The late-night drama involving Jay Leno is still being discussed. Leno stopped by Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast and his old friend brought up the controversy surrounding his exit from The Tonight Show. Leno left The Tonight Show in May 2009 and was replaced by Conan O’Brien, a deal that had been five years in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Cohan has joined Brillstein Entertainment Partners as a manager. Cohan comes to the company from ICM Partners, where he worked in the Motion Picture Department since 2017, parting ways with the company following CAA’s acquisition. He was previously at WME for 11 years. “Brillstein is a first-class company that epitomizes what drew me […]
The grappling begins in September: Women Of Wrestling, or WOW, will premiere nationwide in syndication during the weekend of Sept. 17. Available via Paramount Global Content Distribution, WOW is the only all-female wrestling organization with a global TV footprint. WOW has been cleared in 100% of the U.S. including the CBS-owned-and-operated stations, Sinclair Communications, Nexstar Broadcasting, Hearst Television, TEGNA […]
Disney and Pixar have set Thursday, September 8 for the premiere of their new Cars spinoff series Cars on the Road on Disney+, and released a first-look trailer for the animated series. Cars On The Road, a spinoff of the beloved Cars movies (2006, 2011, 2017) that tracked Lightning McQueen’s (Owen Wilson) racing career, follows McQueen and […]
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Sean Astin has signed on to star alongside fellow Stranger Things alum Matthew Modine in the cycling drama Hard Miles, which 2021 Academy Nicholl Fellow R.J. Daniel Hanna is directing from his and Christian Sander’s script. Additional cast set for the indie includes Cynthia Kaye McWilliams (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey), […]
Elita Adjei has been promoted to the newly created role of Vice President of Corporate Communications for National Geographic Content. She will report to both Courteney Monroe, president of Nat Geo Content, and Charissa Gilmore, senior vice president of Corporate Communications, Disney General Entertainment. Adjei will be responsible for the overall communications strategy for the […]
It’s official: The upcoming ninth season of The Flash on the CW will be its last. It will debut in 2023 and consist of 13 episodes, making this the shortest season of its run. As Deadline reported, speculation that Season 9 could be The Flash‘s final chapter started in January when star Grant Gustin agreed […]
More supes are joining The Boys. Amazon is rounding out cast for the upcoming fourth season of Emmy-nominated superhero series The Boys, from Sony Pictures TV and Amazon Studios. Valorie Curry (The Lost Symbol) and Susan Heyward (Orange Is The New Black) join as new series regulars for the upcoming season, and Cameron Crovetti, who recurred as […]
EXCLUSIVE: Steel Springs Pictures has partnered with the card game We’re Not Really Strangers to create an exclusive sale of projects and formats that will expand upon the core essence of the brand. The deal is the first to be announced through Steel Springs Pictures’ newly minuted Non-Fiction division, which former OWN/Harpo executive Jonathan Sinclair […]
EXCLUSIVE: It’s been a while since we’ve had a raunchy female feature comedy– arguably since 2017’s Girls Trip, however, here comes D-Day from Spyglass Media Group with Schitt’s Creek‘s Emily Hampshire attached to star. The pic, written by One Day at a Time scribes Becky Mann, Audra Sielaff and Andy Roth follows newly divorced and sexually inexperienced Kate, as […]
NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises has appointed Sandra Smester as executive vice president, programming and content development. In the newly created role, Smester will oversee the development and execution of programming for the network beginning in August. Smester will report to Ronald Day, president of entertainment and content strategy at NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. Smester will be responsible […]
EXCLUSIVE: Creators Torrey Speer, Nora McInerny and Katie O’Brien have signed with Curate for management. Speer received WGA and PGA award nominations this year for her work on Apple TV’s The Morning Show, where she served as supervising producer on the first two seasons of the Jennifer Aniston/Reese Witherspoon drama series. Speer broke into television writing as an assistant […]
