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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Smith, a 21-year ICM veteran, including the last 10 as a partner, has joined APA as SVP, Global Concerts & Talent. Smith will work alongside Max Burgos who heads APA’s comedy touring department. While he has strong background in comedy touring, at ICM Smith worked across departments on deals for his clients in

YMU has snapped up Simon Cowell. The British X Factor and Got Talent creator and Syco Entertainment founder will join the transatlantic talent agency’s entertainment division and be managed by Group Executive Director Chris Hughes. YMU said it will work with Cowell across “all facets of business” including TV, formats, partnership and books. “YMU has invested

FX’s Mayans M.C. will return for Season 5, it was revealed during the show’s panel at Comic-Con on Sunday. The gritty motorcycle drama wrapped its fourth season on June 14. Additionally, 20th Television, a part of Disney Television Studios, has signed co-creator Elgin James to a new multiyear overall deal. Comic-Con 2022: Deadline’s Full Coverage

SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher stood her ground during a contentious national board meeting on Saturday which saw a heated, two-hour debate over Covid-19 vaccination mandates. She took heat mostly, but not exclusively, from members of the Unite for Strength faction that supported her election last year. “The board blew up at her for two hours.

Enter The Sandman. Netflix today released the first full trailer for its 10-episode drama starring Tom Sturridge and based on Neil Gaiman’s popular DC Comics series. Have a look at the footage that debuted at Comic-Con above. Here’s the scenario: There is another world that waits for all of us when we close our eyes and

Paramount and Nickelodeon have three animated Avatar films are in the works. Last month, Lauren Montgomery (Avatar: The Last Airbender) was announced as director on the untitled first installment. And today at Comic-Con, there was more news about the first film at the panel for Avatar: Braving the Elements, the rewatch podcast hosted by the franchise’s voice actors

The January 6th Committee’s primetime hearing drew an estimated 17.7 million viewers, an 11% dropoff from the 20 million who watched the committee’s last nighttime event in June. The figures from Nielsen are across 10 networks. The committee’s June 9 hearing, kicking off its series, drew about 20 million on 11 networks. Nielsen said that

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about the season 1 finale of FX On Hulu’s The Old Man. FX on Hulu’s spy drama starring Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow wrapped its first season July 21 by answering several burning questions — namely, why Faraz Hamzad was so hellbent at getting to Dan Chase (Bridges) and

The Umbrella Academy edged fellow Netflix title Stranger Things in a crowded week on Nielsen’s streaming chart for June 20 to 26. With new Season 3 episodes landing in the middle of the week, Umbrella managed almost 2.5 billion minutes of streaming, about 100 million more than Stranger Things in its final full week without

With the race to replace Boris Johnson as next UK Prime Minister now down to the final two, bosses at BBC New Broadcasting House and Channel 4 Horseferry Road will be examining former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss’s record on public broadcasting in minute detail. Both broadcasters took a battering from Johnson’s

In the days this week before the UK suffered through all-time record temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius — or 104 degrees Fahrenheit — GB News host Bev Turner made light of a meteorologist’s warnings about the coming heatwave in a televised interview that bears a striking resemblance to the much talked-about fictional TV interview in

“Baseball is a game for fathers and sons,” someone once said. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw learned that again tonight when he rose to leave his All-Star Game press conference and a member of the media told him, “Clayton, I think there’s a kid who’s trying to ask you [something].” “Oh, dude, sorry,” Kershaw said as

Legislation introduced yesterday in the Duma — the lower house of the Russian parliament — would classify media content determined to be “promoting” LGBTQ relations as “propaganda” under federal law. The bill would broaden a controversial 2013 law banning the “promotion of nontraditional sexual relations” to minors, which is widely referred to as the “gay

Relations between UK broadcasting union Bectu and producer trade body Pact are plunging new depths as the union urges its members to reject Pact’s latest TV drama terms offer. Pact set out the fresh terms in an attempt to solve the deadlock over the pair’s TV drama agreement last week but, in the last few

Disney has wrapped its upfront advertising sales process, collecting a record $9 billion — 40% of it in streaming and digital. The forthcoming ad-supported tier of Disney+ was cited by the company as a particular strength among its platforms, which also include ABC, Disney Channels, ESPN and ESPN+, Freeform, FX, Hulu and National Geographic. The

Disney+ Hotstar is bringing Hindi cinema star Kajol into the streaming series world. In a new video released at 12pm local Indian time today, the star was revealed to be fronting a scripted series for the streaming service. Rumors about the show have been circulating for weeks in India. No word on the plot, format

UPDATED with next hearing date and more: The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol said today that its next televised hearing will be Tuesday, July 12, starting at 10 a.m. ET/7 a.m. PT. NEXT HEARING: Tuesday, July 12th at 10:00am ET — January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) July 5,

Netflix has found their Yusuke Urameshi for their live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series.  Tokyo Revengers’ actor Takumi Kitamura will star. The project was announced by the streamer last year but details and new photos are just dropping.  Yusuke Urameshi will be played by Takumi Kitamura #yuyuhakusho pic.twitter.com/LWcZ60LQIw — Netflix Anime (@NetflixAnime) July 16, 2022 While