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Reality TV vet and producer Bethenny Frankel is set to headline a new business competition series for HBO Max. The streamer has handed an eight-episode order to The Big Shot with Bethenny (working title), from MGM Television, Mark Burnett and Frankel’s B Real Productions. In each half-hour episode, the next generation…

MGM Television, headed by Worldwide Chairman Mark Burnett, is making a push in scripted programming across all platforms and bolstering its development team with three key executive hires. Bradley Gardner has been named SVP of Orion Television, focusing on comedy and drama; Christopher Goble has been tapped as VP…

Jimmy Kimmel has partnered with Mark Burnett on a new game show for ABC. The network has ordered Generation Gap from the pair. The show, which is produced by Kimmel's Kimmelot and MGM Television, is a comedy quiz show that groups family members of different generations who must work together to answer questions about…

The fate of The World's Best, CBS' high-profile entertainment format hosted by James Corden, remains up in the air but if it did get picked up the broadcaster would "tweak the format". The global talent competition, which featured RuPaul Charles, Drew Barrymore and Faith Hill as judges, launched after the Super Bowl…

Mark Burnett and MGM Television are launching a new division to focus on launching unscripted formats internationally. The Shark Tank and Survivor producer is bringing back former Mark Burnett Productions executives C. Scot Cru and Patrice Choghi to run the new division. This comes after Deadline revealed earlier this…

MGM has hired veteran entertainment marketing exec Stephen Bruno to be its chief marketing officer. He will leave Netflix to take the post and he starts at the studio in April. Bruno has solid experience both in theatrical film and television series launches. He spent the past four years as VP Creative Marketing at…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM Television and Mark Burnett have made a multi-year deal with Bethenny Frankel to generate unscripted TV projects that she will produce, some of which will be star vehicles for her. Burnett, the MGM Worldwide Television Group Chairman, made the deal directly with Frankel and her attorneys at Grubman…

Rachel Zoe (The Rachel Zoe Project), Mark Burnett and MGM TV are teaming on an international fashion competition series aimed at undiscovered designers. Throughout the series, contestants are challenged to create original designs with a new and unique look, and will compete for the opportunity to have their creations…

Mark Burnett, Fast & Furious actor Tyrese Gibson and MGM TV are teaming on Celebrity Grand Prix, a new primetime competition series, with Gibson set to host and executive produce. The project is currently in development and will be shopped to broadcast and cable outlets. In Celebrity Grand Prix, celebrities will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Tellem, the highly respected former television executive, who has been running an Internet start-up and has been on the MGM board since 2013, is now stepping into the office of the CEO at MGM. She is expected to help on overall company strategy with top execs Mark Burnett and Chris Brearton, sources…

ABC News is the latest media outlet shocked – shocked! – to report Donald Trump’s The Apprentice producer partner/pal Mark Burnett has had dealings with Russians connected to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Burnett has boasted of being in business, or at least in business talks, with Putin’s circle. In Tuesday’s…

Many of the acolytes around Donald Trump these days seem to be running for cover, except for the man who essentially created him. Mark Burnett, the maven of reality TV, remains a Trump protector and is getting heat for it, but he himself dwells behind a veil of contradiction and mystery, as a lengthy piece in the New Y…