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WGA negotiating committee co-chair Chris Keyser issued a clarion call to members and supporters earlier today. “When you walk in circles in front of every studio in town,” he tells the guild's members in the clip (watch it below), “you are carrying with you a cause that is larger than just us and…

EXCLUSIVE: The story of one of America’s most beloved TV personalities, Johnny Carson, may finally be coming to the screen. A high-profile series, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Carson, written by Deadwood creator David Milch and to be directed by Jay Roach, was recently taken out and has been heating up the premium…

Really, will there be more Deadwood? While all signs point to the fact that Al Swearengen died at the end of Deadwood: The Movie, director Daniel Minahan told us earlier this summer that point can be debated. Today at the summer TCA press tour, HBO programming president Casey Bloys didn’t specify another season or…

Daniel Minahan is no stranger to Deadwood having directed four episodes during the western series three season run on HBO, starting with Season 1, episode 8’s “Suffer the Children”. It was an unforgettable beginning, as the episode guest-starred Kristen Bell pre-Veronica Mars as Flora Anderson, a grifter who…

After a teaser trailer of HBO’sforthcoming Deadwood movie, fans of the Western drama still wanted a better look at the “film event” that will hit the premium cabler on May 31. Well, HBO heard you and they have delivered another trailer to whet your appetite. If the teaser trailer gave you a taste of…

In a recent interview, Deadwood creator David Milch got very personal and revealed that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. The news from the Emmy-winning producer comes ahead of the much anticipated Deadwood movie which is set to premiere on HBO on May 31. Milch opened up about his diagnosis in an interview with V…

HBO Films’ long-in-the-works Deadwood movie has begun production 12 years after the end of the premium network’s Emmy-winning Western series from David Milch. Most of that original cast is returning for the film, which takes place 10 years after the events of the series that ran three seasons from 2004-2006. Ian McShan…

After waiting years for a Deadwood revival, it looks like fans of the HBO drama might get to see the return of Ian McShane’s Al Swearengen. It has yet to receive a formal green light, but the long-gestating  Deadwood movie may have taken a baby step forward to reality as it is reportedly eyeing a Fall 2018 start…

HBO is pairing up two of the marquee names on its talent roster, with veteran David Milch possibly joining True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto for a potential third season of the crime drama franchise. The two have been talking, though I hear a potential partnership is still in its embryonic stages. Pizzolatto is a…

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The dream that Deadwood fans have dreamed since the HBO series’ somewhat surprising 2006 cancellation is not about to come true anytime soon. But there’s a slim chance it might eventually. Maybe. Earlier today, actor Garret Dillahunt, who played two characters on the show, prompted much talk with a series of tweets in…

EXCLUSIVE: There are few relationships between a network and creator that have been as enduring as the one between David Milch and HBO. Now it has been extended with a new overall deal, which will keep Milch exclusive to HBO in television for two more years, bringing his tenure at the pay cable network to 14 years…