Deadline on Monday launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television 2025, its showcase of series and TV movies that marks the start of the small-screen awards season.

The cast and creatives from a total of 27 shows appeared over the weekend in a pair of all-day affairs at the DGA Theater, with the discussions delving deep into the journeys their projects took to get made, and even to tease what’s coming next. The complete panel videos are now available.

The lineup of shows represented the cream of the crop of watercooler series, with participating shows Saturday and Sunday including ABC’s High Potential; AMC’s Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire; Apple TV+’s Dope Thief, Severance and The Studio; CBS Studios’ Matlock; Disney+’s Out of My Mind; Fox Entertainment’s Going Dutch; HBO | Max’s The Last of Us; Hulu’s Good American Family, The Handmaid’s Tale, Mid-Century Modern and Paradise; Paramount+’s 1923, The Agency, Landman and Yellowjackets; Onyx Collective’s Deli Boys; PBS on Masterpiece’s Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light; Prime Video’s Another Simple Favor, The Better Sister, The Boys, Cross, Étoile and Overcompensating; and Warner Bros Television’s Running Point and The Pitt.

Among the names in attendance were Kathy Bates, Richard Gere, Sterling K. Brown, Jennie Snyder Urman, Bella Ramsey, Paul Feig, Brandon Sklenar, Jeffrey Wright, Melanie Lynskey, Christina Ricci, Brian Tyree Henry, Sam Reid, Ellen Pompeo, Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Bradley Whitford, Kate Hudson, Mindy Kaling, Ike Barinholtz, Jodie Turner-Smith, Noah Wyle, John Wells, Luke Kirby, Denis Leary, Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Benito Skinner, Aldis Hodge, Matt Bomer, Michael Fassbender, Poorna Jagannathan, Kaitlin Olson and Drew Goddard.

Among those appearing virtually and in on the conversations: Nathan Lane, Elizabeth Banks and Jessica Biel, Billy Bob Thornton, Antony Starr, Lou de Laâge and Damian Lewis.

This year’s Contenders Television was sponsored by Eyeptizer and Final Draft in Partnership with Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, BoConcept and 11Ravens.

Deadline’s 2025 Contenders run continues April 26 with Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted, a livestream panel series highlighting the season’s best in nonfiction TV.