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The Writers Guild has reached a tentative agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to end its strike after nearly five months. The parties today were able to untangle their stalemate over AI and writing room staffing levels. The Gang of Four studio CEOs — Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Universal’s Donna Langley, Disney’s

Usher has been confirmed as the headline act at halftime of Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas. The NFL tweeted promo videos of Kim Kardashian and player-turned-coach Deion Sanders confirming the news with the singer. Watch below. Super Bowl LVIII will take place in Las Vegas on February 11. Eight-time Grammy winner Usher previously appeared

Negotiations between the WGA and studios CEOs on a deal to end the nearly five-month long writers’ strike look within sight. The meeting today at the AMPTP Sherman Oaks office, the parties look to have untangled their stalement over AI and writing room staffing levels. With Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Universal’s Donna Langley, Disney’s Bob Iger

Tupac Shakur’s one-time video director and now biographer has explained why he made a docuseries about the late rapper, despite being previously beaten up by him. Allen Hughes, whose five-part docuseries Dear Mama is available on Hulu in the US, and will debut on the Disney+ platform in the UK on 1st October, told The

Fox, which just announced that Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chairman, unveiled a few more changes to its board of directors today. An SEC filing listing the slate up for election at its November annual meeting showed Anne Dias and Jacques Nasser are not running again. They have both served since Fox became a

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a trailer for The Sea Beyond, the Italian drama series headed for streamer MHz Choice. The series is due to launch in the U.S. and Canada on October 17 after MHZ snagged the series from distributor Beta. MHz’s exclusive rights deal, struck earlier this month, spans four seasons. Italian pubcaster RAI first ordered

About six weeks after the Writers Guild of America went on strike for the first time in more than 15 years, eight seasons of Suits landed on Netflix. All nine seasons had already been available on Peacock, but the “Netflix effect” rapidly proved itself once again. The streamer unexpectedly struck gold.  In its first week

Rupert Murdoch is stepping dwn as chairman of the board of Fox and News Corp. in November, the companies said today. He will be appointed Chairman Emeritus of each company. Following the annual shareholders meeting in November, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch will become sole chair of News Corp and continue as Executive Chair and Chief Executive

A second woman has come forward to sue celebrity hotspot Nobu Malibu over alleged sexual harassment and other actions by managers and customers. A woman identified only as Jayne Doe II filed the latest suit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The legal documents allege sexual assault and battery, gender discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to

Gary Oldman and the Slow Horses gang return with the first two episodes of Season 3 on December 1 with new episodes to be released individually each Friday through December 29 via Apple. The series is a darkly humorous espionage drama that follows a dysfunctional team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping

Steven DeKnight, showrunner on Netflix’s Marvel Daredevil series, calls the upcoming Disney+ series “an old Disney scam” that will keep the Netflix series creatives from getting what is due to them financially. Written and executive produced by Covert Affairs‘ Matt Corman and Chris Ord, the new installment centers on Charlie Cox’s Daredevil, otherwise known as

Netflix’s next Italian originals will be pairs of series and feature films from the likes of Stefano Mordini, Alessandro Genovesi and Cristina Comencini. The projects were unveiled at a See What’s Next event in Rome today, in front of several stars, directors and stars. Tinny Andreatta, Vice President of Italian Content at Netflix, said the

After Drew Barrymore, Bill Maher, Jennifer Hudson and The Talk reversed course on premiering their talk shows, some WGA members are now focusing on Dancing with the Stars and questioning why the dance competition is moving forward with its Sept. 26 return to ABC. Picketing writers like David Slack have used X to remind fellow

Superpower, Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman’s doc about Ukraine’s fight for freedom, is getting a launch in the war-torn Eastern European country today. Fifth Season, which shops the film, has coordinated a day-and-date release for the doc in Ukraine alongside its launch on Paramount+ in the U.S. today. The film will screen on leading Ukrainian

It’s been six years since Fox canceled Pitch after one season, but Mark Paul Gosselaar can’t forget about how it almost made him want to give up on Hollywood. During a Saved by the Bell panel at ’90s Con Tampa Sunday, Gosselaar recalled how he felt when Fox axed the Kylie Bunbury starrer that revolved

