Focus Features has a secret weapon on the fall release schedule and that’s Downton Abbey on Sept. 20. While everyone is buzzing about Warner Bros.’ screaming in the start of fall with New Line’s It: Chapter Two, Downton Abbey could very well see a huge turnout of older female moviegoers.. The pic’s first day of…

Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs Dorothy Byrne is only the sixth women to give the well-respected MacTaggart lecture, the keynote address at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. Previous speakers include Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner and Norman Lear. Byrne addressed a range of issues during her speech…

Two days after the premiere of A Little Late with Lilly Singh, NBC will air a primetime special that puts the spotlight on the newest face of late night. On September 18 after the two-hour finale of America’s Got Talent, the hour-long primetime special will introduce primetime audiences to Singh as she partakes in…

Mallory Rubin and Sean Fennessy, two of the founding editors of Bill Simmons’ sports and culture site The Ringer, are moving up in the ranks. Rubin has been promoted to editor in chief of The Ringer, effective October 1, as Fennessy hands over editorial reins and becomes Chief Content Officer. Both have been with the…

Stand-up comedian Theo Von is boarding Skydance-Paramount’s sci-fi thriller Ghost Draft. He joins cast Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, JK Simmons, Betty Gilpin and Sam Richardson, who are also in talks for the Chris McKay-directed feature. Written by Zach Dean and Bill Dubuque, the plot follows a husband and father…

NBC’s reality competition America’s Got Talent scored top marks Tuesday night with a 1.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and a whopping 9.35 million viewers. It’s a two-tenths ratings uptick compared with last week, at the two-hour show gave the network an overall victory in primetime. Meanwhile, fans of Bachelo…

EXCLUSIVE: Priyanka Chopra Jonas will star in Netflix kid superhero feature We Can Be Heroes, a new IP which is being written, directed and produced by Alita: Battle Angel and Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez.  The under-the-radar project will see alien invaders kidnap Earth’s superheroes, meaning a group of…

In April 1989, the lives of five young men of color were irrevocably and horrifically changed. Wrongly accused of raping a white female jogger, they were first arbitrarily rounded up by police simply for being in the area, then pushed into false confessions that would ultimately land them a collective name that…

EXCLUSIVE: Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia's Seven Bucks Companies has hired Maya Lasry as its Chief Marketing Officer, a move the brings her over from Universal Pictures, where she spent nearly seven years most recently as Director of Creative Advertising. The move reunites Lasry and Seven Bucks after she spearheaded…

Just over a year after splitting with her longtime producing partner Jenni Konner, Lena Dunham has launched a new production company, Good Thing Going, which will be based at Dunham’s longtime home, HBO, where she is under an exclusive first-look deal. The  company is already working on a full slate of projects across…