first became a journalist and then a producer, writer and director for Bulgarian National Television.

MIKE FLEMING Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film

● Mike joined Deadline in 2010 after working at Variety for 20 years as a reporter, writer and columnist. He was not only nationally recognized as Variety's premiere film reporter but also for his “Dish” and “The Buzz” columns. Mike is known for his industry relationships and his ability to break news wherever it happens, including on the ground at festivals like Sundance, Cannes and Toronto. He is also an author: Doubleday published his book about The Three Stooges, From Amalgamated Morons to American Icons, which ABC turned into a telepic executive produced by Mel Gibson. One of Mike’s early jobs in journalism

was editor of the well-known Media Industry Newsletter (MIN). He then joined New York Newsday as a columnist, reviewer and entertainment writer. During his career, he has written for numerous magazines including Playboy, Details, TV Guide and Esquire.

PETE HAMMOND Awards Columnist/ Chief Film Critic

● Pete, widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past 14 years been Deadline’s Awards Columnist covering the yearround Oscar and Emmy seasons. He is also Deadline’s Chief Film Critic, having previously reviewed films for MovieLine,

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Boxoffice magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim, as well as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide for which he was a contributing editor. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the PBS SoCal Cinema Series and the weekly PBS television series “Must See Movies.” He previously held producing positions at “Entertainment Tonight”, “Extra,” “Access Hollywood,” “The Arsenio Hall Show,” “The Martin Short Show” and AMC Networks and is the recipient of five Emmy

is only the second journalist to have received the Publicists Guild of America’s Press Award twice, in 1996 and 2013.

ANTONIA BLYTH Senior Awards Editor, AwardsLine

● Antonia has contributed to Deadline and AwardsLine’s print magazines since 2014. A native Brit based in LA, prior to joining she covered West Coast entertainment for ELLE.

featured in The Guardian, U.K. Marie Claire and InStyle. She has written a New York Times bestselling non-fiction book and hosts the podcast 20 Questions on Deadline, covering popular onscreen talent.

KATIE CAMPIONE

TV Reporter

● Katie joined Deadline in 2022 from TheWrap, where she also covered the television industry. She has also worked

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The Associated Press, People Magazine and more. Katie is from Florida and earned her degree in journalism from the University of Florida. She is based in Los Angeles.

ROSY CORDERO

Associate Editor, TV

● Rosy joined Deadline in July 2021 as Senior TV Reporter. She covers the small-screen industry, continues to lift up talent from marginalized communities and spearheads Deadline’s Diversity & Inclusion coverage. She previously worked at Entertainment Weekly, where she was a digital news writer for two years. Before that, in her freelance career, she wrote for Deadline, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Latina.com and the New York Daily News. She is based in Los Angeles.

ANTHONY D’ALESSANDRO

Editorial Director/ Box Office Editor

● Anthony covers box office, breaking film news, awardsseason features and festival news. His first job in the film industry was at Savoy Pictures'

headquarters in New York where he worked in film distribution. In the summer of 1999, he was hired by Variety and moved to Los Angeles, and remained in the newsroom covering numerous parts of the industry, including box office, for about a decade. Prior to arriving at Deadline in the fall of 2011, where he co-edited the brand’s magazine, AwardsLine, Anthony covered the box office beat for Indiewire's Thompson on Hollywood. He also co-produced Matt Walsh's film A Better You.

DOMINIC PATTEN

Executive Editor, Legal, Labor & Politics

● Dominic covers litigious Hollywood’s major lawsuits and weighs in on the current Golden Age of television with his video reviews and more. Before joining Deadline in 2012, he wrote for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Times, and the Toronto Globe and Mail. A frequent guest on NPR, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and CBS, he has also been a documentary director, TV producer, national

news correspondent and a newspaper editor.

