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Business Inside CAA’s $750M Acquisition Of ICM Partners; 105 Layoffs, 425 Moving Over

The biggest linkup in the agency space since the 2009 WMA-Endeavor merger has a combined enterprise value of around $5 billion. The merged company’s leadership is expected to address staff at a town hall Thursday, but first comes the pain: Around 105 positions will be eliminated, all from ICM, and coming from all areas, with 80% being retained by CAA.

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NBC Sets Fall Premiere Dates: New ‘Quantum Leap’ & ‘Lopez Vs. Lopez’, Return Of ‘Chicago’ & ‘Law & Order’ Shows, More

NBC has made its plans for the fall. The network said today that its new shows Quantum Leap and Lopez vs. Lopez will premiere at 10 p.m. Monday, September 19, and 8 p.m. Friday, November 4, respectively. The Raymond Lee-led drama series reboot will follow The Voice, and the comedy starring George Lopez and his…

Bass Reeves Series ‘Twin Territories’ From Morgan Freeman’s Revelations & ‘Hand Of God’ Creator Ben Watkins In Works At Amazon

EXCLUSIVE: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment has set up a Bass Reeves series titled Twin Territories at Amazon, after three decades spent chasing the elusive lawman. The Revelations-produced series in development at the streamer is based on a novel by preeminent Reeves scholar Art T. Burton…

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‘Platonic’: Alisha Wainwright, Guy Branum Among Five Set To Recur In Apple Comedy Series

EXCLUSIVE: Apple is rounding out the recurring cast for Platonic, its new comedy series from Nick Stoller, Francesca Delbanco and Sony TV. Alisha Wainwright (Palmer), Guy Branum (BROS), Janet Varney (You're the Worst), Emily Kimball (Daisy Jones and the Six) and newcomer Vinny Thomas have joined the cast in heavily…

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‘South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2’ Gets Teaser & Paramount+ Premiere Date

The fourth South Park TV movie event on Paramount+ is set. South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 will premiere July 13 on the streamer. A severe drought has brought the town to the brink of disaster, as evidenced by one man’s desperate attempt to gain entry to a water park. Check out the “full nuclear Karen”-fied…

Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton To Star in ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ For Focus and Diablo Cody

EXCLUSIVE: Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse are set to star in Focus’ Lisa Frankenstein, Lisa Frankenstein directed by Zelda Williams from a script written by Oscar winner Diablo Cody. Principal photography is slated to begin later this summer. Cody will write and serve as a producer alongside Mason Novick who will…

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‘Justified: City Primeval’: Ravi Patel Set To Recur In FX Limited Series

EXCLUSIVE: Ravi Patel (The Valet, Meet the Patels) is set to recur in the FX limited series Justified: City Primeval in the role of Rick Newley, Deadline has learned. The series is a spinoff of FX’s hit Justified and is inspired by the Elmore Leonard crime novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. Seven years…

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Travis Barker Hospitalized For Pancreatitis, According To Multiple Reports – Update

UPDATED: Multiple reports now indicate that Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker was hospitalized yesterday for pancreatitis. Barker was accompanied to the hospital by wife Kourtney Kardashian. TMZ’s report says doctors believe it was triggered by a colonoscopy. Sources close to the family say the musician recently had the…

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Jennifer Connelly & Ben Whishaw To Star In Alice Englert’s ‘Bad Behaviour’

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Connelly and Ben Whishaw are set to star in Bad Behaviour, which marks the directorial debut for Alice Englert. Ana Scotney and Dasha Nekrasova Karan Gill and Marlon Williams round out the cast. The film is a dark comedy about Lucy (Connelly), a former child actress who seeks enlightenment at a…

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Cameron Diaz To “Un-Retire” Via Netflix Action-Comedy ‘Back In Action’ With Jamie Foxx

Cameron Diaz (Charlie’s Angels) is coming out of retirement for a Netflix film titled Back in Action, in which she’ll star opposite Jamie Foxx (Day Shift). The storyline for the action-comedy is being kept under wraps, but Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) is directing from a scriupt he wrote with Brendan O’Brien’s (Neighb…

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Hulu Musical Series ‘Up Here’ Casts Katie Finneran, John Hodgman, Brian Stokes Mitchell & More

EXCLUSIVE: The Hulu comedy Up Here starring Mae Whitman (Good Girls) and Carlos Valdes (Gaslit) has completed casting on several of the leading and recurring roles. The musical romantic comedy from 20th Television and Old 320 Sycamore Prods. is set in New York City in 1999 and follows an ordinary couple (Whitman as…

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Andrew Mittman’s MGM-Based 1.21 Promotes Kai Dolbashian To Head Of Development

EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Mittman's production company 1.21, which is behind series including Netflix's Wednesday, has promoted Kai Dolbashian. Dolbashian has been upped to Head of Development at the company, which has a deal with MGM. He was previously Director of Development, having been with Mittman since he launched the…

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‘The Horror of Dolores Roach’: Marc Maron, Jean Yoon, Judy Reyes & Jeffery Self To Recur On Amazon Series

EXCLUSIVE: Marc Maron (GLOW), Jean Yoon (Kim's Convenience), Judy Reyes (Succession, Better Things), and Jeffery Self (Search Party) have joined the cast of Amazon’s The Horror of Dolores Roach in recurring roles. They join series lead Justina Machado who plays the titular masseuse Dolores Roach, as well as previously…