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The WGA East has reached an agreement with NBC News Studios for the coverage of programs produced by the recently established unit. The deal ends a bitter battle in which the union accused NBCUniversal of "union busting" in a dispute over the shuttering of its now-defunct Peacock Productions, formerly the in-house…

UPDATED with NBCUniversal response, 1:49 PM: The WGA East today accused NBCUniversal of "union busting" in a dispute over the shuttering of its now-defunct Peacock Productions, formerly the in-house nonfiction production wing of NBC News. The guild, which had a contract with Peacock, says that many of the unit's…

NBC News plans to shutter its non-fiction unit Peacock Productions, which has created series, documentaries and specials for broadcast and cable outlets since its launch in 2007. The unit created projects such as The Disappearance of Crystal Rogers for Oxygen and a Discovery Channel special about Nik Wallenda’s…

After a seven-year battle, writer-producers at Peacock Productions finally have their first contract with the Comcast/NBCUniversal nonfiction TV production arm. The new pact, which covers 40 writer-producers, was ratified unanimously, and includes what the guild is calling a "landmark" agreement to establish a…

Peacock Productions has voted in favor of unionizing with the WGA East, a result that comes more than three years after writers and producers at the NBCUniversal reality/nonfiction production subsidiary first cast their ballots. NBC and Peacock had filed an appeal with the National Labor Relations Board after the…

The National Labor Relations Board has finally ordered the counting of ballots cast more than three years ago to determine whether reality show producers at NBC News’ Peacock Productions want to be represented by the WGA East. Writer-producers at the NBCUniversal subsidiary filed a motion for union election with the…

Investigation Discovery will premiere a new special, Guns on Campus: Tamron Hall Investigates, on Sunday, August 7 at 10 PM, commemorating the 5oth anniversary of the Tower Shooting at the University of Texas at Austin. Half a century ago that month, 25-year-old engineering student Charles Whitman used a high-powered…

NBC News' Peacock Productions division has signed a deal with Denise Brown, sister of the late Nicole Brown Simpson, to develop an unscripted true-crime series. Denise, of course is the former sister-in-law of O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star and NBC Sports commentator who was charged with the 1994 murder of his…

Add NBC News’ Peacock Productions to the growing list of unscripted-TV producers trying to do their own iteration of the wildly successful Serial podcast. Peacock Prods’ hook?  Its series will be developed with Brian Banks, whose life as a wrongly convicted man is being turned into a movie directed by Lee…

“Listen to that roar!…I love Chicago, and Chicago definitely loves me!” Nik Wallenda boasted as he walked about two city blocks worth of wire suspended between two 500-foot-plus-tall Chicago skyscrapers for Discovery Channel, and about 50,000 people below screamed approval tonight. For the second leg of his walk…

NBC News' Peacock Productions is expanding its Los Angeles office, and today said it had named Melody Shafir as VP Development. In this newly created position, Shafir will oversee all of Peacock Productions’ U.S. development, including LA, New York and Miami. Shafir will be responsible for all original programming…

Nik Wallenda will be blindfolded when he performs his tightrope walk between the two 587-foot, 65-story Marina City towers in Chicago, for Discovery Channel, on Sunday, November 2. “Why?” deadpanned Today show’s co-host Matt Lauer, speaking for us all, when Wallenda broke the news this morning on the NBC morning…