LYNETTE RICE

Senior TV Writer

● Before joining Deadline in 2022 Lynette spent 22 years at Entertainment Weekly, where she covered the TV business. Before that, she worked for The Hollywood Reporter and Broadcasting & Cable. The San Diego State graduate is also the author of the 2021 New York Times bestseller How to Save a Life: An Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy

PETER WHITE

Executive Editor, Television

● Peter, who joined Deadline in 2017, is a respected veteran TV journalist who previously worked at U.K.-based Broadcast. After starting there in 2013, he rose to News Editor and was responsible for putting together the weekly magazine as well as breaking daily news. Before that, he was deputy editor of Television Business International magazine. He covers the television industry from Deadline's Los Angeles bureau.

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SHOWS The

ABC

Abbott Elementary

● The ABC sitcom Abbott Elementary, created by Quinta Brunson, follows the quirky ebb and flow of the lives of a group of teachers in the Philadelphia public school system. Despite the lack of funding and less-than-ideal working conditions, the teachers find creative new ways to help their students succeed in life. The show also stars Tyler James Williams, Chris Perfetti and William Stanford Davis.

AMC/AMC+

● Parish

Led by Giancarlo Esposito, this six-episode series centers around Gracián Parish, a family man and proud owner of a highend luxury car service in New Orleans. However, after his son’s brutal murder and the loss of the family business, Parish’s troubled past tied to a violent criminal syndicate resurfaces. The show

bender, newly single 45-year-old

of the charitable foundation she forgot that she had founded, much to its employees' chagrin. The series also stars Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Joel Kim Booster, Ron Funches and Nat Faxon.

● Masters of the Air

Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, the limited series follows the true story of a group of American airmen operating a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber unit based in the Eighth Air Force stationed in the east of England during World War II. The show depicts the tragedy and trauma

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experienced by the young men charged with destroying strategic targets inside Germanoccupied Europe. The series stars Austin Butler, Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan, Sawyer Spielberg and Isabel May.

● Palm Royale

Loosely based on Juliet McDaniel’s novel Mr. and Mrs. American Pie, Palm Royale is a true underdog story set in 1969. It follows Maxine Simmons (Kristen Wiig), an ambitious outsider attempting to crack her way into Palm Beach high society, then the pinnacle of fashionable American life. The show also stars Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas, Leslie Bibb, Laura Dern and Allison Janney.

● Silo

This dystopian drama tells the story of the last 10,000 people on Earth, whose mile-deep home protects them from the toxic, deadly world outside. However, none of the township knows when or why the silo was built, and anyone who tries to find out faces deadly consequences. Rebecca Ferguson plays Juliette, an engineer whose search for answers about a loved one’s mysterious murder leads her to a big discovery that could jeopardize the safety of everyone.

● The Morning Show

In Season 3, the future of the news show is thrown into question when a tech mogul takes an interest in the parent network, UBA. Unexpected alliances form, secrets are weaponized and everyone is forced to confront their moral judgments in and out of the newsroom. The series stars Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Karen Pittman, Nicole Beharie and Greta Lee.

● The New Look

This drama series follows the the rise of fashion icon Christian Dior in Paris in the aftermath of World War II. The 10-part series depicts the creation of his fashion line, called the ‘New Look’, and his complicated relationship with well-established fashion designer Coco Chanel. Ben Mendelsohn stars as Dior, with Juliette Binoche as Chanel, alongside Maisie Williams and John Malkovich.

APPLE TV+/ LEGENDARY

● Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

Following the calamitous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that demolished San Francisco and revealed to the world at large that monsters are real, the kaiju series tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secret organization known as Monarch. Spanning three generations centered around

Army Officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and his son Wyatt Russell), earth-shattering events unfold, revealing buried secrets.

CBS

● Survivor

Hosted by Jeff Probst, Survivor gathers a group of strangers in an isolated locale, where they must provide basic comforts such as food, shelter and protection from the elements for themselves. The contestants compete in challenges that test the limits of their physical and mental abilities alongside their endurance. The remaining winner is awarded a grand prize of $1 million.

CBS STUDIOS

Colin From Accounts

Created by and starring Patrick Brammall and Harriet Dyer, who are married in real life, the series is a sweet and raunchy romance comedy. The show follows the lives of two flawed and funny people who begin an unconventional romance after being brought together when Ash (Dyer) spontaneously flashes her nipple at Gordon (Brammall), causing him to hit and injure a dog with his car.

