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‘The Diplomat’ Director Debora Cahn Video Interview On Emmy Nom & Her Career
For Debora Cahn getting to create and run her own Netflix hit series was simple. First, get jobs and spend years writing and producing on iconic shows like The West Wing, Homeland, and Grey’s Anatomy.
Cahn is creator, showrunner, and Executive Producer of Netflix’s The Diplomat which she thinks of as sort of the flip of West Wing, a show she joined in its fourth season and stayed through the finale, with a focus on international affairs rather than domestic politics. Now for its third season it has received more Emmy nominations than ever with seven including two for Cahn – Outstanding Drama Series and Writing in a Drama Series – and it is especially sweet because this reps her first Emmy writing nomination, although she is a past two time WGA Award winner (for “The Supremes” episode of West Wing, as well as writing on the Limited Series, Fosse/Verdon). In all three years of the series, star Keri Russell has been nominated, and the show itself was also up for Drama Series last season too.
Cahn says she has learned from the best, including of course West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and Grey’s Anatomy creator Sondra Rhimes, the latter show she joined early on in 2006 before leaving in 2013. She also worked under Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter as a writer and co-ep of HBO’s Vinyl, and wrote the TV Movie Paterno starring Al Pacino among other impressive credits.
Cahn joins me for this episode of my Deadline video series, Behind The Lens where we talk about her remarkable career, the upward trajector of The Diplomat at the Emmys, how the show resonates in this upside down political climate and how she keeps it relevant, plus where it is going in the fourth season now underway in the writers room, and so much more including the meeting during the production of Homeland where Cahn jotted down just five words that led to the creation of The Diplomat.
To watch our conversation and to go ‘behind the lens’ with Debora Cahn just click on the link above.
Join me every Monday and Friday this season for a new Behind The Lens and every Wednesday for a new episode of The Actor’s Side.
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‘Mormon Wives,’ ‘Love Island’ Stars Sign With Select Management Group
EXCLUSIVE: Select Management Group has added nine reality stars to its roster: Chelley B and Parmida Keshani from Peacock’s Love Island USA; Leah Barrs, Mitchell Bienvenue, Tamaya Denae and Taylor Hayward from Freeform/Hulu’s Million Dollar Nannies; Bri Davis and Ashleigh Pease from Hulu’s upcoming The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County; and Jimmy Sotos from Netflix’s Perfect Match.
From Love Island USA, Chelley B has built a loyal following around relationships, personal growth and community, while also bringing her Haitian heritage and personal experiences to her content. Her connection with fans has led to opportunities across lifestyle, beauty, fashion and relationship-focused brands. Keshani’s background in kinesiology and professional coaching has led to opportunities at the intersection of wellness, fitness and women’s lifestyle partnerships.
Signees from Million Dollar Nannies include Barrs, the founder of a nanny-led agency known for her work with high-profile families, which has given her a unique platform at the intersection of luxury childcare, family, travel and lifestyle; Bienvenue, a lifestyle creator whose content centers on outdoor adventures, travel and an active lifestyle; Denae, a fashion and lifestyle creator whose content sits at the intersection of wellness, beauty and fashion; and Hayward, a nanny and content creator who offers an inside look at childcare and family life.
Australian lifestyle creator Pease, one of the stars of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives: Orange County, shares a candid look at life as a mom of four in Orange County, with content spanning family, relationships, lifestyle and everyday life. Nurse and lifestyle creator Davis brings a clinical background to content spanning beauty, wellness, women’s health, travel and everyday life.
Then, there’s Perfect Match‘s Sotos, a former Ohio State basketball player who made the leap from college athletics to reality TV amid his search for love in Perfect Match Season 4.
Select Management Group is a next-generation talent management and media company whose clients include The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives franchise’s Jennifer Affleck, Mikayla Mathews, Mayci Neeley, Jessi Ngatikaura, Aspyn Ovard and Layla Taylor, as well as other unscripted talent such as the Love Island universe’s Jeremiah Brown and Taylor Williams. The company sees unscripted as one of the creator economy’s strongest pipelines for next-generation talent and has been at the forefront of efforts to bridge that gap.
Select Management is part of the Propagate Content family of companies, which also includes Artists First, Authentic Talent & Literary Management, Parker Management and Sway Social, among others. Other recent unscripted signings include Love Island USA‘s Sean Reifel and Love Overboard stars Leela J Ambrose-Fleck, Sadé Idera and Bella Palk.
The firm’s production arm, Select Entertainment, produces Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, as well as its Orange County spinoff.
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‘Clueless’ Eyes More OG Cast Returns Alongside Alicia Silverstone
Paramount+ recently greenlighted Clueless as an event series, and is looking to pull all the stops making it an event by reassembling the original cast.
As Deadline reported, the project, a sequel to the cult-classic 1995 Paramount Pictures teen comedy film starring Silverstone, landed at Paramount+ after getting a pass at Peacock, with Silverstone set to reprise her role as the Beverly Hills’ it-girl Cher Horowitz.
“We decided to make it an event series because it deserves to be an event,” Paramount+ Head of Originals Jane Wiseman told Deadline in a wide-raging interview about the streamer’s programming strategy. “We feel like this is going to be something that people are going to come to in droves — already you can tell — if you want to get the cast back together, if you want to see where everyone is.”
