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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is going all in on The Batman director Matt Reeves and his 6th & Idaho production company. He has become the first filmmaker given an overall first look film deal since Warner Bros Pictures Group Co-Chairs/CEOs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy were hired by Warner Bros. Discovery chief David…

Whoopi Goldberg, William Shatner, Amy Poehler, Alex Kurtzman, Maury Povich, Warner Bros Television Group chairman Channing Dungey and producer and media investor Jeff Sagansky have been selected as the recipients of NATPE’s 2022 Tartikoff Legacy Awards. The awards, in their 18th year, are given to acknowledge a select…

Frank Scherma, chairman and CEO of the Television Academy, has tapped Channing Dungey, Chairman, Warner Bros. Television Group; and George Cheeks, President and CEO, CBS Entertainment; as new chair’s appointees to the Television Academy Executive Committee. They join returning appointees Gloria Calderón Kellett, Dawn…

EXCLUSIVE: Queen Sugar is coming to an end with its seventh season in 2022. “It's a radical act that it lasted this long, and it's a testament to every single pair of hands that touched it and I am so proud of that," series creator Ava DuVernay told Deadline today of the acclaimed OWN drama executive produced by Oprah…

After decades at NBC, Rebecca Marks is moving to become Executive Vice President, Publicity and Communications at Warner Bros Television Group. In her new role at the evolving media giant, Marks will oversee consumer publicity, corporate communications and awards season(s) offerings for WBTV and Warner Horizon…

EXCLUSIVE: The Paley Center for Media has added more heavy-hitter media and entertainment names to its ranks, appointing execs including Univision CEO Wade Davis and Spotify’s Dawn Ostroff to its Board of Trustees, and the likes of Warner Bros Television Group chairman Channing Dungey, WME president Ari Greenburg and P…

Channing Dungey, the new Chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group, is to sit down with The Flight Attendant's Kaley Cuoco and Greg Berlanti at this year's Banff World Media Festival. It marks one of the first major public appearances since Dungey took over running television at the Hollywood studio. She will sit down…

George Gascón's bid to be Los Angeles County's next District Attorney replacing two-term incumbent Jackie Lacey has all the drama of a Hollywood production, and the challenger has a lot of the industry’s backing to support that idea. Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings, newly minted Warner Bros TV boss Channing Dungey, FX…

It's official. Channing Dungey has been named Chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group. Dungey succeeds Peter Roth, who revealed on Friday that he was leaving the studio after 22 years. The move comes ten days after Deadline revealed Dungey had stepped down as VP Original Content and head of drama at Netflix after 20…

EXCLUSIVE: Channing Dungey has stepped down as VP Original Content and head of drama at Netflix after 20 months at the company to pursue another opportunity. Her last day is today. While that opportunity has not been revealed, Dungey, the former ABC Entertainment president, is among the handful of top female TV…

For the second time in that many months, a top TV programming job has opened that is bringing up the names of some of the TV business’ most accomplished female executives. NBCUniversal’s head of TV and streaming content post ultimately went to Warner Bros. TV President Susan Rovner. Now her vacant WBTV position is…

Jimmy Kimmel was a surprise show-up at ABC’s TCA at-bat Tuesday to introduce Karey Burke, who is making her first press tour appearance as head of the network’s entertainment division. The ABC late-night host said Burke, who replaced Channing Dungey last November, won the post “by the largest margin in ABC history…