Disney, Charter Settle Cable Dispute Hours Before Debut of ESPN’s ‘Monday Night Football’

Carlos Gu has suffered a facial injury ahead of the second Strictly Come Dancing live show, with his dance partner Angela Scanlon revealing she accidentally head butted him in rehearsals. Strictly pro Carlos, 29, is competing on this year's series of the BBC One show with TV presenter Angela, 39, and the duo have been keeping their fans updated on social media with their dancing journey and have shared several behind the scenes clips and photos.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor On Sunday, Allstate is trading in its famous Mayhem character for chaos of a different sort. The big insurance company is testing a sponsorship of a new kind of sporting event that will feature some of Pixar’s best-known animated characters tackling a real-life NFL game. When the Jacksonville Jaguars play the Atlanta Falcons at 9:30 a.m.

Having conquered the music biz, about to conquer the movie biz and proving one of this era’s most powerful economic and cultural forces, Taylor Swift is lending some of her superstar power to the NFL and NBC.

Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan presale for Olivia Rodrigo’s tour has added yet another complication: tickets purchased for her GUTS tour will not be available until 72 hours prior to the date of the show, and can only be accessed electronically.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor A major transition at the top of a big company typically spells significant change. Just ask anyone who has worked for CNN while parent company WarnerMedia passed along to AT&T and then the new Warner Bros. Discovery.

Chris Stapleton and rap legend Snoop Dogg have teamed up to cover rock icon Phil Collins‘ ‘In The Air Tonight’ as the NFL’s new Monday Night Football theme song – listen to it below.Today (September 19), ESPN took to social media to share the new Monday Night Football anthem, which also features drummer Cindy Blackman Santana taking on the iconic drum fills of the original track.Watch the three artists breathe new life into ‘In The Air Tonight’ below.Can you feel it?

The power and popularity of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight,” which first famously appeared on TV in Season 1 of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice, has outlasted 30 years of screen appearances in everything from Risky Business to a Cadbury chocolate bar ad to a fictional Mike Tyson’s affinity for the tune in the original Hangover. Now, it’s been reinvented as the theme song for one of TV’s most popular shows.

ABC is bringing a ton of football programming to the network!

ABC is loading up on a slew of extra NFL games in a bid to bolster its fall schedule.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor “Monday Night Football” was for many years a staple of ABC’s Monday-night line-up before it moved to ESPN in 2006. This fall, it will be so again. ABC will air ten more “MNF” games than previously expected this season, simulcasting then with Disney TV sibling ESPN in a move that will help the broadcast network as the industry grapples with ongoing strikes by WGA and SAG-AFTRA.

SZA dropped a surprise new track on Friday.

The NFL regular season is finally back to breathe some life into linear television.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor After working for Walt Disney Co. for decades, Woody, Buzz Lightyear and their “Toy Story” friends have been given new jobs by the large entertainment conglomerate. Characters from the popular animated Pixar films will in October take part in the latest in a series of experiments aimed at getting young kids to watch live sports.

UPDATED WITH details and company comment. Disney and Charter Communications have reached a carriage renewal, ending a 10-day impasse that drew intense scrutiny to the shifting economics of pay-TV in the streaming era.

EXCLUSIVE: The inspiring story of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin and his road back to football after nearly dying on the field last January will be turned into a feature film documentary. Did We Win will highlight the player’s miraculous recovery since stunning the NFL when he collapsed on the field and went into cardiac arrest during a Monday Night Football game last January, after sustaining a blow to the chest.

A family have paid tribute to their "spectacular firecracker" of a daughter who sadly died after a battling a heart condition. Rose O'Leary sadly passed away on Monday (September 4) after undergoing surgery to repair a defect in her heart.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Nielsen is putting a new media yardstick out of arm’s reach, for the time being. Nielsen backed off a plan to incorporate first-party data from Amazon in its study of the audience for the company’s streamcast of “Thursday Night Football.” a move that was opposed by TV networks, putting to rest — at least for the moment — the idea that the measurement giant might utilize inputs from the companies it examines in its national viewership methodology.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Jen Psaki is stretching beyond her weekend shift at MSNBC. The former Biden White House Press Secretary turned Sunday commentator is expanding her purview at the NBCUniversal-backed cable outlet. She will begin anchoring MSNBC’s 8 p.m.

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has seen a 60% jump in Hulu + Live TV subscriptions relative to internal expectations since a carriage impasse with Charter began, according to figures provided to Deadline by a Disney spokesperson.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Russian tennis pro Daniil Medvedev is as frustrated as Charter Communications’ millions of cable TV customers that he can’t watch ESPN’s U.S. Open coverage because of the operator’s carriage fight with Disney. Medvedev, one of the sport’s top-ranked players, revealed that he had resorted to piracy to watch the U.S.