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UK Production Spend Hits Highs In 2016; Inward Film Investment Reaches $1.7B
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The strength of the UK’s production sector — from studio facilities to skilled crews and the film and TV tax credits available — drove overall spend on film to a record £1.6B ($2B) in 2016. Of that, £1.35B ($1.7B) came in the form of inward investment, an 18% increase on 2015. In the TV sector, foreign productions coming in spent £478M ($603M), also a record. The figures were released today as part of the BFI’s annual statistics report which also covers box office. While… »
Discovery In Carriage Dispute With Sky, Threatens Full Blackout
5 hours ago
Discovery has threatened to pull its channels from Euro pay-tv giant Sky after negotiations for a new carriage deal for the company have reached an impasse, with Discovery claiming Sky "refuses to pay a fair price." It's a historic move for the company, which operates channels such as Discovery Channel, TLC, Eurosport, Discovery History, Animal Planet and Dmax. "We believe Sky is using what we consider to be its dominant market position to further its own commercial… »
Lionsgate UK Takes Equity Stake In Potboiler Television
6 hours ago
In a move to ramp up its TV business in Britain, Lionsgate UK has taken an undisclosed equity stake in Andrea Calderwood and Gail Egan's Potboiler Television. Lionsgate will partner with the well-respected producers, who are behind projects such as HBO's Generation Kill and features The Constant Gardner and The Last King of Scotland, on their expanding TV slate. It has also signed a first-look deal for global distribution of Potboiler's television product. The deal marks… »
‘Babushka’ Game Show Heads To ITV; BBC Four Acquires ‘I Know Who You Are’; A+E Scores Canadian Deals — Global Briefs
8 hours ago
ITV has commissioned Stv Productions to make 20 episodes of Armoza Formats' game show Babushka, a high-stakes prime time game show. Set to transmit this year, the deal marks the first time Stv has partnered with Armoza. Show sees contestants presented with 10 giant Russian babushka dolls, eight of which must be opened for the chance to win up to £44,000 ($55,500). If a babushka is empty, the contestant loses all the money they have accumulated whereas if there is a… »
President Trump Tells David Muir: Press Is Inaccurate, Demeaning And Has Bad Approval Ratings
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Updated with video President Donald Trump gave his first big primetime network interview tonight, and took the opportunity to revisit his old nemeses, the media. Trump told ABC News anchor David Muir that the press covered his CIA speech “very inaccurately” (except for Fox), that the author of the infamous Pew Report is now “groveling” for the media, and that he knows more about terrorism than Muir does. Here’s what the President had to say about the Fourth Estate. Watch… »
Daytime Emmys: Actors Selected For Pre-Nomination Consideration
13 hours ago
A roster of soap actors selected as “pre-nominations” for Daytime Emmy Awards consideration has been released by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, beginning the process that will end in a trophy for winners in six categories. These “pre-nominated” performers in lead and supporting races received the most votes from all registered, eligible peer judges. This roster of actors now advances to a “blue ribbon screening round,” with voting set to begin… »
‘Roadside Picnic’ Pilot Not Going Forward At Wgn America, Will Be Shopped Elsewhere
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Wgn America has opted not to proceed with Roadside Picnic, its drama pilot based on the famous novel by top Soviet/Russian science fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. I hear the pilot’s producing studio, Sony Pictures TV, already is shopping it to other outlets. Starring The Good Wife and Downton Abbey alum Matthew Goode, alien saga Roadside Picnic explores a near-future world where aliens have come and gone, leaving humankind to explore the wondrous and… »
‘Young & Hungry’ Comedy Series Gets Season 5 Back Order At Freeform
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Ahead of Young & Hungry‘s March 13 Season 5 premiere on Freeform, the cable network has ordered additional episodes of its original comedy series to air later this year. I hear the initial Season 5 order was the standard 10 episodes. The back order, said also to be for 10 episodes, would bring the total to 20 episodes, which would match the episode count of Season 2. Seasons 1,3 and 4 of the multi-camera sitcom consisted of 10 episodes each. In the fourth season finale… »
DGA Members Ratify New Film & TV Contract
13 hours ago
Members of the Directors Guild have voted by an overwhelming margin to ratify a new three-year film and TV contract that includes big gains in residuals for members working on top-tier subscription video-on-demand shows. The new deal was approved unanimously last month by the DGA’s national board of directors, but the guild’s didn’t release the vote of the membership, other than to say it was approved “overwhelmingly.” The contract establishes a new residuals formula that… »
Mary Tyler Moore Appreciation: She Turned The World On With A Smile And Then Some!
