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Stephanie Leifer, Former ABC Signature Executive, Dies at 56
Stephanie Leifer, a longtime executive at ABC and studio ABC Signature, has died. She was 56. Leifer died of cancer on Thursday. She spent a combined 28 years at ABC Signature (and its forerunner, ABC Studios) and ABC, beginning at the network in 1994 as an assistant in the network’s TV movie department. “Stephanie was […]
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Will Forte Boards Tina Fey’s ‘Four Seasons’ Series at Netflix
Will Forte is headed back to Netflix for his next series role — and reuniting with his former Saturday Night Live castmate Tina Fey. Forte, who’s coming off the comedic thriller Bodkin at Netflix, has joined the cast of The Four Seasons at the streamer. The series, based on the 1981 film of the same […]
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TV Ratings: Biden-Trump Debate Draws 51M Viewers, Way Below 2020
The first debate face-off (of the 2024 election cycle, at least) between President Joe Biden and Republican challenger Donald Trump drew a big audience — but not nearly as big as their 2020 debates. The 99-minute debate, produced by CNN but aired on 16 other networks, averaged 51.27 million viewers, according to final same-day ratings from […]
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‘Daily Show’ Veterans Decry Loss of Clip Archive After Comedy Central Website Gutted: “S**t Ain’t Right”
A corporate decision to scrub Comedy Central’s website of much of its content isn’t sitting well with a number of former and current Daily Show staffers. The sites for Comedy Central and fellow Paramount-owned cable channels CMT, Paramount Network and TV Land, were largely stripped of content this week; what’s left mostly redirects users to […]
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AMC Nabs Silicon Valley Drama From ‘Succession,’ ‘Better Call Saul’ Alum
AMC, which chronicled the early days of Silicon Valley in its series Halt and Catch Fire, is headed back to that part of the world. The cable network (and sibling streamer AMC+) have ordered a series set in present-day Silicon Valley, centering on the falling out of a tech CEO and someone in his orbit. […]
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HBO, BBC Snag Richard Gadd’s ‘Baby Reindeer’ Follow-Up
Richard Gadd will take his next series to HBO and the BBC. The two outlets will co-produce Gadd’s follow-up to Baby Reindeer, which was a breakout success for Netflix and sparked waves of conversation over its based-on-a-true-story tale of an alleged stalker of Gadd. The new series is currently titled Lions and will follow a […]
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Paramount Cuts Nearly All Content on Comedy Central, TV Land, CMT and MTV Websites
Following the unexpected shuttering of the MTV News website earlier this week, Paramount has now largely cleaned house on the sites for several more of its cable channels, in a potential cost-cutting move. As of Wednesday afternoon, the sites for Comedy Central, CMT, Yellowstone airer Paramount Network and TV Land were instead directing users to […]
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Jeffrey Wright Recruited for ‘The Agency’ at Paramount+ With Showtime
Paramount+ has signed a new operative for its CIA thriller The Agency. Jeffrey Wright has joined the series, which has begun production in London. He’ll star opposite Michael Fassbender, who plays an agency operative called in from an undercover assignment. The series (formerly titled The Department) is based on the acclaimed French drama Le Bureau […]
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‘SNL’ Regular Colin Jost to Cover Olympic Surfing From Tahiti for NBC
Colin Jost is stepping out from behind the “Weekend Update” anchor desk to join NBCUniversal’s Olympics coverage — but he won’t be going to Paris. Instead, the Saturday Night Live regular will be traveling to Tahiti to cover the surfing competition. The Pacific island is part of French Polynesia and will play host to the […]
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Harry Potter Series at HBO Finds Its Showrunner and Director
HBO’s long-developing Harry Potter series has locked in two key members of its creative team. The series has named Francesca Gardiner as its writer and showrunner and tapped Mark Mylod to direct multiple episodes. Both are Emmy winners for HBO’s Succession — Gardiner as part of the show’s producing team and Mylod as both director and […]
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‘One Piece’ Adds Trio of Actors to Season 2 (Exclusive)
Netflix’s One Piece is expanding its cast as it heads into a second season. The live-action adaptation of the expansive manga and anime series has added Werner Coetser, Brendan Murray and Clive Russell to its ensemble of actors. They’ll each play allies of Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) and his Straw Hat Pirates. Coetser and […]
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TV Ratings: Stanley Cup Hits Five-Year High With Game 7 Thriller
The last game of the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals delivered both on the ice and in the ratings. The Florida Panthers’ 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Monday night’s seventh game averaged 7.66 million viewers on ABC in the United States — the largest audience for an NHL game since 2019 (which was also […]
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