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NATPE, which has convened annual gatherings of producers, syndicators, station owners and other TV stakeholders for decades, has decided to file for bankruptcy. The organization cited the impact of Covid and said it planned to continue holding events, including its annual January conference, which is shifting to the Bahamas from its longtime Miami base. The

A trio of senior international execs are taking their new Asia content-focused company to Mipcom Cannes. Former Endemol Shine International and Fremantle boss Fotini Paraskakis, ex-Discovery Asia Pacific and EMEA President Arthur Bastings and Japanese media exec Shigero ‘Cindy’ Chino have joined forces to create Empire of Arkadia (EOA). The privately-owned venture aims to bring

Terry Bradshaw, a Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback and one of the co-hosts on Fox NFL Sunday, revealed Sunday on air that he has battled cancer twice in the last year. Bradshaw had an incident during the pregame show last week and addressed them on Sunday’s episode before the rest of the schedule kicked off. “Last week on

Saturday Night Live’s Season 48 opener was all about change. The show introduced a new logo, a retro vibe that marked its first new look in eight years, and a cast size that was more reminiscent of classic seasons than the recent bloated pandemic years. The departures of Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Kyle

UPDATE: Authorities have now upped the death toll from Hurricane Ian to more than 77, with an estimated 1,100 people rescued from flooding. Rescue efforts are ongoing, and officials warned that the death totals could rise as floodwaters recede in places littered with wrecked homes. EARLIER: Florida continued the grim task of digging out from Hurricane Ian

Veteran BBC presenter Sue Barker has slammed the Corporation for the way it handled her departure from one of its most popular game shows.  The former tennis player turned presenter had been hosting Question of Sport – the world’s longest running TV sports quiz show – for 24 years until 2020, when the broadcaster decided

EXCLUSIVE: E! has set full casts and begun production on its first two original rom-com movies Why Can’t I Be Molly Ringwald? (working title) and Dating Wise (wt). Em Haine (Reginald The Vampire) is set to lead the cast of Why Can’t I Be Molly Ringwald? (working title), and Anja Savcic (Loudermilk) stars in Dating

Posted online today and already with over 2.5 million views, what appears to be a run-of-the-mill glossy ad about Chevron’s corporate stewardship of the earth and contribution to American families — shades of the El Segundo Blue — takes a very dissonant turn. “We at Chevron believe there is nothing more precious than life,” the

In the first head-to-head showdown for two big-budget fantasy series on Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart, Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power got the edge over HBO Max’s House of the Dragon. For the week of August 29-September 4, the first two episodes of LOTR rang up 1.253 billion minutes of

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has renewed German spy thriller Kleo for a second season. The show is set in 1987 and follows East German spy Kleo Straub, played by Jella Haase, who kills a businessman in West Berlin while on a mission with a secret Stasi commando. Not long after, she’s arrested by the Stasi on spurious claims

Category 4 Hurricane Ian made landfall this afternoon near Fort Myers, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph. In doing so, it became the fifth-largest storm to hit the U.S. mainland — at least in recorded history — and the Weather Channel was there to cover it. Meteorologist Jim Cantore was at ground zero

Robert Cormier, a TV and film actor whose credits include playing Finn Cotter on the long-running Canadian series Heartland as well as the Netflix horror series Slasher: Solstice died September 23. He was 33. No cause of death was given. Cormier for the past two seasons played Finn on CBC’s Heartland, which has run for

Ned Fulmer, part of the massively-popular YouTube channel The Try Guys, whose reputation as a devoted husband and father was a part of his identity is “no longer working” with the group, according to an official statement just released. The news comes after fan claims the married Fulmer recently had an intimate relationship with a

John Morayniss’ Blink49 Studios and Sex Education producer Eleven are working up a series adaptation of author M.L. Rio’s novel If We Were Villains. The book, a suspenseful thriller set in an exclusive arts conservatory, has sold more than 180,000 copies in English since publishing in 2017 and is available in 14 languages. If We Were Villains

Wildly popular social media app TikTok is said to have a draft agreement in place with the U.S. government that would allow it to continue operating in the country while retaining Chinese ownership. The deal was hashed out in recent months, according to a report in the New York Times, and resolves national security concerns

John Oliver returned with a new episode of Last Week Tonight on HBO and HBO Max after taking a week off. The main topic of the night was Brasil and its president Jair Bolsonaro. One of Oliver’s concerns was the lack of care from Bolsonaro to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as the country saw an uptick

Rihanna will be the headliner at the next Super Bowl Halftime Show for Super Bowl LVII, which is set for February 12, 2023 in Glendale, AZ. The nine-time Grammy winner posted on her social media channels with a less-than-cryptic photo of her holding up an NFL football. Roc Nation, her management company headed by Jay-Z

Lorne Michaels is gearing up for a transitional season of Saturday Night Live after a massive cast shakeup ahead of Season 48. The NBC sketch comedy series lost a total of 8 cast members and Michaels is talking about how that came about. “We got to a point where we had a lot of people, and

How far will you go to get your treasure?  The trailer for season three of Netflix’s Outer Banks asks that very question as the action picks up for the Pogues on a beautiful beach with coconuts and azure blue waters. There’s also a mysterious elevator shaft and a wild beast that chases the Pogues across the

It’s depressing to look at Live+Same Day ratings these days as linear viewing’s decline continues. There have been a few bright spots this Premiere Week, and they have one thing in common — they are part of established procedural drama franchises or competition reality staples. While NFL football remains the biggest draw on broadcast television,