The bad news might be over…. and at this point that counts as good news for the global TV drama business, analysts say. Laying down the stats at the Berlinale Series Market, Ampere Analysis’ Richard Broughton declared that overall spending on TV content will increase this year after stalling in 2023. “This is particularly good, […]
NBC News is launching a rebranded evening newsletter today, replacing its long-running First Read with a format that integrates broadcast and digital reporting on the campaign trail and in Washington, D.C. The network’s team of political reporters will all contribute to a single, centralized product, with a wider focus on news and analysis from across […]
Overall TV use in January hit a 4-year high (not counting the early pandemic months of 2020), Nielsen said, as new originals and an NFL playoff game helped streaming set a single-day record. In the latest edition of The Gauge, the measurement firm’s monthly snapshot of linear TV and streaming viewing (see full chart below), […]
Retail giant Walmart is acquiring smart TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in a deal that will alter the streaming advertising landscape. While Vizio is a leading manufacturer of televisions, rivaling Samsung for supremacy in North America, Walmart is not mainly interested in its hardware business. Instead, it coveted Vizio’s SmartCast Operating System, which has […]
EXCLUSIVE: YouTube has been racking up milestones lately. Its pay-TV bundle, YouTube TV, just passed 8 million subscribers. YouTube Shorts, the answer to TikTok launched globally in 2021, recently hit 80 billion daily views from more than 2 billion logged-in accounts. The most striking achievement for the Google-owned video giant, however, just may be its […]
The creators of Mr Bates Vs the Post Office and Dr Death, which are among the most meaningful TV dramas of recent years, have outlined the secrets behind their series. During a panel session at the Berlinale Series Market chaired by Deadline, Mr Bates Vs the Post Office executive producer Patrick Spence outlined the weight […]
Russian Pussy Riot dissident Nadya Tolokonnikova has welcomed a pledge by Alexei Navalny’s widow Yulia Navalnaya to carry on his fight for democracy, following his death in an Arctic penal colony last week. Speaking just hours after Navalnaya released a video statement vowing to continue her late husband’s political campaign, Tolokonnikova said she would be […]
The boss of the Bectu union has urged British broadcasters to have an “open and honest conversation about what the future looks like” with the ailing freelance workforce, while revealing concerns over future U.S. strike action. Positing that the UK TV industry’s freelance community is currently at its lowest ebb since she took over five […]
EXCLUSIVE: Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks has sold a series of its EFM titles, including Spanish horror pic The Boogeyman: The Origin of the Myth (El Hombre Del Saco) and a new 4K remastered version of the cult Argentinian thriller Nine Queens, to multiple international territories. The Boogeyman: The Origin of the Myth has been sold to […]
Banijay has taken a minority stake in the production outfit run by MOBO winner, doc presenter and social commentator Akala. The super-indie’s investment via its £50M ($62M) Growth Fund will help Akala’s Immovable Studios – which he runs with long-time business partner and talent manager Chanelle Newman – push further into the premium TV space. […]
Robin Windsor, a popular former professional on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, has died. He was 44. Production company Sisco Entertainment, which produces the play he has been starring in, Come What May, a Moulin Rouge tribute show, didn’t list a cause of death and said “it is with heavy hearts that we announce the […]
Here is some news sure to stir the agency world as Deadline has learned Verve CEO Bill Weinstein has separated from the company. The decision was made after deliberation by Verve’s leadership and approved by Verve’s board and owners . “We thank Bill as a co-founder and for his 14 years of service and wish […]
Michael Keaton is teasing the upcoming Beetlejuice Beetlejuice film that will open in theaters later this year. The Tim Burton film is a sequel to the 1988 horror comedy that starred Keaton in the titled role. In a recent interview, Keaton opened up about returning to play Beetlejuice and deciding early on with Burton that […]
SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from Monday night’s episode of The Bachelor. When tonight’s episode of The Bachelor opens, we find Joey and Maria in a car, on a date, speaking French to one another as best they can. Are they in France? Or perhaps Switzerland or Belgium? Non, non, non. Of course, as […]
SPOILER ALERT! This story contains plot points from Monday’s episode of NCIS. NCIS on Monday paid its final respects to star David McCallum, who died September 25 at the age of 90. A fan favorite, McCallum was the last remaining original cast member on NCIS, in which he played an eccentric but highly efficient investigator Donald “Ducky Mallard” […]
The ending of When Harry Met Sally was not how it was initially conceived, and director Rob Reiner is opening up about what changed his mind. In a new interview for Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, Reiner revealed that the 1989 romantic comedy had a “tearjerking ending.” “The original ending of the film that we […]
Hillary Clinton and Sharon Stone shared the stage at the annual Cinema for Peace funder raiser in Berlin on Monday night with the latter presenting the former U.S. secretary of state with the NGO’s Cinema for Peace Award. Stone described Clinton as an inspirational figure in her life: “The things you’ve said have changed my […]
Rachel Zegler shared a sweet anecdote with Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Presidents’ Day. The West Side Story star took to social media to recount an event with the former Veep star. “Sat next to Julia Louis-Dreyfus in an airport lounge today and it took everything in me not to wish her a happy presidents day,” Zegler […]
Travis Kelce and his brother Jason addressed the tragic shooting in Kansas City amid the parade celebrating the Chiefs’ Super Bowl win. The Kelce brothers had planned to release a pre-recorded episode of their New Heights podcast on Wednesday, but “after the tragic events of the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, it didn’t feel […]
“The movie allowed us to be honest in a way that I don’t think we would have been able to achieve had it not been for — had it not been like an assignment,” says Billie Eilish about writing the weepy and moving Barbie ballad “What Was I Made For?” While meant to be the […]
The final numbers are in: Jon Stewart’s February 12 return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show averaged more than 3 million total viewers across the night in Nielsen’s Live+3 numbers, which include simulcasts and the encore. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was No. 1 across all cable (originals and encores) at 11 p.m. in key demos […]
On Mondays while HBO’s Last Week Tonight is in season, host/executive producer John Oliver takes to X to post the main story segment from the previous night’s episode as it becomes available on YouTube. This Monday, following Last Week Tonight‘s Season 11 premiere last night, Oliver went on X to inform his fans of a […]
This is quite the career trajectory for a former Mouse House darling: Bridgit Mendler, whose vast Disney Channel credits included Good Luck Charlie and Wizards of Waverly Place, is launching a startup that she describes as a “data highway between Earth and space.” As CEO of the El Segundo-based startup Northwood Space, Mendler says the […]
