SAG-AFTRA has expanded its equity and inclusion department, promoting Franklin Sablan to the newly created position of executive director of equity & inclusion and upping Ellen Huang to national director of equity & inclusion programming and engagement and Grace Allen to senior manager of equity & inclusion policy…

EXCLUSIVE: Podcast veteran Sam Dingman has signed with CAA. Dingman is the writer and showrunner behind Wondery's The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra, hosted and narrated by John Stamos. CAA will create opportunities for Dingman in the areas of podcasting, with a focus on sports-themed content, and publishing. It…

EXCLUSIVE: La Coctelera, the multilingual podcast studio, has signed with ICM. The company, which is behind podcasts such as La Matemática de la Historia, has also signed a deal with kids audio firm Tumble Media to create Spanish language and bilingual podcasts. La Coctelera specializes in bilingual English/Spanish…

Len Amato, the former President of HBO Films, Miniseries and Cinemax, has been named chief content officer at MasterClass. He will head the content organization and help lead content innovation, strategy and development of class launches for the educational streaming platform. During Amato’s tenure at the helm, HBO…

Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights tomorrow night in honor of the late Sidney Poitier. Poitier, who made his Broadway debut in 1946’s Lysistrata and earned a Tony Award nomination for his career-making portrayal of Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, died Jan. 6 at…

Lindsay Wagner has been appointed as UTA’s first-ever Chief Diversity Officer, the agency announced on Tuesday. In this new role, she will expand and drive strategy for the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, amplifying and articulating its existing values and commitments to the creative and…

Hollywood's Covid safety protocols, which had been set to expire over the weekend, are being extended on a day-to-day basis as labor and management continue to work out details for a formal extension – the first since the highly infectious Omicron variant has led to a worldwide surge in cases, hospitalizations and…

EXCLUSIVE: Derek Nguyen, the award-winning writer, director and producer behind horror-romance The Housemaid (Cô Hầu Gái), has signed with Cinetic Media for management. The Vietnamese American multihyphenate’s first feature follows an orphaned Vietnamese girl who is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber…

A former top editor of the New York Post has filed a lawsuit against the New York Post, alleging that she endured years of sexual harassment by former longtime editor Col Allan, but was demoted and dismissed following her complaints about it. Michelle Gotthelf was fired last week, according to her lawsuit, after a…

Noticias Telemundo announced a new leadership team under Patsy Loris, who took over as head of the news division on January 1. Gabriela Tristán will serve as senior vice president, news, overseeing the editorial and production units of its news programs, including Noticias Telemundo and the morning news show hoy Día…

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are launching plans to update and modernize merger enforcement guidelines, something that could mean more rigorous scrutiny of major tech and media transactions. Lina Khan, the chairwoman of the FTC, and Jonathan Kanter, the chief of the DOJ’s antitrust…

The NEP Group announced today the appointment of entertainment industry veteran Barbara Ford Grant to President of its newly formed NEP Prysm Stages business unit.  NEP Prysm Stages is part of NEP Virtual Studios, which was formed in August last year after NEP acquired Lux Machina Consulting, Halon Entertainment and…