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As they say, it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy – in the best way. Nearly 25 years after joining CBS as a media relations executive, Chris Ender today was named communications chief for the CBS Entertainment Group. "Reporting to me, Chris will be responsible for all public relations, media relations and…

A day after The Comey Rule writer/director Billy Ray released a letter to the cast lamenting the decision by ViacomCBS to slot the limited series until after the presidential elections in November, Showtime has just announced an about-face. The limited series will now air Sunday, September 27 and 28 at 9 PM. The…

UPDATE: Maybe this is not as done a deal as the cast and director of The Comey Rule were told. Sources now tell me that the programming schedule is in flux due to COVID-19 and that some productions were delayed. As a result, several date changes will soon be made. Most important here, it is now looking likely that The…

Showtime has just set a late November premiere date over two nights for its limited series The Comey Rule, the $40 million budget adaptation of A Higher Loyalty, the book by former FBI head James Comey that is about his battles with President Donald Trump. The network released the first images of Gleeson playing…

Shares of ViacomCBS are surging 10% Monday, way outpacing an already buoyant market, as chair Shari Redstone told the company's annual meeting that she's committed to boosting shareholder value and a stock that's been under immense pressure for months. The shares are changing hands at about $19, well off a 52-week low…

Alex Rodriguez is among three new members of The Paley Center for Media’s Board of Trustees, with top executives from Macro, Sony Pictures TV and Tyler Perry Studios joining the organization’s Los Angeles Board of Governors. Former MLB star and broadcaster Rodriguez, CEO of A-Rod Corp., joins Eddy Cue, Senior VP…

National Amusements, the Redstone family holding company, was placed on negative credit watch by ratings agency S&P Global after shares of ViacomCBS – which NAI uses as debt collateral – skidded so low over the past three weeks that the parent was in technical default on a bank loan. That’s a headache for NAI but also…

Following nearly 30 years at CBS, EVP Dana McClintock is heading out the door of the now merged ViacomCBS this summer. “After 27 years in CBS Communications, I've had a hand in writing a variety of goodbye memos, and now it's time for a version of my own,” McClintock said today in a memo to staff announcing his exit…

Now re-melded with Viacom, CBS doesn't really corporately exist anymore, but a federal judge's order Wednesday on a long-battled shareholder lawsuit will make Shari Redstone and former interim CBS CEO Joe Ianniello pretty happy. The empress of all things ViacomCBS and the current chairman of CBS Entertainment Group…

UPDATED with closing stock price. ViacomCBS marked its first day as a merged company with a celebrity-studded appearance on the floor of the Nasdaq Market Site in New York’s Times Square and a town hall meeting overflowing with optimism. CEO Bob Bakish and chairman Shari Redstone smiled and clapped alongside Stephen…

In the final weeks before Viacom and CBS' latest reunion becomes a $30 billion fact, Showtime boss and rising corporate star David Nevins today had praise for the launch of Disney+ and promised surprises with the remerged media giant. "I think it is impressive," the CBS Chief Content Officer bluntly noted of the 10…

In a high-energy appearance at the Paley Center, CBS and Viacom vice chair Shari Redstone made the case for companies’ impending merger, insisting “we absolutely have enough scale.” The stocks of Viacom and CBS, which are controlled by National Amusements, have slumped since the long-awaited merger was announced in…