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*Sesame Street and Cricket Media announced a 24/7 free ad-supported streaming channel that will launch with seasons 39 through 46, per Deadline. The channel will run about seven minutes of ads per hour, and Volkswagen and Toys "R" Us are among the launch adver…
*According to Deadline, Netflix will keep streaming Russell Brand's 2018 stand-up special "Re:Birth" after he was sentenced to 10 years and six months on Monday for rape and three counts of sexual assault. The special will no longer appear in recommendations, …
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*According to Deadline, Crave is filming two six-episode seasons of Heated Rivalry back-to-back and a standalone holiday movie before the year is out. A Crave rep says there are no projects to confirm. The denial is the best part. The thing currently on the st…
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According to Deadline, Adam Driver has confirmed he is not returning for HBO's five-episode "Girls" revival, telling an interviewer, "No, but I wish them the best of luck." "No, but I wish them the best of luck." Read that again. That is not a sentence a perso…
Netflix greenlit “Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure,” a live-action prequel set in the 1950s before the original series, on Stranger Things Day, Nov. 6, per Deadline. Kate Trefry, who got her first paid Hollywood job as a staff writer on the original s…
According to Variety, the New York Times Company is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd, the movie-rating site, for roughly $330 million, with the co-founders expected to stay on and report to a Times executive. The deal is not final. The site, per…
Fox Corp closed its $22 billion acquisition of streaming platform Roku on Friday, a deal signed in June that was expected to take until 2027, per Variety. The release says founder Anthony Wood is joining the Fox board and that the combined company expects “app…
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According to Variety, Guy Ritchie is writing, directing, and producing a seventh film with Jason Statham, "Dogfight," which Netflix has announced as a "stylish revenge actioner" set in the London criminal underworld. Production starts in the UK in early 2027, …
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Druski signed a multi-year exclusive deal with Netflix Monday, headlining "Collect & Praise," a semi-scripted series premiering Dec. 1 that adapts his viral "Mega Church Pastors Love Money" sketch. According to Variety, Mike Epps plays the deacon. The fictiona…
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HBO Max dropped a 30-minute surprise Halloween special for its "It: Welcome to Derry" series — "A Story of Derry," set in the centuries before Pennywise arrived in the town — which appeared on the platform this Halloween, according to Deadline. The "surprise d…
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Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has exited Eddie Murphy's upcoming Peacock series "The Chairman" as writer and showrunner, Variety first reported, and Deadline has confirmed. Sources say the split was "creative," decided by Peacock, Universal and 101 Studios ex…
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Netflix dropped the full trailer today for its six-part Pride and Prejudice series, with Emma Corrin as Elizabeth Bennet, Jack Lowden as Darcy, Olivia Colman as Mrs. Bennet and Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet. Written by Dolly Alderton, directed by Euros Lyn, it pr…
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According to Variety, Fox and Endemol Shine are adapting Fear Factor as a scripted vertical microdrama: 30 three-minute episodes for Holywater Tech's "My Drama" app, with Fox handling worldwide distribution. Fear Factor was the peak of 2000s television. A man …
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Netflix's three part "The One About Matthew Perry" dropped today, and per Deadline none of the "Friends" cast sat for interviews, while his 2023 death gets roughly 15 minutes at the very end of the final episode. Start with the title. "The One About Matthew Pe…
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Jessica Biel, who played Mary Camden, is executive producing a 7th Heaven reboot at CBS Studios, and in a Deadline report on her Collider Ladies Night appearance, she said the new version will "modernize" the 1996 family drama around "technology-based issues, …
According to Variety, Sacha Baron Cohen told a 92Y audience that Donald Trump has "elements of brilliance" and that "we were too easy to dismiss him as a nincompoop," while promoting Ali G: Who Iz I?, the new movie about a guy who pretends to be a fool. The pr…
Sacha Baron Cohen says the Ironheart team sat him down before offering him the role of Mephisto to check that casting a Jewish actor as the devil would not be offensive, according to Variety. At a Wednesday conversation at New York's 92nd Street Y, he describe…
According to Deadline, a UK Companies House filing shows HBO's Harry Potter is on track to be one of the most expensive series the network has ever made, with the first season averaging roughly $25 million an episode. The number isn't news, the number is the p…
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Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew trailer pulled more than 481 million views in its first week, more than the first week trailers for Barbie and Wonka, Deadline reports after Netflix's earnings call. The mechanism is the trailer count. Netflix neede…
via The report: solid Q3, soft guidance · "Strategy is unchanged": Sarandos on the call · Two year low: Variety · Layoffs a "hard tradeoff": Greg Peters
Netflix reported Q3 on Tuesday and its stock fell 6% after the close, the lowest level in two years per Variety. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos told analysts on the earnings call that the strategy is unchanged. The mechanism is the earnings call, the room where executive…
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According to Variety, U2 will play halftime at the NFL's inaugural Thanksgiving Eve game on Nov. 25, the Rams-Packers matchup at SoFi Stadium streaming on Netflix, in what the league calls "a new NFL holiday tradition." The show follows shortly after the relea…
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According to Variety, Spotify has removed 50 million AI slop tracks from recommendations this year, a figure published in the company's "For the Record" blog, which is the name Spotify gives to its press releases. The cleanup sits on top of 75 million tracks i…
