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EXCLUSIVE: CBS may have found the cooking competition series that it's been looking for – from Padma Lakshmi and former NBCU content chief Susan Rovner. The network has struck a development deal with the pair for a new food format that marks the first project to be baked up by Rovner's new production…

EXCLUSIVE: Susan Rovner has praised her colleagues and acknowledged the tough decision to leave after NBCUniversal's latest restructure was unveiled Thursday. Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, sent a note to her team (read it in full…

Anyone looking for a sign of Comcast president Mike Cavanagh’s strategy as the recently installed overseer of NBCUniversal got a bright one Thursday. The seasoned finance exec unveiled a significant revamp of the company’s senior management ranks today. Donna Langley, Mark Lazarus and Cesar Conde…

David Zaslav should be sending a fruit basket right about now to Comcast boss Mike Cavanagh. Hollywood's gaze has moved from Warner Bros Discovery to NBCUniversal, which has just undergone its latest restructure under the new Comcast president, a move that saw film chief Donna Langley expand her…

NBCUniversal is going through another restructure. Donna Langley, who was Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, is being promoted to oversee all of the company's entertainment divisions including film and TV. Susan Rovner, Chairman, Entertainment Content for NBCUniversal's Television…

Old schoolers like the late Gil Schwartz of CBS used to hate it when the press would commandeer executive sessions at TCA in the aughts with questions about the death of broadcast TV. HBO had come to dominate the Emmys year after year and the perception was that programming on the Big Three just wasn’t…

Peacock is doubling down on true-crime content and global co-productions, while NBC will develop more limited series in the vein of Renée Zellweger's upcoming drama The Thing About Pam. Those were some of the key scripted takeaways from Susan Rovner's session at the Edinburgh TV Festival, one of her first major public…

In a world of reboots, spin-offs and reimaginations, The Office remains one of the most vaunted. The launch of NBCUniversal streamer Peacock and the company's $500M deal to get the rights back from Netflix to the Steve Carrell-fronted adaptation of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's comedy put the idea of a reboot…

NBCUniversal brought out the stars to its Upfront on Monday to demonstate how the company's new content strategy might work in practice. The company — which has decentralized its buying across linear broadcast, cable and streaming — relied on the likes of Will Smith, Kelly Clarkson, Kevin Hart and Renee Zellweger to…

UPDATED with Paralympic Games commentators info: A majority of Japanese citizens oppose the Olympics to go ahead in Tokyo due to the coronavirus pandemic, but NBC insists the Games will go on, at least for now. "NBC will be bringing all of it to America," declared Mike Tirico today at the 2021 virtual NBCUniversal…

The reorganization of NBCUniversal's entertainment content team is complete with Susan Rovner setting the team and around 50 employees leaving as part of the changes. Deadline understands that Bruce Evans, EVP, Current Programming and Dan Shear, EVP, Comedy Development at Peacock are two of the high-profile execs…

Five weeks after joining NBCUniversal, Susan Rovner has put her stamp on the company's TV and streaming division by setting her programming leadership team. The main takeaways from the reshuffle, which Rovner shared via an internal memo, are Lisa Katz becoming President of Scripted Content and Rovner splitting the…