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WARNER BROS. TELEVISION GROUP NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

PRIME VIDEO

PRESENTATIONS

Saturday, April 26, 2025

The Voice

COMEDY CENTRAL

David Blaine Do Not Attempt

Beast Games

ONYX COLLECTIVE & HULU

HULU

Lettering By ALEXIS TAIEB

Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal

The Fall of Diddy

The Daily Show Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Audrey Morrissey (EP)

Kelsea Ballerini (Coach)

David Blaine (Host)

Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson (Co-Creator/EP/Host)

Jeffrey Allen (Player 831/winner of Beast Games)

Sean Klitzner (Co-Creator/EP)

Iliza Shlesinger (Writer/EP/Comedian)

Emma Schwartz (Director/EP)

Yoruba Richen (Director/EP)

Jen Flanz (Showrunner/Writer/EP)

Zhubin Parang (Writer/Co-EP)

Desi Lydic (Host)

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson (Director/EP)

Joseph Patel (Producer)

Thom Zimny (Director/Producer/Editor)

AMERICAN HISTORY

UNBOUND MTV

ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS

NBC

PRESENTATIONS

Saturday, April 26, 2025

The Eyes of the World:

From D-Day to VE Day

RuPaul’s Drag Race

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Saturday Night Live

UNIVERSAL TELEVISION

ALTERNATIVE STUDIO AND NBC

PEACOCK

The Americas

John Monsky (Creator/Writer/Narrator/Historian)

Meredith Wagner (EP/President American History Unbound Inc.)

Patrick Hemingway Adams (Historical Consultant/ Special Guest)

Lexi Love (Contestant)

Onya Nurve (Contestant)

Jewels Sparkles (Contestant)

Sam Star (Contestant)

Seth Meyers (Writer/Host)

Mikey Day (Cast Member)

Ego Nwodim (Cast Member)

Tom Broecker (Producer/Costume Designer)

Mike Gunton (EP)

Love Island USA

The Traitors

SCHEDULE AND SPEAKERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Ariana Madix (Host)

Danielle Gervais (EVP Casting & Talent)

Ben Thursby-Palmer (Showrunner/EP)

James Barker (EP)

Rosie Franks (EP)

Ben Archard (Director)

Siggi Rosen-Rawlings (Director of Photography)

Matt Wright (Director of Photography)

SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION

Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted gives the leaders in nonfiction their due

By Matthew Carey

Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has amassed 386 million subscribers for his YouTube channel, more than any other person on Earth. But he’s not stopping there. He’s expanding into television with the Prime Video series Beast Games, a reality competition show where contestants vie for $5 million, “the largest cash prize in TV history!”

MrBeast is among the major names set to take part in Deadline’s Contenders: Documentary, Unscripted & Variety, your guide to a different kind of competition—one where the ultimate prize is Emmy gold. Along with MrBeast, we’ve got Grammy-winning country

Madix will share secrets from the steamy Peacock series. We’ve got comedy covered with Seth Meyers, host of Night with Seth Meyers; Saturday Night Live cast members Mikey Day and Ego Nwodim, and The Daily Show’s Desi Lydic. Standup comic Iliza Shlesinger will tell us about her Prime Video comedy special, Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal. Animals of every description populate The Americas, the

nature series from Universal Television Alternative Studio and NBC. Tom Hanks narrates the 11-part show that examines the super continent all the way from Northern Canada to the southern-most tip of South America. Executive producer Mike Gunton will join Contenders to discuss the wonders revealed, like flamingos that hold a “dance off” at the top of the Andes.

SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION

From internet groundbreakers to music legends, music pariahs and war heroes, Deadline shares the magic.

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and Joseph Patel, who won Academy Awards for their 2021 documentary Summer of Soul, will tell us about their follow up: Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius), streaming on Hulu. It explores the brilliant and groundbreaking musician Sly Stone of Sly and the Family Stone, whose limitless talent ran up against a streak of self-sabotage. Another music legend headlines the Emmycontending documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, an inside look at the group’s latest tour, from rehearsals to spectacular concerts. Director Thom Zimny, who first worked with Springsteen a quarter of a century ago, will share insights into his latest collaboration with the Boss.

Music made Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip hop producerperformer who launched a record label before branching out into fashion, media and

more. But it’s been a sharp decline for the mogul, who awaits trial on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges. His career and the allegations that threaten to send him to federal penitentiary are explored in the explosive ID docuseries The Fall of Diddy Director-executive producers Emma Schwartz and Yoruba Richen will join us at Contenders to discuss Diddy’s fate.

