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With the first full weekend of the Rio Olympics under its belt, NBC’s ratings results are best described as “mixed.” “The first night of competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics crushed all primetime broadcast offerings Saturday night,” Variety notes. “But…
The executive producer of the venerable TV newsmag “Entertainment Tonight” is headed out. In an exclusive, Variety reports that Brad Bessey is exiting the show ahead of season 36. “Bessey joined ‘Entertainment Tonight’ in April 2014, succeeding longtime ‘ET’ exec…
Hulu is pulling the plug on its free streaming service after focusing for the past couple of years on shifting customers to its subscription service. The Wall Street Journal reports that the “last nail in the coffin” is a new…
Two men suspected of stealing about 30 vehicles by hacking into their software systems were arrested Friday in Houston, Autoweek reports. Michael Arcee and Jesse Zelay allegedly used a laptop to gain access to the systems on Jeep vehicles, enabling…
All eight of the previously released “Harry Potter” movies, along with the upcoming “Fantastic Beasts” films, are headed to television in a blockbuster licensing deal between NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. TVNewsCheck reports that the multinetwork partnership gives…
Woody Allen will be starring in a new TV series, set to premiere next month on Amazon. The AP reports that “Crisis in Six Scenes” will premiere Sept. 30. “The comedy, set during the upheaval of the 1960s, focuses on…
Fox’s “The Simpsons,” which launches its 28th season on Sept. 25, will do something this season it has never done in the past 27: a one-hour episode. The episode, “The Great Phatsby,” will air in January and will feature guest…
NBCUniversal today announced a new partnership with a major social media site. The content and advertising deal with Snapchat will include NBCU producing original shows for Snapchat. The NBC series “The Voice” will add the digital show “The Voice on Snapchat,”…
Press release from NBCUniversal, Aug. 8, 2016: NBCUniversal and Snapchat today announced a multi-year content and advertising partnership through which NBCUniversal will produce original episodic shows for Snapchat. The NBCUniversal partnership will significantly expand Snapchat’s existing partner portfolio, which currently…
“According to one highly placed source,” former Fox News CEO and chairman Roger Ailes organized a “‘Black Room,’ an operation Ailes established around 2011 to conduct PR and surveillance campaigns against people he targeted, both inside and outside the company,”…