After a half-decade as an Oak Ridge Boy, singer Joe Bonsall has announced his retirement more than four years after being diagnosed with a neuromuscular disorder. The announcement, made during a concert Saturday in Greenville, MS, comes amid increased speculation about Bonsall among fans of the country music group. During the show at Harlow’s Casino […]
ESPN and CBS went head-to-head for the biggest audience during Week 17 of the NFL regular season. Both delivered around 26.1M viewers, marking a milestone for the NFL as the league has now seen almost double the games cross the 25M threshold as last year (when only nine had met that mark by this time). […]
EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks has kicked off the new year with a slew of scripted promotions. The company has upped seven executives across its scripted programming group, which is responsible for shows including The Walking Dead universe, the Anne Rice Immortal universe and Dark Winds. Ben Haigh and Josh Sizer, who oversee the company’s domestic scripted […]
EXCLUSIVE: BBC Storyville has acquired U.K. rights to the Sundance prize-winning doc Bad Press. Directed by Rebecca Landsberry-Baker (Muscogee Creek Nation) and Joe Peeler, Bad Press debuted at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it picked up the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Freedom of Expression. The film will hit BBC and iPlayer in […]
Justice may be blind, but it’s hard to look away from the legal mess Love is Blind has become. Back in October, reality series contestant Tran Dang went after Love is Blind production companies Kinetic Content and Delirium TV with a sexual assault, false imprisonment and negligence lawsuit. Now, Season 5 participant Renee Poche is suing Delirium and Netflix […]
Veteran producer Dylan Massin (The West Wing) has been named EVP of Production for Sony Pictures Television Studios. Massin, who reports to SPTS President Katherine Pope, assumes the Head of Production role from Ed Lammi, who retired in December after a 36-year career at the studio. Massin will oversee all physical production for the U.S. […]
Marketing communications and entertainment firm Kovert Creative has added Rosy Baker to their talent team. Baker recently spent six years at PR firm Relevant working with several multi-hyphenate stars. At Kovert, she will work out of the Los Angeles office and focus on adding to the agency’s talent client roster, which includes Jimmy Kimmel, Jack […]
A double-holiday week on Broadway – the final week of 2023 – saw a surge in box office, with many shows posting record numbers. Winner of the week? Disney’s The Lion King, which grossed a massive $4,316,629, not only setting a house record at the Minskoff but a Broadway record for the highest single-week gross […]
FX has dropped the official trailer for Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, the second installment of FX’s anthology series from Ryan Murphy, Plan B and 20th Television. Besides featuring a star-studded cast of women such as Calista Flockhart, Diane Lane, Naomi Watts, and Chloë Sevigny, it also marks the final role for Treat Williams, who died in a June […]
CBS has handed a straight-to-series order to Watson, from writer Craig Sweeny (Elementary), Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS Studios, for the 2024-25 broadcast season. Morris Chestnut is set to play the title role and executive produce the medical drama inspired by the characters from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Last January, CBS ordered […]
Pat McAfee is clearing some things up after comments made by Aaron Rodgers on The Pat McAfee Show that linked Jimmy Kimmel to the Jeffrey Epstein list of associates. McAfee addressed the controversy at the top of his show on ESPN, noting that the ABC late-night talk show host had threatened legal action. The sports […]
Jimmy Failla has been named host of Fox News Saturday Night, the weekly comedy satire series that debuted last year. Failla, whose new role is effective Jan. 13, has been among the rotating series of hosts on the show. He will continue to host his weekday radio show, Fox Across America, and headlines a standup […]
Jonathan Bennett, the Mean Girls heartthrob and star of the Hallmark Channel’s Christmas House franchise, will make his Broadway debut when he takes over the role of Spamalot‘s Sir Robin from Michael Urie on January 23. Urie, as previously announced, is jumping over to co-star (with Sutton Foster) in the New York City Center’s Encores! […]
EXCLUSIVE: WME has hired Allie Cohen as a scripted TV agent. She will serve as an agent in the agency’s scripted TV department led by co-heads Tom Wellington and Erin Junkin. The group represents top TV writers, showrunners and directors, including Chris Storer (The Bear), Lee Sung Jin (Beef), Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters), Tyler Perry, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Perry, who has been with Independent Artist Group, formerly known as APA, for nearly 13 years, has joined CAA. Perry’s appointment was just revealed internally within the agency. The longtime literary agent was promoted to partner at IAG a year ago and it comes after APA merged with music touring agency Artist Group […]
Hulu is the latest streaming service to be integrated into one of T-Mobile’s mobile plans, joining Netflix and Apple TV+. Starting Jan. 24, the $8-a-month ad-supported tier of the Disney-owned streaming outlet will be included at no additional charge for new and existing customers on T-Mobile’s Go5GNext subscription tier. Netflix and Apple TV+ are available […]
Amanda Seyfried, Angela Bassett, Suits stars Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams, George Lopez, Julia Garner, Justin Hartley, Michelle Yeoh and Will Ferrell make up the first list of presenters for Sunday’s 81st Golden Globe Awards. Jo Koy is hosting the Golden Globes, which will honor the year’s best in motion pictures and TV. The ceremony […]
Athan Stephanopoulos is stepping down as EVP and Chief Digital Officer of CNN, as CEO Mark Thompson focuses on a new structure for the network. Stephanopoulos joined the network in fall 2022 under then-CEO Chris Licht. In a statement sent to employees, Stephanopoulos said, “In my discussions with Mark since his arrival, there was much we […]
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival has set 16 alums from past editions to serve on its Competition Jury, also announcing the set of five set as jurors for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize. The list includes Debra Granik, Adrian Tomine, and Lena Waithe in U.S. Dramatic Competition; Shane Boris, Nicole Newnham, and Rudy […]
The national union of stage directors and choreographers has reached an agreement with producers on a new four-year pact being called a landmark for some theater workers, the groups announced today. The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and The Broadway League, the national trade association for producers in the Broadway and touring industry, said in […]
EXCLUSIVE: The chief executive of one of the UK’s top diversity bodies has denied ‘liking’ allegedly antisemitic LinkedIn posts about Stephen Fry’s Christmas speech. Deborah Williams, who runs the Creative Diversity Network, said she did not endorse messages posted over the festive period by former Channel 4 commissioner Tamara Abood. Williams’ denial comes amid other […]
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based cultural institution Villa Albertine and Unifrance have announced the selection of French features due to be showcased in the 9th edition of their joint Young French Cinema program. The initiative aimed at promoting films in the U.S. by emerging French filmmakers without domestic distribution will showcase 11 titles this year. They include […]
The Darkness is descending in Iceland. Principal photography on the CBS Studios and Stampede Ventures’ six-part, English-language drama co-production for Icelandic telecoms and streaming company Síminn is underway in the country’s capital Reykjavík, and the cast has now rounded out. Jack Bannon (Pennyworth), Douglas Henshall (Shetland, Who is Erin Carter?), Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (A Gentleman […]
Claire Foy has revealed how the director on her first major acting job made her feel bullied. The Emmy-winning star of The Crown said the director of the BBC’s Being Human pilot was “unkind” to her during filming on the 2008 show. Foy did not name the individual, but Declan O’Dwyer is credited as the […]
Jon Ronson has forged a second series of his Things Fell Apart podcast, this time around focusing on conspiracy theories in the Covid-19 era. The second season of the hit BBC Sounds show will launch next week, with eight stories focusing on “new battle lines in the culture wars which ignited during lockdown.” “From covid […]
