Ryan Murphy has been dethroned. Tembi and Attica Locke’s limited series From Scratch has taken over from The Watcher as the most-viewed series on Netflix last week. The drama series starring Zoe Saldaña, about an artist who finds romance with a chef in Italy, notched 72.02 million hours watched in its second week on the […]
Paul Hewitt is the latest long-term exec leaving The CW. The veteran comms exec is leaving after 22 years and will be replaced by Beth Feldman as SVP Network Communications. The move comes as The CW has laid off a significant number of staff, which was not a surprise since local TV group Nexstar acquired […]
Total day audiences rose across the major news networks in October, as viewers started to focus more on the midterms. Viewership is still far from the blockbuster numbers seen in the last election cycle, and primetime audiences actually were down across the networks. But there were upticks in viewership across dayparts. Fox News averaged 1.48 […]
Now you may be wondering why I am discussing the adult industry and talking with Bree Mills. Well, on today’s episode Mills and I chat about the disconnect between Hollywood and the adult film industry. I love cinema, and I love talking about cinema in all its forms. In this instance, I am fascinated by […]
A federal judge’s ruling that blocked a $2.18 billion merger between book publishing giants Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster is being hailed by the WGA West as a “tremendous victory for authors who, like screen and television writers, try to make a living selling their work to powerful conglomerates.” The antitrust division of […]
The celebration of the best in Latin music is upon us with the Latin Grammys 2022 and new performers have been added to the gala set to take place in Las Vegas. Christina Aguilera, Camilo, Elvis Costello, Jorge Drexler, John Legend, Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernández and Christian Nodal have all been confirmed […]
EXCLUSIVE: ABC has greenlit the new unscripted comedy series The Prank Panel, a show where everyday people pitch pranks targeting family members, friends, and co-workers to a panel of the world’s greatest pranksters. As the show’s panel of “pranxperts,” Johnny Knoxville (Jackass), Eric André (The Eric André Show), and Gabourey Sidibe (Precious) will give viewers a […]
UPDATE: High profile Twitter users will likely soon have to pay $8 per month to retain or obtain their blue checkmarks, which the platform has long used to designate individuals whose identity has been verified. New owner Elon Musk wrote that “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue […]
Images from classic and contemporary films were beamed onto some of Edinburgh’s most famous locations Monday evening as part of a growing campaign to save the city’s Filmhouse cinema and the Edinburgh International Film Festival, one of the world’s longest continuously running film festivals. In October, the trustees in charge of the Centre for the […]
EXCLUSIVE: CBS is once again dominating the fall TV season with its primetime lineup. The network has secured 17 of the 25 most-watched entertainment programs of the season so far, including all three of its newest series Fire Country (No. 17), East New York (No. 18) and So Help Me Todd (No. 22). It should […]
HBO Max has dropped the first full-length trailer of Peter Billingsley in his return as Ralphie in the upcoming A Christmas Story Christmas, the sequel to the classic holiday pic A Christmas Story. The film begins streaming on HBO Max on November 17. The poster and photos are below. Christmas TV Episodes Photo Gallery, From ‘Friends’ To ‘Gunsmoke’ The film follows […]
Jeff Zucker, who left WarnerMedia last February just before its merger with Discovery, is in discussions with RedBird Capital to lead a $1 billion sports investment fund backed by the private equity outfit. The talks, first reported by The Ankler, were confirmed by a person familiar with the situation. Given the nature of negotiations, the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Nigel Lythgoe, a 12-time Emmy nominee and co-creator and executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation. Lythgoe also served as executive producer of Pop Idol and TV juggernaut, American Idol. In addition to co-creating and executive producing So You Think You Can Dance, Lythgoe […]
Mayor of Kingstown, the Jeremy Renner starrer from Taylor Sheridan and Hugh Dillon, has a return date. The second season of the drama will return Sunday, Jan. 15 to Paramount+. It will bow the following day in the UK and Australia. A new teaser previews the aftermath of the prison riot from the season one […]
EXCLUSIVE: Prasanna Puwanarajah as an actor has appeared in Doctor Foster: A Woman Scorned, Ten Percent and Patrick Melrose, and he’ll next pop up in two episodes of The Crown‘s upcoming fifth season portraying Martin Bashir, the controversial journalist who conducted the infamous BBC interview with Princess Diana. However, on Thursday he’ll wear a different hat […]
Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming Broadway revival of Lerner & Loewe’s Camelot will star Andrew Burnap as Arthur, Phillipa Soo as Guenevere, and Jordan Donica as Lancelot Du Lac, LCT announced today. The new take on the classic musical, featuring a book by Aaron Sorkin based on the original by Alan Jay Lerner, begins performances on […]
CNN’s new morning show CNN This Morning launched on Tuesday with a news heavy three-hours that nevertheless played up an essential element of rival shows: Conversation and chemistry. “I probably got two hours sleep,” Don Lemon, formerly part of the network’s nighttime lineup said in the opener, flanked by his co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan […]
Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch declined to directly address deliberations about a potential reunion with corporate sibling News Corp. during Fox’s quarterly earnings call, but he readily acknowledged the importance of scale in the media business. “What we’ve seen out of our media peers over the past few years are peers getting bigger through mergers […]
EXCLUSIVE: Beta Cinema has unveiled a raft of first deals for German director Kilian Riedhof’s drama You Will Not Have My Hate, inspired by the experiences of French writer Antoine Leiris, whose wife was killed in the November 13, 2015 terror attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris. The feature, which world premiered in […]
EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch International (WBI) has released a fresh image of Johnny Depp as Louis XV in French director Maïwenn’s ambitious costume drama Jeanne du Barry, in which she also co-stars as the titular courtesan, and unveiled a raft of first theatrical deals. The historical love story has been acquired for France (Le Pacte), Benelux (Paradiso Filmed Entertainment), Switzerland […]
Fox Corp. rode a surge in political ad spending and continued growth in streaming in its fiscal first quarter, posting financial results above Wall Street analysts’ expectations. Adjusted net income came in at $1.21 per share, up a dime from the year-ago quarter and well ahead of analysts’ consensus forecast for $1.12. Total revenue of […]
Former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been suspended as a Conservative MP for being a contestant on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!. According to the BBC, Tory whips have been unimpressed with the news this morning that he will be one of the 12 contestants on the Ant and Dec-hosted 2022 edition […]
BBC Studios Science Unit Names First Creative Director The Anthrax Attacks and Dinosaurs: The Final Day producer BBC Studios Science Unit as named its first Creative Director for UK Unscripted. Emma Lorenz has joined from Wonderhood Studios and will responsible for the domestic creative strategy and growing the unit’s UK slate in documentaries, formats and […]
Faith Penhale, decorated TV drama producer and CEO of Gentleman Jack indie Lookout Point, is leaving the BBC Studios-backed outfit to head up Pathe Productions, with Cameron McCracken stepping down to Head of Film. After 23 years with Pathe most recently as MD, McCracken will now report to Penhale. He will continue to manage the […]
EXCLUSIVE: My Daughter’s Killer producer Rogan Productions has signed Passion Pictures’ Nicholas Franklin as Head of Production. Franklin replaces Viv Steele, who has exited after seven years. Across a two-decade career, Franklin has worked on the likes of Netflix’s Catching Killers, the BBC’s David Harewood: Psychosis and Me and Channel 4’s Charlie Hebdo: Three Days […]
