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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and NBCUniversal chief Jeff Shell are upbeat the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo will go forward as planned and said advertisers are optimistic as well, based on what they’re seeing. “Sitting here today, I believe there will be an 0lympics. I hope there will bee an Olympics. I think that is our…

EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell didn’t mince words about the “bad dream” that was 2020, but touted the success of Peacock and laid out a string of streaming stats in a holiday-season memo to employees. In his December business update (read it below), Shell predicted that in a few years employees would look back…

Jeff Shell, chief executive of NBCUniversal, said the film business had "stayed stuck in the mud" and was "leaving a lot of money on the table" even as the rest of the entertainment industry has rapidly evolved. Speaking at a UBS conference on the topic that's currently roiling Hollywood, he described "a whole segment…

NBCUniversal chief Jeff Shell Thursday called Peacock “the opposite of Quibi,” predicted struggling theme parks will break even or better next year and gave some — albeit minimal — color on the upfront. Peacock had 22 million signups, exceeding projections, and drawing on a combination of old, beloved content from the…

EXCLUSIVE: The next projected layoffs stemming from NBCUniversal’s recent restructuring are starting next month, sources tell Deadline. November 12 is penciled in as the target date as company brass are eying mid-next month for the second wave of staff reductions to begin, we hear. The cuts will likely come in waves…

As talks continue with Gabrielle Union over the former America’s Got Talent judge’s racial discrimination claims, NBC Entertainment chairman Paul Telegdy has become the subject of an internal investigation into allegations of professional misconduct. On top of allegations made in recent months against the exec by…

The hope for NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell in the studio’s new unprecedented 17-day theatrical window collapse-PVOD deal with AMC Theatres is to make more money in the post theatrical windows which have waned in recent years. “Movies are our lifeblood,” said the NBCUniversal pro-PVOD exec, “Over the last couple of…

His credentials seemed impeccable. He was 60, a Yale graduate, a former studio chief, a gifted dealmaker and now a newly named company president. But there were a few clouds: He was also a convicted embezzler, a compulsive gambler and his Yale degree was bogus. This was 1981 and David Begelman, the new boss of MGM…

EXCLUSIVE: More than three months after Hollywood came to a halt due to the coronavirus pandemic, NBCUniversal has begun a cautious return to work. Drawing from a comprehensive plan initiated mere days after its 400-acre Los Angeles facility shut down March 13 as well as the latest government guidelines, the <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/comcast/" id="auto-tag_comcast_4"…

A group of top NBC Universal executives will take a 20% cut in salary as part of a broad set of cost saving initiatives to offset the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Other employees who make over $100,000 will take a 3% cut that’s a rollback of sorts following a raise in March, the CEO of the Comcast-owned…

NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell is putting his imprimatur on the company’s executive structure following the exit of former chief executive Steve Burke last year as the Comcast divison announced a major restructing that creates a new division, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming – including Peacock – that’s headed by Mar…

Days after Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal spurred AMC boss Adam Aron to embargo the studio’s films, the NBCUniversal CEO acknowledged the company’s commitment to theatrical, but that Premium VOD will still be part of the equation. "The question is when we come out of this (pandemic), what is going…