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Cover Story: The 'Widow's Bay' Team Reveals Secrets, Stories & Season 2 Hopes
If you don’t have a t-shirt that says, “I survived Patricia’s sunset cocktails,” what are you even doing? You could also get yourself a notebook with “Are you mad at something I said?” scrawled on the cover in wonky handwriting, or a tote bag with “Sorry, forgot my purse” on the front. All that merch is unauthorized too — that’s how huge the fan following is for Widow’s Bay — the @AppleTV comedy series sleeper hit that’s set the Emmy polls on fire.
How to explain the unique cozy-scary-hilarious appeal of a show about a small, haunted island in Massachusetts and its hapless inhabitants? With rip-roaring storytelling, authentic East Coast vibes and a cast — led by the left-field comedic talents of Matthew Rhys — here’s something special that we didn’t know we all needed.
Deadline sat down with creator-showrunner Katie Dippold, EP-Director Hiro Murai and some Widow’s Bay inhabitants to find out how the [Vienna] sausage was made…
Read Now: deadline.com/2026/08/widows-…
'Big Brother' Season 28, Week 11 Eviction Results: Final 3 Houseguests Revealed deadline.com/2026/09/big-bro…
SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
The 'Big Bang Theory' single-camera spinoff 'Stuart Fails To Save the Universe' went full-circle in the Season 1 finale by turning multi-camera and returning to the stage where the original series was filmed.
After getting trapped in a comic book in the penultimate episode, the multiverse-hopping quartet of Stuart (Kevin Sussman), Bert (Brian Posehn), Denise (Lauren Lapkus) and Kripke (John Ross Bowie) found themself in a multi-camera sitcom in the finale, complete with a laugh track.
Read more here: deadline.com/2026/09/stuart-…
And, in the trippiest moment in a season chockfull of meta references, in the finale, Stuart, Denise, Bert and Kripke witnessed a curtain call for a taping of the 'Stuart Fails To Save the Universe' sitcom where they see identical versions of themselves played by the real-life stars of the HBO Max series: Sussman, Posehn, Lapkus and Bowie.
The episode paid homage to the mothership series in other ways too, including incorporating 'Big Bang's signature animated atom transition, complete with the whooshing sound, using its audience warm-up Mark Sweet, who had worked with Lorre since his 1997 ABC comedy 'Dharma & Greg', and having the characters sit around a coffee table eating takeouts.
Read more here: deadline.com/2026/09/stuart-…
In an interview with Deadline, the 'Stuart Fails' creators/executive producers Zak Penn, who comes from genre background, and sitcom veterans Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, break down how they pulled off the single-camera/multi-camera transitions, how it was filming outside Stage 25, the various 'Big Bang' easter eggs and that ending (where exactly is the answer?).
They also address the several digs at CBS, broadcast television and multi-camera sitcoms, the black consciousness adversary introduced in the finale and its implied alliance with Kyle (Ryan Cartwright). The trio gives some clues about the recently picked up Season 2, which already is being written, including when it would premiere.
Read more here: deadline.com/2026/09/stuart-…
‘Stuart Fails To Save The Universe’ Creators On Magic Of Returning To 'Big Bang' Stage, Going Multi-Cam In Meta Season 1 Finale & Season 2 Plans deadline.com/2026/09/stuart-…
Hannah Einbinder Speaks Out After Arrest, Calls For US To "Bring An End" To Israel Attacks On Gaza deadline.com/2026/09/hannah-…
Robert Pattinson Thinks Matt Reeves' 'The Batman' Would Be "Tough" To Fit Into James Gunn's DCU deadline.com/2026/09/robert-…
David Ellison Dines With Trump & Xi Tonight As CEO's Soon-To-Be Owned CNN Banned From White House deadline.com/2026/09/david-e…
Lili Reinhart Says Hollywood Is "Too Afraid To Make" Her Lesbian Vampire Book Adaptation deadline.com/2026/09/lili-re…
Richard S. Reisberg Dies: TV Executive At Viacom, MGM/UA & Lionsgate Was 86 deadline.com/2026/09/richard…
CNN Says It Was Denied Trump White House Access To Cover Arrivals At State Dinner For Chinese President Xi Jinping deadline.com/2026/09/trump-s…
Jena Malone, Dermot Mulroney, Mekhi Phifer & Vannessa Vasquez Set A Mission As 'Moon People' deadline.com/2026/09/jena-ma…
Reality Producers Rejoice As Federal Film & TV Incentive Bill Includes Unscripted Series deadline.com/2026/09/federal…
Berlanti/Schechter Films & Yan Fisher To Produce True Crime Dramedy 'Hang The Decorators' At Amazon MGM Studios deadline.com/2026/09/greg-be…
Stand-Up Comedian Takes Over Weather Forecast On Local L.A. Station deadline.com/2026/09/jo-koy-…
‘The Love Hypothesis’ Stars Lili Reinhart & Tom Bateman Break Down Olive’s “Climactic” Confession, Adam’s “Incredibly Brave” Confrontation & Love Profession Scene ... deadline.com/2026/09/the-lov…
EXCLUSIVE: Sara Gilbert is set to play an “important journalist” opposite Skyler Gisondo’s Jimmy Olsen and Jimmy Tatro’s titular ape in The People v. Gorilla Grodd, HBO Max’s upcoming Superman spinoff series, we hear.
In the half-hour comedy series, a superintelligent ape is convicted of murdering his father, the King of Gorilla City. In an eight-part “true” crime docuseries, the Daily Planet’s Jimmy Olsen reopens the case, investigating whether Gorilla Grodd was wrongly convicted in one of Metropolis’ most famous murder trials.
Read More: deadline.com/2026/09/sara-gi…
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Sara Gilbert Joins HBO Max’s Jimmy Olsen & Gorilla Grodd ‘Superman’ Spinoff Series deadline.com/2026/09/sara-gi…
Judge Tosses Donald Trump's Lawsuit Against Des Moines Register And Pollster Ann Selzer deadline.com/2026/09/trump-l…
