Barry Diller said his interest in Paramount Global “unquestionably” pushed Skydance to close its merger with the media company. Shari Redstone, who controls Paramount via her family holding National Amusements Inc. “ought to send a nice pot of flowers or chicken soup” as a token of appreciation…

NBC has once again triumphed in the ratings over the 52-week season thanks to its coverage of the Paris Olympics and trusted summer hit America's Got Talent. The network won the 2023-24 season in both total viewers and the 18-49 demo for all programs.  This is not unusual as the network has…

Netflix plans to add signature flourishes to its live broadcasts of two Christmas Day NFL games, but remains circumspect about paying billions for major sports rights. That was the view from Co-CEO Greg Peters, who covered sports, advertising and a couple of other topics in a 25-minute appearance…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer Nell Scovell (Sabrina the Teenage Witch) and former NBCUniversal content chief Susan Rovner are developing the new series The Fishbowl with CBS Studios for CBS, sources tell Deadline. The drama is a procedural about a brilliant medical examiner overseeing a private room at the…

EXCLUSIVE: David Cormican, who produced Freeform's ShadowHunters and Lifetime's The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, has new representation. Cormican and his Fun Republic Pictures banner has signed with Paradigm. The agency will work with Cormican across scripted feature film and TV as well as…

EXCLUSIVE: Alysia Russo, who was Head of Docuseries at Amazon MGM Studios, is moving to Netflix. It marks a rare senior executive moving directly between two rival studios. Russo is understood to be working on feature docs at Netflix. While there are two executives from this team on maternity…

EXCLUSIVE: Madison Pettis (He's All That), Frances Fisher (Titanic) and Yvonne Orji (Vacation Friends) are among 11 to join the cast of the Netflix rom-com The Wrong Paris alongside previously announced Miranda Cosgrove and Pierson Fode. Production on the film is currently underway in…

Netflix's television adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman lurks in the form of Season 2, which will likely arrive over two years after Season 1 first debuted on the streamer in August 2022. Netflix also launched Dead Boy Detectives, based on another of Gaiman's comic books set within the universe…

One Piece Season 2 is in the works after receiving a speedy renewal from Netflix after Season 1's arrival last year. The live-action series is based on Eiichiro Oda's best-selling manga. The show follows the otherworldly adventures of Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy) and his pirate crew as they explore…

It was a bittersweet morning on Live with Kelly and Mark. Art Moore, WABC’s VP Programming and the morning show’s executive in charge of production, is retiring after 36 years working on Live and 53 at the network. Hosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos gave Moore his flowers on-air Friday morning — and…

Running until the final general election results come in, the Deadline ElectionLine podcast spotlights the 2024 campaign and the blurred lines between politics and entertainment in modern America. Hosted by Deadline political editor Ted Johnson and executive editor Dominic Patten, the podcast features…

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