Новости за 20.03.2024

Hallie Jackson will succeed Kate Snow as the anchor of the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News. Jackson will start in her new role on April 7. Snow stepped down as anchor of the broadcast last month to focus on the weekday NBC News Daily and her role as senior national correspondent. She had been […]

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has pre-emptively acquired John Swetnam’s action-comedy feature spec script, Ballistic. The logline is being kept secret. Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who were behind last spring’s Paramount $208M-plus event movie, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, will produce through their GoldDay banner with Sara Smith. Jon Gonda is overseeing the project for […]

EXCLUSIVE: Happy Face has rounded out its series regular cast, adding Khiyla Aynne (Circuit Breakers) and Benjamin Mackey (The Morning Show) alongside Annaleigh Ashford, Dennis Quaid, James Wolk and Tamera Tomakili. David Harewood (Homeland) also joins the upcoming Paramount+ drama series in a recurring role. The series hails from creator and executive producer Jennifer Cacicio and executive producers Robert […]

EXCLUSIVE: As Greg Daniels continues to work with a group of writers on what could become an expansion of The Office universe, Nathan For You co-creator Michael Koman has emerged as a leading creative voice. If Daniels’ new mockumentary exploratory project gets greenlighted to series, Koman will serve as the offshoot’s co-creator, Deadline has learned. […]

Shares of Paramount Global popped in afternoon trade on a report that Apollo Global has made an $11 billion bid for the company’s film and TV studio. The private equity giant has been in and out of the mix of suitors, which also include David Ellison’s Skydance Media and Byron Allen. The stock heading into […]

NBCUniversal plans to start using generative AI in its ad sales efforts, the company announced Wednesday at its One24 event for advertisers. AI technology will specifically be used to drive audience targeting and advertiser performance as marketers continue to seek ways to make their messages more precise. The AI initiative is one of several introduced […]

Friends alum David Schwimmer is set to lead Season 2 of the Disney+ anthology series Goosebumps. From Disney Branded Television and produced by Sony Pictures Television, the series is based upon R.L Stine’s bestselling Scholastic series. Each season features a new story, setting and cast. Season 2 will follow teenage siblings who discover a threat […]

NBCUniversal is adding a set of features to Peacock as it gets set for the streaming outlet’s live coverage of the Paris Olympics this summer. At the company’s One24 tech showcase Wednesday, execs touted the new aspects of the streaming experience for both consumers and advertisers. Peacock will carry more than 5,000 hours of live […]

EXCLUSIVE: Canadians are consuming as much or more content than ever and Sean Cohan’s job is to make sure that one of Bell Media’s services is where they go to for it. “I know that from three years of working in measurement and data analytics that sleep is losing and consumption is winning,” he says. […]

EXCLUSIVE: 9-1-1 is firing up the airwaves on its new home at ABC. The Season 7 premiere, which paid homage to the disaster thriller The Poseidon Adventure, has now amassed 8.85M viewers after three days of viewing across ABC, Hulu and other digital platforms. That’s nearly an 80% increase from the live+same-day audience of 4.93M. The three-day […]

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off the Max debut of The Girls on the Bus, on which he serves as story editor, Tawal Panyacosit has signed with M88 for representation. Created by Amy Chozick and Julie Plec, the political drama tells the story of four female journalists who follow the every move of a parade of flawed presidential candidates, finding friendship, […]

The three major news networks largely bypassed live coverage of the latest chapter in a House GOP-led inquiry of whether to impeach President Joe Biden. That in and of itself was a sign of just how much the effort has been losing steam, even among Republican lawmakers. The House Oversight hearing, titled “Influence Peddling: Examining […]

HBO was built on the back of showrunners such as David Chase, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and Jesse Armstrong but is now facing a new dilemma involving directors. Drama boss Francesca Orsi lifted the lid on the “consistent tussle” over who is charge of a series as more and more “esteemed” directors move into […]

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Duplass is set as the male lead opposite Ellen Pompeo and Imogen Faith Reid in Orphan (working title), Hulu’s eight episode limited series starring and executive produced by Pompeo. Written by Katie Robbins, who serves as showrunner, the series is inspired by the true story of Natalia Grace and the Midwestern couple who […]

The NCIS franchise will be airing its 1,000th episode on April 15, and CBS Studios President David Stapf has been involved in every single one of them. Because he was head of CBS current programming at the time, he even participated in the development of the mothership series from Day 1 because it originated as […]

EXCLUSIVE: Real Estate mogul Doval Bacall is set to finance producer Steven Schneider’s next feature film Boyfriend as his first significant entertainment deal. Genre specialist Schneider is known for his work on the Paranormal Activity and Insidious (pictured) franchises as well as The Devil Inside, The Visit, Split, Pet Sematary and Watcher. Bacall is principal […]

EXCLUSIVE: Jack Dylan Grazer (It franchise), Josh Segarra (Scream VI) and Billy Bryk (When You Finish Saving the World) are among the final additions to the cast of the comedy Friendship, from Fifth Season and BoulderLight Pictures. Their roles are under wraps. As previously reported, Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, and Kate Mara lead the cast. […]

Today’s savage news from Megan Thee Stallion is nothing to hiss at: The Grammy-winning, chart-topping rapper has revealed the dates for the Hot Girl Summer Tour, which launches May 14 in Minneapolis and runs through July 27 in Washington, D.C. The 31-date jaunt with GloRilla opening includes stops at New York’s Madison Square Garden on […]

JK Rowling has threatened a Harry Potter fan with a lawsuit after the person posted untruths about her family in an apparent attack on the author’s transgender views. Rowling said she would be forced to take legal action if Wizarding News, a 22-year-old Harry Potter fan site, does not remove fabricated X messages claiming she […]

EXCLUSIVE: WME has upped Eve Attermann to partner in the books department. Atterman, who has been with WME since 2011, has worked across departments to help agency clients cross over into the book space including thought leaders, journalists, novelists, memoirists, musicians, politicians, and chefs. She has also assisted with current book clients who are interested […]

EXCLUSIVE: Grandview has brought in manager Becca Rodriguez to work within the company’s growing intellectual property department. She joins from Curate, where she oversaw books to film as a book manager, and will continue that focus in her new position. Rodriguez brings with her clients including Philip K. Dick Award nominee Rebekah Bergman; Pushcart Prize […]

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed actor Cory Michael Smith (May December) for representation in all areas, with an eye toward securing him new opportunities across film, television, theater and more. The signing comes off of Smith’s supporting role in May December, Netflix’s Oscar- and Golden Globe-nominated drama from director Todd Haynes, which was one of the […]

The results are in, and the Oscars hit a four-year audience high after seven days of viewing. In the week since the 96th annual ceremony, ABC has tallied another 1.5M or so viewers, bringing the grand total to 21.01M. Up 5% from last year, this marks the largest multi-platform audience for the Oscars since the […]

Downton Abbey is getting a “final” chapter, according to Imelda Staunton. The actress, who played Queen Mary’s lady-in-waiting Lady Maud Bagshaw in the first two films, has confirmed reports that a third movie is in the works. Asked about Downton Abbey rumors by BBC Radio 2 breakfast show host Zoe Ball, Staunton said: “There will […]

TKO Group Holdings, the Endeavor-run parent of the UFC, has agreed to pay $335 million to settle a lawsuit filed nearly a decade ago by fighters in the mixed-martial-arts organization. The settlement comes weeks before a trial was scheduled to start, with potential damages reaching up to $1.6 billion. Five lawsuits were originally filed between […]