Issa López Talks ‘True Detective: Night Country,’ The Crooked Carcosa Spiral, Horror Influences & More [Deep Focus Podcast]

It’s been a busy week for Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers Maite Alberdi and Kaouther Ben Hania. On Monday, Alberdi, director of The Eternal Memory, and Ben Hania, director of Four Daughters, joined fellow nominees at the glittering Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton. Today, they sit down with Deadline for the latest edition of our Doc Talk podcast.

Four episodes into its six-episode run, True Detective: Night Country has become the most watched season of the crime anthology series with 12.7 million cross-platform viewers, surpassing the 11.9 million viewer average for the original True Detective installment.

Amazon MGM Studios has a new head of global formats.

The producers and key creatives behind the Live Aidmusical Just for One Day, which officially opened Tuesday night at the Old Vic, have banded together to ensure that 10 percent of every ticket sold goes to the Band Aid Charitable Trust established by Bob Geldof and others to help relieve the hunger and poverty in Ethiopia.

EXCLUSIVE: Foundation Media Partners has secured the exclusive life and book rights of the FBI, Secret Service, and U.S. Marshals’ most-wanted con man Matthew Cox. The company will immediately begin developing both scripted and non-scripted limited series around Cox’s life and infamous exploits, as a mortgage fraudster who stole more than $50 million, beginning in the early 2000s.

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Jon Stewart scored big numbers for his return to The Daily Show.

Uhhh, what’s going on on Kanye West’s lip??

John Cleese is making it clear that he – and a few other Pythons – are in complete disagreement with long-ago co-star Eric Idle, who last weekend slammed manager (and daughter of Python co-founder Terry Gilliam) Holly Gilliam for what Idle suggested were the troupe’s dwindling finances.

Disney parks purists rejoice.

UPDATED: The companywide layoffs at Paramount Global on Tuesday impacted about 20 employees at CBS News, including correspondents Catherine Herridge and Jeff Pegues, several sources said.

Taylor Swift is literally at the top of the world. She’s won nearly every big award we can think of, performed all over the world, and has a legion of diehard fans. And yet, she’s NEVER — not once — done the Super Bowl halftime show! How is that possible?!

There will no Season 5 for Tacoma FD. TruTV has canceled the comedy series, its last remaining scripted series, after four seasons, Deadline has confirmed.

EXCLUSIVE: Talent Agent Julian Cohen has joined Brian Wittenstein‘s Prototype Talent Agency.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Robert Downey Jr. made headlines earlier this month when he revealed that he first met his “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan back in the early 2000s in order to nab the role of Scarecrow in the director’s 2005 superhero tentpole “Batman Begins.” Downey said Nolan wasn’t too interested in casting him, which Nolan fully admitted in a recent interview with the actor for The New York Times. “I 100% knew you weren’t the guy [for Scarecrow],” said Nolan, who eventually cast his “Oppenheimer” leading man Cillian Murphy as the Batman villain.

Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso were some of the guests at the Naeem Kahm New York Fashion Week show. The couple, on a rare outing together, decided to wear matching outfits, with both sticking to a leather theme. Matt Damon and wife Luciana Barroso look stylish in recent outing in New York CityMatt Damon and Luciana Barroso look fit in Miami BeachDamon and Barroso attended the show and were photographed holding hands and posing inside the building.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Is Beyoncé going to get some love at the country radio format, now that she’s released a single, “Texas Hold ‘Em,” that openly embraces the genre? That’s a big question mark, as radio programmers, like many others in the music industry, are still reeling from the shock of her surprise release the night of the Super Bowl, with no apparent plan yet in place to immediately give the tune a promotional push at the format. But her move into country is certainly “topic A,” according to one programmer, even as radio pros take a pause on whether to play the music that is the talk of the nation.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Emmy winner and Oscar nominee Cord Jefferson will write and executive produce the upcoming Scarlett Johansson limited series, which serves as her first major television role. The “American Fiction” filmmaker has boarded the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of John Katzenbach’s novel “Just Cause.” Additionally, acclaimed writer John Wells has joined the project, co-writing the series with Jefferson, and will also serve as an executive producer. “Just Cause,” first published in 1992, tells the story of Matt Cowart, a Miami reporter.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director John Cleese took to X (formerly Twitter) to respond to Eric Idle after the latter went viral for some heated comments related to Monty Python, the legendary British comedy troupe that Idle and Cleese co-founded in 1969 alongside Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. Idle made headlines for saying he still has to “work for my living” and heavily suggesting that Monty Python funds are being mismanaged. “I don’t know why people always assume we’re loaded,” Idle posted on X.

