The uncertainties swirling around baseball, from the Houston Astros’ widening cheating scandal to significant potential changes to the playoff format, are likely to affect the sport’s TV value in the months ahead as two significant rights deals are set to be negotiated before they expire in 2021.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos took some time off from being ribbed at the Oscars and purchasing pricey real estate to do something really big – announcing a massive private venture in the form of a $10 billion fund to fight climate change.
The mogul, the world’s richest human, announced Monday the launch of the Bezos…
Netflix has released the official trailer for I Am Not Okay With This, its upcoming YA series based on Charles Forsman’s graphic novel that hits the streaming service on February 26. The series has strong lineage: it comes from 21 Laps Entertainment, which is behind Netflix’s signature Stranger Things, and is…
Apple TV+ has released the first trailer for its Amazing Stories, the five-episode reboot/reimagining of Steven Spielberg’s 1980s anthology series that is now on target to hit the Apple streamer March 6.
Developed by Universal TV and Amblin Television, Amazing Stories was one of the first original series projects…
American Idol returned for its third season on ABC on Sunday, with the venerable music competition show scoring a night-leading 1.5 Live+Same Day rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 8.05 million total viewers. It led a night of primetime that otherwise took a breath after a stretch that included the Grammys…
Tomorrowland Winter, one of the largest dance music festivals in the world, is to be livestreamed via Insight TV.
It marks the first time that the winter edition of the festival, which takes place in France’s Alpe de’Huez Grand Domain Ski Resort and features artists including Afrojack and Charlotte De Witte, is being…
The UGC Writers Campus by Series Mania, an immersive week-long writing workshop for 20 emerging TV drama writers throughout Europe, will run from March 20-27. Now in its third year, UGC has selected 20 screenwriters from more than 100 candidates and 30 different countries.
The Series Mania Festival runs from March…
UPDATED, Monday AM: Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog will hit $70 million in four days, according to the studio, after a $16.5M Sunday that is down 20% from Saturday. The pic based on the Sega character remains the best domestic opening for a video game property on the big screen on both a three-day and four-day basis…
Entertainment One has begun the process of sizing up which of Hasbro’s brands could be transformed into television or movie franchises after formally being acquired by the toymaker for $3.8 billion in January.
Pancho Mansfield, eOne’s president of global scripted programming, told Deadline that Hasbro has a “treasure…
The Tribeca Film Festival on Monday unveiled plans to kick off its 19th installment with the world premiere of director Mary Wharton's Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President – a rockumentary-style presidential portrait that shows how popular music helped propel the folksy peanut farmer from rural Georgia to the White…
David Byrne's American Utopia will be back on Broadway this fall, producers have announced. The smash concert-style production – a commercial and critical hit – ended its limited run at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre last night, having recouped it’s initial $4 million in mid-December 2019 just ten weeks after…
MGM Television is expanding its international unscripted division with the hire of The Bible showrunner Richard Bedser.
Bedser joins the company, based out of London, as EVP of Factual Series, Documentaries and Specials, reporting to MGM's President of Unscripted & Alternative Television and Orion Television, Barry…
