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Peacock is doubling down on true-crime content and global co-productions, while NBC will develop more limited series in the vein of Renée Zellweger's upcoming drama The Thing About Pam. Those were some of the key scripted takeaways from Susan Rovner's session at the Edinburgh TV Festival, one of her first major public…

In a world of reboots, spin-offs and reimaginations, The Office remains one of the most vaunted. The launch of NBCUniversal streamer Peacock and the company's $500M deal to get the rights back from Netflix to the Steve Carrell-fronted adaptation of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's comedy put the idea of a reboot…

NBCUniversal brought out the stars to its Upfront on Monday to demonstate how the company's new content strategy might work in practice. The company — which has decentralized its buying across linear broadcast, cable and streaming — relied on the likes of Will Smith, Kelly Clarkson, Kevin Hart and Renee Zellweger to…

UPDATED with Paralympic Games commentators info: A majority of Japanese citizens oppose the Olympics to go ahead in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic, but NBC insists the Games will go on, at least for now. "NBC will be bringing all of it to America," declared Mike Tirico today at the 2021 virtual NBCUniversal upfr…

The reorganization of NBCUniversal's entertainment content team is complete with Susan Rovner setting the team and around 50 employees leaving as part of the changes. Deadline understands that Bruce Evans, EVP, Current Programming and Dan Shear, EVP, Comedy Development at Peacock are two of the high-profile execs…

Five weeks after joining NBCUniversal, Susan Rovner has put her stamp on the company's TV and streaming division by setting her programming leadership team. The main takeaways from the reshuffle, which Rovner shared via an internal memo, are Lisa Katz becoming President of Scripted Content and Rovner splitting the…

EXCLUSIVE: The next projected layoffs stemming from NBCUniversal’s recent restructuring are starting next month, sources tell Deadline. November 12 is penciled in as the target date as company brass are eying mid-next month for the second wave of staff reductions to begin, we hear. The cuts will likely come in waves…

Susan Rovner has officially started her new role as Chairman, Entertainment Content for NBCUniversal's Television and Streaming division. The exec, whose last day as President of Warner Bros Television was Friday, takes over today in charge of creative strategy across all of NBCU's broadcast, cable and streaming…

Warner Bros. has confirmed that Susan Rovner, President of Warner Bros. Television, will be leaving the studio “to pursue new opportunities”. Those new opportunities consist of the top programming job at NBCUniversal, for which she had been in negotiations. Rovner’s last day at WBTV will be October 2. She announced…

Warner Bros. Television veteran Susan Rovner‘s long rumored move to NBCUniversal is close to completion. WBTV President Rovner is said to be finalizing her exit from the studio and in advanced negotiations for the NBCU top entertainment programming job in the new NBCU structure announced last month. She gradually…

Two more Warner Bros. Television TV series, both from John Wells Prods., are resuming production in Los Angeles next week. Shameless is set to start filming its 11th and final season on Sept. 8; TNT’s Animal Kingdom will begin shooting Season 5 on Sept. 7. They are the first WBTV series to restart production in LA…

There hardly has been a high-profile TV programming job over the past decade for which Warner Bros. Television veteran Susan Rovner has not been put on the list of viable candidates. There had been multiple overtures but she had stayed put at the independent studio where for years she has been topper Peter Roth’s…