Ending a two-and-a-half month impasse, DirecTV and leading station owner Nexstar Media Group have agreed to restore the signals of dozens of stations as the companies work to finalize a carriage renewal. About 159 ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and CW affiliates as well as cable network NewsNation went dark July 2 due to a fight

Controversial interview remarks by Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner have led to his removal from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board of directors. The board administrates the selections for the Hall of Fame museum. The vote to remove Wenner had just one dissenter, reportedly Bruce Springsteen manager Jon Landau. The Rock and

Russell Brand has published a video across his social media channels in which he preemptively denies a “litany” of allegations about unspecified criminal behavior at the height of his celebrity. The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star said two UK “mainstream media” publications had sent him notice of their intention to publish stories about his alleged misconduct.

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has opted not to proceed with a third season of The Wonder Years. The news comes a month after the reboot of the classic coming-of-age comedy wrapped its Season 2 run on the network. Originally slated for a midseason return, The Wonder Years‘ second season was pushed to summer, hinting at the show’s

Warner Bros. Discovery Germany boss Hannes Heyelmann has become the latest to exit from Gerhard Zeiler’s international team. In an internal note sent out earlier today, Zeiler said “a final decision about the future leadership in the region” will be made in the coming weeks, with Heyelmann, who has been with the company for two

John Carpenter, the mastermind behind classic horror films such as Halloween, The Fog and The Thing, is returning to the director’s chair for the first time in 13 years in John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams. The six-episode unscripted Peacock anthology series, which premieres Friday, October 13, is an exploration of true tales of terror that took place in seemingly perfect

British actor and campaigner Maddy Anholt has died aged 35, her family has said. Anholt died of a “rare and aggressive form of brain cancer” yesterday, according to a post on her GoFundMe page. “It is with profound sorrow that we announce the death of Maddy Anholt, our beloved daughter, sister, twin, friend, wife and

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has become the latest entertainment company to suspend additional overall and first-look deals four and a half months into the WGA strike. I hear the bulk of the pacts with non-writing producers across Disney TV Entertainment divisions are impacted, including deals at Disney Television Studios’ 20th Television and ABC Signature, FX Productions and

Ladbible Execs Launch Digital Studio Ex-Ladbible execs Thom Gulseven and Ben Powell-Jones have launched Strong Watch Studios. The digital-first broadcast company has backing from Derry Girls producer Hat Trick Productions and its founders are credited with launching Snack Wars producer Ladstudios. The company will build out a network of unscripted channels across digital platforms and look to

EXCLUSIVE: “The fact that the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes continue to rage on unresolved proves that the lack of visibility creators have into their content is untenable.” Krish Arvapally, CEO of Web3 blockchain platform Replay, made the argument as his company launched its proprietary blockchain on the video, entertainment and media-focused Theta Metachain today. Replay

The UK government has said it was “important” to raise questions with the BBC about the Huw Edwards scandal amid concerns it could have called the broadcaster’s independence into question. Culture secretary Lucy Frazer took the unusual step in July of holding talks with BBC director general Tim Davie over the “deeply concerning” allegations that

With the ink still drying on a closely tracked carriage renewal with Charter, Disney execs Dana Walden and Jimmy Pitaro told Deadline in an interview that the agreement’s details suit the current streaming/linear hybrid environment. The companies announced the settlement earlier today, a bit more than 10 days after their initial clash left 27 networks

UKTV has been wrapped by Ofcom for subtitling the word “f***ing” twice during a repeat of Casualty that aired at 10.30 in the morning. British broadcasters are not allowed to swear in shows prior to the 9 p.m. GMT watershed but UKTV said in this instance the word was “incorrectly subtitled” and was “not audible”

Christina Ricci shared a statement on social media that many have taken to be a response to the Danny Masterson sentencing and the support letters his That ’70s Show co-stars, Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis wrote. “So sometimes people we have loved and admired do horrible things. They might not do these things to us

A campaigning Donald Trump did not receive the most rapturous greeting when he showed up at the Iowa-Iowa State game in Ames today. When the former president stepped out onto the concourse to wave and give thumbs up to the crowd, he got a few cheers — and some noticeable boos. According to the Des