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According to Deadline, Netflix has put a two-season straight-to-series order on The Apology, an A24 thriller drama starring Gwyneth Paltrow in her first lead TV role. Thomas Vinterberg, of Another Round, directs. In the show, a couple whose son was murdered 18…
via Deadline: Jason Sudeikis Gives An Update On Potential 'Ted Lasso' Seasons 5 and 6 · Variety: Jason Sudeikis Wants to Continue 'Ted Lasso' and Talks Olivia Wilde · The Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso episode, in full
Deadline reports that Jason Sudeikis says he "would like to" make "Ted Lasso" seasons 5 and 6, telling the "Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" podcast the show could be "the next big thing" if it stays fun, and Variety notes he also credits the series with saving his…
According to Deadline, Netflix on Thursday booted Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, a 10-year veteran, replacing her with ex-Disney TV chairman Peter Rice, the day after the company laid off roughly 1,000 people in its biggest cut in history. Six years in an…
According to Variety, Peacock has greenlit a competition series called "Assassins" based on the campus stealth game where you get rid of classmates. Scarlett Johansson is executive producing. The synopsis calls it a "ruthless game of cunning strategy and wit."…
According to Variety, HBO has greenlit a limited five-episode revival of Girls, with production starting in 2027, a full decade after the season six finale. All four original leads are back: Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke, plus Andrew…
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Peacock launched "Your Bravoverse" on Tuesday, a personalized TikTok-style feed of Bravo clips hosted by an AI-generated avatar of Andy Cohen, built from more than 5,000 hours of footage, with the first sponsor slot already sold to Wendy's. According to Variet…
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"CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker used his MIPCOM Cannes keynote to unveil Cinemalistics, a real-time true-crime app that follows live cases through twenty tabs of police reports, 911 calls and court filings, per Deadline. His opening line: "The CSI guy is dead. We…
WWE and microdrama platform ReelShort announced "Agent of Shadows," a vertical spy series starring Drew McIntyre, set to premiere October 23, per Variety. A secret agent learns he has a daughter he never knew about and must protect her from a criminal organiza…
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The waiver was never a form. It's a club. "I'm not an AI-friendly actor, I guess. I don't belong to that club" is a line out of a corporate HR manual, delivered at a comic con panel, and there is no press release to retract it because the club declined him in …
Vertical video platform Snips is converting shows starring Sarah Snook, Kit Harington, Maisie Williams, Liam Cunningham and Iain Glen into 45-second to two-minute episodes in 9:16 ratio, per Deadline. The platform is heading to MIPCOM next week to buy more. Sn…
Netflix is preparing a restructuring that will "impact" about 5% of its workforce, roughly 800 jobs, as early as next week, per Puck. Third quarter earnings land October 20. The timing is the whole story. The axe falls next week. The earnings call lands Octobe…
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According to Deadline, HBO has greenlit a one-hour drama series adaptation of "Crazy Rich Asians," the 2018 film, with Constance Wu, Henry Golding, and Ronny Chieng returning and Michelle Yeoh set to recur. The movie that was the highest-grossing Hollywood stu…
via Deadline — Joe Rogan extends contract with Spotify · The Wall Street Journal — Joe Rogan re-ups lucrative Spotify deal · Reuters — Spotify renews multiyear deal with Joe Rogan
Spotify and Joe Rogan agreed to a multi-year extension of the podcast deal. Both sides declined to disclose terms and no dollar figure was released, but the Wall Street Journal reports the renewal is similar to Rogan's previous deal, which carried an estimated…
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Netflix greenlit an untitled Bridgerton spinoff limited series built around Lady Violet's youth, based on Julia Quinn's novella "Violet In Bloom." The series covers Violet's courtship of Viscount Edmund Bridgerton — the husband who dies in the main series and …
via Amazon Strikes 6-Year Deal For Emmys Worth More Than $20 Million A Year · Academy and Prime Video Announce Historic, Multiyear Deal · Emmy Awards to Leave Broadcast TV for Amazon's Prime Video in Six-Year Deal · Emmys Move to Amazon's Prime Video in Six-Year Deal
According to Deadline, Amazon closed a six-year deal Tuesday making Prime Video the exclusive global home of the Emmy Awards, with the ceremony free to view every September, the pact reportedly worth north of $120 million over the term, and the end of the 30-y…
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According to Deadline, David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery for a few more hours, posted a three-minute farewell video to the company's internal portal on Monday. The Paramount deal is expected to close today. In it, Zaslav sits in a stiff-backed chair …
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Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison revealed Friday that the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery company will be called Skydance when the $110 billion deal closes Tuesday, writing on X that "Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first home for bold, quali…
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said at Bloomberg's Screentime event Wednesday that the "KPop Demon Hunters" sequel, expected in 2029, will get "a very broad theatrical release," according to Deadline. The original pulled 325.1 million views in its first 90 days o…
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Netflix's Wonka's The Golden Ticket, a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-themed reality competition in which 12 golden ticket winners and their partners enter a chocolate factory in Australia to face "games, tests and temptations designed to test the competito…
According to Music Business Worldwide, Universal Music Group filed a 52-page complaint last Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware alleging "deceptive trade practices and blatant copyright infringement" against DistroKid, the $24.99-a-…