CESD Talent Agency Taps Scott Simpson As Executive Director Of Comedy

Naman Ramachandran Peter Cattaneo will direct and Lesley Manville will star in a six-part series adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s acclaimed crime novel “Magpie Murders” for PBS Masterpiece and BritBox U.K.The U.K.’s Sony Pictures Television-backed Eleventh Hour Films (“Alex Rider”) is producing.

With the help of covert reporters on the ground in China and direction from documentary filmmakers Hao Wu and Jean Tsien in New York, the team behind 76 Days was able to bring the bravery of frontline workers and the painful images of the impact of the novel coronavirus to a global audience.

Ramin Setoodeh New York Bureau ChiefTom Holland is best known for his role as Spider-Man in the Marvel comic superhero movies. But it turns out, getting the role wasn’t an easy process for the 24-year-old British actor.

NEW YORK -- Two of Fox News Channel's top news executives involved in the controversial — but correct — election night call of Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden are out at the network.Bill Sammon, senior vice president and managing editor at Fox's Washington bureau, announced his retirement to staff members on Monday.

Panic mode. The news surrounding an undisclosed Real Housewives of New York star’s positive coronavirus test has impacted the cast in more ways than one.

HBO‘s drama series Succession has added Sanaa Lathan, Linda Emond and Jihae Join to the cast of its upcoming third season.Lathan, known for starring in films such as Brown Sugar, Now You See Me 2 and Alien Vs.

Last summer, NY cast member Ramona Singer said she had tested positive. In other spinoffs, positive cases were reported by Shannon Beador and Emily Simpson of the Real Housewives of Orange County, by Kyle RIchards, Kathy Hilton and Dorit Kemsley of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, by Jennifer Aydin of Real Housewives of New Jersey, and by D’Andra Simmons of Real Housewives of Dallas.

Manori Ravindran International EditorOscar-winning actor Marlee Matlin has boarded Doug Roland’s short film “Feeling Through” — one of the first films to feature a deaf-blind actor in a leading role — as an executive producer.The coming-of-age story follows Tereek (Steven Prescod), a teen wandering the streets of New York, desperate for a place to crash when he encounters Artie (Robert Tarango), a deaf-blind man in need of help getting home.

MTV Books is getting a relaunch in partnership with Simon & Schuster and with YA publishing industry vet Christian Trimmer heading up the endeavor.

Ellise Shafer administratorStacy Title, a director, writer and producer known for her films “The Bye Bye Man” and “The Last Supper,” died on Monday of complications due to ALS, her manager Dannie Festa confirmed to Variety.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stacy Title died today after a three-year battle with ALS, her longtime manager, producing partner and friend Dannie Festa confirmed to Deadline. She was 56.

Don Saladino, a New York-based trainer and Men's Health Advisory Board member. Stars like Ryan Reynolds, David Harbour, Sebastian Stan, and many others have turned to Saladino to help them build their superhero bodies.

Over the course of its five-season run — the first four on ABC and the final one on NBC — Taxi picked up a trunkload of industry honors for its cast and producers. Not surprisingly, the ensemble sitcom about the lives of a group of Manhattan cabbies — inspired by a 1975 New York magazine article, "Night-Shifting for the Hip Fleet" — was co-created by two TV writers with impeccable track records: James L.

Tyler Perry made sure his vote in the Georgia runoff elections counted.

A moment in time! Emma Roberts, Gigi Hadid and more pregnant celebrities have documented their baby bump progress with stunning maternity shoots.

NEW YORK -- There’s a government office right there in the very title of Ted Danson’s new series, but the new NBC comedy “Mr. Mayor” is anything but political.“If you consider politics the headlines in the papers and the breaking news on CNN, that ain’t us,” said Danson, who stars as Los Angeles' mayor Neil Bremer.“We point out the foibles and silliness, and wonderfully lovable, pathetic, lame side of humanity but we don’t stop and preach.

told the New York Times. She was 85.Silver was outspoken about her experiences confronting sexism, misogyny and anti-Semitism within the entertainment industry.“I came of age for film at a time when sexism was pretty strong.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorJoan Micklin Silver, who forged her own way as a female director in the 1970s and ’80s and helmed seven features including “Crossing Delancey” and “Hester Street,” died Thursday in Manhattan. She was 85.Her daughter, Claudia Silver, told the New York Times the cause was vascular dementia.The 1975 independent film “Hester Street” was the story of a Jewish immigrant couple in the 1890s.