Shailene Woodley (Secret Life of the American Teenager) is closing in on a deal to join HBO’s Big Little Lies. The limited series stars Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon. Kidman leaked the news Saturday at India’s Hindustan Times Leadership Summit.
HBO dropped the first teaser for the sixth season of Game of Thrones, which returns in April–and it’s an all-Jon Snow (played by Kit Harington) affair.
NATPE president and CEO Rod Perth said this year’s market, taking place January 19-21, will be kicking up more sand in Miami Beach. “With all of our most important numbers tracking ahead of last year’s capacity turnout, we have moved to substantially increase our physical space in 2016 by expanding to the Eden Roc next […]
Tonia O’Connor has been elevated to the newly-created position of Chief Commercial Officer and President of Content Distribution at Univision Communications Inc. Under O’Connor’s leadership, UCI is putting greater emphasis on diversifying its portfolio of assets by bringing together its Corporate Development and Enterprise groups under one function called Enterprise Development, a division that will […]
Bones stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz and exec producer Kathleen Reichs filed a lawsuit Monday claiming they are owed a percentage of the long-running Fox series’ profits, estimated at tens of millions of dollars. “When 20th TV finally did engage with Plaintiffs in the fifth and sixth seasons of the Series, it did so […]
Television journalist Linda Ellerbee announced her retirement, as of January 2016. “I’m a lucky woman,” said Ellerbee. “I saw the world, met many of the world’s most interesting people and was well paid to do so. Now I choose to go, and I go smiling.” Ellerbee is best known for anchoring late-night news program NBC […]
Add original executive producer Nigel Lythgoe to the American Idol alums set to return during the Fox music competition’s 15th and final season. Variety reports Lythgoe, who was let go in 2013 and is awaiting word on the fate of his So You Think You Can Dance, will exec produce the series finale. Original judges […]
CBS unveiled its winter schedule. Undercover Boss is back for season seven on December 20, the first of three Sunday broadcasts before the reality show moves to Fridays at 8p; the 28th edition of Amazing Race slips into that slot starting February 12. Season six of Mike & Molly launches Wednesday, January 6 at 8:30p, […]
The gift that keeps on giving: NBC’s telecast of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade drew a 12.6 household rating in metered markets, the number one broadcast entertainment rating for the fall. That’s down 1 percent versus last year, but up 1 percent among A18-49 with 7.0/30.