The inauguration of the $250 million Telemundo Center in Miami was yesterday. The new, 500,000-square-foot global headquarters, with 15 separate studios, will host news, sports, entertainment and digital productions, with the building designed to “inspire employee collaboration, mobility and flexibility” (and to withstand a Category 5 hurricane). In addition to production space will be the […]
T Group Productions has partnered with comedian Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz and their production company Push It Productions (Last Comic Standing) for competition format, Throw Mama from the Game Show, for the US television marketplace. The companies will be pitching the adult comedy project to broadcast and premium outlets this week.
Discovery also ordered Valley of the Kings, an excavation docu-series set in Egypt’s burial ground of the pharaohs. Valley is slated to premiere later this year on Discovery and Science Channel.
The first episode of MTV’s Jersey Shore Family Vacation scored a 2.88 Live+SD rating among P18-34, with the second ep growing 5% to a 3.03 in the demo, averaging a 2.96 to surpass the final season’s average 2.82 in 2012. It also more than doubled the rating of the original Jersey Shore debut in 2009 […]
An LA Superior Court judge ruled Judge Judy Sheindlin’s annual salary of $45 million is not unreasonable. This in response to a lawsuit brought by Richard Lawrence, a talent agent who receives a commission on Judge Judy profits. Lawrence accused Big Ticket Television and CBS of overpaying Sheindlin, and thereby reducing his piece of the […]
History is joining with the King Center to observe the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King for short form content Mountaintop Moments, based on King’s landmark “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, and features prominent Americans from diverse backgrounds sharing their hope for the future and how they […]
The third season of NBC’s Shades of Blue will be its last. “I have enjoyed producing and starring in this beautifully complicated world and playing such an empowering yet flawed character – a women, a detective, but, first and foremost, a mother,” said series star and producer Jennifer Lopez. “We crafted a poetic three-season arc […]
Ryan Murphy has scrapped his plans to adapt the book A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down A President, about the Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton, for American Crime Story. Murphy told the Hollywood Reporter he ran into Lewinsky at a party and told her, “Nobody should tell your story but […]
CBS made an initial offer to acquire Viacom in an all stock deal that values the company below its $12.5 billion current market valuation, and is contingent on its management team holding the reins, reports the Wall Street Journal. CBS board members proposed installing CBS CEO Leslie Moonves and COO Joe Ianniello to run the […]
Hugh Laurie will co-star Hulu’s six-part limited series Catch-22…. Eric Bana (Munich) signed to star opposite Connie Britton in Bravo anthology series Dirty John…. Katrina Lenk (The Band’s Visit) is set to recur on season 2 of CBS All Access drama The Good Fight.