Stan Kroenke is reportedly on the verge of taking full control of Arsenal after minority shareholder Alisher Usmanov accepted a buyout offer of his 30% stake, according to ESPN. Kroenke currently holds just over 67 percent of shares, but buying up Usmanov’s stake means he can force the remaining individual shareholders to sell their combined […]
Luis Silberwasser is leaving Telemundo Networks after serving as president for four years. “As I now embark on new content-making ventures, I will always look forward to seeing the Telemundo brand continue its tremendous growth,” said Silberwasser, who will stay through October 1 to help with the transition.
TruTV canceled The Chris Gethard Show after 26 episodes, but don’t color Gethard surprised. “Some executives from truTV sat me down a few weeks after this most recent batch of episodes and said, ‘We’re getting the sense from your final speech, and from some of our behind the scenes conversations, that you might be done […]
Sir Patrick Stewart joined executive producer Alex Kurtzman at the Star Trek Las Vegas convention to announce he will be returning to the role of Jean-Luc Picard for a new CBS All Access Star Trek series. “I will always be very proud to have been a part of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but when […]
The pickup of limited series Devs, from writer/director Alex Garland, was among FX’s announcements at TCA on Friday. Sonoya Mizuno (Ex Machina) and Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) will star. “After reading all 8 scripts and hearing Alex’s brilliant vision and commitment to direct all of the epsiodes, it was an easy decision to order Devs to […]
After the release of the Inactivity Pandemic’ Report 2018 from PHIT America last week, the organization reports that 7% of American children are physically active to CDC standards, while the number of US children who are active three times a week has dropped to 23.9%, a decrease of 15% in the last five years; and […]
Joe Buck is down for another three years at FOX Sports. Buck signed on for the new contract, according to the New York Post, and will the top play-by-play announcer for the NFL on FOX in addition to the World Series and golf for the company.
Discovery Channel’s documentary Above and Beyond: NASA’s Journey to Tomorrow will debut in theaters prior to its television premiere. Fathom Events has set screenings for Saturday, September 29 and Wednesday, October 3, and include a special introduction from director, producer and narrator Rory Kennedy. The doc will also have a limited theatrical run in New […]
Viceland greenlit American Junkie, a 10-episode docu-reality series about the country’s opioid crisis. The project, a spinoff of indie feature documentary American Relapse from filmmaker Pat McGee and Jenny Daly’s T Group Productions, is set to premiere on Tuesday, September 12 at 10p.
CNN is planning one last season of Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown. One episode of season twelve had been completed when Bourdain committed suicide on June 8; CNN exec Amy Entelis told the LA Times the rest of the episodes “will have the presence of Tony because you’ll see him, you’ll hear him, you’ll watch him. […]