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The moment of truth has finally arrived for Disney’s long-awaited, high-stakes entry into the streaming race, Disney+. The $7-a-month subscription service was due to go live at midnight PT as Monday became Tuesday, with a menu of film and TV titles from Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, National Geographic and Disney’s own…

ITV is forecasting that revenue at its production arm, ITV Studios, will grow at least 5% in 2019 thanks to a bumper year in the U.S. where it has delivered shows including Love Island for CBS. In a third-quarter trading update on Tuesday, ITV said that ITV Studios’ total sales should increase to around £1.8BN…

Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek has been getting an outpouring of support since her revealed that he was battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Sometimes it can come from an unexpected place. In the Jeopardy! episode, which aired Monday, Dhruv Gaur, the Brown University student who won  $100,000 earlier this year on College…

Conan O’Brien took time out this evening on Conan to remember longtime NBC late-night executive Rick Ludwin, who died Sunday in Los Angeles at age 71. Ludwin was famously known around the network for championing Seinfeld when it was a struggling comedy. He also worked in late-night at the network from the Johnny…

Sean Spicer’s dancing days are over. The former White House press secretary was eliminated from ABC’s Dancing With the Stars Monday night, despite a series of supportive tweets from President Trump. After Spicer was sent home, Trump congratulated him for his nine-week dancing run, writing on Twitter tonight: “A great…

Harry Styles wants nothing to do with Facebook, Instagram or Twitter — at least when it comes to plugging Saturday Night Live. In a new promo for the NBC sketch series, Styles is given a line to recite for a video teasing his upcoming stint as host and musical guest. The former One Direction boybander is told to look…

The 2019 E! People's Choice Awards drew an average of 1.8 million viewers Sunday across the cable networks of NBCUniversal, E!, Bravo, SyFy and USA Network. That was up 9% (+142,000) from last year’s debut of the awards franchise on the four NBCU networks (L+SD). Fueling the rise in viewership was People’s Choice Award…

EXCLUSIVE: Just in time for today’s Veterans Day, Fox has closed a deal for a script commitment plus penalty to Stateside, about a military veteran who returns to his job as a state trooper. The project, inspired by a true story, comes from The Enemy Within writer-producer Tony Camerino, an 18-year veteran of the Air…

"I don't think that there is any denying that the future of how people are going to consume their content on what we used to call television is through streamers," WarnerMedia's Sandra Dewey says as her company’s HBO Max prepares to launch in May 2020. Just hours before the much anticipated and heavily promoted…

Natasha Liu Bordizzo is set to star alongside Christoph Waltz and Liam Hemsworth in an untitled action-thriller series at Quibi from Scorpion creator Nick Santora. Here’s the logline: Desperate to take care of his pregnant wife before a terminal illness can take his life, Dodge Maynard (Hemsworth) accepts an offer to…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly McCormack (Killjoys) and Priscilla Delgado (Julieta) have been cast in Amazon’s hourlong pilot A League of Their Own, an adaptation of Penny Marshall’s 1992 feature film, from writers/executive producers Abbi Jacobson and Will Graham and Sony Pictures TV. They will co-star opposite D'Arcy Carden and…

“Have you ever conspired with a foreign intelligence officer or service,” the very serious man asks Carrie Mathison. “Are you accusing me of something?” she spits back. Later in this first teaser for Season 8 of Homeland, we hear Carrie’s mentor/boss/foil Saul Berenson say ominously, “Everyone breaks under Russian…