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Max's political dramedy The Girls on the Bus is less about the commonly depicted cutthroat world of politics and more about the unique friendships that can be cultivated in such a high-pressure environment along the way. The series, based on journalist Amy Chozick's 2018 memoir Chasing Hillary…

Editor's note: Running until the final general election results come in, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Washington bureau chief Ted Johnson and senior editor Dominic Patten, the podcast…

UPDATED, 9:15 AM: “Here we are. Four political reporters. Rivals. Vicious competitors. Getting entirely out of control. Why? Because the state of American politics is the state of our own lives.” So begins the trailer for The Girls On The Bus, the Max drama series adaptation of Amy Chozick’s best-selling…

Supergirl alumna Melissa Benoist will be the voice of heroine Teela in Masters of the Universe: Revolution, Kevin Smith’s continuation of his Masters Of The Universe: Revelation He-Man adaptation at Netflix, Mattel announced today. She takes over the role played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the original…

Scott Foley (The Big Leap) has been tapped for a key recurring role opposite Melissa Benoist in The Girls On The Bus, HBO Max's political drama series from Warner Bros. TV. The series centers on Sadie McCarthy (Benoist), a journalist who romanticizes Tim Crouse's Boys on the Bus book and who scrapped her whole life…

EXCLUSIVE: Natasha Behnam is set as a lead opposite Melissa Benoist in The Girls On The Bus, HBO Max’s political drama series from Warner Bros. TV. The series centers on Sadie McCarthy (Benoist), a journalist who romanticizes Tim Crouse's Boys on the Bus book and who scrapped her whole life for her own shot at…

Melissa Benoist and her production banner Three Things Productions has renewed its overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group as the former Supergirl star officially joins HBO Max series The Girls on the Bus. Deadline revealed in February that Benoist was in talks to reunite with Berlanti Productions for the…

Coming off six seasons as the lead of Supergirl, Melissa Benoist is poised to reunite with Berlanti Productions on another series. Benoist is in negotiations to headline The Girls on the Bus, which just received a straight-to-series order at HBO Max, I have learned. Benoist also is expected to serve as a producer on…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Supergirl two-parter series finale.  It’s all or nothing for Melissa Benoist’s Kara Danvers and her Super Friends in the final hours of the CW’s Supergirl. Kicking off with “The Last Gauntlet,” Supergirl picks up right were the previous installment left off – with…

Melissa Benoist’s time as Supergirl for the CW is nearing its end as the supe series heads to its finale in November. During a Thursday panel at the virtual New York Comic Con, Benoist reflected on her time as the titular superhero and her next steps. “I don’t think I truly realized what I was signing up for, so my…

At least this time her planet isn’t exploding. Melissa Benoist, aka Supergirl from The CW’s series of the same name, bid farewell today to fans on the occasion of the series wrapping production on its final season. She included a shot posing in costume with fellow casts members Chyler Leigh (“Alex Danvers”) and David…

EXCLUSIVE: Kara and friends will be getting some help from two new allies who are heading to National City. Jason Behr (Roswell) and Claude Knowlton (American Crime Story) have joined the cast of the upcoming sixth season of CW’s Supergirl in recurring roles. Knowlton will play a mild mannered alien whose tragic past…