Television

Amazon Studios has given a formal series greenlight to a YA spinoff from the Emmy-nominated superhero drama The Boys., produced by Sony Pictures Television. Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters have come on board to serve as showrunners and executive producers on the yet untitled series, which assembled most of its main cast in anticipation of
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Comcast Spectacor Monday named longtime digital entertainment executive Russell Arons president of G4, the content studio and network for comedy, gaming and pop culture fandoms. It said Arons, most recently general manager of Machinima, a division of Warner Bros. Digital Networks, will usher in a new phase of G4 when it officially returns on linear,
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UPDATE: Actor Tom Felton took to social media today to assure fans that he’s doing fine after collapsing at a golf tournament. In a new video uploaded to Instagram, Felton, 34, told viewers that he’s “on the mend” following the incident. “Just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the lovely well wishes as of
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Sunday’s Primetime Emmy Awards were hailed as “historic” by Netflix’s Bela Bajaria as streamers, led by Netflix, dominated, taking home for the first time all top scripted series categories: Outstanding Drama, Comedy and Limited or Anthology Series. But the triumph of streamers, who completed their coming of age and solidified their status as industry leaders
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UPDATE, 7:24 PM PT: Chris Cuomo hosted his CNN show Cuomo Primetime without addressing the New York Times essay by former producer Shelley Ross, who described a 2005 incident in which she said he touched her inappropriately. At the time, Cuomo and Ross had been working at ABC News. Cuomo instead devoted the hour to
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WarnerMedia’s New Singapore Base WarnerMedia has unveiled its new regional hub for Asia (excluding China and Japan). Officially opened today (September 24, 2021) by Singapore’s Minister for Communications and Information, the office signals the full integration of WarnerMedia’s business in the region that includes Warner Bros., HBO and Turner brands. It also houses HBO Max,
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New scares await American Horror Story: Double Feature viewers in the season’s second chapter, Death Valley. FX dropped a brief teaser on Thursday revealing the the next arc of Double Feature. Following the seaside-set episodes of Red Tide, the four episodes consisting Death Valley see Neil McDonough’s character heading to the California desert to appease
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EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy-winner Peter Murrieta, who recently signed a first-look deal with Universal Television, is teaming up with Russell Binder’s Striker Entertainment to option and adapt Jeffrey J. Mariotte’s forthcoming novel Blood And Gold: The Legend Of Joaquin Murrieta. Set during the harsh and brutal but transformative era of the California Gold Rush, the book
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Filmmaker Ry Russo-Young has built a successful career in Hollywood, directing The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) and Before I Fall (2017), among other titles. Those two films were fictional tales adapted from novels, but for real-life drama she need look no further than her own childhood. At age 9 Russo-Young became the object
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EXCLUSIVE: ICM agent Chris Sawtelle is wrapping up a three-year stint at the firm and transitioning to the role of co-president at agency client Josh Richards’ CrossCheck Holdings. CrossCheck was founded by Richards, who has a following of tens of millions across digital platforms and is active as an influencer, entrepreneur, musician and actor, among
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Netflix India’s Ray Donovan Adaptation Netflix India is lining up a local adaptation of hit U.S. series Ray Donovan. The crime-action-drama, titled Rana Naidu, will see actor Rana Daggubati sharing screen time for the first time with his uncle Venkatesh Daggubati. Produced by Locomotive Global, the series is an official adaptation of the Showtime series
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Walt Disney chief executive Bob Chapek said the company’s global net paid subscribers will rise “by low single-digit millions” for its current fiscal fourth quarter from the third, and he put Wall Street on notice that long-term targets are still on track but they shouldn’t assume growth will be a straight line. “A quarter-to-quarter business
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