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Kevin Beggs is sticking around Lionsgate. The exec has signed a long-term employment agreement with company. He will continue as Chair of Lionsgate Television and Chief Content Integration Officer of Lionsgate. It comes on the back of a successful streak that includes 14 series pickups and…

Kevin Beggs, Chairman of the Lionsgate Television Group, has said the studio is “working on a variety of projects” with 42, ramping up international productions and has put recent successes down to there being “a little more room at the broadcasters.” Beggs also defended Netflix following a period of…

Lionsgate Television Group Chair Kevin Beggs is to replace Randy Lennox as Chair of the Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) Board of Directors. Beggs will oversee the general direction of the world-renowned festival, which enters its 43rd year next year. Set in the Canadian rockies, the festival attracts attendees from…

EXCLUSIVE: When most of the dust settled on the Covid-impacted 2020 broadcast pilot season, indie Lionsgate TV ended up with three new series orders — for Home Economics, which got off to a promising start at ABC, This Country at Fox and Ghosts at CBS —  on par with the major, vertically integrated studios and making…

Coming off windfall global licensing sales of Mad Men last month, Lionsgate is now digging a little deeper into its library to bring Weeds to market later this year. "We're readying our next big property Weeds for syndication in the fall," Jon Feltheimer said Thursday after the company's latest earnings report was…

Mad Men, a cornerstone of Lionsgate’s TV library, is seeing above-expected demand due to the COVID-19 production shutdown and surging investment in streaming, television chairman Kevin Beggs said Thursday. The show, which completed its seven-season, Emmy-decorated run on AMC in 2015, has been streaming on Netflix…

Lionsgate TV is mulling a potential sequel to Orange Is the New Black, the Emmy-award winning prison series that concludes its Netflix run with the upcoming seventh season. Lionsgate Television Group Chairman Kevin Beggs told reporters Thursday that the studio is evaluating ways to continue the series, created by…

"Netflix is less attractive to me," MGM TV and Digital Group president Mark Burnett said today at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. "I want to own my IP around the world," he added, touting his preference for overseas sales and franchising as opposed to a single worldwide license fee like the…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate Entertainment is in advanced negotiations to acquire top management/production company 3 Arts Entertainment, sources said. I hear Lionsgate is in talks to buy 50% of 3 Arts with an option to acquire the remaining 50% in five years. Details about the deal are sketchy, but I hear it pegs 3 Arts…

The billionaire investor's love of the Matt Weiner-created drama saved Kevin Beggs’ bacon and earned him the temporary enmity of his fellow executives, the Lionsgate TV Group chairman told UCLA grads today in an anecdote-rich commencement speech. "After grilling the film executives, Mr. Icahn set his sights on me,"…

Watch out Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. The barriers to entry for frosh streaming content providers are quite low, so expect more competition in the near future. This morning at a MIPCOM film and TV crossroads keynote, Lionsgate TV Group chairman Kevin Begg’s spoke about the booming trend for streaming and what that means…

Once upon a time, the entire TV industry took the afternoon off to attend the Hollywood Radio and TV Society lunch coinciding with the launch of the broadcast networks’ fall season, to watch their bosses admit which pilot they passed on they now wish they’d picked up and answer other wholesome questions. These days…