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Max has announced that season two of HBO’s Emmy-winning original drama series The Last of Us will be available to stream in American Sign Language (Asl) alongside the show’s episodes each week beginning with the season debut on Sunday, April 13 at 9:00 p.m. Et.

Season one of the series will be available to stream in Asl starting on Friday, March 31, just in time to catch up before the debut of season two.

This marks the first time that HBO’s original programming will be available to stream in Asl on Max, following the Asl versions of Warner Bros. films such as Barbie, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

This expansion in the availability of Asl programming continues to build on Max’s commitment to creating a premium and accessible streaming experience for all subscribers.

The Last of Us with Asl is performed by Daniel Durant...

Max has announced that season two of the HBO’s Emmy®-winning original drama series The Last Of US will be available to stream in American Sign Language (Asl) alongside the show’s episodes each week beginning with the season debut on Sunday, April 13 at 9:00 p.m. Et. Season one of the series will be available to stream in Asl starting Friday,March 31, just in time to catch up before the debut of season two.

This marks the first time that HBO’s original programming will be available to stream in Asl on Max, following the Asl versions of Warner Bros. films such as Barbie, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. This expansion in availability of Asl programming continues to build on Max’s commitment to create a premium and accessible streaming experience for all subscribers.

The Last Of US with Asl is performed by Daniel Durant...

World Athletics has agreed a production partnership with fast-growing sport audio business Voiceworks Sport.

The partnership will see Voiceworks Sport provide audio and visual content production support for World Athletics as part of its ongoing series of content on Inside Track – the exclusive, access-all-areas platform for everything athletics – with the first episode set to air on Friday (1 March).

The World Athletics Inside Track Podcast begins with a four-part series covering the events at the World Athletics Indoor Championships Glasgow 24.

It will be presented by Olympic and world 400m gold medallist Sanya Richards-Ross, 2014 world indoor and two-time European indoor 60m champion Richard Kilty and three-time Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton.

The trio will be trackside in Glasgow to provide unique insight into some of the event’s most significant moments, while the podcast will also feature interviews with a range of special guests, including athletes, legends and coaches.

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Exclusive: After co-founding and building a leading consumer goods brand with The Honest Company, actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba is looking to do the same in the film and TV production space with the launch of Lady Spitfire.

Alba has partnered with producer Tracey Nyberg in Lady Spitfire which aims to work collaboratively with diverse artists and creators in producing boundary-pushing, high-quality content, focusing on female driven, culturally diverse and Latino inspired stories.

“I’m thrilled that in this stage of my life and career, I get to create and build, and Lady Spitfire is part of this next chapter,” Alba said. “Reimagining and redefining how women and minorities show up in the world through great stories is my passion. I believe that my children and the next generation shouldn’t have to face the same barriers as I have. Inspired by the heroes whose shoulders I humbly stand on,...

Not every TV and film production will stop amid dual strikes by SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America. A host of projects stopped work after writers went on strike against media companies for better pay, streaming data transparency and protections against artificial intelligence (among other issues), and many more have paused since actors walked out on July 14.

There are exceptions, however. SAG-AFTRA’s strike rules allow for work on productions covered under different agreements, and the union can grant waivers or sign interim agreements with independent productions. Below is a list of TV shows and films that fall under those designations; this story will be updated as more productions earn waivers.

Interim Agreements

SAG-AFTRA has reached interim agreements with numerous independent productions, including movies from A24 (Death of a Unicorn, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, and Mother Mary with Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel) — which is not part...

Exclusive: Jessica Alba (Sin City), Russell Harvard (Fargo), and Daniel Durant (Coda) are attached to star in sports feature film Flash Before the Bang, inspired by the true story of an all-deaf high school track and field team in 1980’s Oregon.

The film heralds from deaf writer-director Jevon Whetter, on whose experience the story is based. Oscar winners Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are exec producers along with Fanshen Cox in association with Trujulo Productions. Jessica Alba is also an exec producer.

Production is due begin in September in Georgia on the project, in which more than half of the characters in the ensemble cast will deaf and portrayed by deaf actors. Brothers Jevon and Delbert (producer) Whetter are from a multigenerational deaf family, while actors Harvard and Durant are also deaf.

The Exchange is introducing the title to international buyers at the Cannes Film Market this week with UTA Independent Film Group representing U.

Talent agency Verve has signed Troy Kotsur, the deaf star of Best Picture-winner “Coda” who is fresh off his Oscar win for Best Supporting Actor, after a competitive situation among agencies.

Kotsur is the first deaf man to win an Oscar, and he’s the second deaf actor overall to win after his onscreen wife in “Coda” Marlee Matlin won the Best Actress prize for 1986’s “Children of a Lesser God.”

The success of “Coda” also allowed Kotsur the opportunity to make an appearance in an episode of “The Mandalorian,” and next up he’ll star as the coach of a deaf track team in a film called “Flash Before the Bang,” which is being produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s Pearl Street Films. He’s also appeared on “CSI: NY,” “Scrubs, “Criminal Minds” and directed his first film, “No Ordinary Hero.”

Kotsur grew up in Phoenix and Mesa,...

The Academy Awards can change careers in a way no other award can. Brie Larson went from winning an Oscar for “Room” to becoming Captain Marvel. Rami Malek has jumped from “Mr. Robot” to James Bond villain in “No Time to Die” in part due to his star-making victory in 2018’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.” With that in mind, what lies in the future for this year’s Oscar winners?

With her win for Best Supporting Actress as Anita in “West Side Story,” Ariana DeBose has become the first openly queer actress of color and the first Afro-Latina star to win an acting Oscar. Next up, DeBose will join Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters and play Calypso in “Kraven the Hunter,” which is slated for theaters on January 13, 2023.

Troy Kotsur has become the first deaf male actor to win a competitive Oscar, winning the Best Supporting Actor prize for his work on “Coda.

Troy Kotsur has become the first deaf male actor to win a competitive Oscar, winning the Best Supporting Actor prize for his work on “Coda.”

Kotsur is preceded only by Marlee Matlin, his “Coda” co-star and on-screen wife, as the only other deaf individual to have won an Oscar. She won Best Actress for her work in “Children of a Lesser God” in 1986.

“This is amazing to be here on this journey,” Kotsur said through an interpreter as last year’s Best Supporting Actress winner, Yuh-Jung Youn, held his Oscar so he could sign his speech. “I really want to thank all the wonderful deaf theater stages where I was allowed to develop my craft as an actor.”

He added, “This is dedicated to the deaf community, to the Coda community, to the disabled community. This is our moment.”

Kotsur plays Frank Rossi in “Coda,” a deaf fisherman from Gloucester,...