Television

Mediawan takes ‘For The Record’ rights EXCLUSIVE: Canadian distributor Mediawan has taken worldwide distribution and European/LatAm format rights for For The Record, CBC Gem’s shortform comedy from Suits actor Julian De Zotti. Mediawan will take the comedy, which stars De Zotti alongside The Expanses’ Anna Hopkins, on the road following this week’s Mipcom. The show had its international premiere
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Kim Kardashian West showed off her social connections during her hosting stint on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, assembling an impressive roster of guest stars in the dating reality series parody skit The Dream Guy. A take on ABC’s The Bachelorette, it featured Kardashian as Rochelle, a single woman during a ritual resembling The Bachelor/The Bachelorette’s
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“We cannot let fear define us in this moment,” proclaims Sonequa Martin-Green in the explosive trailer for Star Trek: Discovery’s upcoming fourth season. “The future remains uncertain, but the captain in me knows anything is possible,” Martin-Green’s Captain Michael Burnham adds amidst images of loss and also of laughter for the Paramount+ series Oh yeah,
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EXCLUSIVE: NBC has opted not to proceed with its drama pilot Getaway. Headlined by Annie Ilonzeh, it starred two leads of recently canceled broadcast series that have since been resurrected, Manifest’s Matt Long and All Rise‘s Marg Helgenberger. Both actors are now available to do other shows, including their old ones, which both have been
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The Wheel of Time will keep turning, and with even more characters as the Amazon fantasy series adds Ceara Coveney (The Amazing World of Emma), Natasha O’Keeffe (Peaky Blinders) and Meera Syal (Broadchurch) to its Season 2 cast as series regulars. They will appear opposite star Rosamund Pike and Josha Stradowski, Marcus Rutherford and more.
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BBC1’s long-running business format Dragons’ Den is to shift production from Manchester to Scotland. Producer BBC Studios’ factual entertainment team in Glasgow, which is run by former MasterChef and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares exec Adeline Ramage Rooney, will hire a number of editorial and production management personnel to work on the show. Series 20 of Dragons’ Den will
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EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal has taken in for development The Task Lyst, a drama project based on the novel “Task Lyst” by Scott Hylbert. It hails from writer David Slack (In Plain Sight), Josh Berman’s Osprey Prods. and Sony Pictures Television where the company is based. The project was pitched to NBC as part of the current
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‘Halloween Hotness’ will include over 150 special guests, with Lifetime Achievement Award presented to pop icon Diane Franklin… “Halloween Hotness 7: Stronger Together” will take place Saturday, Oct. 16 at Madame Tussauds Hollywood (6933 Hollywood Blvd.). The star-studded charity fundraiser benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was created by entertainment industry professional and event planner Brian Sikoff to ease
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ViacomCBS announced today a new multi-year distribution agreement with the Jeanie Buss-owned WOW – Women Of Wrestling, marking the return of the league to TV. WOW had been on AXS TV from 2019-2020. New episodes of WOW will launch in weekend syndication in the fall of 2022. ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group has already secured clearance
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Hungary Selects Oscar Entry Hungary has selected Péter Bergendy’s Post Mortem as its official entry for the International Oscar race this year. The period horror tells the supernatural story of a post mortem photographer and a little girl confronting ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War. The film premiered at Warsaw IFF
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