Disney, Comcast Renew Carriage Deal for ESPN, Disney Channel, ABC Stations

Tom Daley had the utmost support from his husband Dustin Lance Black on Sunday night as they attended the BBC Sports Personality Of The Year Awards at MediaCityUK, Salford. The diver, 27, is in the running for the esteemed award along with the likes of tennis ace Emma Raducanu, F1 driver Lewis Hamilton, heavyweight champ Tyson Fury and Manchester City footballer Raheem Sterling.

YouTube TV and Disney agreed to a new deal that will restore access to a number of the entertainment giant’s networks including ESPN, ABC and FX. News of the updated carriage deal comes Sunday afternoon, just days after negotiations between Disney and Google failed to reach fruition, leading to the Disney networks going dark on YouTube TV.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-writer-director Ryan Eggold has inked a new first-look deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop projects across various platforms.

Tough love? Lisa Rinna wants her eldest daughter, Delilah Belle Hamlin, to stand on her own two feet amid their alleged family drama.

Ryan Seacrest will be ringing in New Year’s Eve in Times Square for years to come. MRC Live and Alternative have signed Seacrest to a multi-year deal extension to host and EP Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

Looking back! Amid Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin’s alleged family drama, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star is reliving some of her fondest memories.

 It is about to be a whole lot less holly jolly over at the Hamlin household!

Heartwarming pictures show the moment a Scots student surprised his parents after not seeing them for two years due to strict lockdown measures in Australia.

Delilah Belle Hamlin‘s latest social media post is raising some eyebrows.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorEman Varoqua was named executive producer of “Nightline,” the latest in a series of moves by ABC News President Kim Godwin to fill some of the top positions in the news division.Varoqua has been with ABC News since 2018, most recently working as senior broadcast producer for the late-night news show that launched with Ted Koppel in 1980, with roots in ABC’s coverage of the Iran hostage crisis.

Things may be awkward at the Hamlin household over the holidays. Delilah Belle Hamlin is raising eyebrows for a since-deleted video about her parents, Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorChris Wallace is leaving Fox News Channel, he announced on his program Sunday morning, a move that abruptly sunders the cable-news outlet’s connection with one of its most recognized and independent journalists.Wallace delivered the news himself, in the last minutes of his “Fox News Sunday,” which he has anchored for nearly two decades on the Fox Corporation-owned outlet.  “I want to try something new, to go beyond politics to all the things I’m interested in.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAfter a hosting “The Late Late Show” for a thousand episodes, James Corden now knows why his gig is so coveted. “These are very difficult jobs to leave, because you work with incredible people and you do something that’s really amazing every day,” he said.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorGiada De Laurentiis has struck a new content pact with Discovery’s Food Network, and will launch a new series, “Simply Giada,’ a new four-episode daytime program.De Laurentiis will continue to produce programming for both Food Network and the parent company’s Discovery Plus streaming hub as part of the renewed pact.“I’m excited to share all of the new projects I’ve been working on with viewers.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Business Network offers a market forecast each weekday. On weekends, it will start to offer one related to the weather.Starting Saturday, December 4, the Fox Corp.-owned cable outlet will offer two hours of Fox Weather programming in the early morning, the first time the streaming weather service, which launched in October, will be made available for linear TV audiences.

BUCHAREST, Romania -- Performing on the main stage of the Nottara Theatre in downtown Bucharest is a dream of every aspiring artist in Romania, where hundreds of prison inmates have gotten that lucky break.A drama festival organized by the National Penitentiary Administration of Romania gives prisoners the opportunity to appear in theater productions overseen by professional directors.

ROME -- A villa in the heart of Rome that features the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio is being put up for auction by court order after the home was restored by its last occupants: a Texas-born princess and her late husband, a member of one of Rome’s aristocratic families.The Casino dell’Aurora, also known as Villa Ludovisi, was built in 1570 and has been in the Ludovisi family since the early 1600s.

Comcast and the Walt Disney Co. have reached a multi-year agreement for carriage of Disney’s TV channels on Xfinity platforms, including the addition of the ACC Network.