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NBCUniversal and Sky have set the leadership team for their One Platform Global Advertising & Partnerships initiative, which was first announced last month. President and Managing Director of Global Advertising & Partnerships KC Sullivan will lead the unified group and bring the offering to market. Sullivan, who was previously president and managing director of CNBC

Emmys: TV Academy Expands Drama & Comedy Series Categories To 8 Nominations, Adds Other Rule Changes – Deadline 240 submissions: 8 nominations Comedy and Drama Series categories will have eight nominations each, regardless of the number of submissions received. Paired performer categories (i.e., supporting actor comedy and supporting actress comedy) will have parity in the

Attention Trekkies: This is a public service announcement informing you can now watch Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, and Karl Urban together in action without burning a hole in your wallet.  As of Wednesday, Amazon’s free streaming service IMDB TV is giving you access to several Star Trek films at no cost including Star Trek: Beyond,

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Paramount Television Studios has landed the rights to develop a television series based on Catherine McKenzie’s recently released thriller novel You Can’t Catch Me. McKenzie will serve as an executive producer on the project, along with Broken Road Productions’ Todd Garner and Spencer Walken. You Can’t Catch Me was just

MTV is parting ways with another controversial reality TV star.  Alex Kompothecras, who has appeared on the first three seasons of the cabler’s The Hills wannabe, Siesta Key, has been fired from the series due to an alleged history of racially-charged and insensitive messages.  The news broke Tuesday just minutes before Siesta Key Season 3

EXCLUSIVE: Alex Rider, Eleventh Hour Films’ TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling teen spy novels, looks set for a second season. Deadline understands that Sony-backed Eleventh Hour is targeting a return to production later this year after the first season was picked up by Amazon in the UK, as well as a host of international

A dark, gritty reboot of the golden oldie Perry Mason? At first, it sounds like a joke, or like a Jack Donaghy idea from 30 Rock. The classic legal drama debuted way back in 1957, which leaves quite a thick layer of dust to brush away, but HBO’s reboot — premiering this Sunday at 9/8c;

Michael Pack, the new CEO of the government-run global media media entity that oversees Voice of America and other news outlets, plans to clean house of the agency’s top career leadership, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) said in a statement that he had learned that

Matt James celebrated his new “Bachelor” status by hopping on a boat with buddy and fellow “Bachelor” Tyler Cameron and his female friend. Matt was enjoying the R&R aboard Tyler’s boat in sunny Jupiter, Florida. As you know, “The Bachelor” has finally selected the show’s next leading man — the first African-American in that role

Creators and showrunners aren’t mentioned in the industry’s protocols for the safe reopening of TV production, but they’ll play key roles in on-set safety, according to leaders of the WGA East. “There have been some rumors going around that the protocols aim to exclude creators, showrunners and writer/producers from set. This is not the case,”

EXCLUSIVE: Dr Michael Mosley, a science and health broadcaster who has built his name at the BBC, is embarking on his first project for Channel 4 — trying to transform the lockdown diets of a group of Brits. Warner Bros. International Television Production company Wall To Wall will make the three-part fast-turnaround series, which has

Some series take a while to tell you what sort of show you’re watching. Others let you know right away. HBO’s Perry Mason falls firmly into the latter category, opening on a gray, Depression-era Los Angeles that’s home to Emily (G.L.O.W.‘s Gayle Rankin) and Matthew Dodson (Nate Corddry), a couple in crisis. Their infant son

Tyler Perry has offered to pay for the funeral of Rayshard Brooks, the black man killed by a white police officer in Atlanta over the weekend. “We want to thank and acknowledge Tyler Perry, who we spoke with, who will be taking care of the funeral for the family,” attorney L. Chris Stewart, who represents

USA Network is keeping The Sinner around.  The cabler today announced a fourth season pickup of its acclaimed, Golden Globe®-nominated limited series. Bill Pullman will return to reprise his role as Detective Harry Ambrose. At the helm, Derek Simonds will return as showrunner and executive producer, alongside executive producers Jessica Biel, Michelle Purple and Charlie

Amazon Studios has given a series order to a comedy drama about living on the autism spectrum from Jason Katims. The streaming service has picked up the untitled half-hour show, which was previously known as On The Spectrum, after handing it a pilot order last year. Based on an Israeli format, it comes from the

