EOne’s Mark Herwick Joins Range Media Partners as President of Non-Scripted Television

WME music agents Marissa Smith, Matthew Morgan and Buster Philipps have left the agency and are bound for UTA, sources tell Variety. The news follows the exit of Scott Clayton, who was one of three co-heads of music at WME.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentCelebrated by a VIP evening event at Lisbon’s imposing Jerónimos Monastery, CNN and partner Media Capital will bow CNN Portugal today at 21:00 GMT, marking the biggest news launch for many years in Portugal.A 24-hour Portuguese-language channel, CNN Portugal will be run by Media Capital, Portugal’s largest media conglomerate  which also owns top broadcast network TVI and Plural Entertainment, one of the country’s biggest production entities.Media

It’s no secret that Pete Davidson likes to poke fun at his native Staten Island. The 28-year-old comedian has opened up about growing up in the New York area many times over the years, and on Nov. 20, he made his feelings known in a hilarious skit on “Saturday Night Live”.

Method Man and Big Wet on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live to perform a parody of Cohn’s ‘Walking In Memphis’.In the sketch, Davidson wears an “I <3 Staten Island” hoodie and muses about his hometown, reflecting on its fine sites including the bagel spots, pizza places and garbage dump you can see from space.Marc Cohn appears briefly, stating his reluctance to join the parody, before fully committing and donning a similar hoodie to Davidson and Big Wet.The group sing about Staten

EXCLUSIVE: Kathryn Busby, EVP and head of TriStar Television, is leaving the Sony television label to become President of Original Programming for Starz. Reporting to Jeffrey Hirsch, President and CEO of Starz, Busby will lead the programming and development team, staying the course set by the premium network and global streaming platform several years ago with a programming mandate committed to narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences.

LA-based Hackman Capital Partners just announced its latest project — working with the City of Toronto to develop a new complex called Basin Media Studios amid a production boom in that city and a global race to expand capacity to accommodate the explosion of TV and film production. 

The Bluetones‘ frontman Mark Morriss has been accused of years of abuse by his ex-wife in a new blog post.In the post, titled ‘If I’m Lying, Come Sue Me’, newspaper executive Anna Wharton accuses Morriss of being a “pathological liar and serial predator,” detailing years of alleged gaslighting, abuse and cheating.When approached by NME about the claims, Morriss said: “I completely refute all the allegations of abuse which have been raised in this article,” and did not wish to comment.Wharton’s

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorUniversal Music Group has named Matt Young president of Bravado, its merchandise company. Matt Vlasic stepped down as the CEO of the company in October of last year.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterBron Media Corp. has named executive Josh Miller to a top new role in the non-scripted space.Miller will serve as a senior vice president at Bron Life, a vertical at the award-winning company dedicated to unscripted film and television.

EXCLUSIVE: Harrison Land is leaving In Pursuit with John Walsh producer Jupiter Entertainment to set up his own production company.

Mark Herwick, who was previously EVP, Unscripted Television at eOne, has joined Range Media Partners to bolster the company’s non-scripted ambitions.

Jennifer Yuma editorThe Motion Sound Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) announced the reelection of Mark Lanza to a two-year term as president, with David Barber elected to a two-year term as secretary — which he held on an interim basis for the past year.Lanza and Barber will join continuing board officers Steve Urban, Jeremy Gordon and Christopher Reeves.“I am proud to be an MPSE member and grateful to my fellow members for entrusting me with another term as president,” said Lanza.Lanza’s previous

Mark Lanza has been re-elected president of the Motion Picture Sound Editors, the nonprofit organization of professional sound and music editors.

Nic Cupac, who was working as a grip on the second unit of Disney/Lucasfilm’s new Indiana Jones movie in Morocco, died suddenly. He was 54.

EXCLUSIVE: A feature doc on one of Formula 1’s most dramatic moments, the row between Ferrari drivers Gilles Villeneuve and Didier Pironi, is the first project to emerge from Finding Jack Charlton producer Noah Media and Sky Studios’ multi-year partnership, with F1 driver Mark Webber set to exec produce.

Range Media Partners and iGaming company Game Play Network will team up for a joint venture that seeks to create talent-driven game experiences for the former’s talent and brand clients.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterRange Media Partners, the talent representation company launched by an army of former top agents last year, is jumping into the world of betting and gaming.The firm announced Wednesday that it will form a joint venture with Game Play Network, a digital platform that lets the majority of U.S.

On friendly terms. While reflecting on their special wedding day, Amy Roloff and Chris Marek exclusively told Us Weekly why her ex-husband, Matt Roloff, was “not invited” to the ceremony.

EXCLUSIVE: Keshet Productions’ rebranded UK non-scripted arm Interstellar has picked up an ITV pilot commission for a celebrity dance format.