The USA triumphed over Chile during their Women’s World Cup Match Sunday and, in turn, it racked up another win for Fox Sports. Sunday’s match garnered a 3.8/11 metered market rating for Fox and is the best overnight rating for any soccer telecast English-Language since last year's Men's Worl Cup Final. The rating…

Broadway’s The Prom has a date with the road: The Tony-nominated musical will launch a first national tour in February 2021 in Providence, Rhode Island. The tour was announced today by producers Bill Damaschke, Dori Berinstein and Jack Lane. Other dates and additional cities will be announced at a later date. In…

Oxygen has given a green light to Killer Motive, a new eight-episode true-crime series from the producers of NBC’s Dateline. Hosted by NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk and Emmy-winning journalist Troy Roberts, each hourlong episode will uncover dark and twisted motives — from vengeance to jealousy to greed — that…

Debra Messing will return to Broadway next year in a spring production of playwright Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles. The Roundabout Theatre Company production will mark the New York premiere of the play. Directed by Vivienne Benesch, Birthday Candles will begin previews April 2, 2020, with an opening on April 21 at…

CAA announced today that they will host their third annual CAA Amplify June 24 in Ojai, Calif. The invitation-only event is a convening of diverse leading artists and executives from the most impactful organizations in entertainment, sports, media, brands, technology, and social justice. Hosted in partnership with the…

UPDATE, with attorney response The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks has released a lengthy, 500-word-plus statement in which he expresses “regret” and apologizes for his words that “have potentially hurt young people and members of the LGBTQ community, including my friends and colleagues in that community.” But an…

EXCLUSIVE: Dee Rees has been set to direct The Kyd’s Exquisite Follies, a musical fantasy based on her own original script. Rees’ previous film, 2017’s Mudbound, got four Oscar nominations including one for her adapted script, and her Bessie Smith HBO biopic Bessie got her two Emmy noms for writing and directing, with…

CBS has entered the lifestyle programming sector with Dabl, a multi-platform network that will use the CBS station portfolio as the foundation of its linear launch on September 9. The ad-supported network is cleared in 70% of the country, including all of the top 10 U.S. markets and 23 of the top 25. Dabl (pronounced…

The Wonderfilm Media Corporation announced today that Amityville 1974 has been given the green light to begin principal photography in November with its story of the real-life rampage murders that would became the background story for author Jay Anson’s 1977 bestseller The Amityville Horror and the numerous films that…

JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot are in final talks for him to keep his TV business and move his film business under the WarnerMedia umbrella. There had been rampant speculation that he would end up there or with Apple, with WarnerMedia emerging as a frontrunner over the past couple of weeks as the shorthand he had…