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BAFTA has made key changes to its Television and TV Craft awards in an attempt to level the playing field for women in historically imbalanced categories such as directing.

For the 2023 awards, which are set to take place next spring, the Director categories of factual, fiction and multi-camera will see the top three male and top three female directors from the Round One membership vote automatically going through to jury consideration.

The new intervention is a first for the TV Craft Awards, and intended to increase the visibility of women at the crucial longlisting stage, “with the longer-term aim to

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Banijay‘s planned acquisition of Sony Productions Film und Fernseh Produktions GmbH Germany (Sony Pictures Television Germany) from Sony Pictures is now complete. Following customary closing conditions, Banijay Germany has secured 100 stake in the company. The label, founded in 1995, will now operate as Noisy Pictures GmbH, with Astrid Quentell and Mirek Nitsch remaining in leadership positions.

Sony Pictures Television Germany’s successful shows include “Die Höhle der Löwen,” which has been on Vox since 2014; drama-comedy “Der Lehrer,” which has played nine seasons on Rtl and won numerous awards; and Zdf crime series “Heldt.”

Founded in 2018 by Marcus Wolter and Banijay,

In this week’s Quantum Leap, Ben found himself in the body of a boxer named Danny Hill (played by Jermaine Alverez Martin) in 1977.

The team was still working on Ben’s coding, so it may take some time to figure out how to get him home. In the meantime, he must focus on helping this fighter from losing a championship fight which cost him his career. Reports stated he was distracted and unlike himself. Ben was there to figure out what happened.

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[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for Dancing With the Stars Season 31 Episode 3.] Dancing With the Stars, shaken, not stirred. Following last week’s “Elvis Night” tiebreaker that saw Teresa Giudice sent home, James Bond night kicked off Monday, October 3, on Disney+. The amateurs and pros took on some of the Oscar-winning 007 musical themes for a night of debonair dancing — most of them rumbas. Daniella Karagach was still out following her positive Covid test last week. Joseph Baena is still dancing with troupe member Alexis Warr, but the unexpected change impressively didn’t inhibit the dance novice’s performance last week or this week. Karagach’s husband, Pasha Pashkov, was eliminated last week with Giudice in favor of Charlie’s Angels star Cheryl Ladd and partner Louis van Amstel. The professionals kicked things off with a sexy group number to “Live and Let Die.” Beginning the night with the first competitive dance was Charli D’Amelio and Mark Ballas

The Voice‘s Season 22 Blind Auditions continue to unfold as Week 3 kicks off on NBC, and the competition is getting fierce as new performers vie for the coach’s attention. Coaches Gwen Stefani, John Legend, Blake Shelton, and Camila Cabello are being forced to get more selective about their choices as their teams are filling up. Below, we’re rounding up the best performances of the night, and let us know your favorite in the comments section, below. Kique sings Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls” This 18-year-old singer from Miami feels a connection to fellow Cuban Camila, and shares his love of reptiles in his preview before heading to the stage. Kique was inspired to pursue music after meeting the teacher at his all-boys Catholic school where he experienced some hardships being a young bisexual student. Taking that inspiration, Kique wowed husband-wife duo Blake and Gwen, but he could only

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for NCIS Season 20 Episode 3 “Unearth.”] The good news: Torres (Wilmer Valderrama) is still in therapy with Dr. Grace Confalone (Laura San Giacomo) and isn’t drinking on NCIS. The bad news is: He’s being slow to take the necessary steps. Torres has never been a morning person, but watching the sunrise, he admits … makes him want to break out in song, Grace finishes for him. “What you’re experiencing right now is known in recovery as the pink cloud,” she warns him. He knows what she will say next: “It won’t last forever.” Not only that, but it’s very important that Torres have a support system in place. Part of that is finding a sponsor, which he has yet to do. And, she stresses, he needs to try to open up to others, no matter how difficult that might be for him. What about his team, doesn’t he trust them?

As The Voice’s Season 22 Blind Auditions continued Monday night, Camila Cabello, Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and John Legend recruited a couple of beauty queens who definitely aced the talent portion of this competition, a Cuban-American Nick Nelson whose vocals were a real, ahem, heartstopper, and a fashionista who made some dramatic alterations to Mandy Moore’s 1999 pop hit. And if you keep reading… Oh, I see, you’ve already skipped down. As you were, then. Let’s recap.

