Disney Plans NFL ‘Mega-Cast’ for Wild Card Game on ESPN, ABC, Freeform, ESPN2

Tarek El Moussa and Heather Rae Young hang out by the pool in a cabana while enjoying the sunny weather on Friday (December 18) in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

staff in all secondaries and colleges in England will be tested weekly in a bid to prevent the spread and keep pupils in education. Any staff member or pupil who is deemed to be a close contact of a positive case, will also be tested daily for seven days, to prevent them having to isolate.After the initial roll-out to high schools, colleges, special schools and alternative provisions, the plan is to include primaries from the spring.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThis year in sports can’t be summed up with Top 10 lists and reels of game clips. So ESPN is going to try some different tactics.ESPN plans a three-hour primetime event to bid farewell to year in sports that often involved events that took place well off the field.  The show, “SportsCenter Presents: 2020 – Heroes, History and Hope,”will air as three one-hour programs and will kick off on Thursday, December 24 at 8 p.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTom Rinaldi, the ESPN correspondent known for his enterprise features and video essays, has jumped to Fox Sports, a place that has in the past not been known for delivering such things.He is expected to take up duties for Fox in 2021, “contributing across the network’s world-class portfolio of live events.”“Tom is one of the all-time great people in this business and a generational storyteller,” said  Eric Shanks.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United have not decided whether Amad Diallo will join the first-team squad straightaway if he arrives at the club in January.United signed Atalanta forward Diallo, 18, for a fee rising to £37million on deadline day in October and are in the process of finalising a work permit so the Ivory Coast-born winger can move to England in the New Year.Diallo and fellow right winger Facundo Pellistri completed transfers to United on the same day but

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe name of the show is similar to the name of the soda that sponsors it.Fox and Pepsi will team up to launch “Cherries Wild,” a new game show meant to evoke thoughts of Pepsi Wild Cherry, a soda the beverage giant aims at younger consumers. Over the course of half an hour, contestants will navigate their way through two rounds of pop-culture trivia in hopes of winning a $250,000 jackpot.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSteve Kornacki has a new job that lets him keep his old uniform.MSNBC viewers revere the khaki-and-dress-shirt-clad correspondent’s ability to synthesize reams of polling data that helps them understand the twists and turns of various elections.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorYou won’t believe who’s taking the field in a bid to help CBS impress the National Football League.SpongeBob SquarePants and green slime will be among the elements featured in a broadcast of a January 10thNFL Wild Card game that will appear on Nickelodeon while a traditional presentation runs on CBS. While gridiron aficionados take in the regular sports show, Nickelodeon will put on a game that parents and kids can watch together.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNews junkies often develop a tight relationship with a favorite TV anchor or cable-news outlet. Mosheh Oinounou  hopes some of them will turn instead to a “news concierge.”The former executive producer of “CBS Evening News” is among the many journalists discovering they don’t need a traditional media apparatus — say a TV-network control room or a giant printing press — to serve up information and analysis.

The death of country music legend Charley Pride is being questioned by several of the genre’s stars, who are wondering whether his performance at the County Music Association’s indoor awards show a month before he acquired Covid-19 may be connected.

Vin Diesel is one Hollywood name in a star-studded cast for a new animated series inspired by the 2017 action survival video game Ark: Survival Evolved. The cast, which also includes Elliot Page, David Tennant, Michelle Yeoh and Jefrey Wright, was announced Thursday evening during The Game Awards, hosted by Geoff Keighley.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorESPN snared a massive rights deal with the Southeastern Conference that will put some of the nation’s most popular college-football games on the Disney sports-media giant or its sister broadcast network ABC, an agreement that sees the annual value of the games soar more than 440%.The deal is valued at around $300 million a year, according to people familiar with the matter, and will ensure that, starting in 2024, every SEC football and basketball game airs on a

One of the programs that launched Disney+ was a Lady and the Trump reboot, and The Walt Disney Studio original movies have been a key element of the streaming platform’ original programming strategy.

direct to your inboxAn office ‘campus’ on a much-loved green space in Manchester city centre; hundreds more offices elsewhere; new flats; and a new hotel have been recommended for approval.The major developments mainly focused in and around the city centre will be considered by Manchester council’s planning committee at its final meeting of the year next week.Some schemes - such as plans to build offices and a public park on what is known as ‘New Islington Green’ - have attracted fierce public

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorIf the winds are shifting around cable-news in the aftermath of the 2020 election, Fox News Media intends to cover them: The company plans to launch an advertising-supported streaming weather service in the third quarter of 2021.Fox Weather will debut initially as a mobile app next year, accompanied by a website and streaming service that features local, regional and national weather updates, as well as live programming.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNielsen, best known for delivering TV ratings, is getting ready for a future when it gauges a lot more than what people are watching on TV.The media-measurement giant plans to launch a new system that examines how many impressions a show or commercial makes across a broader panoply of video windows that might include the TV screen, but also the one embedded in a smartphone or computer.

direct to your inboxI'm A Celebrity's Jordan North has faced a bit of struggle since leaving the castle on Friday.The BBC Radio 1 DJ spent less than three weeks in camp and landed in second place to Queen of the Castle, Giovanna Fletcher. Jordan shared his first video since returning home on Sunday in which he thanked fans for their overwhelming support during his time on the ITV reality show.

After delivering one of the most visually stunning TV shows of 2020 with “Devs,” Alex Garland was getting ready to work on a new TV project. Then, 2020 happened and suddenly making a TV show about the need to protest seemed redundant, so Garland changed gears to something more familiar to fans of his directorial work: horror.