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Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch said the plan by parent company Lionsgate to explore strategic options, including a potential spinoff, is sure to help his efforts to expand programming. The effort will “allow us to look at various constructs, whether it’s a strategic [investment] or a spin,” he said in an online appearance…

Global streamer Starz Wednesday announced the launch of direct-to-consumer OTT app Lionsgate Play in India. Starz CEO Jeffrey Hirsch and Rohit Jain, managing director, Lionsgate South Asia, unveiled the move at a virtual press conference. The app offers premium Hollywood content in multiple Indian languages for…

Starz is to step up its international co-production strategy – eyeing originals out of Spain and India. Jeffrey Hirsch, President and CEO, Starz, said it was continuing to deepen its global presence following the launch of Starzplay platform, which is now in 49 territories around the world. The Lionsgate-backed…

Right out of the gates, Starz president and CEO Jeffrey Hirsch was asked about his feelings in regards to Orlando Jones’ heated comments about his exit from American Gods, how his character of Mr. Nancy is sending the wrong message to black America, and his feelings about Season 3 showrunner Chic Eglee. “Orlando is a…

Lionsgate has promoted Starz COO Jeffrey Hirsch to President and CEO of the premium network, inking a new long-term contract. He had been upped to chief operating officer in 2016 and has been running the network since the March exit of former Starz CEO Chris Albrecht. At the time, the notion was that the CEO position…

An executive suite full of Lionsgate executives — seven in all — took turns answering questions from Wall Street analysts Thursday in a conference call to discuss quarterly results and the state of the company. Lionsgate silenced some of the naysayers by soundly beating analysts’ estimates for the fiscal first quarter…

The third season of American Gods is a long way off hitting the small screen but Starz's COO told the TCA today that he is very happy with the way the latest installment of the Neil Gaiman adaptation is going. “We feel like it’s coming along really well and it’ll be a great show for us next season" Jeffrey Hirsch said…

"Like how I dodge the whole ATA issue?" UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer joked Wednesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference after the pitched battle between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over the lucrative practice of packaging was brought up. Lamenting that he was probably driving his communications staff…

While Starz remains dark on Altice USA’s Optimum cable systems, the premium cable network has reached a new multi-year carriage deal with Verizon FiOS, Optimum’s rival in the New York metro area. The deal will continue the offering of Starz pay-TV, on-demand and online services in the 5 million households that get…

After 24 years of helping buy programming for Showtime and NBC, last year Pearlena Igbokwe became president of Universal Television, where she now finds, produces and sells content for a wide range of TV platforms. As the first African-American woman to run a major Hollywood production company, Igbokwe represents…