EXCLUSIVE: The OA: Part II's Kingsley Ben-Adir has booked a recurring guest star role on High Fidelity, the reimagining of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel and the 2000 feature starring John Cusack. The series, which recently moved from Disney+ to fellow streaming platform Hulu, is told from a female point of view with Zoë…

After a period of years when Netflix, Hulu and Amazon reigned virtually unchallenged as subscription streaming's Big Three, the landscape is getting more crowded than the last act of Avengers: Endgame. The 2020s will dawn with major new pay-to-stream offerings from Apple, Disney and WarnerMedia all jockeying for the…

Joshua Jackson (The Affair) is set as a lead opposite Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington and Rosemarie DeWitt in Little Fires Everywhere, Hulu's upcoming limited series based on Celeste Ng's bestselling book. Developed and written by Casual's Liz Tigelaar, the series hails from Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine…

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (On Becoming a God in Central Florida) and David Holmes (The Hill) are set as series regulars opposite Zoë Kravitz and Jake Lacy in High Fidelity, a reimagining of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel and the 2000 feature starring John Cusack, with a female point of view. The series, which recently moved from…

Lionsgate has picked up international rights to A24’s comedy series Ramy, starring Ramy Youssef. Ramy, which hails from The Carmichael Show team of star/co-creator Jerrod Carmichael, co-creator Ari Katcher and studio A24, was recently renewed for a second season on Hulu. Ramy is based on the real-life experiences and…

EXCLUSIVE 2ND UPDATE WITH MORE NAMES: Just under two months after the Walt Disney Company officially took control of the majority of Fox's film and TV assets in a seismic $71.3 billion deal, another round of lay-offs are slicing through Burbank and over on Pico Boulevard. A Disney spokesperson has confirmed to…

Not long after the news hit that Disney gained operational control of Hulu, with Comcast slated to be bought out by 2024, Disney CEO Bob Iger described the deal as part of a grand “pivot” years in the making. The executive spoke at the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit in New York, on the same day that…

With the news of Disney’s roll-up of Hulu still sinking in at Disney’s upfront press conference, FX Networks chief John Landgraf told reporters that Hulu will be the north star for FX on the streaming front rather than any stand-alone initiative. “I think the possibilities of a platform like Hulu are much more…

UPDATED with Bob Iger statement. Disney and Comcast announced today that Disney will assume full operational control of Hulu, adding a crucial chess piece in one of the most serious efforts by a traditional media player to take on Netflix. The companies entered into a “put/call” agreement regarding NBCUniversal's 33%…

Disney CEO Bob Iger and CFO Christine McCarthy took on a range of topics during the company’s second-quarter earnings conference call with Wall Street analysts Wednesday after the company reported strong results. Among the notable takeaways from the call were Iger asserting a cautious approach to Hulu — of which…

Disney booked a $353 million writedown on its investment in Vice Media, the formerly high-flying digital brand now run by former A+E Networks boss Nancy Dubuc. Dubuc last week presided over a NewFronts presentation by Vice to digital advertisers, her first since taking the helm of the company last year, succeeding…

Rachel Matthews (Happy Death Day franchise) and Henry Zaga (13 Reasons Why) are set for recurring roles opposite Charlie Plummer and Kristine Froseth in Looking for Alaska, Hulu's eight-episode limited series based on John Green's novel. The series hails from Paramount Television and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie…