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For the first time in its 128-year history, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees could go on strike this weekend and shut most of Hollywood down, unless the studios, networks and streamers agree to a new contract for below the line workers. In that context of conflict, which show is the one you…

George Stephanopoulos has launched a production company for ABC News, with the first two projects to stream on Hulu this month and November. George Stephanopoulos Productions will produce nonfiction long-form projects that include interviews and investigations across The Walt Disney Co. platforms, including ABC…

Melanie Lynskey (Castle Rock) has been tapped as the co-lead opposite Jessica Biel in Hulu's original limited event series Candy based on the true story of Candy Montgomery (Biel), who killed her friend Betty Gore (Lynskey) with an ax. In 1980 Texas, Candy Montgomery (Biel) seemingly had it all — a loving husband with…

Hello, cats! Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are back for more action-packed fun in Season 2 of Hulu’s Animaniacs and a teaser released at New York Comic Con on Sunday reveals how the Warner siblings will lean into a popular decade from the past. The video shows the beefed-up characters as they transform into their own version…

There’s a terrifying amount of scare-centric programming this October, whether it’s being broadcast or streamed. Paramount+ has announced its “Peak Screaming” package, which will encompass scary movies, kids shows and originals. Amazon, of course, is releasing four original Blumhouse films this month: Bingo Hell, Black…

Spyglass Media Group and Hulu have made official the upcoming cast of David Bruckner’s reboot of Hellraiser, as well as the fact that the movie is headed to the latter streamer. Sense8 and The L Word: Generation Q actress Jamie Clayton has been named as the new Pinhead, a role originally played by Doug Bradley, and Hel…

Kelly Campbell has been officially named President of Peacock. The news Wednesday comes after speculation tied the former Hulu chief to the NBCUniversal streamer after she left the former company earlier this week. Reporting to Matt Strauss, Chairman, Direct-to-Consumer and International, NBCUniversal and based in Los…

Jessica Biel is to play Candy Montgomery, who killed her church friend with an ax in Texas, in a true-crime limited series for Hulu. The streamer has handed Candy, which comes from The Act pair Robin Veith and Nick Antosca, a series order. It comes after the project landed at the streamer last year with The Handmaid's…

UPDATED: Kelly Campbell is leaving Hulu after four years, the last 20 months as President. Rebecca Campbell, Disney's chairman of international operations and direct-to-consumer, announced Kelly Campbell’s (no relation) exit in an internal memo. “Kelly Campbell has left the Company, effective immediately,” Rebecca…

Hulu has handed a straight-to-series order to Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan's novel. The streamer has given the limited series project a nine-episode order with Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds adapting for 20th Television. The project, which is also exec produced by T…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu expands its cast for The Girl From Plainville with the addition of Peter Gerety (City On A Hill), Michael Mosley (Titans), Ella Kennedy Davis (Perry Mason), Pearl Amanda Dickson (Legion), Kylie Liya Page (Girl in the Woods) and Jeff Wahlberg (Dora and the Lost City of Gold). They will appear opposite…

Onyx Collective has given a series greenlight to Reasonable Doubt to stream on Hulu. Emayatzy Corinealdi (Middle of Nowhere) is set to star in the lead role of the legal drama, from writer/executive producer Raamla Mohamed (Scandal); executive producer Kerry Washington, who will direct the first episode; and ABC…