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EXCLUSIVE: Major League Soccer (MLS) is one of the fastest growing sports leagues in the U.S. and it's now getting its own reality TV treatment. Mark Burnett and MGM Television have teamed up with the booming soccer league and its newest expansion team Charlotte FC for reality competition series Welcome To The Team…

Much of the coverage of Amazon's $8.45 billion deal to acquire MGM has focused on the company's film attributes and the impact on theatrical distribution. The executive shuffle on the film side, featuring the likes of Michael De Luca, will get a lot of headlines, as will the importance of owning IP and a film library…

With the $8.75 billion Amazon-MGM deal wrapped, the question around Hollywood now is who will run it and whether MGM execs will cash big checks and head for the exits. The acquisition announced Wednesday morning will give the tech giant a vast library to feed its Prime Video streaming service, which is a motor for Amaz…

Resurrection, a film from The Bible producers Roma Downey and Mark Burnett that follows the immediate aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion, will premiere on Discovery+ on March 27. In Resurrection, Jesus' followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from death, they…

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…