14 hours ago
Not many are lucky enough to say this, but I can. The first “gig” I got in this business was at Mtm Enterprises, hanging around the set of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show. One of my very first wide-eyed memories of actually realizing my dream of being a part of show business was meeting Mary Tyler Moore during rehearsal on her soundstage at CBS’ Radford studios in Studio City, where I stupidly asked, “Were you really the Happy Hotpoint elf?” I had boned… »
Dick Van Dyke Remembers Mary Tyler Moore: “There Are No Words”
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Mary Tyler Moore got her big break when she was cast as Laura Petrie, wife of Dick Van Dyke’s Rob Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Created by Carl Reiner, the show ran for 158 episodes from 1961-66 on CBS, earning Moore a pair of Emmys for her role. Van Dyke remained her friend for the next six decades. He tweeted a tribute to Moore following her death today at the age of 80. “There are no words,” he wrote. “She was The Best! We always said that we changed each other’s… »
Zach Braff Comedy ‘Start Up’, Mayor Show From Daveed Diggs Get ABC Pilot Orders
15 hours ago
ABC has given pilot orders to two of its highest-profile comedy projects, Start Up, toplined and directed by Scrubs star Zach Braff, which had a put pilot commitment, and an untitled half-hour about a hip-hop artist-turned-mayor from writer Jeremy Bronson (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) and Hamilton co-star Daveed Diggs, which had a cast-contingent pilot production commitment. The single-camera Start Up, which reunites Braff with Scrubs co-executive producer Matt Tarses,… »
Donald Trump To Interrupt Lgbtq Miniseries ‘When We Rise’ On ABC
15 hours ago
ABC has had to re-schedule its Lgbt miniseries When We Rise to make room for President Donald Trump. File this under “Ironic.” Earlier this month, ABC announced it would schedule its groundbreaking miniseries across four consecutive nights, for maximum impact: February 27-March 2, from 9-11 Pm each night. But yesterday, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced at a news conference at the Capitol that he had invited President Donald Trump to address a joint session of Congress on… »
Warner Bros TV Accepting Submissions For 2017 Directors’ Workshop
16 hours ago
Warner Bros. Television Group is now accepting applications for the 2017 Television Directors' Workshop. Launched in 2014, the program is designed to prepare directors from other creative fields (motion pictures, commercials, music videos, shortform video, etc.) for the transition to TV, and to provide increased opportunities to female and ethnic minority helmers. Since 2014, nearly 30 women and people of color have launched or furthered their TV careers via the… »
CBS To Honor Mary Tyler Moore With Primetime Special Thursday
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Updated with rebroadcast of PBS documentary: CBS said this afternoon it will air a special one-hour CBS News tribute to Mary Tyler Moore, who died today at 80. Gayle King will anchor Mary Tyler Moore: Love Is All Around, to air at 9 pm ET. And yes, Oprah Winfrey will be among those who weigh in, though she was not involved in any of Moore’s iconic TV series and there are still plenty of people around who were. Some of those presumably will participate in the special… »
Irwin Entertainment Taps Liza Keckler As Svp Development
16 hours ago
Veteran media executive Liza Keckler has joined Irwin Entertainment as its new Svp Development. Keckler most recently served as VP Development at Screaming Flea Productions, where she helped to develop A&E's Emmy-nominated series Hoarders as well as The Legend of Mike Dodge and Sell This House. Prior to Screaming Flea she served as Executive Producer at Travel Channel. "Liza's development experience includes a diverse slate of successful projects, and her expertise… »
Donald Trump: Pew Report Author “Groveling” To Press When He Says His Study Found No Evidence Of Voter Fraud
16 hours ago
“He’s groveling,” President Donald Trump told ABC News’ David Muir about the author of the 2012 Pew report on which Trump is basing his claims of widespread voter fraud in the presidential election he won. That was Trump’s response when Muir told him he had interviewed the author of the 2012 Pew report, who told him he found no evidence of voter fraud. "I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear, but not… »
‘Outsiders’ Solid In Return On Wgn America, ‘The New Edition Story’ Opens To Big Ratings On Bet
17 hours ago
The second season of Wgn America’s Outsiders opened to 932,000 total viewers and 414,000 adults 25-54 last night. That was off slightly from the drama’s series premiere (1.055 million, 443,000 in 25-54), though the 2016 opener aired commercial-free. The Season 2 debut was up 13% from the Season 1 average viewership and 14% in 24-54, though it drew fewer Live+Same Day viewers than the last two episodes of the first seasons. For the four-play cume on Tuesday, Outsiders… »
Did Donald Trump And Sony Play A Role In Peter Liguori’s Decision To Leave Tribune?
18 hours ago
The timing of Peter Liguori’s announcement this morning about his plan to leave Tribune Media might be a surprise. But the development shouldn’t be. Tribune has been open for a sale for nearly a year and will find it much easier to secure a buyer with the Trump administration now in charge of communications policy. Some people close to Liguori say that the exec who helped to turn FX into a success for Fox and helped Discovery launch its Own partnership with Oprah Winfrey… »
‘The Son’ Writer-Producer Daniel C. Connolly Inks Overall Deal With AMC
18 hours ago
AMC has signed an overall deal with Daniel C. Connolly, writer and producer of the network’s upcoming series The Son. Under the pact, Connolly will work on existing series and develop new ones. In addition to his work on The Son, Connolly also just completed a stint as Supervising Producer on the second season of AMC’s martial-arts drama Into The Badlands. Based on Philipp Meyer's best-selling novel, The Son, starring Pierce Brosnan, spans 150 years and three… »
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