FX

● A Murder at the End of the World

This seven-episode limited psychological thriller follows an amateur detective attempting to solve a murder at an isolated Arctic retreat in Iceland. Starring

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guests is found dead, Darby must use all of her skills to prove it was a murder before the killer takes another life.

HBO/MAX

● True Detective: Night Country

In the fourth season of the True Detective series, Jodie Foster and Kali Reis play detectives tasked with leading the investigation into the disappearance of eight men from a research center in Ennis, Alaska. Night Country was created by Issa López and also stars Fiona Shaw and Finn Bennett.

HULU

● Under the Bridge

Under the Bridge is based on Rebecca Godfrey’s book about the 1997 true story of Reena Virk, a 14-year-old who went out to a party one fateful night and never returned home. Told through the perspective of nonfiction writer Godfrey, played by Riley Keough, the eight-episode limited series includes the story of a local police officer (Lily Gladstone). As the two women dive deep into the secret world

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Alice & Jack

Detective: Night Country

of the teenagers accused of the murder, old relationships and secrets emerge.

● We Were the Lucky Ones Inspired by true events, We Were the Lucky Ones depicts the Holocaust from the perspective of the Kurc family. The story centers on siblings Halina (Joey King), Mila (Hadas Yaron), Jakub (Amit Rahav), Genec (Henry Lloyd-Hughes), Addy (Logan Lerman), and their parents Sol (Lior Ashkenazi) and Nechuma (Robin Weigert), a successful family that had initially been semi-protected from virulent antisemitism in the country. But as Hitler’s power grows, they become separated and forced into hiding.

LIFETIME

● Murdaugh Murders: The Movie

Murdaugh Murders: The Movie is a true crime story about prominent South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, who was sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting his wife and son. The case was made famous by Mandy Matney’s popular Murdaugh Murders podcast. The series features first-hand accounts from those who were there in the days leading up to and following the murders.

MARVEL STUDIOS / DISNEY +

● Loki

In Season 2, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) finds himself in

a battle for the ownership of the Time Variance Authority. Along with Mobius (Owen Wilson), Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku), and a team of new and returning characters, Loki has to navigate an increasingly dangerous multiverse in search of Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), Judge Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), Miss Minutes (Tara Strong) and He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors).

MASTERPIECE ON PBS

● Alice & Jack

Alice & Jack depicts how love plays out between two very different people over the course of 15 years. Alice (Andrea Riseborough) is a single woman invested in her career while grappling with childhood trauma, and Jack (Domhnall Gleeson) is a shy scientist Alice meets in a bar. After spending one night together, they discover an attraction that keeps bringing them back together despite themselves.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

● Genius: MLK/X

This biographical series follows both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X from their formative years molded by their fathers and racial injustices to their notable legendary careers that changed the world. Genius: MLK/X stars Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Aaron Pierre as Malcolm X.

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NBCUNIVERSAL

● The Tonight Show

Starring Jimmy Fallon

Former SNL cast member turned late-night TV host Jimmy Fallon brings the best and brightest across various industries to his studio in Rockefeller Center in New York City. He hosts A-list guests each weeknight, from movie stars to athletes, public figures and comedians. He also performs topical comedy sketches, audience games and musical showstoppers alongside his house band, The Roots.

NETFLIX

● The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchie’s eight-part TV series, inspired by the 2019 film, follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), who has inherited his English aristocrat father’s large estate and becomes the new Duke of Halstead. However, problems ensue with various other leagues of dangerous gentlemen when he discovers that the land has become part of the largest weed-growing empire in Europe. Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings and Giancarlo Esposito also star.

● 3 Body Problem

3 Body Problem, based on the Chinese science fiction novel of the same name by Liu Cixin, tells the story of humanity’s first

contact with an alien civilization. The show centers on a young woman named Ye Wenjie (Rosalind Chao), whose radical decision in 1960s China during the Cultural Revolution sends shockwaves through space and time and into the present day.

PARAMOUNT+

● Frasier

This reprisal of Frasier off from NBC’s Cheers the next chapter in the life of the psychiatrist turnedradio host Frasier Crane.