Kique (Team Gwen), “Beautiful Girls” — Grade: B | This young reptile aficionado, who struggled as bi guy in an all-boys Catholic high school,

Steve Burns, the original host of Blue’s Clues, is starring alongside the other hosts of the show — Donovan Patton (Joe) and Josh Dela Cruz (Josh) — in Blue’s Big City Adventure., which just released its first trailer. According to the movie’s synopsis, courtesy of Paramount+, Josh “gets the opportunity of a lifetime to audition for Rainbow Puppy’s (Brianna Bryan) Broadway musical, and Blue (Traci Paige Johnson) as they skidoo to New York City where they meet new friends and discover the magic of music, dance and following one’s dreams. “The entire Blue’s Clues crew is reunited for this special movie event, with the beloved animated friends and all three hosts – Josh, Steve (Steve Burns), and Joe (Donovan Patton) – together for the first time in the Big Apple. follows Josh and the beloved pup as they take a trip to New York City after the former lands an audition for a Broadway musical.

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for 9-1-1 Season 6 Episode 3 “The Devil You Know.”] The devil can wear a familiar face and trick you with lies, Athena (Angela Bassett) knows well from her police work. But in the latest 9-1-1, she had to contend with the possibility that someone very close to her killed the young girl who disappeared from her neighborhood 45 years ago after her body is found buried under an addition to her parents’ house. “I think that it’s a beautiful story. I’m glad we told it through Athena’s perspective and through this character’s storyline about the sanctity of girls and of Black and brown girls in particular, and that they should not be forgotten. And Athena as a character has never forgotten Tanya,” Bassett told TV Insider. To Athena and her mother’s surprise, her father ended up the prime suspect. And Athena started to wonder if there was something she ...

Monday’s episode of 9-1-1 closed the book on a tragic story from Athena’s past — one she didn’t even know was left unwritten. (Alexa, play Natasha Bedingfield.)

Following Bobby and Junior’s discovery of young Tanya Kingston’s body underneath the Grants’ house, local authorities immediately began circling Athena’s father’s hospital room like vultures. So when they gave Athena explicit orders not to play cop, she had no choice but to disregard those instructions. And she copped hard.

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Projects starring Donnie Yen and Zhang Ziyi are among the independently produced TV series to be launched on the sidelines of this week’s Busan International Film Festival. The company responsible is Changin’ Pictures, a would-be studio being hatched by Hong Kong-based film director and producer Peter Chan Ho-sun.

Propelled by the growing recognition of Asian talent and the worldwide distribution potential of multinational SVOD platforms, Changin’ Pictures aims to be a powerhouse production hub suppling premium drama content to streaming players.

The company has raised very substantial finance from Asian sources and aims to develop and produce series which

NBC’s three-hour Law & Order crossover premiere was the most-watched and highest-rated program the night that it aired, according to Live + 3 data obtained by Variety. The special aired from 8-11 p.m. on September 22, and the special event marked the debut of Season 22 of Law & Order, Season 24 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Season 3 of Law & Order: Organized Crime. Law & Order, the first of the bunch, landed a 1.0 rating in the key adults 18-49 demographic and 6.8 million total viewers through three days of measurement — the best performance of a Law & Order episode since Season 21 debuted in February. This marked a 36 increase in rating and a 20 increase in total viewership. In the 9 p.m. timeslot, Live + 3 data for the Season 24 premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit was even with the series’ four most recent episodes: an 18-49 rating of 1.4 with 7.7 total million viewers.

The Flash‘s “WestAllen” will indeed be together — and not physically separated by this, that or the other crazy thing — as the last Arrowverse series standing serves up its final season.

Speaking with TVLine on Saturday night at the Barbara Berlanti Heroes Gala benefiting F*ck Cancer, The Flash‘s leading lady, Candice Patton, conceded that “I don’t know a lot” about what is on tap for the ninth and final season, seeing as they’re only two episodes in. “But I think it’s going be very Barry and Iris-heavy, obviously, to send them off in a way that will please the fans.

