Новости за 09.11.2020

Wheel of Fortune is getting a celebrity spin-off series for the first time at ABC. The network has ordered a series of Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, which will see the long-running game show make its primetime debut. The spin-off will be hosted by Pat Sajak and Vanna White and will see celebrity contestants come spin […]

EXCLUSIVE: Westbrook Studios, the production division of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s media company, is expanding its unscripted activities with the hire of former NBC alternative exec Sahara Bushue. Bushue, who was most recently SVP of Alternative Development & Current Programming at the network, has been named SVP and Head of Unscripted Television. While […]

Marie Javins has been promoted to Editor-in-Chief, DC Comics. A DC vet of six years, she will report to Daniel Cherry III, Senior Vice President and General Manager, DC Comics. Javins first began at DC in a temp position to help the label transfer its businesses from New York to Burbank, CA and then relocated to […]

Once again, NBC’s Sunday Night Football topped primetime last night, delivering a 4.1 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 13.77 million viewers who tuned into watch the New Orleans Saints trample the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 38-3. This game pitting future Hall of Fame quarterbacks Tom Brady and Drew Brees grew two tenths in the early […]

Gerard Butler is confirmed for the next movie in the lucrative Has Fallen franchise. Millennium will launch sales at the virtual AFM this week on Night Has Fallen, which will see Butler return as Mike Banning, a former Army Ranger who worked as a protective agent for the Secret Service. Robert Kamen will script along […]

EXCLUSIVE: Carly Hughes has departed ABC comedy series American Housewife, where she was a series regular for the first four seasons, alleging toxic environment and discrimination as reasons for her exit. Hughes left after the end of Season 4. She was featured in the Season 5 premiere, the bulk of which was shot before the […]

Donald Trump, in one of his first major acts as a lame duck president, has fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper. The president said Monday that he has named Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, as his acting replacement. “I am pleased to announce that Christopher C. Miller, the highly respected Director of […]

EXCLUSIVE: TriCoast Entertainment has acquired world sales, excluding Germany, to director Stefan Paul’s Bob Marley documentary Reggae Sunplash and will be shopping the pic at the American Film Market. The doc showcases the second year of the music festival Sunsplash, held in Jamaica in 1978, which was headlined by Marley in front of more than […]

Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill cast will reunite for a one-night-only special concert performance next month, bringing the musical’s stars together for the first time since the pandemic shutdown last March. Jagged Live In NYC: A Broadway Reunion Concert will feature cast members Elizabeth Stanley, Celia Rose Gooding, Sean Allan Krill, Derek Klena, Lauren Patten, Kathryn […]

CBS has filled in the last big missing piece for its fall schedule — its Friday night lineup. The network has set Friday, December 4 for the season premieres of MacGyver (Season 5), Magnum P.I. (Season 3) and Blue Bloods (Season 11),  at 8 PM, 9 PM and 10 PM, respectively. The dramas join upcoming […]

EXCLUSIVE: OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has acquired the highly evocative and timely documentary, OWN Spotlight: (In)Visible Portraits from Loving producer and first-time director Oge Egbuonu. Set air in 2021, the docu is described as a powerful celebration of Black women sharing their stories of struggle, resilience, and beyond. The pic aims to shatter the too-often […]

Ruth Wilson and Andrew Scott are among the cast of Oslo, the HBO original movie that is now rolling cameras in Prague. Pic is written by Tony Award winner J.T. Rogers, who also wrote the stage play, and directed by Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher. The plot is based on a true story of negotiations […]

Former news anchor Megyn Kelly is doubling down on President Donald Trump and his backers, continuing her unlikely reconciliation with a man who once had her on his enemies list. Kelly is taking on all comers on Twitter, including some celebrities, regarding the election fallout. She’s mostly defending Trump’s supporters, who she claims have been […]

ABC News will air a one-hour primetime special tonight on the life and legacy of Alex Trebek, the iconic television host of “Jeopardy!” who died earlier today. Alex Trebek, Remembered: A ‘20/20’ Special hosted by ABC News’ Chris Connelly airs tonight at10 PM on the ABC Television Network. In interviews over the past year with […]

The National Hockey League’s Ottawa Senators have saluted the late Alex Trebek, who helped the organization with the announcement on its 2020 NHL Draft pick. Canada native Trebek, who died on Sunday, was a Senators fan, and agreed to announce the team’s third-overall selection in the draft in the iconic “Jeopardy!” format. Trebek provided the […]

Despite an interruption for politics, NBC Sports’ coverage of Saturday night’s top-five clash between the No. 1 Clemson Tigers and the No. 4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish averaged a preliminary Total Audience Delivery of 9.44 million viewers across NBC TV and NBC Sports Digital. That makes it the most-watched Notre Dame on NBC game in 15 […]

Gravity Falls creator Alex Hirsch decided to honor his civic duty by reporting a theft to the voter fraud hotline set up by the Trump campaign. The campaign aimed to collect evidence of “voter suppression, irregularities, and fraud” from the public. The 35-year-old Hirsch decided that reporting a Hamburglar-like individual stealing ballots in a sack […]