Television

UK TV producers have made a last gasp attempt to stop the next Prime Minister privatizing Channel 4 as the country prepares for Monday’s big announcement, but the noises coming from Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak’s camps are not good. More than 750 indies including major groups such as All3Media and Banijay signed an open 
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details from Thursday’s live eviction. Big Brother 24 player Kyle Capener, who earned the nickname “KKKyle” on social media this summer for language that was deemed racist by viewers, was evicted Thursday from the CBS reality show. Capener, an unemployed 29-year-old from Bountiful, Utah, drew ire by making fun of a
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Jed Mercurio’s HTM Television’s is working on Payback, a six-part crime drama for the UK’s ITV and Britbox International. Morven Christie, Peter Mullan and Prasanna Puwanarajah are leading the cast, and screenwriter Debbie O’Malley is writing. Billed as a “compelling character-led series,” Payback will follows Lexie Noble, (Christie; The Bay, The A Word, Ordeal by Innocence), as she becomes
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Netflix has batted down a report about aggressive moves in its rollout of a cheaper ad-supported tier as “speculation.” The Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified ad buyers who have been meeting with Netflix in recent days, reported that the company plans to charge a CPM (meaning the rate for advertisers to reach 1,000 viewers) of $65. That
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BBC Studios has taken a 25% minority stake in former Channel 4 Deputy Head of Programmes Kelly Webb-Lamb’s Mothership Productions. Webb-Lamb set up the company earlier this month along with former Channel 4 colleagues Charlotte Desai and Gilly Greenslade and it joins a roster of BBC Studios-backed non-scripted indies that includes Expectation and Curve Media,
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William Reynolds, who portrayed Special Agent Tom Colby for six seasons on the television series The F.B.I., died August 24 from non-COVID-19 complicated pneumonia, his son Eric Regnolds confirms. He was 90. Born in Los Angeles, Reynolds was born William de Clercq Regnolds on December 9, 1931. He began his career under contract to Universal Pictures
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ITV Studios has struck an exclusive formats deal with longstanding Polish production partner Jake Vision. The agreements sees the latter take exclusive production rights to all non-scripted ITV Studios formats commissioned in the Eastern European country going forwards. The pair already has an existing relationship, with Jake Vision producing the Polish version of Love Island, Hell’s
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Daniel Radcliffe gets weird in the first teaser trailer of Roku‘s Weird: The Al Yankovic Story above. The feature-length comedy tells the story of the titular biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time. Known for pastiching and parodying the works of his musical contemporaries, Yankovic is the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time. The biopic
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Having previously entered distribution deals with Netflix for reality, drama and entertainment series, Japan’s Nippon TV is expanding its relationship with the streamer, licensing 13 of its most popular anime titles to the platform in a non-exclusive pact. Some series will go wider than others, notably Hunter X Hunter whose first 38 episodes will be
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Only one Cody reigns supreme. It’s difficult even to process Animal Kingdom Season 6 Episode 13, as it marks this beloved series’ conclusion, especially  after those losses. The cleverly titled “Fubar,” which typically stands for “Fucked Up Beyond All Repair/Recognition,” summed up the ruining of the Cody family, legacy, and kingdom. J kept his damn
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The Location Managers Guild International has announced the winners of its 9th annual LMGI Awards with HBO’s Succession, Netflix’s Stranger Things and HBO Max’s Station Eleven topping the television categories, and House of Gucci and No Time To Die receiving the Motion Picture honors. Hosted by Paul Scheer, the awards ceremony and reception took place
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