| HIT SHOWS AREN'T ENOUGH. THE STREAMER IS TRYING TO NURTURE STARS AND CREATE AN UNSCRIPTED ECOSYSTEM |
Earlier this month, the lip fillers, bodycon dresses and quilted T-shirts were out in force as around 100 stars – including Selling Sunset’s Chrishell Stause and Building the Band’s AJ McLean as well as the casts of shows such as Perfect Match, Love Is Blind, Squid Game: The Challenge, Love on the Spectrum and Temptation Island – paraded on the Santa Monica pier at a party thrown by Netflix.
The event highlighted one of the latest battlegrounds within reality television. It’s not just enough to make plenty of shows, networks and streamers also have to figure out a way to encourage fans to want to stay for an entire universe of shows.
Jeff Gaspin, who oversees unscripted at Netflix, told Deadline: “It’s this idea that the stars of our reality shows appear on other shows and we create this fandom around this talent. When you do as many shows as we do and you have the ability to push them from one show to the next, the fans really love it, and it creates this universe that very much gets associated with Netflix and helps you define your shows.” >>>UK Talent Model
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'South Park' Swings Big - Just hours after South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a new five-year overall deal with Paramount Global and entered into an exclusive five-year license deal with Paramount+ reportedly worth $1.5 billion, the duo unleashed a savage, satirical broadside aimed at Donald Trump and Paramount itself in their Season 27 premiere episode. >>> Jesus, Satan & A Naked Trump
A Marvel-less Comic-Con - Whenever Marvel Studios doesn’t show up at San Diego Comic-Con, it’s like pulling the heart out of the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. While Marvel pumps a lot of blood through SDCC‘s aorta, its absence actually provides oxygen for rivals – who otherwise could likely not compete – to shine. >>>Disney Has A Presence
Ben Stiller's Family Doc - Apple Original Films has partnered with Ben Stiller on Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost, his intergenerational documentary passion project about his late comedy icon parents Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. >>>Long In The Works
Third Time's The Charm? - Lionsgate and Universal‘s Michael Jackson biopic Michael is moving yet again. This time it is set for global release on Friday, April 24. It's the third time the film has been redated. >>>Issues With Length
'Booster' Club - HBO Max is progressing with its Booster Gold TV series and has attached Our Flag Means Death creator David Jenkins to write the pilot. If taken to series, the plan is for Jenkins to show-run. >>>Emmy Potential
Sony & Aevitas Make A Deal - Sony’s Columbia Pictures, 3000 Pictures and Sony Pictures Television have made a partnership with leading literary agency Aevitas Creative Management to develop film and TV projects based on its authors’ books. >>>First Look
In Brief - Verve signs Chad Charlie... Marshawn Lynch will exec produce a Seattle Seahawks documentary
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The first season of Apple TV+’s Stick has come to an end with its finale episode, titled “Déjà Vu All Over Again.”
Owen Wilson’s Pryce Cahill and Peter Dager’s Santi Wheeler faced their respective demons on and off the golf course.
In an interview with Deadline, creator Jason Keller clarifies the mechanics of Episode 8’s hustle, how Pryce has grown, that moment between him and his ex-wife Amber-Linn (Judy Greer) and ideas for a Season 2. >>>Q&A
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exclusiveLuke Wilson, Tim Baltz (The Righteous Gemstones), Genesis Rodriguez (Lioness), Arturo Castro (Tron: Ares), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Raul Trujillo (Untamed), Frankie Quinones (This Fool) and Kirk Fox (Jury Duty ) are joining Tom Segura's R-rated comedy El Tigre, which he’s also producing. Exclusive Cynthia Bailey (The Real Housewives of Atlanta), former NFL star turned actor Vernon Davis (The Ritual Killer) and Jemarcus Kilgore (All’s Fair ) are set to star in the upcoming sports drama Diamond.
Maybe Happy Ending won Best Musical at the Tony Awards last month, and it’s getting a new lead actor after Labor Day. Andrew Barth Feldman will take over as Oliver starting September 2.
Hot off his acclaimed turn in Apple’s The Studio, Ike Barinholtz has entered talks to play Elon Musk in Luca Guadagnino’s new AI-themed feature Artificial for Amazon MGM Studios.
Christopher Meloni is set to star in Hulu’s upcoming Dan Fogelman drama series, which goes inside the world of the NFL with a generational family component. Meloni is said to be playing the head coach of an NFL team.
In Brief - Brandy Norwood & Sy’Rai Smith to star in Lifetime's Christmas Everyday... Skyler Gisondo joins Meet the Parents sequel... Cooper Hoffman joins Amazon MGM’s Artificial |
by the numbers "Not do-able" - Donald Trump on the idea of AI companies compensating every copyright owner |
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💼 Versant, the holding company for NBCUniversal cable networks being spun off from Comcast, has announced who will sit on its board of directors.
🎥 Imax said its profits surged and revenue rose last quarter as global box office climbed 19% year-on-year thanks to releases like Sinners and F1.
⚖️ Candice Owens' "outlandish, defamatory and far-fetched fictions" that French First Lady Brigitte Macron was born a man are totally false, a defamation lawsuit filed by Franch President Emmanuel Macron and his spouse asserts.
🏀 NBCUniversal, which shuttered NBC Sports Network in 2021, is considering launching a sports-focused cable channel that would carry programming available on streaming service Peacock.
📉 ITV profits were slashed 30% during the first half of this year. The broadcaster in the main put this down to a strong first six months of 2024 due to high advertising sales for the men’s Euro’s soccer tournament. |
by the numbers $96.4B - YouTube's total revenue for the period ended June 3 |
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Pike's Peak - Rosamund Pike, seen here at the press night after party for Inter Alia at The National Theatre, gives "a scorching central performance" in playwright Suzie Miller’s follow-up to Prima Facie, according to Deadline's Baz Bamigboye. |
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