Annie Mac reunited with stolen USB stick

Heating things up! Max Thieriot is no stranger to the limelight — but his latest role as Bode Donovan on CBS’ Fire Country has made him an even bigger star.

Coming to an end. Following New Amsterdam‘s emotional series finale, creator David Schulner and co-showrunner Peter Horton opened up about the show’s memorable conclusion.

Antony Root, the long-serving HBO Max EMEA original programming chief, is to exit his role at Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and retire from the industry.

Warning: This story contains spoilers from season 5 of New Amsterdam. 

The streamlining of CBS Studios and Paramount Television Studios’ operations continues. Deborah Aquila, who heads casting for PTVS, will become the head of casting for both CBS Studios and Paramount TV Studios. She will add the responsibilities most recently held by CBS Studios EVP Casting Meg Liberman who announced her retirement earlier today.

One of the top TV casting executives in the business, Meg Liberman, currently EVP and head of casting at CBS Studios, has announced her retirement after 47 years in casting, the last 14 at the studio. The studio’s new casting department structure is expected to be announced shortly.

There have been plenty of films about someone who is killed and then comes back as some sort of ghost. But what if you were a teenager who was mysteriously killed and you were brought back as a ghost stuck in high school? That’s the hook of the new Paramount+ series, “School Spirits.” As seen in the new teaser, “School Spirits” follows the story of a teen girl who is killed and sent to a weird ghostly afterlife where she is stuck in high school surrounded by other teen ghosts.

SkyShowtime has struck its first major content deal, picking up exclusive rights to 21 HBO Max Europe originals, most of which were ditched by the streamer last year following its European programing cull.

A Hollywood romance. Elle Fanning and Max Minghella started off as coworkers — but it didn’t take long for them to take things to the next level.

Reading the tea leaves with regard to China in 2023 is even more difficult than usual. The country’s about-face on its longstanding zero-Covid policy has implications from geopolitics to economics and, closer to home for Hollywood, the state of the market after a dismal 2022. Exactly what those implications are is where the guesswork comes in.

With all the current upheaval at DC Studios, it feels as if there’s only one sure thing for the DCU in the years ahead: Matt Reeves‘ “The Batman” films and their HBO Max spinoff shows. Don’t expect Reeves’ sequel to last year’s hit for a few years, but “The Penguin” with Colin Farrell enters production next month.

Flying under the radar. Elle Fanning and boyfriend Max Minghella are “in a better place than ever,” a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly.

Ukrainian Under-21 international Max Kucheriavyi feels St Johnstone is the best place for his development after committing his future to the club.

Leslie Grace is giving us a look at the Batgirl costume that might have been. In a look-back end-of-year video posted on Instagram, Grace, who would have starred in the titular role in the HBO Max film, has shared some behind-the-scenes photos and clips during filming of Batgirl, which was permanently shelved by Warner Bros. and DC Films earlier this year. It was to have bowed on HBO Max sometime in 2023.