Keleigh Sperry is feeding Swifties with even MORE content from the Super Bowl!

This backfired! Monday’s episode of The Bachelor is getting BLASTED online over a date viewers think was done to please some producer’s “fetish.” Jeez!

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Mattel’s live-action “Master of the Universe” film, based on the He-Man toy, has been in development hell for years, changing studios three times in five years. Sony had distribution rights for years (even had a March 5, 2021 film on the calendar at one point), with Noah Centineo in the lead.

Neil Young is showing no signs of slowing down.The 78-year-old rocker just announced he’s releasing “FU##IN’ UP” on April 26 and touring all over North America with Crazy Horse this spring.Along the way, the former CSNY member will drop into Camden, NJ’s Freedom Mortgage Pavilion on Sunday, May 12 and Queens, NY’s Forest Hills Stadium on Tuesday, May 14.He’s also slated to headline at the New Orleans Jazz Festival as well as Louisville, KY’s Bourbon and Beyond Festival this year.And if you want to hear the “Old Man” crooner deliver signature tracks like “Ohio,” “Heart of Gold” and more live, you can snatch up tickets as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Friday, Feb.

Russell Simmons, 66, alleging that he raped her while she working for the label in the 1990s.In a lawsuit filed in New York on Tuesday and obtained by The Post, the woman, who identifies herself as Jane Doe, claims that she went over to Simmons’ Manhattan apartment to get his approval for a rough cut of a video.There, he allegedly began to “wrestle” her, before pinning her to the bed and raping her. “Ms. Doe rejected his advance and told him to ‘get off’ and ‘stop’ several times,” the suit states.

“All Too Well.” “Love & Other Drugs” director Ed Zwick recalls Jake Gyllenhaal dating Taylor Swift in his new memoir, “Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years.”“While we were in London for the European premiere, he introduced me to his new girlfriend, Taylor Swift. I’m just sayin’…” Zwick, 71, boasted.

Feid has a few instructions for his fans regarding his upcoming tour.“Prepare the outfit, the apartments, the glasses, the babys,” the 31-year-old rapper shared on Instagram.He has a point — his upcoming ‘FERXXOCALIPSIS Tour’ is not one you’ll want to miss.Taking place from April through July, the popular Colombian rapper will be debuting his recently released “FERXXOCALIPSIS” album at arenas all over North America.That includes Newark’s Prudential Center on Friday, June 7 and New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, June 16.And if you want to sing along to “Luna,” “Perro Negro,” “Feliz Cumpleaños Ferxxo” and so many more bangers live, you can grab tickets to all upcoming Feid concerts as soon as today.Although inventory isn’t available on Ticketmaster until Thursday, Feb.

“This Is Me… Now.”But apparently, a better title for J.Lo’s first studio LP in 10 years — since 2014’s “A.K.A.” — might have been “This Is It.”“The truth is I don’t even know if I’ll ever make another album after this,” Lopez, 54, told “Entertainment Tonight” as she explained the different album covers that they did especially for the JLovers — as her faithful fans are known.“It’s such the kind of quintessential kind of Jennifer Lopez J.Lo project, and I really feel very fulfilled, so they really will be collector’s items at a certain point.”After hinting at her possible retirement from the recording studio, Lopez quipped, “Don’t tell Benny [Medina, her longtime manager] that that’s what I’m thinking — this might be my last album ever.”Lopez’s ninth studio album, “This Is Me… Now,” is a sequel to 2002’s “This Is Me… Then,” her third studio LP, which featured the hits “Jenny from the Block” and “All I Have.”Lopez’s now-husband, Ben Affleck, was infamously featured in the “Jenny from the Block” video, and the singer dedicated “Dear Ben” to him.Similarly, “This Is Me… Now,” led by the first single, “Can’t Get Enough,” will reflect their relationship today — two years after they finally got married after calling off their first engagement in 2004.“Our relationship crumbled under the weight of the pressure,” Lopez told Variety.“We lost a sense of ourselves, and we needed to separate because we didn’t know how to survive it.

