Новости за 28.01.2020

President Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow called reports over the contents of John Bolton’s upcoming book “inadmissible” as evidence, and dismissed it as an “unsourced allegation.” Trump’s legal team is in their final hours of their arguments in the impeachment trial, but until Tuesday they largely avoided The New York Times report that Bolton, Trump’s […]

The January 23 midseason finale of Tyler Perry’s The Oval and Tyler Perry’s Sistas episode hit series highs in the key P18-49 demo in Live+3 for BET. Tyler Perry’s The Oval midseason finale at 9 PM drew a .832 P18-49 rating in Live+3, and 1.7M total viewers on BET alone. Across BET and BET her, […]

Lionsgate has landed the feature spec Memetic from Mattson Tomlin, who co-wrote The Batman script with director Matt Reeves. Based on the Boom! Studios graphic novel of the same name by James Tynion IV and Eryk Donovan, the project was brought to Lionsgate by Point Grey’s Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Josh Fagen […]

President Donald Trump praised Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for a testy exchange he had with NPR host and reporter Mary Louise Kelly, telling him, “I think you did a good job on her, actually.” At a White House ceremony with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump noted the presence of Pompeo and said, “That […]

Veteran newsman Dan Rather will stage an autobiographical two-night stand Off Broadway next month called Stories Of A Lifetime, recording the show for audiobook publisher Audible. Set for Tuesday, February 18 and Wednesday, February 19 at Manhattan’s Minetta Lane Theatre, the Stories of a Lifetime limited engagement will be directed by Kimberly Senior (Margaret Trudeau: […]

ABC’s The Bachelor dipped three tenths from last week but still managed to win Monday in primetime, earning a 1.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 5.98 million viewers for its two-hour episode. Meanwhile, things were on the up and up for Fox’s new spinoff 9-1-1: Lone Star (1.0, 7.32M), which ticked up a tenth […]

Wesley Lowery is joining 60 in 6, the new 60 Minutes-Quibi venture that will launch in the spring on the new mobile streaming service. Lowery is a national correspondent for The Washington Post and has appeared regularly on CNN as political contributor. At the Post, he led the Fatal Force project, with examined police shootings […]

True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto and one of the hit HBO anthology series’ original stars Matthew McConaughey are reuniting for Redeemer, a drama series headlined by the Oscar winner, which has landed a script-to-series commitment at FX. In conjunction to the sale, Pizzolatto has signed an overall production deal with Fox 21 Television Studios and […]

EXCLUSIVE: Bar Rescue producer 3 Ball Entertainment has established a new parent company designed to incubate a slew of production joint ventures. 3 Ball Entertainment Chairman Reinout Oerlemans and CEO Ross Weintraub have launched 3BMG to incubate, foster and support a number of established and emerging unscripted producers. The new business will house Jeff Jenkins […]

CBS has set premiere dates for retuning comedy Man With a Plan, starring Matt LeBlanc, and new sitcom Broke, starring Jaime Camil and Pauley Perrette. Both will join the schedule on April 2, airing in the Thursday 8:30 PM and 9:30 PM slot, respectively. Man with a Plan, heading into its fourth season, will succeed […]

President Donald Trump unloaded on Fox News on Tuesday after it featured a segment with one of his critics, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). Trump also went after a Fox News host, Chris Wallace, and mocked a former anchor, Shepard Smith. Trump wrote, “Really pathetic how @FoxNews is trying to be so politically correct by […]

Robert Pattinson has donned the Batsuit. Shoot is officially underway on The Batman, the Warner Bros franchise reboot. Matt Reeves is helming the pic, and the director tweeted an image of the film’s first clapperboard, which revealed that they are kicking things off with ‘scene 17’. #DayOne #TheBatman cc: @GreigfraserD pic.twitter.com/kOgcsa6zX3 — Matt Reeves (@mattreevesLA) […]

Long-time Endemol Shine Group executive Lisa Perrin has joined ITV Studios as managing director of international studios, overseeing its production assets outside of the UK and U.S. Perrin will work closely with production chiefs in more than 13 different territories, including Australia, France and Germany. She will report directly to Julian Bellamy, managing director of […]

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind Netflix’s YA horse drama Free Rein is saddling up for another scripted teen series for the streamer. The SVOD service has commissioned Zero Chill from All3Media-backed Lime Pictures. The ten-part series follows 15-year old figure skater Kayla, whose life is up-ended from Canada to the UK when her twin brother Mac […]

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific Paris-based producer-distributer Haut et Court, whose TV credits include The Returned, The Young Pope and The Last Panthers, has hired a UK-based development scout as the company’s search for international TV and film projects gathers pace. Based in London, former Fremantle editorial assistant Juliette Carlton-Thoquenne will act as Haut et Court’s UK contact […]

UPDATE: Deadline today broke that Hulu and NEON set the high bar for deals at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival with a $15 million world rights deal for the Andy Samberg-starrer Palm Springs. At the time, we heard it might be a bit higher, and waited for a definitive number. The deal at that price […]

Kobe Bryant wasn’t just beloved by sports fans, late-night hosts really liked him too. Jimmy Kimmel paid tribute to Bryant, and said there was no studio audience tonight on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live out of respect for the NBA legend, who died in a helicopter crash over the weekend. Bryant’s teenage daughter Gianna and seven […]

Trevor Noah thinks the lawyers defending President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial, including Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz, doth protest too much. The Daily Show host recapped the latest developments in the Senate proceedings and noted that the Democrats had concluded their arguments. “Now Trump’s defense is taking the floor and presenting their arguments,” […]

LeBron James has written a heartfelt tribute to Kobe Bryant, saying he is devastated after the retired Los Angeles Lakers star and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were killed in a helicopter crash Sunday morning. James took to Instagram tonight and admitted he’s “heartbroken,” but will do his absolute best to carry on Bryant’s legacy. “I’m […]

When it comes to awards season, the luncheons take the cake. AFI Awards lunch, usually around the first Friday in January, is always a warm affair where everyone in the room is a winner, and today’s annual Oscar Nominees Luncheon had the same good-feeling vibe as it always does. Each year’s class of nominees gets […]

EXCLUSIVE: WarnerMedia’s HBO Max streaming platform has opted not to proceed with Delilah, its half-hour comedy starring Jessica Rothe from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman. Kapital is shopping the pilot — which co-stars Casey Wilson, Nat Faxon, Nicole Byer and Michael McKean — to other networks and streamers. Delilah […]

UPDATE: Sony Pictures Classics has confirmed Deadline’s story that it acquired The Truffle Hunters. Release is below original scoop. EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 6:25 pm PST: Sony Pictures Classics has dug out The Truffle Hunters, a documentary that got a tasty reaction since it premiered Sunday at The Prospector. The docu, directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory […]

Station giants Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media said Monday they’ve agreed to settle an outstanding lawsuit in a deal that has Sinclair paying out $60 million and transferring ownership of a station in Kentucky. The suit was initially a tiff between Sinclair and Tribune Media, one-time merger partners. The $3.9 billion deal fell apart […]