AMC Networks CFO Christina Spade Gains COO Duties In Expanded Role

Cynthia Littleton Business EditorAMC Networks hopes to mark a new beginning in the coming year as it prepares for some very big goodbyes.AMC is preparing to leverage the marketing platform provided by three buzzy series finales — AMC’s “The Walking Dead” and “Better Call Saul” and BBC America’s “Killing Eve” — to drive awareness and subscribers to its growing suite of streaming services, from drama-centric AMC Plus and SundanceNow to the niche-targeted Acorn TV, ALLBLK and Shudder.The company

Another first for Squid Game. Twitter, which swung into year-end spirit today with 2021 rankings, showed the Netflix viral hit was, unsurprisingly, the most tweeted-about show on streaming in the U.S. this year. WandaVision and Loki (Disney+) were nos. two and three, followed by iCarly on Paramount+ and Ted Lasso on Apple TV+.

Lindsey Wallace is getting back into the action against Michael Myers!

AMC+ on Thursday (Dec.

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is getting adapted into a TV show for AMC. This marks the second Rice series heading to adaptation at the network, as “Interview With the Vampire” will also be hitting the small screen. Based on a trilogy of supernatural novels first published in 1990, the “Mayfair Witches” series will be eight episodes, written and produced by Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford (“Masters of Sex”).

Insecure alumni Jean Elie (Colin in Black & White) and Mike Gauyo (Ginny & Georgia), fresh off the popular HBO series’ final season, will reunite to create Send Help, a dark comedy in development at AMC Networks’ streaming platform AllBlk.

The University of Southern California has landed one of the biggest fishes in college football, naming Oklahoma coach Lincoln Riley to take over its faltering football program.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has been dealt a major blow in his hopes of making next year’s World Cup after Portugal were handed the worst possible draw in the play-offs.

is replacing Ed Carroll, who is leaving the company after 34 years.The promotion is a pretty impressive vote of confidence considering Spade, the former ViacomCBS chief financial officer, just joined AMC Networks in January.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorChristina Spade was named chief operating officer of AMC Networks as the company continues to fine-tune its executive suite after longtime chief Josh Sapan stepped back from his role in August.Spade, formerly the chief financial officer of ViacomCBS, was named CFO for AMC Networks at the start of 2021, and she will retain her current CFO duties.  She held CFO roles for both Showtime and CBS Corp. before it was re-merged with Viacom.

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Naman Ramachandran AMC Networks streamer AMC Plus has acquired spaghetti western drama series “That Dirty Black Bag” from Bron Studios and Mediawan’s Palomar.The series features an all-star cast including Dominic Cooper (“Preacher”), Douglas Booth (“The Dirt”), Niv Sultan (“Tehran”), Guido Caprino (“The Miracle”), Christian Cooke (“The Promise”), Travis Fimmel (“Vikings”) and Aidan Gillen (“Game of Thrones”).The eight-part series, which aims to capture the dark side of the Far West, follows an

“I bet you think about me,” Laverne Cox captioned the short Instagram clip she posted on Tuesday (Nov. 16.) In the video, the star of the upcoming Inventing Anna mini-series posed in some sheer Gucci lingerie with her backside pointed towards the camera.

Oprah Winfrey about her divorce and workout routine.The Nielsen company said the CBS show nearly had a bigger audience than April's Oscars ceremony and, when delayed viewers are eventually figured in, will likely exceed it.Probably the two most popular musicians of the day both had weekend television spotlights to hawk new material.

Playing coy. Kathy Hilton wouldn’t say whether she’s returning to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills amid reports that she is holding out for more money from Bravo.