Michael Jackson fans worldwide.Jackson’s nephew Jaafar Jackson is the reincarnation of his uncle in the first image released from Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael.” “With Jaafar, every look, every note, every dance move is Michael,” said Oscar-winning producer Graham King told Deadline. “He embodies Michael in a way that no other actor could.”The highly anticipated biopic centered on the “King of Pop” from Lionsgate and Universal will be released in theaters April 18, 2025.In the image, Jaafar wears an ensemble similar to one that Jackson wore during his performance at the 12th annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1995.

girls had a relationship that was less than golden.Bea Arthur and Betty White’s contentious relationship has been the subject of speculation for decades.The “Golden Girls” co-stars allegedly had issues when working together on the classic 1980s sitcom. According to TV screenwriter Stan Zimmerman’s new book “The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore,” Arthur — who died in 2009 — believed White was two-faced.“During our time on set, I never felt tension between the two,” Zimmerman wrote.

Selome Hailu Jon Stewart‘s return to “The Daily Show” on Monday brought in 1.9 million viewers, marking the show’s biggest audience in more than five years. Of those 1.9 million viewers, 930,000 tuned in via Comedy Central, while the rest were counted across simulcasts on CMT, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Paramount Network, Pop and TV Land. These figures come from Live + Same Day as reported by Nielsen.

The cause of death of Bobbie Jean Carter, sister to Nick and Aaron Carter, has been revealed. According to an initial case summary report, obtained by US magazine, People, Bobbie Jean died from "intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl and methamphetamine" with her death listed as "accidental". Officials said that Bobbie Jean, who was 41 when she died, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, which was listed in the "medical history" section of the report.

Ever since Coronation Street favourite Mary Taylor lost her lover Norris back in 2021, the star has been sorely neglected in the romance department, with her will-they-won’t-they relationship with Brian Packham never quite getting off the ground. However, in new scenes which aired on Tuesday 13 February, Mary revealed that she was beginning the lament her lack of partner, as she revealed she would instead be spending her Valentine’s Day this year crying into her Ben Shephard cushion.The hilarious but heartbreaking development first began when Billy Mayhew had hoped to impress his husband Paul Foreman with a surprise Valentine’s gift of a ride in a motorcycle sidecar, driven by his pal biker Dewy.

Jess Wright has revealed that she and husband William Lee-Kemp can sometimes be "at each other's throats" when parenting their almost two year old son, Presley. Former TOWIE star Jess, 38, shared the insight into her life at home exclusively with OK!, as she walked the red carpet at the TV Choice Awards on Monday, 12 February.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Mickey Mouse, kickin’ ass for the working class? Employees who work in Disneyland’s Characters and Parades departments announced they are unionizing with Actors’ Equity Association. Actors’ Equity represents some 51,000 professional actors and stage managers on Broadway and in live theatre across the U.S.

Madame Web, has been turning out and ensembles.But her co-star Sydney Sweeney just proved that she can pull off the style with equal ease. Instead of the moody, high fashion take Johnson's been going for, leaned into her signature look: bombshell.At the Madame Web premiere in Los Angeles, Sweeney wore a custom Oscar de la Renta gown that's bustier on top, flapper on the bottom, with a web pattern made of sequins and crystals.Underneath, the gown features a corset with boning, creating a plunging, strapless neckline.