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Dominic Pagone has been named Head of Communications for Paramount Television Studios.  Pagone previously served as Senior VP of Entertainment PR and Awards for Showtime. He oversaw the Los Angeles- and Boston-based PR teams at Showtime, as well as the Showtime Awards team and the Paramount…

EXCLUSIVE: Names of programming executives impacted by Tuesday’s layoffs across Paramount Global’s CBS Studios and Paramount TV Studios are starting to emerge. As expected, all of them are on the Paramount TV Studios side, largely as a result of Paramount+’s scripted originals team being folded into that…

George Cheeks has outlined his vision for CBS Studios and Paramount TV Studios. It comes after Deadline broke the news that Paramount Global was undergoing its latest round of layoffs with the Paramount+ scripted originals team being folded into Paramount TV Studios. The two studios will now…

EXCLUSIVE: The dust has settled on the restructucturing across CBS Studios, Paramount TV Studios and the Paramount+ scripted originals team, which resulted in under 30 staff cuts. As we reported, the Paramount+ scripted originals team is being folded into Paramount TV Studios. The streamer’s Jana…

EXCLUSIVE: The expected alignment of CBS Studios, Paramount TV Studios and the Paramount+ scripted originals team is happening, and it is resulting in staff cuts. The latest round of Paramount Global layoffs is impacting under 30 people, I hear, all on the West Coast. According to sources, the majority of…

Three weeks after the exit of David Nevins left a hole in the oversight of Paramount+ scripted originals, the void is yet to be filled. However, chatter about a restructuring of the operations along the lines laid out in Deadline’s piece on the day of Nevins’ departure announcement has been gaining…

The departure Thursday of David Nevins as Chairman and CEO, Paramount Premium Group and Chief Creative Officer, Paramount+ Scripted Series, as well as Paramount Global’s restructuring unveiled alongside it, created a lot anxiety within the operations impacted by Nevins’ exit. Nevins…

EXCLUSIVE: Time to update the Pink Lady Pledge to act cool, look cool, be cool … and snag an overall deal. Annabel Oakes, creator and showrunner of the upcoming series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, has signed an overall deal with Paramount Television Studios. Besides writing and running the upcoming Grease prequel…

Following the recent restructurings at ViacomCBS — in which Chairman and CEO of Showtime Networks David Nevins added oversight of Paramount Television Studios and was named Chief Content Officer, Scripted Originals, Paramount+, while Paramount TV Studios President Nicole Clemens also became President, Paramount+…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned publicity vet Mia Ammer has departed Paramount as SVP, Corporate Communications of Paramount TV Studios. We understand Ammer’s position was eliminated. The news comes in the wake of the Studio, which Ammer handled day-to-day communications for, coming under the purview of Showtime CEO…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount TV Studios is developing Voluntary Committal, a psychological supernatural thriller series based on the novella by Locke & Key and NOS4A2 author Joe Hill. The project hails from Hill, writer Brad Caleb Kane (Warrior), Bob Cooper (Medical Investigation, Mr. Woodcock) and his Landscape…

EXCLUSIVE: Since news dropped last week about Qatar’s beIN Media Group’s interest to unload a portion of the Miramax library, Deadline has come to learn that there’s certain interest chiefly by Viacom and Lionsgate. Meanwhile, Sony we understand is not considering any purchase of the 700-title library which boasts a…