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If you were captivated by the recent hyper-visual CG-laden The Lion King, then the Discovery Channel’s upcoming Serengeti will make your jaw hit the floor — because it is real life. With the series premiering August 4, it’s close to the release of the new iteration of the Disney film and creator and producer Simon Full…

Star Wars actor John Boyega and Us‘ Lupita Nyong’o are to narrate forthcoming BBC and Discovery’s natural history series Serengeti. Boyega will narrate the British version, while Nyong’o will narrate the U.S. version. The series, which is being produced in association with Discovery and BBC Studios Distribution…

American Idol creator Simon Fuller’s next thing? Wildlife. In the increasingly dog-eat-dog world of animals-in-the-wild docu-series, Discovery Channel will premiere a six-part series, Serengeti from Fuller and wildlife filmmaker John Downer. The series, which will premiere in ’19, follows a cast of African wildlife…

Facebook used its executive session at the TCA Summer Press tour to announce it has renewed the teen drama Skam Austin for a second season on Facebook Watch. The show, a remake of the beloved Norwegian series Skam, offers an unfiltered look at the lives of American teenagers. The series follows four "loser" girls who…

Mamma Mia… ABBA is reuniting and the Swedish pop group has set a TV special to air on NBC in the U.S. and BBC in the UK. The band, which formed in 1972 and broke up in 1982 after eight studio albums, will debut two new songs including “I Still Have Faith In You,” which will be released in December. The band – Bjorn…

Too soon? Less than a year after American Idol ended its 15-season run on Fox, the singing reality series is eyeing a comeback on a different network, NBC. Idol producer FreemantleMedia North America and creator Simon Fuller started pitching a new installment even before the series had wrapped its final season in…

Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment is making an English-language version of hit Scandi teen drama Shame (Skam) for American and Canadian audiences. The show, which debuted on Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation platforms in 2015, uses narratives in real time with unknown actors and scripts that are geared to a 16…

Is American Idol returning in 2018? No, or at least, Fox is definitely not planning a revival any time soon. However, that didn’t stop creator Simon Fuller from kidding around — maybe with a side of faking it until you’re making it — about the show’s return while accepting the TV Academy’s Governors Award bestowed on A…

How’s this for an encore? Fox’s American Idol, which wrapped its 15-year run in April, is set to receive the 2016 Governors Award from the TV Academy “in recognition of its game-changing impact on the medium.” The award honors an individual or organizational achievement in the television arts and sciences that is so…

Ryan Seacrest will try to launch another reality hit on Fox in the summer. The network announced this morning it will debut Knock Knock Live, on Tuesday, July 21. Seacrest will stay in a Los Angeles-based studio while a “Knock Knock Live team” travels the country to knock on people’s door and offer them a chance to…

The legal battle between American Idol creator Simon Fuller and Fox over The X-Factor is over. Sources confirm to Deadline that the two sides have reached a confidential settlement and are moving to have the case dismissed with prejudice. Fuller filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the network and the production…

Simon Fuller's XIX Entertainment has appointed Jed Selkowitz as SVP Strategic Marketing. Selkowitz will oversee business development of the XIX Entertainment portfolio in North America, reporting to Fuller and XIX president Robert Dodds. Selkowitz was most recently Director, Entertainment Marketing for Coca-Cola North…