As always, Deadline’s Contenders events offer up the lowdown on scorching picks for awards season, with a wealth of talent and teasers for what you
As always, Deadline’s Contenders events offer up the lowdown on scorching picks for awards season, with a wealth of talent and teasers for what you need to watch. With this year’s Contenders Television that kicks off Saturday morning at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles, we are bringing you two full days of must-see shows, each day overflowing with substantial names.
The action Saturday and Sunday gets underway beginning at 9:30 a.m. PT both days. Doors at the DGA open at 8:30 a.m. if you’re attending live. If not:
With the amount of prestige TV on offer, now is the time to get your list of favorites up and running — and we’re here to lend a hand you do that. With Angelenos still reeling from the devastating fires and with industrywide upheaval and much change on the horizon, it’s heartening to see the continuing incredible quality and breadth of the shows attending — from returning favorites like Severance, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Last of Us, 1923, Yellowjackets and The Boys to all the fresh and electrifying TV we’ll be showcasing for you all weekend.
We even have some movies in there for you too, with Prime Video’s Another Simple Favor and Disney+’s Out of My Mind.
The DGA will be jam-packed with stars and the off-screen creatives behind these projects. Of course, sometimes those on-screen stars are on double, triple or even quadruple duty. For example, there’s The Handmaid’s Tale’s director-EP-actor Elisabeth Moss and creator-writer-EP-actor Benito Skinner from Prime Video’s Overcompensating.
We’ll have plenty more actors on board who also executive produce including Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks with their fresh Prime Video series The Better Sister, Aldis Hodge with Cross, and Sterling K. Brown with Hulu’s Paradise. Michael Fassbender will be here with Paramount+ show The Agency, and from CBS, we’ll have iconic star and EP Kathy Bates with Matlock. Warner Bros Television brings us Kate Hudson with basketball insider show Running Point, and Noah Wyle from real-time medical drama The Pitt. And we’ll meet Brian Tyree Henry from Apple TV+’s Dope Thief, and Nathan Lane and Matt Bomer from Hulu’s Mid-Century Modern.
You’ll also get a look at brand fresh titles like The Studio from Apple TV+, and ballet series Étoile from the artistic team behind Prime Video’s Emmy darling The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. We’ll delve into some gothic horror with Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire series and explore another kind of horror with the based-on-truth tale of an adoption gone wrong in Good American Family. There’s also the long-awaited second installment of the novel adaptation Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, Billy Bob Thornton-starrer Landman, crime comedy series Deli Boys and Kaitlin Olsen as an unexpected detective in High Potential.
Follow the panel coverage all weekend on Deadline and on social via #DeadlineContenders, and stay tuned when we launch the streaming site Monday featuring the full panel videos.
Here’s this weekend’s lineup of panels and panelists (all times PT):
Saturday, April 5
9:35 a.m. – Opening remarks
MASTERPIECE on PBS
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Colin Callender (Executive Producer/Founder & Chairman, Playground)
Damian Lewis (Actor)
HBO | MAX
The Last of Us
Bella Ramsey (Actor)
Craig Mazin (Co-Creator/Writer/Director/Executive Producer
Neil Druckmann (Co-Creator/Writer/Director/Executive Producer
PRIME VIDEO
Étoile
Luke Kirby (Actor)
Gideon Glick (Actor)
Lou de Laâge (Actor)
Another Simple Favor
Paul Feig (Director/Producer)
PARAMOUNT+
1923
Brandon Sklenar (Actor)
Julia Schlaepfer (Actor)
Aminah Nieves (Actor)
Yellowjackets
Melanie Lynskey (Actor)
Christina Ricci (Actor)
Bart Nickerson (Creator/Writer/Director/Executive Producer)
Ashley Lyle (Creator/Writer/Executive Producer)
AMC
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire
Sam Reid (Actor)
Mark Johnson (Executive Producer)
HULU
Good American Family
Ellen Pompeo (Executive Producer/Actor)
Mark Duplass (Actor)
Katie Robbins (Creator/Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer)
Sarah Sutherland (Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer)
The Handmaid’s Tale
Elisabeth Moss (Director/Executive Producer/Actor)
Yahlin Chang (Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer)
Bradley Whitford (Actor)
Yvonne Strahovski (Actor)
LUNCH
PARAMOUNT+
Landman
Billy Bob Thornton (Actor)
WARNER BROS TELEVISION
Running Point
Kate Hudson (Executive Producer/Actor)
Mindy Kaling (Co-Creator/Executive Producer)
Ike Barinholtz (Co-Creator/Executive Producer)
Dave Stassen (Co-Creator/Executive Producer)
The Pitt
Noah Wyle (Executive Producer/Actor)
John Wells (Executive Producer)
R. Scott Gemmill (Creator/Executive Producer)
DISNEY+
Out of My Mind
Amber Sealey (Director)
Luke Kirby (Actor)
CBS STUDIOS
Matlock
Kathy Bates (Executive Producer/Actor)
Jennie Snyder Urman (Showrunner/Executive Producer)
FOX ENTERTAINMENT
Going Dutch
Denis Leary (Executive Producer/Actor)
Sunday, April 6
9:35 a.m. – Program begins
PRIME VIDEO
The Boys
Jack Quaid (Actor)
Erin Moriarty (Actor)
Antony Starr (Actor)
Overcompensating
Benito Skinner (Creator/Writer/Executive Producer/Actor)
Scott King Showrunner/Executive Producer)
Wally Baram (Actor)
The Better Sister
Olivia Milch (Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer)
Regina Corrado (Co-Showrunner/Executive Producer)
Elizabeth Banks (Executive Producer/Actor)
Jessica Biel (Executive Producer/Actor)
Cross
Aldis Hodge (Producer/Actor)
Ben Watkins (Creator/Showrunner/Writer/Executive Producer)
APPLE TV+
Dope Thief
Brian Tyree Henry (Executive Producer/Actor)
Peter Craig (Showrunner/Writer/Director/Executive Producer)
The Studio
Melissa Kostenbauder (Casting Director)
Adam Newport-Berra (Director of Photography)
James Weaver (Executive Producer)
Ike Barinholtz (Actor)
Severance
Rachel Tenner (Casting Director)
Jeremy Hindle (Production Designer)
Theodore Shapiro (Composer)
HULU
Mid-Century Modern
Nathan Lane (Executive Producer/Actor)
Matt Bomer (Executive Producer/Actor)
Nathan Lee Graham (Actor)
Paradise
Sterling K. Brown (Executive Producer/Actor)
James Marsden (Actor)
LUNCH
PARAMOUNT+
The Agency
Michael Fassbender (Executive Producer/Actor)
Richard Gere (Actor)
Jodie Turner-Smith (Actor)
Jeffrey Wright (Actor)
ONYX COLLECTIVE
Deli Boys
Asif Ali (Actor)
Saagar Shaikh (Actor)
Poorna Jagannathan (Actor)
ABC
High Potential
Kaitlin Olson (Producer/Actor)
Todd Harthan (Showrunner/Executive Producer)
Drew Goddard (Executive Producer)
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