Новости за 19.03.2021

When Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan last week, the $1.9 trillion bill included a significant bump for arts and cultural agencies: $135 million each to the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and $175 million to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Just weeks earlier, he signed an […]

Looking to expand opportunities for advertisers beyond pay-TV, AMC Networks has set a slate of original digital series to be produced by the studio arm of its in-house branded integration agency, The Content Room. The shows, which connect with marquee properties from across the AMC Networks portfolio, offer another option for media buyers looking for […]

A new content partnership between AMC Networks and Complex Networks, billed as an effort to “leverage the strength of food and fandom” will start off with a focus on The Walking Dead. The mash-up of the zombie show and Complex online food magazine First We Feast will yield an original series called Run The Dish. […]

Hello International Insider friends, Jake Kanter here. Well done on making it to the end of another frantic few days. As always, we’re in your inbox to serve up the tastiest news morsels of the week from the international film and TV biz. Got something to say or a story? I’m on jkanter@deadline.com or my DMs […]

A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would have a major impact on industry labor practices aimed at restricting the ability of record labels and studios to bind recording artists and series regulars to lengthy exclusive contract windows. The bill would limit the length of time that regular series performers can be locked up […]

Sheridan Smith To Headline Channel 5’s ‘Teacher’ BAFTA-winner Sheridan Smith is to headline Teacher, the latest drama series from ViacomCBS’s UK network Channel 5. Smith will play Jenna in the Clapperboard-produced psychological thriller, which follows a state schoolteacher whose life unravels after being accused of a drunken sexual encounter with one of her pupils. Other […]

The Daily Show‘s Trevor Noah will go head-to-head against Ted Lasso with himself for EA Sport’s FIFA Face-Off. The two-part live competition game show will feature Jason Sudeikis in his popular Apple+ role and co-star Bernard Hunt appearing as his Ted Lasso character, Coach Beard, to play the popular soccer video game. FIFA Face-Off airs […]

A plan that would have built an aerial tram from the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank to the Hollywood sign will not involve the studio, the company said on Thursday. Warner Bros. planned to be a part of the project funding and construction. The goal was to alleviate congestion on the narrow roads leading to […]

Talent agent Melisa Spamer, one of two surviving partners at a LLC that operates as Domain Talent, filed a petition today to expel from the company the other, Joe Vance, alleging that the latter had embezzled significant amounts of money over a number of years. “Respondent’s unlawful activity has resumed with additional acts of embezzlement […]

March Madness is upon us, and brackets are uppermost in many sports fans minds. But it’s also the anniversary of the world shutting down because of the coronavirus pandemic, which means that many were confined to home for long stretches. The focus on the trivial annoyances that come with that forced confinement were examined tonight […]

On December 8 2020, President-elect Joe Biden made a promise to the American people to administer 100 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in his first 100 days in office. According to an announcement from the president on Thursday, the country will make the mark with 32 days to spare. “Before I took office,” wrote Biden […]

Former stuntwoman Leslie Hoffman has won another ruling before the U.S. Ninth Circuit of Appeals in her decade-long battle with the SAG Pension Plan and the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan over whether she is entitled to receive an occupational disability pension, which would give her lifetime health coverage because of the injuries she suffered over her […]