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Last year’s Disney Entertainment Television layoffs were accompanied by a consolidation of the production operations across multiple divisions under Carol Turner. Alongside the staff reductions across the company last week, DET’s Head of Casting Sharon Klein has streamlined her oversight with fewer direct…

Fubo CEO David Gandler traded jabs Tuesday with attorneys Disney and Fox Corp., two of the three media companies behind streaming joint venture Venu Sports. Last February, Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against Fox, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery. The suit…

Michael Engleman, Chief Marketing Officer for Paramount+ Domestic and Paramount+ with Showtime, will be leaving Paramount Global later this month. He just announced his departure in an internal memo. (You can read it below.) The news comes as chatter has been intensifying over the last few days that…

EXCLUSIVE: The Jackal Group CEO Gail Berman is expanding her executive team as part of her overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, adding Chris Markey as Senior Vice President and Jennifer Katz as Director of Development. Berman inked a three-year overall deal with Sony TV in May to develop and…

NBCUniversal has promoted Jeanne Mau to Executive Vice President, TV Programming Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, from her SVP role. She continues to report into Pearlena Igbokwe, Chairman of Universal Studio Group and Frances Berwick, Chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment.  In her expanded…

Warner Bros. Discovery Strikes Film Deal With Former Staffer; ‘The Intern’ To Be Remade Warner Bros. Discovery is getting into business with one of its longest-serving execs in Asia and will remake The Intern as part of the agreement. The entertainment powerhouse has struck a first-look film deal…

The Warner Music Group will see CEO of Recorded Music Max Lousada step down at the end of September, the company announced today. Lousada has run the recorded music operation for eight years and will remain an adviser until January 31. However, Lousada's role will cease to exist moving forward, as…

EXCLUSIVE: The details of Disney's Entertainment Television's latest round of layoffs are starting to emerge. Deadline understands that the company is combining the unscripted teams at ABC Entertainment and Hulu. The move was made by Rob Mills, EVP Unscripted and Alternative Entertainment at Walt…

Cosm, purveyor of immersive technology, media and entertainment experiences it has dubbed “shared reality,” has raised more than $250 million in new funding. The new capital will fuel an ongoing expansion of the company’s portfolio of venues in LA, Dallas and other cities to come as well as…

EXCLUSIVE: KatzSmith Productions (It), the company founded by David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith, has brought on Wynn Wygal as President of Production. Wygal was most recently SVP of Production at Thomas Tull's Teton Ridge Entertainment, where she oversaw both scripted and non-scripted Film and…

EXCLUSIVE: YMU literary chief Amanda Harris will leave the British agency next year to launch her own business. Harris has been with the London-headquartered agency, which reps the likes of Simon Cowell, since 2019 and two years later set up YMU Literary, becoming Global Managing Director of the…

EXCLUSIVE: LuckyChap has promoted Bronte Payne to the role of Senior Vice President of Film. Payne has been with the company since 2018 and has been an intergral part in developing and shepherding such projects as My Old Ass, Oceans prequel and Boston Strangler. As SVP, Payne will oversee and…