Новости за 05.04.2022

It’s official: DailyMailTV, the syndicated show from Stage 29 Productions and syndicated by CBS Media Ventures, is wrapping up this summer. The daily newsmagazine kicked off in 2017 and featured top stories from DailyMail.com that ranged from exclusives to breaking news, showbiz, crime, health and science and technology. It was executive produced by Jay McGraw, as well […]

Paramount+ announced today that its four-hour docuseries Ghislaine — Partner in Crime, exploring the life of Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous partner, Ghislaine Maxwell, will be available for streaming in full starting April 7. Maxwell’s journey began as the daughter of Robert Maxwell, a wealthy media magnate scrutinized over questionable business deals, who then died mysteriously while […]

Broadway’s spring season kicked into higher gear last week, with the arrival of seven previewing productions (with more to come over the next few weeks). Business overall remained robust, with the 31 shows grossing a total of $28,818,836. The figure marks a 7% increase over the previous week, a jump due in no small part […]

Bridgerton might not have quite as much sex as the first season but it’s still pulling in the viewers. Netflix has revealed that the second season of the Shondaland Regency romp was watched for 251.7M hours over the last seven days – breaking the streamers record for the most viewed English-language TV series. The second […]

Fox will ring in the summer with a lineup filled with dance, music, tasty dishes and more. On Tuesday the network revealed the premiere dates for  Duncanville (May 1)So You Think You Can Dance (May 18), Don’t Forget The Lyrics! (May 23), Beat Shazam (May 23), MasterChef (May 25), Lego Masters (May 31) and Fantasy […]

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock is developing a 1960s crime saga set in Hawaii from The Eternals writers Kaz and Ryan Firpo, Fast & Furious director Justin Lin and The Walking Dead and Minari star Steven Yeun. The Islands, which is inspired by true events, is a story about American Imperialism, the fall of a kingdom, and the […]

EXCLUSIVE: Abhi Sinha is set as a series regular opposite Matt Passmore and Floriana Lima in Blank Slate, NBC’s drama pilot from Dean Georgaris, John Fox, Davis Entertainment and Universal Television. Created by Georgaris and Fox, written by Georgaris and to be directed by Richard Shepard, Blank Slate draws some parallels to Davis Entertainment’s long-running […]

ABC set the spring season finale dates for its scripted programming today, including the series signoff for Kenya Burris’ long-running Black-ish. The 13th and final episode of Season 8 of the Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross-starring show will air on Tuesday, April 19 at 9 p.m. The network also announced the season finale date […]

HBO Max and Warner Bros. are looking to build a Sherlock Holmes film-TV universe in the mold of the TV series offshoots of Suicide Squad and The Batman on the WarnerMedia streamer. We hear that two potential spinoff series from the Warner Bros. movie franchise starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law are in early […]

EXCLUSIVE: Landmark Theatres has entered into a long-term lease agreement for the Annapolis Harbour Center in Annapolis, Maryland. The venue, which originally opened on May 24, 1991 by K-B Theatres, was recently operated as a Bow-Tie Cinemas. Located on Solomons Island Road, the nine-screen venue will re-open this summer. “We’re excited to broaden our presence […]

Court TV will carry the televised feed of the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard defamation trial, which is scheduled to begin next week in Fairfax County, VA. The network will be the pool feed provider for the trial, and plans to provide coverage of the proceedings. Ethan Nelson, Acting Head of Court TV, said in a statement, […]

Paramount+ has acquired Finestkind, the crime thriller from Oscar winner Brian Helgeland which stars Academy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Jenna Ortega. A drop date later this year on the streamer is scheduled. Pic takes place in New Bedford, Mass., which is the biggest commercial fishing port in the U.S. Finestkind […]

And so to Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore, the third episode in the five-part blockbuster that is J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter prequel series. For a start, that colon in the title shouldn’t be there. Yes, there is a menagerie of beasts here and they are, as it says on the tin, truly fantastic. […]

Apple TV+ has set a June premiere date for the Season 2 premiere of its praised dark comedy series Physical. The streamer also released first-look photos of the new season (see above and below). Starring and executive produced by Rose Byrne, from creator, writer and EP Annie Weisman, the 10-episode second season will premiere with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Downey Jr. has teamed with bestselling environmental author Thomas Kostigen to write Cool Food: Erasing Your Carbon Footprint One Bite at a Time. The book has been acquired by Blackstone Publishing president/CEO Josh Stanton. The actor/producer and Kostigen plan a book they say will provide a smart, accessible, and game-changing roadmap to making […]

Billionaire Elon Musk has joined Twitter’s board of directors, a day after it was announced he had become the social media company’s largest shareholder. CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted about the news after Musk’s appointment was made official in an SEC filing. During his two-year term on the board, and shortly thereafter, Musk is not allowed […]

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired North American rights to the psychological thriller Cordelia, starring Antonia Campbell-Hughes (It Is In Us All) and Johnny Flynn (Emma), from Great Point Media, which holds world distribution rights outside the UK. The Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company plans to release the title from director Adrian Shergold (Pierrepoint: […]

EXCLUSIVE: Tori Spelling will host @Home with Tori, an original lifestyle series that will stream on smart-TV maker Vizio’s WatchFree+ platform. Each of the 10 half-hour episodes will center on a different theme, ranging from pool parties to mother-daughter relationships to cocktails. The series is now in production and will premiere in May. (Check out […]

Discovery Italy To Adapt BBC Studios Formats ‘The Great British Sewing Bee’ And This Is MY House’ Discovery in Italy has commissioned local-language versions of The Great British Sewing Bee and This is MY House after striking deals with distributor BBC Studios. Reality competition show The Great British Sewing Bee, originally from Love Productions, will be […]

“It’s not alway best to be first” is the verdict of HBO Max Global Boss Johannes Larcher as he talked up international strategy at a Mip TV keynote this afternoon. Speaking to the territories in which HBO Max will be launching after competitors including Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount+, the former Hulu exec […]

A guilty judgement in a plagiarism case against Oscar winning director Asghar Farhadi is not the final verdict of the court, the filmmaker’s lawyer has said. The case involves Farhadi’s A Hero, which won the Grand Prize in Cannes last year and was Iran’s submission for the International Feature Film category at the Academy Awards. […]

The Cannes Film Festival has just confirmed our scoop from last month that Baz Luhrmann’s anticipated rock and roll pic Elvis will debut on the Croisette. The festival has announced that Luhrmann, Tom Hanks, Austin Butler and Olivia DeJonge will be in attendance for the world premiere. Cannes and Warner Bros have also released a new […]

EXCLUSIVE: In a rare double interview, Sidonie Dumas, CEO of France’s oldest film company Gaumont, and Vice CEO Christophe Riandee, tell us about transforming the storied theatrical business into a major TV player in Europe and beyond. Gaumont, producer of international shows including Lupin (one of Netflix’s biggest ever hits), Narcos (the streamer’s first global foreign language […]

High-profile politicians and media figures have slammed the UK government’s decision to press ahead with privatizing It’s A Sin broadcaster Channel 4, as a petition to stop the process nears 35,000 signatures. Yesterday, it emerged Conservative government ministers were moving to sell the broadcaster, which is publicly-owned but funded commercially. The hope is to raise […]

Sweden has become the latest territory to order a local version of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the first from Scandinavia, as the hit format’s producer World of Wonder pushes it at this week’s Mip TV. Swedish pubcaster SVT commissioned the show and it will premiere in the U.S., UK and other territories on WOW Presents Plus, World […]