After returning to Boston from Seattle, Frasier takes on new challenges and relationships in hopes of living out a dream or two. The series also stars Jack Cutmore-Scott, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Toks Olagundoye.

● Lawmen: Bass Reeves

Lawmen: Bass Reeves follows the journey of the renowned Black Deputy U.S. Marshal, from his escape from enslavement to becoming the first Black U.S. Marshal west of the Mississippi. Despite arresting more than 3,000 outlaws during his career, he wrestled with the complications his life brought upon his family. The limited series stars David Oyelowo, Lauren E. Banks, Donald Sutherland and Dennis Quaid.

PEACOCK

● Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie

Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub) returns to his

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obsessive-compulsive ways in this sequel to USA Network’s Monk. Monk returns to solve one last, very personal case after his beloved stepdaughter’s fiancé dies under mysterious tragedy. The series investigates happens when the line between victimhood and culpability becomes blurred. Brian Tee and Jack Huston also star.

● Fallout

Based on the video game series of the same name, Fallout depicts an alternative history, where post-World War II, nuclear technology advanced, leading to the world’s implosion through a nuclear war in 2077. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the citizens who occupy luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated and dangerous landscape their ancestors left behind. The series stars Ella Purnell, Walton Goggins and Aaron Moten.

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● Mr. & Mrs. Smith

The eight-episode series stars Donald Glover and Maya Erskine as John and Jane, two lonely strangers who land jobs working for a mysterious spy agency that shoehorns them into a life of espionage, wealth and world travel. The only catch is that they must enter into an arranged marriage as Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Smith.

● Red, White & Royal Blue Romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue is based on the 2019 novel of the same name by Casey McQuiston and centers around Alex (Taylor Zakhar Perez), the son of the President of the United States, and Britain’s Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine). They turn from adversaries into lovers after a fight at a wedding becomes tabloid fodder that drives a potential wedge into U.S./British relations at the worst possible time. Uma Thurman, Stephen Fry and Rachel Hilson also star.

SHOWTIME

● Fellow Travelers

Fellow Travelers, an eightepisode limited series based on the Thomas Mallon

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novel of the same name, is equal parts love story and political thriller that takes place during the McCarthy era. The series chronicles the romance between two men, Hawkins Fuller (Matt Bomer), a charismatic and wealthy World War II vet who hides his homosexuality and avoids emotional entanglements, and Tim Laughlin (Jonathan Bailey), an idealistic congressional staffer. Allison Williams also stars.

● The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

Based on the Humphrey Bogart film of the same name, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial tells the story of Barney Greenwald (Jason Clarke), a skeptical Navy lawyer who, at the start of a maritime courtmartial reluctantly agrees to defend Lt. Steve Maryk (Jake Lacy), a Naval first officer who took control of the USS Caine from its imposing captain Lt. Philip Francis Queeg (Kiefer Sutherland) during a dangerous sea storm in unfriendly waters.

● The Curse

This satirical dark comedy created, written by and starring Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie, is a genre-bending series that explores how an alleged curse disturbs the relationship of a

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newly-married couple as they try to conceive a child while starring in their problematic new home improvement TV show. Emma Stone, Barkhad Abdi, Corbin Bernsen and Constance Shulman also star.

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● Platonic

Platonic follows two former best friends, Sylvia (Rose Byrne), now a stay-at-home mom of three, and the recently-divorced Will (Seth Rogen), as they deal with their midlife crises and try to reconnect after a long rift. When the pair’s friendship becomes all-consuming, their lives start to destabilize. The ensemble cast also includes Luke Macfarlane, Carla Gallo, Tre Hale and Andrew Lopez.

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● Bookie

Chuck Lorre’s Bookie is an eightepisode comedy series starring Sebastian Maniscalco and Charlie Sheen. The series follows a seasoned Los Angeles bookie named Danny (Maniscalco) as the potential legalization of sports and gambling in California threatens to upend his business for good. Omar J. Dorsey, Vanessa Ferlito and Jorge Garcia also star.

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