EXCLUSIVE: Crown Media Family Networks has restructured its marketing department, which has been renamed Crown Global Brand Group, under Lara Richardson who joined the company as CMO in December. The operation has been split into four newly created divisions, Brand Marketing & Ad Sales Marketing; Brand Production and Operations; Brand Creative; and Brand Design. Jennifer
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Breaking News Taylor Swift is picking up the battle her fans started with Netflix — ripping one of its hit shows for a sexist and misogynistic joke targeting her dating life. Taylor fired back Monday morning at the streaming service and the writers of “Ginny and Georgia” over Sunday night’s finale which showed Ginny (Antonia
EXCLUSIVE: MGM/UA Television and Israel’s Tadmor Entertainment are developing a scripted television series based on the lives of judo world champions Saeid Mollaei and Sagi Muki. The two companies have acquired the life rights to the duo and are working with the International Judo Federation to develop the series, which will feature exclusive footage of
Nolan and the gang were dragged into the world of a true-crime docuseries on The Rookie Season 3 Episode 7. Other shows have gone down this interview the characters route with mixed results. Castle did it once and I absolutely hated it. But this installment of The Rookie felt like just the light-hearted episode that we
Andrew Cuomo went through some things this week so considering Last Week Tonight wanted to keep things hyper local on Sunday night, John Oliver decided to unpack some of the scandals facing the New York Governor who he describes as a man whose face, build and general demeanor always seem to scream “Business Frankenstein”. Recently, Cuomo’s
Donald Trump returned to the spotlight on Sunday with a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference, but the news networks took different approaches to how they covered the event. Fox News carried the speech live, but CNN and MSNBC did not. The latter two networks covered the speech: CNN had Jim Acosta and Donie
Breaking News Chris Harrison‘s out, and Emmanuel Acho is in — he’s officially set to fill in as host for ‘The Bachelor’ season finale episode … this amid a racism scandal that won’t go away. The former NFLer and current FS1 sports broadcaster broke the news Saturday, taking to Twitter to write … “IT’S OFFICIAL:
Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update reflects on some of the biggest headlines of the week. This time, that included Paramount+’s announcement that a Frasier revival series is officially happening. Because it’s been 16 years ago since the end of the original series, Colin Jost used Friends to explain Frasier to younger viewers, eliciting laughs and
A returning favorite, a new must-see show on NBC, and an action flick on Hulu. What more can you ask for? Really? You need to know more? Well, keep reading to find out what we recommend on TV this week. Saturday, February 27 9/8c It Was Always You (Hallmark) Two Hallmark favorites star together in
Nick Jonas, Kate McKinnon, Ego Nwodim and other SNL castmembers prove that morbid murder shows and docuseries are good enough to inspire a pop song. “Murder show, murder show/ I’m gonna watch a murder show/ Netflix, Showtime, HBO and Dateline/I’m gonna watch a murder show,” the ladies sang on Saturday night. The cast members paid
Freeform’s Good Trouble “has been so far ahead of the curve in telling the stories that it’s been telling for years,” series’ new recurring guest star/director Constance Zimmer said during the show’s TCA panel Friday, summing up a recurring theme throughout the conversation. Black Lives Matter co-founder, actor, writer and producer Patrisse Cullors was brought
Bill Maher took aim at cancel culture, saying it’s become McCarthyism in reverse. Maher ended ‘Real Time’ Friday night with a blistering attack on cancel culture, using examples like Chris Harrison and Justin Timberlake, but warning it’s not just about celebrities anymore … he says it’s coming to a neighborhood near you. Bill grouses he
With the Golden Globes just about here, Twitter erupted with shock and dismay Friday that the ceremony’s founding organization, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, has no Black members and hasn’t for the past 20 years. After the weak acknowledgement of the problem put out yesterday by the HFPA, the reality of the situation did not
No Liz. There was only a handful of passing references to the rogue agent on The Blacklist Season 8 Episode 8. And yet, the episode still worked. Instead, it was the Harold-and-Red show as they debate shades of gray versus black-and-white situations. For the briefest of times, Harold pondered a world in which he could be
Bill Maher sat down with former Fox News and NBC News personality Megyn Kelly for the leadoff interview Friday on HBO’s Real Time, but their discussion didn’t focus on her former employers or her controversial past at all. Instead, they had a frank talk about race, social justice and 21st century “victimhood” in America, especially how it pertains