Film and TV productions spent $4.4 billion in Georgia in fiscal 2022, a new record for the industry, according to The Georgia Film Office. The Office, which sits within the Georgia Department of Economic Development, said the state hosted 412 productions — 32 feature films, 36 independent films, 269 television and episodic productions, 42 commercials […]
Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning have been tapped to host the 56th Annual CMA Awards. Bryan, a two-time CMA Entertainment of the Year winner, returns for a second consecutive year to host the awards honoring country music’s best, while Manning is hosting for the first time. The awards show will air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone […]
BBC Three has greenlit a drama following five underprivileged Black students who win scholarships to an elite British boarding school from BAFTA-nominated Timewasters creator Daniel Lawrence Taylor and Three Girls producer Studio Lambert. In Boarders, the students, who are all based in inner-city London, will found out what life is like in a Harry Potter-esque […]
Israel has announced a total $13m (45m shekels) tax rebate aimed at incoming film and TV productions. The incentive is underpinned by Israel’s ministries of finance, culture and sports, economy and industry, foreign affairs and tourism. Bannered the “Fund for the Promotion of Foreign Productions” the incentive will offer a rebate of up 30% to […]
EXCLUSIVE: Jason Mitchell (Mudbound) and Bartosz Bielenia (Corpus Christi) have joined Jacek Braciak (Leave No Traces) for historical action title Scarborn, based on the story of Polish general and revolutionary war hero Tadeusz Kościuszko who is best known for fighting at George Washington’s side in the American War of Independence. The project, which is the directed […]
EXCLUSIVE: Pantaya has set September 15 as the premiere date for Toda La Sangre, the crime-thriller starring Aarón Díaz and Ana Brenda Contreras. Based on the best-selling novel by Mexican author Bernardo Esquinca, Toda La Sangre follows Casasola (Díaz), a tabloid reporter who joins forces with police lieutenant Edith Mondragón (Contreras) and Elisa (Yoshira Escárrega), […]
EXCLUSIVE: HLN has lined up a trio of topical true-crime specials that will examine the cases of Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell, Sherri Papini and Gabby Petito. “She weaponized sexuality,” we hear of Maxwell in a promo for the first one, Sex Ring Secrets: Exposing Jeffrey Epstein (watch it below). Set to air August 15, the two-hour show exposes her as the mastermind […]
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Ray, who portrayed Jay Leno in Disney+’s Pam and Tommy and Vince McMahon in NBC’s Young Rock, has joined the cast of Kumail Nanjiani’s Hulu Chippendales biopic Immigrant. Ray will play Larry the Emcee in the show that is being directed by Academy Award-nominee Ramin Bahrani and exec produced by Girls co-showrunner Jenni […]
Channel 4’s former Deputy Programmes Chief Kelly Webb-Lamb has launched a non-scripted production outfit with two former Channel 4 commissioners to create “global formats and ideas of scale.” Webb-Lamb, who up until recently was the second most senior content person at the Gogglebox network, has opened Mothership Productions with Creative Director Charlotte Desai and Director […]
Broadcasting union Bectu’s members have voted “overwhelmingly” to reject trade body Pact’s latest offer and the future of the pair’s TV Drama agreement could now be in doubt. In the past few minutes, Bectu Head Philippa Childs said members had followed Bectu’s position of voting against the terms and the move has given the union […]
The French government’s controversial move to abolish the country’s 89-year-old TV license fee is due to be voted on by France’s upper house this week. The ending of the fee, currently set at 138 euros ($141) a year, is included in wider budget rectification legislation tackling the cost-of-living crisis. The move to abolish the fee follows […]
England’s near-60 year wait for a major football trophy ended last night with a record 17.5M peak audience tuning in to the BBC coverage. The Lionesses’ 2-1 victory in the European Championships final, which included a dramatic winner in Extra Time, obliterated the previous best of 9.3M – achieved just a few day prior for […]
John Oliver mocked Liz Truss, currently in the running to replace Boris Johnson as the UK’s prime minister, on Sunday night’s episode of HBO Max’s Last Week Tonight due to a tweet mourning sex offender Jimmy Savile. “Truss has a real knack for making bad decisions and then very much sticking to them,” Oliver said. […]
