Month: January 2024

Rob Mills touched on a variety of issues related to the unscripted world and late-night in a wide-ranging interview that went everywhere from Howard Stern to AI Bachelors. Mills, EVP, Unscripted & Alternative Entertainment at Walt Disney Television, also talked about the future of the Live in Front of a Studio Audience franchise following the
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Investigation Discovery’s The Curious Case of Natalia Grace and Lifetime’s The Prison Confessions of Gypsy Rose Blanchard both opened with stellar ratings, highlighting the continued success of true-crime on television. In fact, it’s the “Barbenheimer of true-crime,” according to Warner Bros Discovery exec Jason Sarlanis. Sarlanis, President, TBS, TNT, truTV, ID & HLN for Linear
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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated writers-producers Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker, executive producers and co-showrunners of Abbott Elementary and co-developers and executive producers of Harley Quinn, have signed a new exclusive overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group, the studio behind the acclaimed ABC comedy series and the popular Max adult animated series. Details are not being disclosed
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WWE is continuing to deal with fallout from sexual abuse allegations facing its former longtime chief Vince McMahon, with shares in parent TKO Group Holdings slipping as investors weigh the potential downside. Shares in TKO fell 4.4% Monday on nearly twice their normal trading volume, closing at $82.73. The stock is well below the level
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EXCLUSIVE: Cineflix Productions, the company behind Nancy Buirski’s Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Midnight Cowboy feature doc, has new representation. The company has signed with Gersh. The deal includes unscripted programming and selected scripted projects. Cineflix was previously repped by APA. The agency will work closely with J.C. Mills, President and Head of Content at Cineflix Productions, who
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In her first interviews since a jury on Friday ordered Donald Trump to pay her $83.3 million in a defamation case verdict, writer E. Jean Carroll this morning described what it was like to face the former president in court. Carroll told CNN This Morning that she hadn’t seen Trump in close to 30 years,
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David Letterman is championing the media coverage that the romance between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce generates. In a post shared on social media, Letterman talked about the backlash from NFL fans upset at the attention Swift has been getting while attending the Kansas City Chiefs games to support Kelce. “Here’s Taylor Swift, who is
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House of the Dragon Australian actress Milly Alcock has landed the highly coveted role of Supergirl in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s new DC Universe. Alcock played the young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s first season of Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon. She is repped by CAA, Shanahan Management, Entertainment 360 and Curtis Brown. Alcock
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Netflix registered its third-consecutive quarter of accelerating subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023, closing out a comeback year that included a crackdown on viewers freeloading on the video-streaming service and a smattering of price hikes. The fourth-quarter results announced Tuesday provided further evidence that Netflix was able to come up with a
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