ESPN Snags SEC Sports From CBS With 10-Year Pact

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Netflix picks up the rights to Spanish feature “Sky High” for a series adaptation, French crime series “Balthazar” posts record audience numbers for TF1, Mexican filmmaker Juan Ernesto Regalado Morales receives this year’s Guillermo del Toro-backed Jenkins-Del Toro Scholarship, and French journalist Augustin Trapenard announces he’s leaving Canal Plus.Netflix has acquired global rights to the feature film “Sky High,” the leading Spanish film at the

Best Picture One Night in Miami Regina King presented the four stars of her feature directorial debut — Kingsley Ben-Adir, (above, who portrays Malcolm X), Eli Goree (Cassius Clay), Aldis Hodge (Jim Brown) and Leslie Odom Jr. (Sam Cooke) — with the ensemble award at the virtual San Francisco Film Awards Night on Dec.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFanDuel spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on commercials that surround big sports broadcasts. Now it wants to make sports-wagering — the activity at the core of its business — a bigger part of the studio discussions that are also such an essential part of the sports-TV experience.Charles Barkley, one of the standouts on the analyst roster on the “NBA on TNT” show, has agreed to work as an ambassador and spokesman for the sports-betting giant.

straight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United and Leeds United faced off in the Premier League for the first time since February 2004 on Sunday and it was a superb afternoon for the hosts.Two goals inside the opening three minutes from the unlikely source of Scott McTominay put Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side on their way to only a second home victory in the league this term.Bruno Fernandes and Victor Lindelof then extended United's lead, before Liam Cooper pulled one back for the

Dave McNary Film ReporterMillie Bobby Brown is attached to star in the science-fiction movie “The Electric State” for Universal Pictures with Anthony and Joe Russo directing and producing.The project, based on Simon Stalenhag’s illustrated novel of the same name, is set in an alternative future and centers on a teenage girl (Brown) who realizes that a strange but sweet robot who comes to her has actually been sent by her missing brother.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorWhen Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen try to show CNN viewers the sights and sounds of New Year’s Eve in Times Square this year, they will face one of their biggest challenges: There won’t be any.The throngs of people who come to see the fabled ball drop in what is billed as New York’s “Crossroads of the World” won’t be in attendance, due to concerns about the coronavirus pandemic.

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.

Let’s Make a Deal host Wayne Brady is set to topline an autobiographical hybrid comedy, which is in development at CBS.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox News said it extended primetime host Laura Ingraham’s contact with the network, ensuring her 10 p.m. program, “The Ingraham Angle,” will remain in its lineup for the foreseeable future.Fox News characterized the new pact as a “multi-year deal.” Ingraham joined Fox News Channel full-time in October of 2017 after establishing herself with a long-running radio program.

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.

Comcast-owned Sky has commissioned a UK version of E!’s dating show Dating No Filter, with NBCUniversal’s Monkey Kingdom producing the eight-part series.

Comcast-owned Sky News has taken arguably its top presenter, Kay Burley, off-air for six months after she breached the UK’s coronavirus rules over the weekend.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor“CBS This Morning” could get a new sunrise perch.CBS is contemplating a move that could harness a cavernous studio facility in the New York headquarters of its corporate parent, ViacomCBS, for use by CBS News — in particular its A.M.

This is so sweet – Kellan Lutz wrote a cute little script to reveal the sex of his upcoming baby with wife Brittany.