We’ll also explore a climactic

chapter from World War II with a panel from The Eyes of the World: From D-Day to VE Day. And we’ll get the story on The Traitors, the cunning Peacock series hosted by Alan Cumming, along with some intriguing trickery from David Blaine, who travels the world in David Blaine Do Not Attempt in search of prodigious prestidigitators.

So, now all you have to do is sit back, relax, and let the magic unfold.

MODERATORS MEET THE

YOUR HOST

PETER WHITE

Executive Editor,

Television

● Peter, who joined Deadline in 2017, is a respected veteran TV journalist who previously worked at U.K.-based Broadcast, where, after starting there in

2013, he rose to News Editor, responsible for putting together the weekly magazine as well as breaking daily news. Before that, he was deputy editor of Television Business International magazine. He covers the television industry from Deadline’s Los Angeles bureau.

YOUR MODERATORS

PETE HAMMOND

Awards Columnist/ Chief Film Critic

● Pete, widely considered to be one of the pre-eminent awards analysts for both film and television, has for the past 14 years been Deadline’s Awards Columnist covering the year-round Oscar and Emmy

seasons. He is also Deadline’s chief film critic, having previously reviewed films for MovieLine, Boxoffice magazine, Backstage, Hollywood.com and Maxim, as well as Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide for which he was a contributing editor. In addition to writing, Pete is also host of the PBS SoCal Cinema Series and the weekly PBS television series Must See Movies. He previously held producing positions at Entertainment Tonight, Extra, Access Hollywood, The Arsenio Hall Show, The Martin Short Show and AMC Networks and is the recipient of five Emmy nominations for writing. Pete is only the second journalist to receive the PGA’s Press Award twice, in 1996 and 2013.

MEET THE MODERATORS

KATIE CAMPIONE

TV Reporter

● Katie joined Deadline in 2022 from TheWrap, where she also covered the television industry. She has also worked for The Hollywood Reporter, The Associated Press, People Magazine and more. Katie is from Florida and earned her degree in journalism from the University of Florida. She is based in Los Angeles.

MATTHEW CAREY

Documentary Editor, Awards

● Matthew Carey joined Deadline full-time in 2020, after a long association as a freelancer, to specialize in coverage of the nonfiction film landscape. Matthew is a writer and producer whose work has appeared on CNN, CNN International and CNN en Español. He has written extensively about documentary film for CNN and CNN.com, Documentary magazine, NBCNews.com and TheWrap.

MATT GROBAR

Senior Film Reporter

● Matt joined the editors’ desk in March 2021 after five years as AwardsLine’s assistant editor. In that role, he contributed to

the coverage and editing of the magazines throughout the year, focusing on artist interviews revolving around awards season and its big nights including the Oscars and Emmys. Matt also manages the Production Value video series, which spotlights the premier craft talent working in film and TV. He is part of Deadline’s festival studio team at the likes of Sundance, Tribeca and Toronto. Before Deadline he worked at UTA, 8thDay Pictures and Infinity Management International.

LYNETTE RICE Senior TV Writer

● Lynette Rice joined Deadline in February and

comes from Entertainment Weekly, where she wrote for the magazine and the website. Before that, she worked for The Hollywood Reporter and Broadcasting & Cable. The San Diego State graduate is also the author of the 2021 New York Times bestseller How to Save a Life: An Inside Story of Grey’s Anatomy.

ARMANDO TINOCO Night & Weekend Editor

● Armando joined Deadline in 2022 as night and weekend Editor. Based in Los Angeles, he previously served as entertainment editor at La Opinión and managing editor for La Vibra. His bylines have also appeared in PopSugar.

SHOWS THE

AMERICAN HISTORY UNBOUND

● The Eyes of the World: From D-Day to VE Day

Historian John Monsky and host Katie Couric help bring a Veterans Day tribute to life. This special is a musical and visual journey through the harrowing and triumphant final months of WWII in Europe. Alongside performances from Broadway stars, the documentary special unearths rare photographs and personal accounts from Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Life magazine photographer Robert Capa and photojournalist Lee Miller. It also features heroic and heartbreaking words of the 761st

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Tank Battalion that bring the battles and war stories to life.

