Television

EXCLUSIVE: More than 11,000 IATSE members and their supporters have signed a petition urging IATSE president Matt Loeb to work out a contract with Netflix “that moves us above and beyond” the union’s basic agreement with the major studios and networks. The giant streaming service agreed to bargain with the union last October, but the
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EXCLUSIVE: Showrunner-producer Scott Teti (Spy Games) is expanding his relationship with Kinetic Content, signing an exclusive production deal with the Red Arrow Studios company. Teti is currently executive producer on Spy Games, which Kinetic launched last month on Bravo. Teti will now exclusively produce and develop in-house for Kinetic. “Scott has proven himself to be
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EXCLUSIVE: His Dark Materials and The Eddy writer Jack Thorne has teamed up with Legendary Global on a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel A Tale of Two Cities. Thorne will write and exec produce a “relevant” retelling of the book, which was first published in 1859, for the studio, which was established last
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Donald Trump got into another tiff with CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta after the president bashed the network during a press conference in India. After Trump claimed that the network apologized “that they said certain things that weren’t true,” Acosta responded, “Mr. President, I think our record on delivering the truth is a
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Massachusetts-native Kathleen “Kathy” Coleman was only 12 years old when she gained fame for her role as the young time-hopping survivalist, Holly Marshall — who dodges grumpy Tyrannosaurs and befriends dopey Brontosaurs — in the thrilling ’70s sci-fi series, “Land Of The Lost.” Kathy Coleman was cast in the prehistoric show with some other throwback
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Before John Oliver dove into his thoughts about Mike Bloomberg’s presidential run and everything wrong with it on Last Week Tonight, he had to talk about Donald Trump and how he criticized Parasite’s win at the Academy Awards at one of his rallies. At one point in his rant, Trump said that he wants the
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The 51st NAACP Image Awards were handed out tonight and were aired live on BET with trailblazing musician Lizzo bringing the “Juice” and taking the top honors for Entertainer of the Year and black-ish and When They See Us dominating the TV side and Just Mercy and Dolemite Is My Name taking trophies in the
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WarnerMedia is moving into the already-crowded streaming service market this year with HBO Max. The new streaming platform will combine titles from across the Warner Bros. film and TV library as well as introduce original films and series, but it will have to compete with established services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, as well
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EXCLUSIVE: Roger Donaldson, whose long career in Hollywood has encompassed movies including The Bounty, Species, Cocktail, Dante’s Peak and The World’s Fastest Indian, is attached to direct the German-produced and Vietnam-set TV series Nhiem. The show comes from local producers Carte blanche International, which is at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin with its
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Steve Stark, MGM’s President of Scripted Television Production & Development, has been named President of MGM/UA Television, a newly created label. The appointment is part of a new contract Stark has signed with Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Worldwide Television Group, run by Chairman Mark Burnett. Over the past eight years, Stark, a well-liked and respected executive,
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SplashNews.com Wendy Williams hit the town Friday night with what appears to be her new boyfriend. Williams grabbed dinner in New York City at Aroma Trattoria with Big Will, aka Willdaboss. He’s a jeweler in the Big Apple and he gave everyone a big hint the other day, after Wendy went on her show and
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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about tonight’s two-part series finale of Fresh Off the Boat. After six seasons, we say goodbye to the Huang family of Fresh Off the Boat. The two-part series finale of the groundbreaking ABC sitcom didn’t necessarily end with a bang. There was no huge champagne toast, parting speeches, or huge overture
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The broadcast business has been at a crossroads for the past couple of years, putting emphasis on live programming, sports and unscripted fare as scripted series increasingly are consumed digitally on-demand. A potential WGA strike would accelerate the process, according to a number of industry sources I spoke with over the past several weeks. The
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This might be a controversial take, but not everyone is made of money! We can’t all shell out money every month for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Apple TV+ and/or whatever other subscriptions are fighting for our hard-earned cash these days. This is why I have scoured the depths of the World Wide Web to
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