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Veteran international media exec Kathryn Fink has become Director of Television at public broadcaster SBS in her home country, Australia.
She replaces Marshall Heald, who left at the end of 2021 to become Executive Director of local pay TV leader Foxtel’s entertainment operation.
Fink has over 30 years’ industry experience in locales such as Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong, working in senior roles at The Walt Disney Company, Sky Italia, where she was responsible for the commissioning the market-shaping drama Romanzo Criminale, and News Corp.
Most recently, she was General Manager, Media for Disney in Italy responsible for Disney+, pay TV channels, original content production and content sales. She left in 2021.
She’ll join SBS on July 4, taking on the programming strategy for a public broadcaster that unlike the more generalist ABC, has a specific remit underpinned by providing multilingual and multicultural content.
James Taylor, SBS Managing Director, says: “Kathryn brings a real breadth of experience to the role having worked across multiple continents, including America, Asia and Europe, and on all aspects of the global TV and streaming space – from content production, to operations and distribution, and across entertainment, fiction, factual and sports programming.
“She also shares a passion for the distinctive content that defines SBS, underpinned by the SBS Charter,” he said. ”Among the standout programming she has commissioned is Romanzo Criminale, a crime drama series that was a catalyst for change in the Italian TV industry, Le Fate Ignoranti which recently won the Nastro D’Argento award for best TV series and Where Are You, a National Geographic documentary which traced the human stories behind a migrant boat
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Priscilla Presley, daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, and granddaughter, Riley Keough — made it official, with a hand and footprint ceremony at the famous TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.The trio — along with Lisa Marie's 13-year-old twin daughters, Harper and Finley — was honored in celebration of the legacy of their famous family, as well as the upcoming release of the biopic, directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Austin Butler as the King of Rock and Roll himself. Luhrmann and Butler both spoke at the ceremony, which was a moving moment for all of the members of the family, who have been outspoken in their support of the upcoming film and its portrayal of their late, iconic patriarch.«It means a lot, absolutely, to my family and the people who knew Elvis really, really well, to be honored in this way,» Priscilla told ET, adding that the theater — then known as the Grauman's Chinese Theatre — was one of the first sights she saw with Elvis when she first came to Los Angeles in 1962. «It's just incredibly emotional and kind of hard to process, but it's definitely such a big honor,» Riley agreed.For Lisa Marie, the film's release feels like a much larger cultural moment than just a celebration of her father's legacy — not only explores the life of the man himself, but the Black artists and cultural traditions that shaped his musical background.«It means everything to us, it's so important,» she shared. «I mean, everything that's happening right now… the movie is important. The subject matter is important.
Gloria Estefan is hitting the big screen in her first-ever cinematic leading role, starring in a new remake of the beloved family story that centers the chaos of a wedding weekend in a colorful Cuban family.Only ET spoke with Estefan and her co-stars as closed out the Latino International Film Festival in Los Angeles earlier this month, and she raved about getting the opportunity to star as the mother of the film's titular bride, played by Adria Arjona, opposite legendary leading man Andy Garcia.«I moved everything around to make it happen, 'cause I I was pretty busy last year, but I was not gonna miss that opportunity,» Estefan shared with ET's Nischelle Turner. «It felt like, if I was gonna be in my first leading role it couldn't be with anyone other than Andy.
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Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterJimmy Kimmel and Brent Montgomery’s media company Wheelhouse has taken a stake in former Food Network president Courtney White’s new food and lifestyle-focused production company Butternut Films, which will now be renamed Butternut under the joint venture.As president of Butternut, which was launched when White exited Food Network this spring, White will collaborate with Wheelhouse leadership and across all Wheelhouse divisions — including Wheelhouse Entertainment, marketing arm Wheelhouse Labs, digital division Wheelhouse DNA, and investment department Wheelhouse 360 — “leveraging her deep production and creative expertise in culinary, home, design and lifestyle programming, and her wide-ranging relationships with talent and brands,” per Wheelhouse. Butternut is focused on creating original content for all platforms, “working with a range of established, emerging and home-grown talent.”White and her Butternut team will continue to work out of a clapboard barn on her family’s Southport, Conn., fresh-cut flower farm, Butternut Farm, as well as Wheelhouse’s New York and Los Angeles headquarters, and have full access to Wheelhouse’s large-scale campus in Stamford, Conn., dubbed “The Village.”The Wheelhouse-Butternut joint venture was brokered by Wheelhouse chief strategy officer Ed Simpson.“The single, common element across all successful lifestyle content is passion — talent must project it, creators must harness it, audiences must feel it,” White said.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds played Primavera Sound Festival last night (June 4) and dedicated a song to Cave’s two sons.Before performing ‘I Need You’, from 2016’s ‘Skeleton Tree’, Nick Cave told the crowd “This is a song I want to dedicate to my two boys, Luke and Earl. They’re probably over there waiting for Bauhaus to begin.”“Hang on, is my hair alright,” he joked after the emotional performance, before performing ‘Waiting For You’ from 2019’s ‘Ghosteen‘.Yesterday’s show was only the second gig Nick Cave has played since the death of his son Jethro Lazenby, after The Bad Seeds headlined Northside Festival earlier this week. Jethro passed away at the start of May at the age of 31.