Disney Television Animation Ups Sarah Finn To SVP Production

Paige Turley and Finn Tapp have given a glimpse inside their sun-soaked getaway to Florida including a fun trip to Walt Disney World. The Love Island winners, who met on the winter series of the hit ITV2 dating show in 2020, shared a peek inside their holiday to the United States with their Instagram followers.

A “Beautiful Dream”! 5 Seconds of Summer frontman Luke Hemmings had fans in an all-caps social media frenzy as he sparked speculation that he secretly married fiancée Sierra Deaton.

Our lives would suck without her! Kelly Clarkson has experienced success in the music industry, a messy divorce and first-time motherhood since she became a star.

A jury found that New York Times and one of its top editors were not liable in Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit, affirming a judge’s earlier announcement that he would dismiss the case irregardless of their decision.

Sandy Tejada’s face or heard her voice more than once — especially since she is the only Afro-Latina acting in the pilot of the HBO Max comedy-drama series and in the trailer. “I play the host of a trendy restaurant, and I opened the show with Sarah Jessica Parker. But before that, I had the first line of the show, which is huge,” Tejada told HOLA! USA, adding, “I did not see this coming because honestly when I saw the trailer, and I heard my line, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I didn’t see my face! My scene got cut.’According to Sandy, it was a nerve-wracking moment because it had happened to her in the past when writers go in a different direction.

EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Klein, EVP, Casting at Walt Disney Television has made a number of hires, promotions and new assignments across her department’s VP level.

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple’s Iron Ocean Productions is staying in business with Paramount Television Studios. The duo have extended their first-look deal with the studio, which was first signed in December 2019. As part of the new pact, Biel and Purple will continue to create and develop scripted television series for Paramount Television Studios via Iron Ocean, including upcoming project Welcome to Oxhead.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWeigel Broadcasting Co., the company behind the classic television outlet Me TV, is launching its first unscripted network. The company will launch Story Television Network, an over-the-air national broadcast channel devoted to history-based fare, on March 28.Story TV’s programming will include off-net series that originally aired on networks like A&E and History Channel, including “Biography,” “The Men Who Built America,” “World War II in HD,” “Modern Marvels,” “Mankind: The Story of All of Us” and more. Each day will center programming around a unique theme or genre, such as military, technology and innovation, world events, American history, modern achievement, unexplained phenomena, and biographical tributes.

Sarah Palin completed her testimony in her libel case against The New York Times, as she told a New York federal court that the publication’s editorial linking her political action committee to a 2011 mass shooting “was mortifying.”

Showtime has padded its communications leadership team, adding oversight of Paramount Television Studios to SVP Dominic Pagone and upping Amanda Cary to SVP.

J. Kim Murphy Julian Fowles, a film and television producer who worked at KCET and Esparza/Katz Productions, died in a hospital in Miami, Flor. on Saturday while recovering from a stroke.

A rocky journey. Shia LaBeouf and Mia Goth have gone through their fair share together.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFormosa Group and Fox Post Production Services have announced a strategic alliance.Based at the historic Fox Studio Lot in Century City, Fox Post Production Services encompasses four feature mixing stages, two ADR stages, the famous Newman Scoring Stage, a Foley stage and editing rooms to support the full post-production process. Formosa Group will have a presence in the original Film Editorial building on the lot.

EXCLUSIVE: Bruna Papandrea’s Made Up Stories and Liza Chasin’s 3dot Productions have optioned the rights to Sarah Vaughan’s upcoming novel Reputation to develop as a television series. This marks Vaughan’s second collaboration with Papandrea and Chasin following the high-profile limited series adaptation of Vaughan’s Anatomy of a Scandal for Netflix.

The Dutton family will be back – obviously.

The leader of the so-called Islamic State group has been killed during a US special forces raid in north-western Syria, President of the United States Joe Biden has announced.

Broadcast and cable networks are expected to carry President Joe Biden’s remarks on Thursday announcing that U.S. forces in Syria conducted a raid that let to the death of the leader of ISIS, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics officially kicks off February 4 with the Opening Ceremonies and ends February 20 with the Closing Ceremonies, but competition actually gets underway Wednesday, February 2. That’s when some events — such as curling, freestyle skiing and ice hockey — get going.

EXCLUSIVE: Sarena Khan and Andra Gordon’s Athena Pictures and Starlings Television, led by Chris Philip, have teamed with Propagate Content’s Ben Silverman to co-produce Shadowland, a female-driven wildlife crime thriller series, from Jacqui Barcos, director Darnell Martin (American Rust, The Good Lord Bird) and executive producer Peter Elkoff (Sons of Anarchy, Chance).

EXCLUSIVE: Teresa Hsiao, co-creator, executive producer and showrunner of Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens, has signed an overall deal with Sony Pictures Television to develop comedy and animation for cable streaming platforms via her Red 136 Productions.