COMEDY CENTRAL

● The Daily Show

Hosted by Jon Stewart, the Peabody and Emmy awardwinning program observes the biggest news stories across politics, pop culture and global affairs. Stewart and his correspondents interview experts on U.S. culture, activism, foreign policies and more.

HULU

● Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Road Diary provides an intimate look into the creative process of Bruce Springsteen and company as they experience life on the road for their 20232024 world tour. Directed by Springsteen’s longtime collaborator Thom Zimny, the documentary unearths rare moments in the band’s creative process for fans around the world through rehearsals, special moments backstage as well as testimonials from Springsteen himself.

ID

● The Fall of Diddy

This four-part series digs into the life of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs as he sits in jail

THE SHOWS

on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Co-directed by Emma Schwartz and Yoruba Richen, the series looks into the allegations against Combs through interviews or archival footage from a former producer, a woman who alleges Diddy sexually assaulted her in 2001, former Vibe magazine editor-in-chief Danyel Smith and more.

MTV ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS

● RuPaul’s Drag Race

This long-running reality TV show centers around a group of talented drag queens that compete in a variety of fashion, design and performance challenges to impress host RuPaul, the world’s most famous drag queen, to win a large cash prize along with the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

● David Blaine Do Not Attempt

This six-part series blends magic and travel with cultural exploration. Following David Blaine as he teams up with magicians from around the world learning things like the

1 RuPaul’s Drag Race

2 David Blaine Do Not Attempt

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Norwegian Death Dive and kissing the heads of cobras, the series explores the world through the lens of magic. The production took three years to film across several countries and continents that include Brazil, Southeast Asia, India, the Arctic Circle, South Africa and Japan.

NBC

● Late Night with Seth Meyers

In Late Night with Seth Meyers, the Saturday Night Live alum turned talk show personality breaks down the day’s biggest stories and political climate with his trademark biting wit and humor. He also invites Hollywood stars, fellow comedians, political figures and other newsworthy guests to have a discussion on his platform.

● Saturday Night Live

For the last four decades and counting, the award-winning New York sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live has invited celebrity hosts to join the ensemble cast to perform a variety of skits. The comedy sketches range from digital shorts, satirical news and hot button issues within the pop culture zeitgeist.

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ONYX COLLECTIVE & HULU

● Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius)

Directed by Questlove, this documentary examines the life and legacy of Sly & the Family Stone. Examining the rise and sunset of the popular ’60s band through the eyes of band leader Sly Stone, the documentary draws on his personal experience and relationships and showcases how Black musicians in America navigated success and oppression.

PEACOCK

● Love Island USA

Based on the U.K. series, the show follows contestants who couple up in new surroundings to compete in various games and challenges. During their stay, drama and scheming hijinks ensue when the contestants are forced to choose between staying with their current partners or finding love with someone new. Viewers can vote to determine who gets another shot at love or who leaves the villa without the cash prize.

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● The Traitors

Based on a popular Dutch show, The Traitors is a psychological series hosted by Alan Cumming, where participants must purposefully be involved in treachery and deceit. Throughout the competition, some of reality TV’s biggest stars come together to complete challenges with the objective of earning a cash prize.

PRIME VIDEO

● Beast Games

Prime Video’s most-watched unscripted series Beast Games centers around 1000 contestants competing for a $5 million dollar cash prize — the biggest payout in TV history. Based on MrBeast’s YouTube show, this 10-part game show features a diverse array of players facing unique challenges and obstacles in order to be declared the winner.

● Iliza Shlesinger: A Different Animal

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger latest special, filmed at the Eccles Theater in Salt Lake City, centers around the new discoveries of life in her 40s. She reflects on giving birth to her

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second child, the idiosyncrasies of feminism, the humorous pitfalls of romance and trying to teach Gen Z a thing or two.

UNIVERSAL TELEVISION ALTERNATIVE STUDIO AND NBC

● The Americas

Narrated by Tom Hanks, this 11-episode special from the executive producers of Planet Earth, explores the ecosystems and habitats of wildlife within North and South America. The educational journey is scored by Hans Zimmer and features an array of creatures living in Mexico, the Amazon, the Caribbean, the Gulf Coast, Patagonia and more.

WARNER BROS. TELEVISION GROUP

● The Voice

The Voice is an American singing reality competition series that debuted in 2011. Based on a Dutch series of the same name, The Voice aims to find unsigned musical talent with hopes that they can advance their professional careers in the music business. In each season, the winner is awarded $100,000 and a record deal with Universal Music Group.