NBC’s new sci-fi drama Debris opens with a fairly standard action scene, with federal agents chasing black-market crooks through a luxury hotel. But the crooks aren’t selling guns or diamonds; they’re selling fragments of a destroyed alien spaceship that are scattered across the globe. And when a hotel maid innocently touches one of those fragments,
Luke Coffee, a Dallas man with a background in TV acting, post-production work and film producing, has been identified and charged by the FBI as the much-photographed crutch-wielding assailant at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In court documents made public Thursday, Coffee was charged with six criminal counts, including assault of federal law enforcement officer
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Don’t count Jeff Ross among the people — Jewish or otherwise — outraged over Michael Che‘s joke about Israel on last week’s ‘SNL’ … he thinks Che should keep it up. We got the “Roastmaster General” out in Bev Hills and asked for his take on the joke … which
Good day, International Insider readers, Jake Kanter here. Take a walk with me through some of the global film and TV stories you need to read this week. Want to get in touch? I’m on jkanter@deadline.com, or my DMs are open on Twitter. And sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox every Friday. Covid Clause
At least Clarice was proven right. Some of the truth came out on Clarice Season 1 Episode 3. The question now is where ViCAP goes from there. Despite Krendler trying his hardest to deliver a serial killer to please Attorney-General Martin, Clarice shot down that theory, in front of the press no less, on Clarice Season
Donald Trump, more than a month since his last day in the White House, turned late night’s heads as New York prosecutors finally acquired the former president’s tax returns. Among the hosts poking fun at the long-awaited moment was Jimmy Kimmel. “I wonder how many pages of the Cheesecake Factory menu he snuck in there,”
Hulu has announced return dates for the third and final season of Shrill and Season 2 of teen dramedy Love, Victor. The dates were revealed during Hulu’s presentation at the TCA virtual press tour. Shrill, starring Aidy Bryant, Lolly Adefope, Ian Owens and John Cameron Mitchell, premieres all eight episodes of its third and final
Dr. Jill Biden‘s offering motherly words of wisdom to Kelly Clarkson — who’s going through a divorce — and there’s personal experience behind her message. The First Lady sat down with Kelly for her first big solo TV interview since Inauguration Day, and was very candid in describing how she believes everything happens for a
EXCLUSIVE: Bulletproof co-creator and The Sweeney director Nick Love is developing a Troubles-set TV series with DJ Pete Tong. Trouble, which is being lined up as a returning series, will be set in Belfast, Northern Ireland, starting in 1989 at the height of The Troubles at the same time that dance music was also taking
Did Aaron Wallace make a difference? He didn’t know by the end of For Life Season 2 Episode 10, but most of us are confident in saying that he has, and it was a pleasure to witness it in action. The sophomore finale of For Life wrapped things up with the Andy Josiah trial and
Netflix says its spending in Korea will top $500M in 2021 as the streamer doubles down on local content production after hits including #Alive. During an event today to tout its upcoming slate, Minyoung Kim, VP of Content for Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, revealed that the service passed 3.8 million paid memberships
EXCLUSIVE: The popular long-running CBS procedural Criminal Minds is eying a double comeback on Paramount+. As Deadline reported last week, a scripted revival series with original cast members is in early development at the ViacomCBS streamer. We can now reveal that a companion unscripted series also is in the works at Paramount+. The project is
Play video content ABC ‘Jeopardy!’ was short on guest hosts after Ken Jennings‘ stint expired — so a chief showrunner had to lace up himself and get on the field … which turned out to be a beaut of a decision. Executive producer Mike Richards stepped in Monday to serve as host of the quiz
Clintons’ HiddenLight Hires ‘For Sama’ EPHiddenLight Productions, the production outfit co-founded by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sam Branson, and Chelsea Clinton, has hired BAFTA and Emmy-winning executive producer Siobhan Sinnerton to the role of creative director and SVP of unscripted. She joins from Channel 4, where she commissioned and executive produced the Oscar-nominated documentary For Sama.
One of the things I love about This Is Us is how effectively it plays with time. The best stories happen when the series blends past, present, and future to depict how the Pearson family changes over time and how they are ultimately the same. This Is Us Season 5 Episode 9 was an especially