News of Byron Allen’s $30 billion offer (including debt) for Paramount Global has restarted Hollywood’s most active parlor game: Whither Paramount and assets like its 112-year-old film studio and iconic Melrose lot? Paramount is taking Allen’s bid seriously enough, as Deadline understands it, to form a special board committee to …
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It’s late January, time when the broadcast networks typically kick off pilot season with their first pilot orders targeting the upcoming fall. Not CBS, which will not be picking pilots in the traditional window; instead the network has five scripted series already on tap for next season and a potential …
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UPDATE, 9:14 a.m. PT: A theatrical moment of the hearing came when Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) pressed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to apologize to families of victims of online child exploitation. “Would you like to apologize for what you have done to these good people?” Hawley said. Zuckerberg stood up …
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EXCLUSIVE: The BBC director general has held “listening meetings” with staff as the British broadcaster seeks to address internal unrest over perceived bias in its coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. Several BBC insiders said Tim Davie and other senior managers have sat down with employees in recent weeks, giving them …
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ITV Spent $68M On Diverse Shows In 2023 ITV invested £54.2M ($68M) of its Diversity Commissioning Fund last year on shows made by or about people from under-represented backgrounds such as Lenny Henry‘s Three Little Birds. The fund was launched in 2022 with £80M to be spent across three years …
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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the season finale of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. We finally know who the real Lightning Thief is. Percy Jackson and the Olympians wrapped its first season on Tuesday with an action-packed episode that ties up all those loose ends after Percy, Annabeth …
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The 66th Grammy Awards will take place on Sunday, February 4 beginning at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The ceremony, hosted by Trevor Noah for a fourth consecutive year, will air live on CBS and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+. The main …
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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the season finale of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. Percy Jackson has restored some order to Mount Olympus — for now. The Season 1 finale of Disney+‘s Percy Jackson and the Olympians uncovered the truth about who stole the Master Bolt, as well …
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Chita Rivera, the beloved Broadway star of West Side Story, Chicago and Kiss of the Spider Woman, died today in New York following a brief illness. She was 91. Her death was announced by her daughter, Lisa Mordente, who said that Rivera died peacefully. One of America’s foremost Latina artists, …
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Berlinale’s upcoming European Film Market is promising to be one of the best attended editions in years on the basis of registration numbers to date and amid expectations of a post-Hollywood strikes boost. “Around 600 companies will be exhibiting, with every official space sold out. There’s not a single corner …
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EXCLUSIVE: In October 2023, the British TV drama community was as confused as it was surprised to be told that some of the most well-known production companies in the country were being investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for “suspected anti-competitive behaviour.” For those suddenly finding themselves in …
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EXCLUSIVE: Sky Kids is developing children’s book Uncle Bobby’s Wedding as an animated special, as David Levine‘s Lightboat Media supercharges its focus on stories with LGBTQ+ stories at their core. Sarah S. Brannen’s story, told through the eyes of a young girl, Chloe, who learns her beloved Uncle Bobby is …
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