Jonathan Ross To Host ITV UK Oscars Coverage Jonathan Ross is to host the UK coverage of the Oscars as the world’s biggest movie awards ceremony shifts to ITV for the first time. ITV has unveiled its coverage for the 96th Academy Awards, with Ross hosting an Oscars party on March 10 from 10.30 p.m. […]
EXCLUSIVE: Christian Wikander, Banijay’s Global Head of Scripted, is exiting after a year in post. A Banijay spokeswoman confirmed the departure and said the role will now be reviewed. When Wikander leaves next month, the current team will report temporarily to Chief Business Officer Frédéric Balmary, who was promoted last year. Wikander replaced Lars Blomgren […]
Nominations for the EE British Academy Film Awards will be unveiled Thursday in London via a livestream that begins at 12 pm GMT/4 AM PST. The livestream will be available to view on the video link embedded above alongside the organization’s X (Twitter) and YouTube pages. Actors and former EE Rising Star nominees Naomi Ackie […]
EXCLUSIVE: Hera Pictures, the indie behind Jodie Comer-starrer The End We Start From and Sky/Starz’ upcoming Mary & George, is developing a TV version of Joanna Quinn’s hit novel The Whalebone Theatre. The 2022 best-seller is a coming-of-age story set in the shadows of the oncoming World War Two. It tells the story of an […]
EXCLUSIVE: Iconic 1960s television series The Avengers is getting a remake. Deadline hears that StudioCanal, which owns the rights to The Avengers catalog, has been quietly plotting a reboot for some time and a pilot has been written. Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, the writing team behind hit HBO/BBC series Industry, have breathed new life […]
EXCLUSIVE: The sinking of the Titanic continues to fascinate filmmakers and audiences, and a new two-part doc about the tragic ship has pre-sold into the UK and Australia. Channel 4 and SBS have both boarded Titanic in Colour, which comes from the British indie behind World’s Most Evil Killers and Mandela, My Dad and Me […]
Alex Baskin, the producer of Vanderpump Rules, is teasing its spinoff The Valley and viewers can expect a cinematic transition reminiscent of the way The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills transitioned to the former. One of the moments in Bravo history that fans still talk about is the seamless way Vanderpump Rules was introduced to […]
Pitchfork, one of the strongest music news and reviews publications over its 30-year-old online history, is being folded into men’s magazine GQ, owner Condé Nast said Wednesday. Anna Wintour, the publishing house’s chief content officer and the global editorial director of Vogue, emailed a memo to staff. “This decision was made after a careful evaluation […]
Amid the renewed interest in Vanderpump Rules following “Scandoval,” Bravo has announced the cast for the spinoff reality series The Valley. Kristen Doute, Jax Taylor and Brittany Cartwright are set to star in the series premiering this Spring 2024. The show follows a group of close friends as they trade bottle service in West Hollywood […]
CBS debuted its newest late-night show last night and the numbers are. After Midnight, hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, was watched by an average of 686,000 viewers in the 12:37am hour, per Nielsen’s live+same day fast national data. This compares to The Late Late Show with James Corden’s live+same day average of 806,000 for its final […]
EXCLUSIVE: Pranutan Bahl, granddaughter of Indian icon Nutan, and Rahsaan Noor are leading Coco & Nut, an English- and Hindi-language romantic comedy shot in Chicago. Billed as a “spirit-lifting romance,” the film will follow an ambitious young woman (Bahl), who feels worthless while fighting to save her marriage before she gets a “pick me up […]
YouTube is the latest tech division to feel the layoff pain. The company will eliminate 100 employees, a spokesperson confirmed today to TechCrunch. The moves come after Google laid off more than 1,000 workers across several divisions, including engineering, services and voice-activated product Google Assistant. “As we’ve said, we’re responsibly investing in our company’s biggest […]
EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate is closing a deal to purchase a package that will have Chandler Baker adapt her short story Big Bad for Chris Landon to direct. Todd Lieberman and Hidden Pictures will produce with Landon. It’s Landon’s first new attachment after dropping out of directing Scream 7, in a chain of events that started with […]
Criminal Minds: Evolution fans apparently will be saying goodbye to longtime cast member Josh Stewart. The actor today posted on X (fka Twitter) that “sadly, my days of playing Will LaMontagne Jr. are over,” adding “You guys have been the absolute best.” Stewart first appeared as a recurring on the original CBS drama Criminal Minds […]
Toby Byrne, who spent 20 years at Fox, has joined A+E Networks as EVP, National Ad Sales as part of a broader revamp of the cable programmer’s sales team. Along with Byrne’s arrival. April Denn, Jeff Gocel, Lindsey Quinn and Rob Duke have been given the title of vice president. Of the four, only Duke […]
EXCLUSIVE: Independent Artist Group has signed filmmaker Shuchi Talati, ahead of the world premiere of her first feature, Girls Will Be Girls, at the Sundance Film Festival. Premiering in World Cinema Dramatic Competition, the romantic drama written and directed by Talati is set at an elite boarding school in a small Himalayan hill town in […]
The Producers Guild’s top career honor takes on some added significance this year. Two-time Emmy-nominated producer Gail Berman is set to receive the group’s 2024 Norman Lear Achievement Award. Named, of course, for the legendary TV series creator who died last month, the Norman Lear Award recognizes a producer or producing team for their extraordinary […]