Anders Holm has joined the live-action (still untitled) Godzilla and the Titans series from Apple+, Variety reports. It’s not yet revealed who Holm will be portraying. According to the series logline, “Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco and the shocking new reality that monsters are real, the untitled series will explore one family’s journey to uncover its buried secrets and a legacy linking them to the secret organization known as Monarch.” Producers began filling out the show’s cast in June, with previously announced members including Anna Sawai, Ren Watabe, Kiersey Clemons, Joe Tippett, Elisa Lasowski, Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell, and Mari Yamamoto. Holm is best known for the Comedy Central series Workaholics which he co-wrote and starred in alongside Adam DeVine and Blake Anderson. He and his Workaholics team then partnered on the Netflix comedy feature Game Over, Man. Holm

Glenn Gordon Caron, the mastermind behind Moonlighting, took to Twitter on Monday to hint that he had some big news to announce related to the ’80s hit TV dramedy coming this Wednesday. Disney and I have put our heads together and come up with a plan. Big announcement Wednesday!!!#Moonlighting #BruceWillis #CybillShepherd #AllyceBeasley #CurtisArmstrong pic.twitter.com/jd0fa8oUpc — Glenn Caron (@GlennGCaron) October 3, 2022 Caron writes, “Disney and I have put our heads together and come up with a plan.” Fans of the series, which starred Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd, Curtis Armstrong, and Allyce Beasley think the news may reveal that the ABC show will finally be available to stream, either on Hulu or Disney+. Currently, Moonlighting isn’t available to stream on any platform, even though it’s one of the biggest shows of the 1980s. DVD box sets are unavailable unless you’re willing to spend a bunch

During her career, Elizabeth Olsen has played a broad range of characters, from a damaged cult escapee in 2011’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene,” to an in-over-her-head FBI agent investigating a murder in “Wind River,” to a narcissistic influencer in “Ingrid Goes West” — and, of course, the tragic, terrifying Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlet Witch) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Next year, she’ll star in “Love & Death,” an HBO Max limited series about Candy Montgomery, a Texas homemaker who in 1980 had an affair with her friend’s husband — and then murdered her friend, hitting her 41 times with an axe. It

NBC’s three-hour “Law & Order” crossover premiere event was the most-watched and highest-rated program the night that it aired, according to Live + 3 data exclusively obtained by Variety.

Airing from 8-11 p.m. on Sept 22, the crossover marked the premiere of Season 22 of the “Law & Order” flagship series, Season 24 of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and Season 3 of “Law & Order: Organized Crime.” When accounting for three days of viewing, each of the three season premieres matched or exceeded the average rating and total viewership of the last four episodes of their previous seasons, respectively.

“Law & Order,

Some months just have a clearer TV directive. In just a few short weeks, screens will be filled with snow and warm lighting and cocoa mugs. March/April are the months of Prestige TV Onslaught. July, as we all know, is Literary Adaptation Month.

So as the leaves begin to turn and fall really kicks into high gear, it’s not exactly kismet that brings so many spooky/horror-adjacent titles to the world of TV. That’s what October has long been made into, complete with all the eyeballs searching for scares that come along with it. Whether unsettling or kitschy or ironic, a good chunk of the new shows arriving over the coming weeks are designed to thrill and chill.

There’s still a smattering of network premieres to help round out the fall schedule, and some series that you might not necessarily peg for this corner of the calendar.

Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki will forever be associated with their respective roles as Penny and Leonard on CBS’ long-running sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.” The actors, similar to the characters they played on the show, were in a relationship, dating from 2008 to 2010. “Big Bang” writers were already planning Penny and Leonard’s breakup when Cuoco and Galecki split in real life. During interviews for Jessica Radloff’s new book “The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive, Inside Story” (via Vanity Fair), both Cuoco and Galecki shared their belief that series creator Chuck Lorre added more Penny-Leonard kissing and sex scenes

If Jared Pedalecki and Jensen Ackles were the heartthrobs of The CW, Mark Pedowitz was its heartbeat.

When Nexstar announced its completed acquisition of (75 percent of) The CW on Monday, it installed board member Dennis Miller, a venture capitalist with executive stints at Sony, Lionsgate, and Turner, as the broadcast network’s new president. Pedowitz, who was chairman and CEO of the youth-skewing broadcast network for the past 11 years is out; he’ll stay in the game via the revival of his former production company.

Though The CW never quite soared like so many of its DC superheroes, the decade-plus under Pedowitz had its moments — and its misses. IndieWire looks back on both below.

With additional reporting by Erin Strecker, Christian Blauvelt, Ben Travers, and Kristen Lopez.

The Upn Holdovers

As Time Warner launched the CW, it joined with CBS to shut down the United Paramount Network, which ran from