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EXCLUSIVE: Kenya Barris is bolstering his Khalabo Ink Society (black-ish, You People, Girls Trip) executive team, tapping Jeremy Allen as Chief Operating Officer and Cassandra Vargas as Chief Marketing Officer, as the company ramps up its film, television and podcast production. Allen’s elevation to…

Liongate has approved a five-year employment agreement with chief executive Jon Feltheimer running through July 31, 2029. The latest deal, which replaces his latest contract from 2022, includes an annual base salary of $1.5 million and target bonus of $7.5 million starting in fiscal 2025. The maximum…

EXCLUSIVE: The North Road Company President of Television Amy Israel continues to assemble her executive team with the hire of wiip’s Josh Stern as well as a duo who had worked for her at Showtime, Jamie Pross and Madison Heim-Jinivisian. Stern will serve as EVP of Television, Pross as VP of Television…

CBS Sports CEO David Berson said the volatility at parent company Paramount Global, which is laying off 15% of its U.S. workforce and preparing to merge with Skydance Media, isn’t taking his division off its game. “There's no doubt that the media and entertainment world is incredibly complex these…

CBS Sports CEO David Berson rejects the notion that the company’s agreement to produce two Christmas Day NFL games for Netflix is tantamount to aiding the enemy. "When the news first came out,” Berson told reporters Tuesday at an NFL media breakfast, “I actually said, 'Welcome to the…

EXCLUSIVE: UK-based VFX and animation company Jellyfish Pictures has hired industry vets Brodie McNeill and Lara Osland to lead their expansion in Canada.  McNeill joins as Senior VFX Supervisor and will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of creative supervision across Toronto-based projects…

EXCLUSIVE: A+E Networks is undergoing a round of layoffs today that has seen cuts across Lifetime and History’s programming teams. Deadline understands that Amy Savitsky, SVP Unscripted Development and Programming at Lifetime, as well as VPs Kim Chessler and Cat Rodriguez are out as part of the…

EXCLUSIVE: As Jeff Shell prepares to re-enter the C-suite leagues under the proposed Skydance-Paramount merger, we hear there’s a lot of digging to find some dirt on the former NBCUniversal executive to either derail or taint his new job before it starts. Shell exited NBCU as CEO in April 2023 due to…

EXCLUSIVE: Media Res, the company behind Apple series The Morning Show and Pachinko, is staffing up. It has hired three new television executives: Mary Claire Manley, Ayesha Nadarajah and Megan Reid. It is the latest hires for the Michael Ellenberg-run company following the appointment of former…

Sabrina Caluori, a veteran TV exec who was Nickelodeon’s top marketing exec, is exiting her post ahead of broader layoffs at Paramount Global. In a memo to colleagues (read it in full below), Caluori said her “three slime-filled years” at the company are ending today. Her departure comes a few days…

Anne Chaisson, executive director of Hamptons Film Festival presenting organization HamptonsFilm, will step down from her post after this fall’s edition of the fest. After initially connecting with HamptonsFilm as a producer of films screened during the festival, Chaisson co-founded and co-chaired…

BuzzFeed has promoted Richard Alan Reid to the role of President of Studio, the digital media company announced on Thursday. This comes following three and a half years in which he’s served as EVP, Head of Studio & International. As part of Reid’s promotion, BuzzFeed Studios is absorbing and…