According to sources, Clueless was picked up off of a pilot script. While the rest of the episodes have not been written yet, I hear the plan is to bring as many of the film’s stars — which include Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Wallace Shawn, Jeremy Sisto and Breckin Meyer — back. (Fellow cast member Btittany Murphy died in 2009.)
“Oh, we would love it,” Wiseman said about the idea, confirming that no other OG actors besides Silverstone have deals to come back.
According to sources, some actors have not even been approached yet. Filming is slated to begin in Los Angeles in 2027.

‘Clueless’: Justin Walker, director Amy Heckerling, Elissa Donovan, Brittany Murphy, Alicia Silverstone, Jeremy Sisto, Stacey Dash, Wallace Shawn, Paul Rudd, Breckin Meyer, Donald Faison on set
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From Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, Jordan Weiss and CBS Studios, Clueless picks up 30 years after the original film. Beloved Beverly Hills icon Cher Horowitz (Silverstone) has figured out a lot: She’s successful in business and has mastered motherhood — that is, until her daughter’s high school years, and Cher finds that parenting a teenager makes her feel “clueless” all over again.
“It’s a mother-daughter story, which I don’t want to overlook because we’re really excited about the next generation of Clueless,” Wiseman said. “Sitting across the table from Alicia Silverstone and hearing her talk about the character, it just makes so much sense. We really wanted to get the band back together and celebrate it in an event series, and that really is what hit home for us.”
As for whether Clueless could continue beyond the initial limited series, Wiseman left the door ajar.
“If I can leave it open-ended, I’d like to,” she said. “But the idea is that this particular version of the show is supposed to be an event. It’s supposed to be open and closed where Cher is in her life and what she and her daughter are up to, and how we can bring the cast back to celebrate it.”
Schwartz, Savage and Weiss are writing the series, which is executive produced by Schwartz & Savage viaa their Fake Empire banner, Weiss, Silverstone and the original film’s writer-director Amy Heckerling and producer Robert Lawrence.
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‘Industry’ Adds Cary Elwes, Dianna Agron, Sam Riley, More For Season 5
Industry is rounding out the cast for the financial thriller’s upcoming fifth and final season with a whole host of guest and supporting roles.
The series has added Cary Elwes, Dianna Agron, Sam Riley, Jessica Brown Findlay, Luke Manley, Bally Gill and Eduard Poliakov, HBO revealed Monday. The castings also give a slight indication as to the direction for Season 5, building on the previously announcement that Zosia Mamet has joined Season 5 as Carmen Dame, a fitness influencer-turned-wellness tech founder and CEO.
Agron is playing Skip Binksy, CFO of a wellness tech company — whether its one and the same, or a rival wellness tech company, remains to be seen. Elwes will play Padgett Stillman, an investor.
Riley has been cast as Solomon Kerr, an elusive British businessman who made his fortune in Silicon Valley. Brown Findlay is Marina St. Clair, a family friend of Sir Henry Muck. Gill has snagged the role of Nikesh Shah, a charistmatic left-wing politician.
There is also a few new traders in the mix. Manley is set to play Stevie Delmonte, an execution trader. And last but certainly not least, Poliakov has been cast as Olexij Kovalchuk, also a trader.
Industry has transcended extremely humble beginnings as a modest series about a group of young financial professionals on the trading floor at a prestigious global investment firm.
Global viewing for Season 4 has outpaces the third season by roughly 30%, per the network. In the U.S., episodes were averaging 1.7M viewers by the time it was renewed for its fifth and final season ahead of the Season 4 finale. That’s after the Season 4 premiere jumped 20% over that of Season 3 in just three days with 800,000 U.S. cross-platform viewers.
Industry is created, written, and executive produced by Mickey Down & Konrad Kay. They pen the series will writer Joseph Charlton.
In Season 4, at the top of their game and living the lives they set out to have as Pierpoint grads, Harper (Myha’la) and Yasmin (Marisa Abela) are drawn into a high stakes, globetrotting cat-and-mouse game when a splashy fintech darling bursts onto the London scene. As Yasmin navigates her relationship with tech founder Sir Henry Muck (Kit Harington) and Harper is pulled into the orbit of enigmatic executive Whitney Halberstram (Max Minghella), their twisted friendship begins to warp and ignite under the pressure of money, power, and the desire to be on top.
The Season 4 cast also included Ken Leung, Miriam Petche, Sagar Radia, Toheeb Jimoh, Charlie Heaton, Amy James-Kelly, Roger Barclay, Andrew Havill, Kiernan Shipka, Kal Penn, Jack Farthing, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Forlani, and Edward Holcroft.
The series is a Bad Wolf Production for HBO/BBC and is executive produced by Jane Tranter, Kate Crowther, and Ryan Rasmussen for Bad Wolf; Kathleen McCaffrey for Little Gems; and Rebecca Ferguson for BBC. Directors include Mickey Down & Konrad Kay, Michelle Savill, and Luke Snellin.
Elwes is represented by Link Entertainment and Independent Artists Group (IAG). Agron is represented by Paradigm & Hansen, Jacobson, Teller. Riley is represented by Florence Rose at Independent Talent and Tapestry London. Brown Findlay is represented by Tapestry. Manley is represented by Authentic Talent & Literary Management. Gill is represented by Max Latimer at JAG. Poliakov is represented by R Talent
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