Both will reprise their roles from Big Bang Theory after last appearing together in the show’s final episode.
C-SPAN has started searching for a new CEO with longtime co-CEOs Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain stepping down this year. It’s a rare changing of the guard for the nonprofit public affairs network, which turns 45 on March 19. C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb served as CEO since the company’s founding in 1978, with Kennedy and Swain (then co-presidents) stepping into the co-CEO roles in 2012.
So You Think You Can Dance co-creator and former judge Nigel Lythgoe has been accused of sexual assault for the fourth time in less than three months. “Lythgoe’s sexual assault and battery were so traumatizing that Plaintiff no longer feels like the confident, capable, and independent woman that she was before the incident,” says Jane Doe of the alleged 2018 incident in a filing Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The sale comes after McMahon stepped down from his posts at TKO Group due to a lawsuit accusing him of sex trafficking and battery by a former WWE employee.
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The event and publishing executive says she’s next looking for “a new opportunity with a global scope.”
She oversaw the production of Blue’s Clues and drew on her own childhood for The Backyardigans, in which five cartoon animals imagine their yard as a place of otherworldly adventure.
Hudock will supervise the communications strategy and media outreach for the entire MSNBC portfolio, including Morning Joe, the network’s daytime MSNBC Reports programs, primetime shows and talent, weekend coverage and longform productions, as well as non-linear content and live events. He will also serve as the principal communications lead for MSNBC President Rashida Jones. Hudock will continue to report to Stephen Labaton, EVP of communications for NBCUniversal News Group.
Trade association IABM has appointed Darren Whitehead to director of sales and marketing. In his new, expanded role, Whitehead will be responsible for the strategies, activities and performance of all […]
After anchoring with Gray Television’s Northern News Now (the Duluth, Minn., region’s NBC, CBS, CW and MyNetworkTV affiliates) for nearly two years, veteran journalist Paul Brown has been promoted to […]
The Broadcasters Foundation of America bestowed its Golden Mike Award to Hearst Corp. EVP and COO Jordan Wertlieb and its Lifetime Achievement Award to journalist and Inside Edition Anchor Deborah Norville. A packed grand ballroom at New York’s Plaza hotel resonated with the memory of longtime BFOA Chair Phil Lombardo, who died early this year. Pictured (l-r): Scott Herman, BFOA chairman; Jordan Wertlieb; and Tim McCarthy, BFOA president (Renee Cassis photo).
Austin Stowell (Catch-22 TV series) is taking on Mark Harmon’s signature NCIS character Leroy Jethro Gibbs. Stowell has been cast as young Gibbs in CBS’s new drama NCIS: Origins, a prequel to the venerable procedural, which has a straight-to-series order for the 2024-25 broadcast season. CBS Studios is producing.
Both men — bounced from running NBCUniversal and CNN, respectively, over sex scandals — now find themselves at private equity firm RedBird Capital, which is behind Skydance Media’s ongoing machinations to take over Shari Redstone’s struggling Paramount entertainment empire.
Mortensen announced in 2016 that he he had been diagnosed with throat cancer. Even while undergoing treatment, he was the first to confirm the retirement of Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning.
Multimedia journalists Cameron Dobbs and Ana Isabel Hume are the new hosts of WSFL’s long-running original lifestyle program Inside South Florida on Scripps CW affiliate WSFL Miami. “As we aim […]
Letitia Walker Named WBRZ Baton Rouge News Director
The company promotes Kate O’Brian to president of news, overseeing all news operations across Scripps’ local media stations, Scripps News and Court TV.
The broadcast executive is tapped by Sinclair to lead its WCYB (NBC/CW) and WEMT (Fox) in the Tri-Cities region of Tennessee and Virginia, which includes Bristol, Va./Johnson City-Kingsport, Tenn.
