After reporting mixed results for its fiscal third quarter, Lionsgate executives offered Wall Street analysts an update on Starz as the premium network’s longtime chief, Chris Albrecht, gets set to exit the company in the coming weeks. Albrecht did not appear on today’s conference call with analysts, but earned a…

EXCLUSIVE: Starz CEO Chris Albrecht will depart next month after a decade at the company. Albrecht’s decision to step down comes two years after Starz’s acquisition by Lionsgate was completed amid the continued integration of the two companies. For the time being, Starz will move forward under COO Jeffrey Hirsch and…

Starz is keeping its Power broker in the family. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who stars in and exec produces that veteran crime drama, has signed a rich new overall deal with the premium cabler, Deadline has confirmed. Under the four-year pact  — that sees figures like $150 million being whispered and Starz CEO Chris Albr…

Bell Media and Starz have set an exclusive, long-term deal that will bring the U.S. premium network to Canada for the first time. The launch also marks the first on the international stage for Starz since the premium network was acquired by Lionsgate in December 2016, an important step in an increasingly global…

UPDATED with Altice response. As the Starz-Altice USA carriage dispute drags on, the Lionsgate-owned network has filed two separate petitions with the FCC that aim to force the cable company to restore it on New York-area Optimum systems. The No. 2 premium network has been dark for Optimum’s 4.9 million customers…

UPDATED with Altice’s response: In what has become a regular occurrence as TV networks and cable/satellite providers squabble over carriage fees, Starz's channels have been dark on Altice USA systems, servicing 4.9 subscribers, since January 1. Albrecht didn’t mince words about Altice and its management, blasting them…

Starz's big-budget drama American Gods has been making headlines in the past couple of months with the surprise exit of the masterminds behind the genre series, executive producers/showrunners Michael Green and Bryan Fuller, who created the adaptation of Neil Gaiman's 2001 award-winning novel. It was followed by…

Although Survivor’s Remorse was abruptly cancelled last year after its Season 4 finale, Starz CEO and president Chris Albrecht said there had been sufficient closure for the show at TCA on Friday. “We love Survivor’s Remorse, we're very proud of the show,” Albrecht said. “I think there was some closure. It’s difficult…

As the second most popular scripted series among female viewers–standing behind only the behemoth of Game of Thrones–Outlander will continue beyond a Season 5 and even 6, Chris Albrecht CEO and president of Starz said at TCA on Friday. “I wouldn’t worry,” Albrecht said when asked about potential Season 5 and 6…

EXCLUSIVE: After seven years guiding Starz's communications ship, Theano Apostolou is leaving the premium cabler, I've learned. The EVP made the official announcement to her staff today at Starz's Beverly Hills HQ. A big part of Starz's rise to the nation’s second-most-subscribed premium cabler, Apostolou will stay on…

Seven months after Lionsgate’s acquisition of Starz was completed, the effects of the merger are starting to reach the screen, with Starz today announcing the first series order to a show from Lionsgate TV, The Rook. It’s the first of many to come. “We've got an exciting slate of stuff with Lionsgate in development,&#8221…

Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch plans to keep his gig through 2020 as part of a new contract the Lionsgate-owned operation disclosed today. Hirsch was promoted to COO in June, a little less than a year after he moved from Time Warner Cable to become President of Global Marketing and Product Planning. Since then he has…