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Contenders TV Doc + Unscripted Complete Panel Coverage

Deadline’s all-day awards-season event spotlighting the year’s best in documentary, reality and late-night programs wrapped Saturday after hosting 20 shows and panelists that included Gypsy Rose Blanchard, Ken Jeong, Ron Howard, Roger Ross Williams, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Morgan Neville, Alan Cumming, JoJo Siwa and more. Click to read our coverage and check back Monday when we launch the event’s streaming site featuring the full panel videos.

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‘Quiet On Set’ Team Set Out To Show “There Was Clear Intention Behind The Sexualization Of Children On These Sets” – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

A few years ago, filmmakers Emma Schwartz and Mary Robertson remember taking note of video compilations from old Dan Schneider series that showed children and young teens “enacting scenes that are arguably sexual in nature.” “One example you see Ariana Grande squeezing a potato, or Ariana Grande…

How ‘The Daily Show’ Is Thriving Post-Trevor Noah With Return Of Jon Stewart, Revolving Hosts And An Election Season – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

After winning the Emmy earlier this year for the final season of Trevor Noah's hosting stint, The Daily Show surprised just about everyone with the announcement that its multiple Emmy-winning previous star Jon Stewart would be returning to host Monday editions during this election year, while other…

Bob Bakish To Step Down As Paramount Global CEO Amid Skydance Talks

Paramount Global is set to announce as early as Monday morning that Bob Bakish is stepping down as CEO amid talks with Skydance and ahead of the company’s quarterly earnings that afternoon. News Bakish might exit started circulating Friday. Paramount’s controlling shareholder and executive chair…

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‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ Makers On Finding 456 Leads And Embracing The Chaos – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

Casting for Netflix's reality competition series Squid Game: The Challenge was a unique challenge: finding 456 diverse and international lead characters. Casting director Erika Dobrin described the gargantuan task by saying, "I don't think that's ever quite been done before on the scale it was done…

Harvey Weinstein Hospitalized, Undergoing Tests For Physical Ailments

Former producer Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalized for a battery of tests regarding an undisclosed ailment, his lawyer said Saturday. Weinstein is at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. He arrived there Friday after returning to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape…

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Ken Jeong Is “At My Most Real And Authentic” On ‘I Can See Your Voice’ – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

Can you tell who has a “good” voice and who has a “bad” voice just by looking someone in the face who is lip-syncing to a song? This is the question posed to participants weekly on the Fox game show I Can See Your Voice, hosted and created by Ken Jeong. “The whole show is predicated on, is this a…

JoJo Siwa Says “We’re All Different Human Beings In One Way Or Another” After ‘Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test’ Experience – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

Before Jojo Siwa decided to join Season 2 of Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test on Fox, the pop star considered herself a “very sheltered” celebrity whose small-screen career involved dancing, not jumping out of helicopters or rappelling down mountains. “I made a joke that I was wrapped in bubble…

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‘Queens’ Team On Expanding The Nature Documentary Space To Show A Kingdom Where Females Rule – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

National Geographic’s Queens isn’t your typical nature documentary series. From the first episode, it flips the script on what one might expect out, instead diving deep into the love, loss and resilience of the matriarchal societies in the animal kingdom. And it all started with that very first…

Tom Holland Knows His Weekend Plans – Zendaya’s New Film, Of Course

Zendaya’s latest movie Challengers is on boyfriend Tom Holland’s weekend agenda, he said in an Instagram post. Today, the Marvel star shared the movie's poster on Instagram, which features a close-up of Zendaya as tennis star Tashi Duncan. Her on-screen love interests, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor…

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‘The Traitors’ Host Alan Cumming Reveals There Will Be Some “Good Twists” In Season 3 – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

The second season of The Traitors saw the surprise return of one of its stars from Season 1 as well as a number of updates to its Scottish castle. Expect a few more twists and turns in Season 3 of the Peacock series. Speaking at Deadline's Contenders TV: Documentary + Unscripted event, host…

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‘Kings From Queens: The Story Of Run DMC’ Shows How Hip Hop Pioneers “Changed Pop, Changed Fashion, Changed Music” – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted

It's been over 40 years since the pioneering hip hop group Run-DMC formed in Hollis, Queens, but Darryl "DMC" McDaniels insists, "I remember everything like it was yesterday." He appeared at Deadline's Contenders Television: Documentary & Unscripted virtual event to discuss the Peacock docuseries King…

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Los Angeles Is No. 1 In Bad Air Quality, New Report Claims

Hold your breath for some bad news if you’re a local. A new report shows residents living in the Los Angeles and Long Beach area are breathing the unhealthiest air in the country. The American Lung Association’s latest State of the Air report details the top five U.S. cities polluted by…