Legal and true crime network Law&Crime is expanding expansion across the Caribbean and Latin America with a launch on Flow. Part of Cable & Wireless Communications, Flow is the preeminent […]
A new report details ViacomCBS’s use of a labyrinthine tax shelter to sell rights to its shows and films overseas.
Warner Bros. Discovery is the proposed new moniker for the combined WarnerMedia and Discovery joint venture coming together as AT&T spins off its investment in Time Warner. Discovery chief David Zaslav announced the new name Tuesday morning as he held a town hall with WarnerMedia employees from the Warner Bros. studio’s Burbank lot.
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Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen opened Season 20 with a 0.6 demo rating — topping Monday in that measure — and 2.2 million total viewers. Over on ABC, The Good Doctor slipped to series lows (3.5M/0.4) but delivered Monday’s biggest audience.
Amazon.com’s acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has turned fresh attention from investors to the fates of independent Hollywood studios that would be a catch for larger streaming players. In particular, it has put a spotlight on Lionsgate Entertainment and Sony Pictures Entertainment, which claim a trove of acclaimed movies and beloved characters, much like MGM. And crucially, they might find it similarly tough to go it alone as tech giants move aggressively to conquer the entertainment industry.
On Sunday night at 10 p.m. ET, when HBO’s highly anticipated Mare of Easttown season finale was to have started, social media erupted with reports that the cabler’s streaming service — which only days ago celebrated its first birthday — was down for many subscribers. Some users speculated that HBO Max could not handle the Kate Winslet-led murder mystery’s finale-night traffic.
SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — Investigators on Sunday continued searching for the bodies of seven people believed killed in the crash a day earlier of a small jet into a Tennessee […]
Producers are looking to unionize to protect their rights in the streaming era, but will likely face stiff resistance from major media companies.
LONDON (AP) — Sit at the back of the movie theater, and it’s possible to see the appeal of ScreenX, the latest attempt to drag film lovers off the sofa […]
Gavin MacLeod, who was the Love Boat captain and played Murray on the Mary Tyler Moore Show, two of the top television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, died Saturday at his home in Palm Desert, Calif.
How big was Friends: The Reunion for HBO Max? Almost superhero-big, according to third-party data. Friends: The Reunion was watched by an estimated 29% of U.S. streaming households on May 27, the first day of its release, as measured by TVision, a connected-TV analytics provider. Viewers of the special on HBO Max were 55.4% female, and more than 50% were in the 35-54 demo. By comparison, DC’s Wonder Woman 1984 reached 32% of U.S. streaming households when it bowed on Christmas Day 2020 on HBO Max, per TVision.
NBC’s Law & Order: SVU this week copped 4.2 million total viewers and a 0.6 rating, outdrawing time slot rival Grey’s Anatomy and landing in a four-way tie for the nightly demo win. ABC’s Station 19 (4.4M/0.6) drew Thursday’s largest audience.
Pac-12 Networks is introducing Pac-12 Insider on Local Now, Allen Media Group’s free streaming service. Through Local Now, viewers have 24/7 access to unique content across all genres from local news and sporting events to other […]
Netflix’s ‘Shadow And Bone’ Tops Streaming
In its first full week on Netflix, original series Shadow and Bone captured 1.192 billion minutes of viewing, making it the most watched show on the major U.S. SVOD services for the week of April 26-May 2, according to Nielsen. It was the first time in eight weeks in which any show has surpassed 1 billion viewing minutes.
In a rough season for ad-supported TV outlets, a few shows managed to stand out amid a landscape of overall declines.
The former agent, FX exec and Anonymous Content manager will continue to oversee Paramount TV Studios on top of absorbing some of Julie McNamara’s responsibilities.
NBC has canceled Debris, Deadline confirmed on Thursday, after the fate of the freshman sci-fi detective drama had been up in the air following its May 24 finale that wrapped up a 13-episode run. It was one of five NBC shows — along with Good Girls, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Manifest and Ellen’s Game of Games — that were left off the network’s list this month of returning series and new shows
The streamier is focused on engagement — and winning back former subscribers.
Julie McNamara, EVP and head of programming for Paramount+, is leaving after 15 years at CBS and ViacomCBS. One of the top programming executives at the combined company, McNamara has been overseeing the original content strategy for ViacomCBS’ streaming service. Tom Ryan, ViacomCBS’s president-CEO, streaming, just announced McNamara’s exit internally, and she also shared the news with her staff.
With speculation swirling about Jason Kilar’s potential exit from WarnerMedia — given its looming combo with Discovery — the CEO told staffers at a town hall meeting Thursday that he plans to stay with the company through next year. “My plan and my focus is to remain here in my CEO role at WarnerMedia,” Kilar said, according to a source who was in attendance. “I am not thinking right now about post-merger. There will be a time to consider that topic in 2022.”
After a year of disruption, innovation and catastrophically low ratings, the Academy Awards are getting back to business as usual. The show will return to the Dolby Theatre for its ABC broadcast and the eligibility window will once again close at the end of the calendar year.
