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‘Diary of a Future President’ Renewed For Season 2 At Disney+
Disney+ has handed teen drama Diary of a Future President a second season.
The streaming service has ordered another ten-part run of the series, which is comes from exec producer Gina Rodriguez and creator Ilana Peña, from CBS Television Studios and I Can and I Will Productions.
The series follows the adventures of…
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HBO Max Scores ‘Young Sheldon’ Streaming Rights
HBO Max has snapped up the rights to Young Sheldon in the latest big streaming deal.
The nascent digital platform, which launched this week, struck a deal with sister company Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution for all three seasons to The Big Bang Theory spin-off.
This brings all of the BBT universe under…
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Keep The Lights On COVID-19 Doc Fund Distributes Grants To 15 Feature Directors
EXCLUSIVE: A Sheila E. documentary, a film from The Two Killings of Sam Cooke director about growing up female in the Deep South, and a free speech project from Julia Bacha are among those films awarded a grant from a COVID-19 doc fund.
XTR, the documentary studio set up by RYOT co-founder Bryn Mooser, Knock Down The H…
BAFTA TV Awards To Be Held Virtually On July 31; Richard Ayoade To Host
The British Academy Television Awards is to take place on July 31 with The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade set as host.
The BAFTA TV Awards were set to take place on May 17 but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will be followed by the British Academy Television Craft Awards on July 17.
BAFTA TV will air…
HBO Max Stages Laura Benanti Special ‘Homeschool Musical: Class Of 2020’
Tony Award-winning actor Laura Benanti has spent much of her quarantine launching an online movement where she offered to be an audience for those whose musicals were cancelled.
The project, #SunshineSongs, is now the inspiration for a special for nascent streaming service HBO Max.
The WarnerMedia-owned service has…
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Universal Television Alternative Studio Strikes Overall Deal With British TV Host & Producer Richard Bacon
EXCLUSIVE: British TV and radio host Richard Bacon is continuing his segue into production with an overall deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio and Universal Television.
Bacon will develop and produce non-scripted shows for the World of Dance and The Wall studio. He is already in development with a couple…
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English Premier League Soccer To Restart In June With Bumper TV Coverage Expected
The English Premier League is set to return next month with a huge increase in the number of games screened on television expected.
The British domestic football league gave the greenlight to return, known as Project Restart, at a shareholders meeting.
It means that Liverpool looks set to be crowned champion – their…
‘Dark Side Of The Ring’ Crowned Vice TV’s Highest Rated Show In Cable Net’s History
Wrestling doc series Dark Side of the Ring has become the highest rated show for Vice TV since its launch four years ago.
The season finale, which aired on May 19, averaged 390,000 live plus three viewers in the 18-49 demographic, which was 15% higher than its previous record, set by the show earlier in the…
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‘Catherine The Great’ Producer New Pictures Promotes Willow Grylls To Co-CEO, Elaine Pyke To Creative Director
EXCLUSIVE: New Pictures, the All3Media-backed drama producer behind series such as HBO's Catherine The Great and Starz' The Spanish Princess, has restructured its top team.
Willow Grylls has been named Co-CEO alongside Charlie Pattinson, while Elaine Pyke has been named Creative Director.
Grylls was one of the…
HBO Max Searches For Love With International Versions Of ‘The Bachelor’
HBO Max is to air a slew of international adaptations of The Bachelor and its spin-off for the first time in the U.S. as the digital platform unveils which seasons of the dating franchise will debut at launch.
The WarnerMedia-backed service, which launches May 27, will launch with over 20 seasons of The Bachelor, The B…
‘MasterChef Australia’s Social Distancing Studio Production Offers Taste Of How Non-Scripted Formats May Return In U.S.
MasterChef Australia, one of the biggest non-scripted formats down under, aired its first episode produced under COVID-19 safety protocols last night.
The show, which airs on ViacomCBS-owned Network Ten, offered a glimpse of how reality producers in the U.S. may be able to get their unscripted projects back up and…
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Netflix Hires ‘The Circle’ EP Daisy Lilley To Bolster UK-Originated Entertainment Push
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is continuing its push for UK-originated entertainment formats after hiring The Circle exec producer Daisy Lilley in its non-fiction team.
Lilley has joined the streamer as a manager in its London-based division, reporting to Sean Hancock, its U.S-based director of unscripted originals. She will…
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