After months of brainstorming and negotiations, the Hollywood studios and unions adopted rigorous safety protocols to get TV production going again. And, with fits and starts, it has been churning out fresh content with original episodes. But hasn’t been easy. And it hasn’t been cheap.
Likely boosted by word of mouth following thatshocking ending, the premiere of ABC’s new drama series Big Sky grew by +3.03 million total viewers and by +0.5 rating points among adults 18-49 from Live+Same Day to Live+3 Day to amass 7.2 million viewers and a 1.2 in 18-49 after three days of playback.
These are the…
EXCLUSIVE: Bleed For This producer Chad A. Verdi is lining up movie biopics of Muhammad Ali Jr. and Lennox Lewis’s former manager Kellie Maloney.
Verdi is already in production on two documentaries about the subjects and next year is planning to make the two feature dramas.
Verdi, an executive-producer on Martin…
Robert Garland, a Hollywood screenwriter who began his career writing episodes of such popular sitcoms as That Girl and Sanford and Son before going on to pen the big-screen hits The Electric HorsemanandNo Way Out, died Nov. 21 in Baltimore. He was 83.
His son, Michael Garland, said the cause of death was…
Global hits including Chernobyl and His Dark Materials helped UK television exports grow 6% to a record high of £1.48B ($2B) in the 12 months to the end of March, according to producer trade body Pact.
The UK TV Exports Report, prepared by 3Vision, found that the U.S. continues to be the most important sales market…
The Queen's Gambit has been watched by 62M million households – making it Netflix's biggest scripted limited series to date, the streaming giant said Monday. The series, which stars Anya Taylor-Joy as rising chess star Beth Harmon, launched on October 23, and is based on Walter Tevis' novel.
Co-written by Scott Frank…
Scorsese In StockholmMartin Scorsese made an appearance at Sweden's Stockholm International Film Festival this weekend to receive the event's Lifetime Achievement Award. Presented with the prize remotely due to ongoing pandemic restrictions, the filmmaker said that he had always had a “real love” for the country's…
Legendary Entertainment and The Spanish Princess showrunners Emma Frost and Matthew Graham have launched the joint-venture production company Watford & Essex, which is already in development with 10 projects, including a remake of ABC’s 1960s TV series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
The new outfit will be based in…
Bruuuuuuuuce! No, you aren’t listening to the chant of fans at a Springsteen concert. That cheer is for Bruce, the so nicknamed full-scale shark model from Jaws, the iconic 1975 film that continues to make beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Now they can also be afraid to visit the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures…
From the Department of Anniversaries-You-Probably-Forgot: Four years ago today, Nov. 23, brought the release of Warren Beatty's Howard Hughes film, Rules Don't Apply.
Forty years in the making, the movie landed with a thud. Domestic box-office sales appear to have been under $4 million. Back in 2016, moviegoers—still…
ESPN has begun a marketing campaign with the tagline “one app, one tap” as a way to plug its centralized digital destination.
The blitz, which features TV spots and digital pieces with emerging rapper Chika, kicked off Sunday night during the American Music Awards telecast on ABC.
Disney-owned ESPN is touting its app…
A3 Artists Agency has hired Sally Willcox as a media rights agent. She will serve under the motion picture and television literary divisions representing intellectual property.
"Sally has proven she has an extraordinary eye for identifying influential and diverse voices," said A3 CEO Robert Attermann. "Her vast…
EXCLUSIVE: The story of women including Angie Bowie and Jane Asher –Â those behind the scenes of some of music's greatest icons – is being turned into a scripted narrative podcast series from the team behind Disgraceland and iHeartRadio.
Eleanor Wells, the filmmaker behind shorts films including The Harpist and Eagle R…
