Category is: Drag Race crossover into premium cable eleganza extravaganza! You heard that right. RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars is set to air a special edition on Showtime for the first time ever on June 5 at 8 pm ET/PT after the season finale of season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race on VH1. Keeping in tradition with Drag Race…

ViacomCBS has unveiled new subscriber targets for its streaming services including CBS All Access and Showtime. President and CEO Bob Bakish revealed that the company's domestic digital pay subscriptions now total more than 11M and that it expects this to reach 16M by the end of the year. He added that AVOD service…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first look at Liam Neeson in action adventure film The Ice Road, which is currently shooting in Winnipeg, Canada. Laurence Fishburne also stars in the movie, which Solution Entertainment Group and CAA Media Finance are selling at the EFM. The film tells the story of a rescue mission over a frozen…

UPDATED with some detail from film, TV, cable divisions: Breaking out the numbers by division, revenue at cable networks declined 2% on the continued erosion of linear television subscribers. Financials were squeezed by increased investments in programming and OTT. Television entertainment – led by CBS – saw…

Simon West, the director of Con Air and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, is to helm an Amazon miniseries about two 16th century explorers who set out to disprove the theory that the world is flat. Four-part drama Boundless will tell the story of Juan Sebastián Elcano and Ferdinand Magellan’s epic voyage around the world after…

EXCLUSIVE: Sister, the UK production house run by Jane Featherstone that has recent credits including HBO and Sky’s Emmy-winning Chernobyl and BBC/Netflix series Giri/Haji, has won rights to Helena Merriman's buzzy podcast Tunnel 29 in what I understand was a highly competitive situation. Since launching in November…

The Berlin Film Festival has issued a statement in response to last night’s terror attack in Germany and updated on its security measures. The attack was among the deadliest hate-crime incidents in the country since the Second World War. A festival spokesperson told us, “We are deeply saddened to hear what has…

ViacomCBS has revealed more details about its digital future with plans to expand CBS All Access by launching a “House of Brands” product. The company said it would look to "accelerate momentum in streaming" after laying out a strategic update as part of its fourth-quarter fiscal 2019 results, the first since it…

Amazon Prime Video became the fastest-growing streamer in the UK in the final three months of 2019 after broadcasting Premier League football for the first time. The streaming service embarked on a giant marketing push to promote its Premier League coverage, which coincided with two of Amazon’s biggest deal days…

EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based Cercamon has boarded international sales on Paper Spiders, starring Lili Taylor, Stefania LaVie Owen and Peyton List. The drama will be handled by Cercamon outside North America and will be proffered to buyers, including a promo reel, at the EFM which kicks off today in Berlin. The film is…