Christina Spade Gets COO Role at AMC Networks

Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has snubbed Cristiano Ronaldo when deciding who is the club's best signing this century.

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

The Sundance Film Festival takes place between January 20-30 and announced its full line-up today. Additionally, dozens of first-look images (see below) were released today alongside synopsizes for the festival slate that includes projects such as “Emily The Criminal,” “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” from young SXSW Winner and filmmaker/actor Cooper Raiff and “892.” The latter features the late Michael Kenneth Williams, the project shot before his untimely death.

The unveiling of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival line-up was decidedly unique. For the first time in recent memory, acquisition films are dominating the proceedings.

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+.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAd-tech firm OpenAP has for the past few years worked to define TV viewers in ways that apply no matter which media company’s programming they watch.

Marcus Lamb, who founded the Texas-based Christian television network Daystar, died on Tuesday from complications of the coronavirus. He was 64 and his death was confirmed by his wife, Joni Lamb, on a show they cohosted on the network.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSusan Arnold, a veteran of consumer-products giant Procter & Gamble as well as the Carlyle Group investment firm, will take the reins as chairman of Walt Disney Co.’s board of directors, succeeding Bob Iger in the role when he departs on December 31.The transition will mark an end of an era for the big entertainment company, which will not have Iger in a senior operating role for the first time since 1996.More to come…

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAMC has officially ordered a series based on the Anne Rice “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” novels, Variety has learned.The cabler has ordered eight episodes of the show, which is titled “Mayfair Witches.” It was originally announced that AMC had opened a writers room for the series in August under their script to series model.The show will focus on an intuitive young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches.

Manchester United caretaker manager Michael Carrick insists it was not a 'major decision' to drop Cristiano Ronaldo to the bench at Chelsea.

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.

Abigail Anderson, Taylor Swift‘s longtime friend, is officially engaged!

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.

Christina Spade, who joined AMC Networks last January as chief financial officer, is gaining the additional title of chief operating officer.

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.

Red (Taylor’s Version) (★★★☆☆) comes in two distinct pieces. The bulk of it is a revisiting and reworking of tracks from 2012’s Red.

Simu Liu made his “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut on Nov. 20 and opened the show with an enthusiastic monologue where he dished on everything from being Canadian to how he landed his role in “Shang-Chi”.The 32-year-old actor reflected on an old tweet in which he manifested the role in the Marvel film.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorLaura Molen is using November to pitch Madison Avenue as if May were just around the corner.The NBCUniversal ad-sales president (above, pictured) is ready to unveil two new advertising formats for Peacock, the company’s streaming-video hub, as well as tout a host of new efforts to incorporate advertiser data; new quality standards; and partners like DV360, OneView, The Trade Desk, and Yahoo that will help so-called “programmatic” marketers using algorithms to get

“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.