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Life felt a lot like TV judicial nonfiction last week when an appeals court poured cold water on efforts to drag the big salary of Judge Judy into the profits dust-up between CBS and Rebel Entertainment Partners over the now-shuttered syndicated show. “Any apportionment of Sheindlin's salary to some form of profit…

As the Delta variant drove infections across California to their biggest one-day jump of 2021 this week, Hollywood was not immune. The Los Angeles County Health Department reported an outbreak related to CBS’s S.W.A.T. at Santa Clarita Studios North of Los Angeles. Deadline confirmed with sources Friday evening that…

CBS has hired Jon Koa as EVP, Comedy Development following the departure of veteran exec Julie Pernworth. Koa was most recently SVP, Scripted Television for Condé Nast Entertainment, where he has spent the last six years. He was previously Executive Director, Comedy Programming and Development, for ABC between 2009…

More than six months after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, viewers will get to hear firsthand accounts of what happened on January 6 at the first hearing of a select House committee set up to investigate the insurrection. Broadcast and cable networks plan to carry all or parts of the first hearing of the Select…

Unscripted programs ruled Wednesday evening as CBS’ Big Brother and ABC’s The $100,000 Pyramid marked the evening’s highest-rated and most-watched titles, respectively. The latest installment of Big Brother was the most-watched program in the 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. timeslot, airing to 3.33 million viewers and gaining a 0.8…

With a consolidation of CBS' News and Stations divisions already underway, the network has now also finished its long external probe into allegations of racist and abusive behavior at local outlets  – and change is coming to Los Angeles, Chicago and more, executives promise. "After six months of an extremely thorough…

EXCLUSIVE: Accomplished German actress Christiane Paul (Counterpart) and Carter Redwood (The Long Road Home) round out the series regular cast of FBI: International, the upcoming third series in Dick Wolf's hit FBI drama franchise on CBS. They will play the remaining leads opposite recently cast Luke Kleintank, Heida…

Former longtime CBS executive Joseph Ianniello has launched a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, with a handful of former colleagues to scout for acquisitions in media, entertainment and sports. Called Argus Capital Corp, the firm filed with the SEC on Thursday to raise up to $300 million, offering 30…

“Truth Lies Here.” CBS has dropped a first-look teaser for CSI: Vegas, sequel to the mothership CSI series, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The sequel features returning CSI stars William Petersen, Jorja Fox and Wallace Langham, who are joined by new series regulars Paula Newsome, Matt Lauria, Mel Rodriguez and…

Former The Doctors host Dr. Ian Smith is taking a diagnostic approach to endemic "racial discrimination and retaliation" issues with the syndicated series from ViacomCBS and the Dr. Phil McGraw's production company. This comes after CBS boss George Cheeks empathetically supposedly told a fired Dr. Smith earlier this…

Wrestling fans starved for the cheers, howls and boos that only a live audience can bring got their money’s worth last night on Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown. For the first time in more than a year, the show was held in front of a live audience, and they delighted in letting their heroes and villians know how they…

Following the announcement of the nominations for the 73rd annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Tuesday, I shared some Zoom time with Television Academy chairman and CEO Frank Scherma and president and COO Maury McIntyre to get their thoughts on a number of related topics including progress on the upcoming September 19…