EXCLUSIVE: Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions has posted a 65% increase in sales to almost $70M (£50M) over the past year, defying the impact of the pandemic in the natural history space. Deadline understands the firm’s EBITDA has also nearly doubled to around the $14M (£10M) for the year to 31 August…

ABC has picked up more episodes of The Wonder Years, currently in its first season, and sophomore Home Economics. Each received a back order of 9 episodes, bringing their pickups to full-season 22 episodes. Home Economics was a midseason entry premiering in April for a seven-episode freshman season. New broadcast…

The Voice is back at the top of Monday primetime just a week after losing its streak to Dancing With The Stars and 9-1-1. Monday’s episode, which saw Ed Sheeran perform Mega Mentor duties, earned a 0.9 rating in the 18-49 demo and 6.91 million viewers. The latest episode was up two tenths in demo rating and…

EXCLUSIVE: Multi-award winning I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum creator Michaela Coel has signed with UTA in the U.S. The agency will represent the multi-hyphenate in all areas. In the UK, she will continue to be represented by Conor McCaughan and Michael Duff. Coel was previously with CAA but the writer and…

Logan Roy and his rotten cabal will be back for more drama after HBO renewed Succession for a fourth season. The network has picked up the Jesse Armstrong-created show for a fourth run only two episodes into its third season. The move is unsurprising given the fact that the family saga drew more than 1.4M viewers…

Writing partners Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman have teamed up to establish 25 Stories, a new label at CBS Studios, where both are under big overall deals. Led by longtime NBC current executive Bruce Evans, who will serve as EVP, the venture is aimed at amplifying diverse voices and creating sustainable career paths…

EXCLUSIVE: Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit, directed by Sam Katz and James McGovern, swept the 2021 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, a three-year-old documentary award that carries a finishing grant of $200,000. The winning entry explores the decline of the American…

EXCLUSIVE: Danica McKellar, longtime star of holiday movies for Hallmark Channel, is getting into business with GAC Media. McKellar has signed a four-picture deal to star in and executive produce original films for the company’s flagship networks, GAC Family and GAC Living. For her first project, McKellar stars in and…

Entertainment, led by eOne, bolstered sales at Hasbro last quarter, partly offsetting Covid-related supply chain bottlenecks that hit toy deliveries. Entertainment revenues surged 76% to $327 million and adjusted operating profit swung to $42 million from a $3.6 million loss the year before. The company cited…

UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report for 2021 finds TV viewers embraced content from diverse writers rooms and featured diverse casts. The report, which covers statistics for the 2019–20 TV season and was released Tuesday, tracks racial and gender diversity among key job categories, as well as ratings and social media…

Kevin Hart’s unique, ice-tub based sports interview format, Cold As Balls, is returning to the locker room for season 5 after its recent socially-distanced outdoor stadium setting. The new season kicks off on Tuesday, October 26th with Minnesota Timberwolves center Karl Anthony Towns. Subsequent episodes will feature…

Canada's Got Talent is returning to air, nine years after its first and only season, and Howie Mandel and Lilly Singh have been set as two of the judges. The series, which ran for one season in 2012 before a spinoff pandemic version aired last year, will air on City TV. A Little Late star Singh and AGT judge Mandel…