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YouTube Global Head of Original Content Susanne Daniels has resigned after over six years, during which she built the original content division of the company. Her last day will be March 1. YouTube Originals is coming off Q4 2021 as its most-watched quarter ever with 1.3 billion views. Daniels, a respected veteran TV…

MTV's Total Request Live, better known as TRL and originally hosted by Carson Daly, was one of the cable network's biggest shows during its run between 1998 and 2008. The show aired the most requested music videos of the day as voted for by viewers. However, by 2008, the internet, and particularly YouTube had become…

Are you ready to test the science of magic in the Harry Potter films? YouTube Originals has ordered a second season of Could You Survive the Movies? — its docuseries that picked up a Daytime Emmy over the weekend. Hosted by YouTuber Jake Roper, the series from Ample Entertainment explores the magic and science behind…

The Peabody Awards has five new board members, and all are veterans of the entertainment business. Newly seated are Susanne Daniels, global head of original content at YouTube; Peter Roth, president and chief content officer for Warner Bros. Television Group; Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios; Michael Schwimmer…

YouTube will target Germany, Japan, Mexico, France and India with scripted series and other original programming in hopes of bolstering its paid subscription service. The move puts YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc., into competition with Netflix and Amazon, both also investing in local language programming for online…

Susanne Daniels, global head of original content at YouTube, touched on issues such as the rebranding of YouTube Red as YouTube Premium, longer episode running times and budget strategy during an executive session at TCA. “You’re probably not going to see us spend that level of money for a Game of Thrones or a…

"Netflix is less attractive to me," MGM TV and Digital Group president Mark Burnett said today at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills. "I want to own my IP around the world," he added, touting his preference for overseas sales and franchising as opposed to a single worldwide license fee like the…

UPDATED, 10:38 AM: In its biggest festival film buy, YouTube Red closed the $3.5 million deal for the Morgan Spurlock-directed  Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!, as Deadline scooped on September 8. They’ve confirmed the deal this morning, and the press release is below the original break, which came early in the Toronto…

Veteran TV players Shonda Rhimes, Susanne Daniels, Mark Gordon, Richard Weitz and Carmi Zlotnik are joining the Television Academy’s executive committee. In those committee roles, the five will help set policy for the Academy, which now is led by Hayma Washington, who became chairman and CEO in November, succeeding…

On the 20th anniversary of Brandan Tartikoff death, the visionary NBC and  Paramount executive was fondly remembered by several of this year’s Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award honorees. “The first time I worked with Tartikoff was at the very beginning of my carrier,” said YouTube content chief Susanne Daniels who…

YouTube’s new subscription service YouTube Red is ramping up its programming slate, ordering its first drama pilot, Impulse from Doug Liman, along with a sci-fi action series from Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. The service also renewed Joey Graceffa's popular reality adventures series Escape the Night for a second season…

YouTube’s Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl just unveiled You Tube Red, a $9.99 a month service ($12.99 for iOS devices) that will give subscribers ad-free access to YouTube’s videos, games and music — and enable them to download content to use offline for 30 days. Beginning next year the package also will include…