RELATED STORIES It’s been just over two years since the theatrical release of Love, Simon, the 2018 rom-com that broke new ground as the first major studio film to center on a gay teen romance. The movie is a charming and inoffensive coming-of-age flick — and your opinion of the film will likely dictate how

BBC One’s miniseries on the nerve agent attack on former double agent spy Sergei Skripal has become the highest-rated new drama launch of the year in the UK. Produced by Fremantle-backed Dancing Ledge Productions, The Salisbury Poisonings was watched by 7.2M viewers over the 9PM hour, according to BARB figures supplied by overnights.tv. This put

SpongeBob SquarePants‘ sexuality has entered the chat — and lo and behold, the Bikini Bottom dweller is, as many suspected for years, gay. Nickelodeon officially made the reveal Saturday in a tweet shouting out Pride month (June), and attaching photos of three of their canon characters as a clear indicator that they’re all part of

Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Ben Whishaw is set to star in the BBC’s adaptation of Adam Kay’s humorous medical memoir This Is Going To Hurt, while AMC has also joined the project as a co-producer in the U.S. and Canada. The drama, which was first announced in July 2018, is made by Chernobyl producer Sister

Saturday Night Live alum Jay Pharoah is the latest celebrity to speak out about police brutality. In an Instagram video released on Friday, the comedian detailed his experience being detained by police. His story was accompanied by security footage of the incident captured from a nearby store.  Pharoah was jogging on Ventura Blvd. and Corbin

When we had the chance to catch up with Catherine Disher this week, our conversation ran the gamut from thoughts on the world’s political situation to COVID-19 to the beloved town of Middleton on Good Witch. Unlike her character, Martha Tinsdale, everything Catherine discusses is done with grace, and that’s what makes playing Martha so

ABC News has put a top executive on administrative leave after a HuffPost investigation alleged she had a pattern of making insensitive and racist remarks. Following publication of the story Saturday morning, ABC announced that Barbara Fedida, senior vice president of talent, editorial strategy and business affairs for the network, has been placed on leave

Rachel Lindsay, who in an interview recently called The Bachelor franchise’s lack of diversity “embarrassing”, took to social media today to weigh in on this morning’s announcement that Matt James has been cast as the franchise’s first black Bachelor. Lindsay appeared on season 21 of The Bachelor and was the first African American lead on

Exclusive Details Matt Alexander, who survived 21 days on “Naked and Afraid,” is now accused of beating his girlfriend and holding her against her will in a car. The former reality show contestant was arrested in Louisiana on a warrant for domestic battery and false imprisonment, after Jefferson Davis Parish Sheriff’s deputies spoke with his

Defunding the police, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, and the Donald Trump of it all were all points for discussion tonight on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher. The host held a virtual panel with former Comedy Central Nightly Show host Larry Wilmore and Fifth Column podcast host Matt Welch. Maher brought to the panel’s attention how tone

The non-scripted business is gearing up for a return to full production, safely of course, over the next couple of months. L.A. County has allowed the reopening of film and TV production, non-fiction trade group N-Pact, which includes members such as Endemol Shine North America and Wheelhouse Entertainment, released its own health and safety guidelines

Every month the content available on Disney+ gets more and more epic, and July will be no different. If you’re planning to spend your summer indoors binge-watching the day away in a nice air-conditioned room, Disney+ has some great options for you. The most buzzed-about addition to the streaming service in July will be the original

The Global numbers aren’t in yet, but domestically Oprah Winfrey’s two-night OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here? certainly had people taking and watching. Airing on OWN and 18 other Discovery-owned networks on June 9 and June 10, the pre-recorded wide-ranging conversation about the killing of George Floyd, systemic racism and the American proposition

Exclusive George Floyd‘s name could be worth a lot of money in the entertainment business … and now one man is looking to lock up the rights to his name for movies and TV shows. According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, a man named Munemo Mushonga filed a trademark application to use the

BET is set launch “Content for Change,” a social justice initiative that shows how media plays a pivotal role in shaping and driving individuals’ and communities’ values, perceptions and actions — furthering the principle that representation matters. The network has partnered with corporate, civil rights and social justice organizations to use its platform to positively