Новости за 21.03.2024

Annemarie Wiley exits The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills after only one season. The nurse anesthesiologist confirmed on social media that Bravo was not asking her back to the reality series as production for Season 14 gets ready to start filming. “I’m disappointed is an understatement,” Wiley said in a statement shared on Instagram. “I […]

Cineworld Group, the world’s second largest theater circuit, said today it’s completed its executive team following the 2023 appointment of CEO Eduardo Acuna after the company emerged from bankruptcy. Thomas Song of Dine Brands and Aimbridge Hospitality joined as CFO last December. Since then, Cineworld has tapped former Warner Bros. Discovery executive Ben Hill as […]

Former ITV and Channel 5 bosses will examine the future funding model of the BBC. The UK government has just set out the panel that will advise on the future of the license fee, which could be culled in 2027 after more than 100 years. The panel will assess the sustainability of the current model […]

First Lady Jill Biden will make a fundraising swing through Southern California later this week, as she headlines events in Los Angeles and the Palm Springs area. She also will speak at the Human Rights Campaign Los Angeles dinner on Saturday. The first lady will speak at a campaign fundraising reception on Friday early evening, […]

Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury has renewed Game Show Network’s People Puzzler, hosted by Leah Remini, for a second season in national broadcast syndication. The pop culture game show is set to return this fall with renewals on Fox Television Stations, Sinclair, CBS, Nexstar, Gray and Scripps stations, which cover more than 90% of the U.S. The renewals […]

French commercial broadcast giant TF1 is taking its streaming service international. CEO Rodolphe Belmer told Series Mania on Thursday that TF1+ will start rolling out in the middle of this year before a wider series of launches in 2025. “We will roll out TF1+ in the French-speaking world,” Belmer said during a keynote, the first […]

Delphine Ernotte-Cunci, the CEO of France Télévisions, has called the collapse of the French broadcaster-backed streamer Salto “a strategic mistake.” Salto — a subscription streaming venture between France Télévisions, TF1 and M6 — dissolved last year after failing to attract subscribers amid fierce competition in France, but Ernotte-Cunci wants to see another version developed. During […]

Happy Valley has won a trio of Broadcasting Press Guild Awards (BPG) a day after being nominated for six BAFTAs. The final season of Sally Wainwright’s BBC/AMC+ epic scooped the Best Drama, Best Writer and Best Actress awards. The Sarah Lancashire-starrer ended with a bang as Lancashire’s Catherine Cawood faced off with James Norton’s Tommy […]

Scottish actor Peter Mullan, whose credits include The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Westworld, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, passed through Series Mania in Lille this week, where he participated in what turned out to be one of the festival’s most raucous masterclass sessions.  Mullan appeared alongside French journalist […]

Nicolas de Tavernost, the outgoing boss of M6, did not hold back today during what will likely be his last on-stage appearance after a near-40-year career with The Traitors France network. De Tavernost used his Series Mania keynote to slam the French competition laws that prevented M6’s merger with TF1, while urging “collective measures” to […]

The BBC has acquired Suits, the smash legal drama that was the most-watched show on Netflix last year. The corporation has acquired a trio of titles from NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution for BBC iPlayer including St. Denis Medical and The Best Man: The Final Chapters. Set in a New York City law firm, Suits stars Patrick J. […]

Banff, the Canadian media festival, has unveiled its nominees for its 2024 Rockie Awards International Program Competition. The festival, which takes place in June, has nominated 155 shows and podcasts from 19 countries including 101 from the U.S. and UK. The in-person and live-streamed ceremony will take place June 11. The Rockie Awards Grand Jury […]

EXCLUSIVE: Depp v. Heard producer Empress Films has hired in the U.S. and UK following its deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio (UTAS). Former Paramount exec Eben Davidson will lead the company’s newly-opened LA office while Minnow Films development exec Matthew Clifton is joining in the UK. Davidson’s Paramount tenure spanned more than a decade […]

EXCLUSIVE: Sky UK has forged an initiative to discover the next generation of diverse documentaries after four factual shows were nominated at the BAFTAs. The Comcast-owned outfit will give £15,000 ($19,200) to three indies with the aim of boosting their development slate and finding docs that can air on Sky. The best ideas will have […]

EXCLUSIVE: Bridgerton star Shelley Conn has boarded Beta Film thriller series Wisting’s third season. Conn will take on the unknown role in the second half of the season and Beta has struck a slew of territory deals for the 26-parter, which airs on Germany’s ARD. The German major has sold Wisting to SBS Australia, Warner […]

Jeremy Irons and double-Palme d’Or winner Bille August are gearing up for their highly-anticipated Count of Monte Cristo series but when offered the chance to work on the project, they had certain red lines. “I wouldn’t have taken it if it was a movie, it had to be TV,” Danish director August told Deadline at […]

Surprise! The first six episodes of Ark: The Animated Series, based on the hit adventure video game Ark: Survival Evolved, are available to stream now exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. and Canada. The series will debut in all other Paramount+ international markets starting April 19. The seven-episode Part 2 of the season will be […]

Director Nicholas Hytner and writer Alan Bennett are collaborating again, with The Lady in the Van, The History Boys and The Madness of King George duo set to team on The Choral, which will star Ralph Fiennes, Jim Broadbent and Simon Russell Beale. Production begins in May in Yorkshire, according to Sony Pictures Classics, which […]

One of America’s most celebrated writers and one of Steven Spielberg’s go-to collaborators spoke out today on the Haaretz Podcast about the controversy over Jonathan Glazer’s speech after Zone of Interest won Best International Feature Film at the Oscars. Speaking about protests in the U.S. and their impacts, Tony, Emmy and Pulitzer Prize-winner Tony Kushner expressed surprise […]

Lukas Gage is making amends for a short-term marriage to Chris App;eton. He’d like to start by apologizing to Shania Twain. During Tuesday’s episode of Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen peppered Gage with questions on several bad decisions. That includes wearing fur coats at the wedding. “Did someone from the Kardashians TV show […]

A federal court on Wednesday granted Nexstar’s motion to dismiss DirecTV’s antitrust claims. Cablefax reported the court ruled there was a lack of antitrust standing. DirecTV claimed Nexstar violated federal antitrust law by engaging in an illegal conspiracy with partners Mission and White Knight to manipulate, raise, and fix prices of retransmission consent fees. DirecTV […]

A study conducted by researchers at Caltech and UCLA has concluded that the 73,000 attendees at Taylor Swift’s Aug. 2023 show at SoFi Stadium created seismic activity. Her July tour stop at Seattle’s Lumen Field was similarly reported to have resulted in seismic activity the “equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake” last year. The researchers […]

Governor Gavin Newsom and politicians in Sacramento may still have a long way to go to conquering California’s budget deficit, but they now finally have the go-ahead from voters to get $6.4 billion to revamp the state’s busted mental health system and combat homelessness. Almost two weeks after Golden State voters went to the polls […]

In an appearance on Dana Carvey and David Spade’s Fly on the Wall podcast, Sharon Stone thanked longtime Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels for saving her life. Stone was hosting SNL in 1992 when Michaels’ heroics happened. It was right after the release of Stone’s controversial role in the film Basic Instinct. “A bunch […]

Kristen Stewart is saying her Happiest Season, the lesbian rom-com touted as the first of its kind by a major Hollywood studio, was a disaster. “The identity was beaten out of my goals there,” Stewart said in an interview with Them magazine. “I was getting so many studio executive notes about my hair and my […]