Fox Corp. Vet Mike Biard Moves To Nexstar As President And COO; David Espinosa Named His Replacement As Distribution Chief

Pete Davidson just added a few additional stand-up dates to his 2023 tour calendar.He’s now slated to headline in Florida, North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia this August.These additional dates come on the heels of the “Saturday Night Live” alum’s recently announced five-show tour with fellow comics John Mulaney and Jon Stewart on Sept. 8-10.On that run, he’ll play two gigs at Atlantic City, NJ’s Etess Arena at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Sept.

Viet Dinh, a key strategic and business leader at Fox Corp. and a longtime consiglieri in the Murdoch empire, is leaving his executive post in the wake of the Fox News settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Viet Dinh, the influential general counsel of Fox Corp. who is believed to have played a significant role in the company’s failed legal strategy against a massive defamation suit filed against it by Dominion Voting Systems, is leaving his role at the media conglomerate at the end of the year.

Tom Sandoval appears to have a new lady in his life already. And it’s all thanks to one of his former Vanderpump Rules co-stars!

Sandra Bullock and longtime beau Bryan Randall were every bit a husband-wife team despite not legally marrying. In fact, they were so committed that they even reportedly "exchanged vows" in 2017. The Daily Mail published video of the duo dancing on the beach in the Bahamas in an intimate ceremony after the vow exchange.

Batman-verse decides to go in that direction. With her bleached eyebrows and maroon hair, she's definitely got a villain vibe going. She's also proving my point about how we need a separate category for , because she recently posted a selfie in a two piece that has actual metal chains as part of the design.

Fox Corp. revenue stayed flat in the quarter ending June 30 compared with the year-earlier period, but it matched Wall Street analysts’ consensus estimate as earnings beat expectations.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Fox Corp. relied more heavily on its ability to drive revenue from the transmission of the Fox broadcast network and its Fox stations, as it grappled with downturns in advertising during its fiscal fourth quarter. The owner of Fox News, Fox Sports and the Fox broadcast network said it generated profit of $375 million, or 74 cents per share, compared with $306 million, or 55 per share in the year-earlier period.

Leah Remini claimed that Anderson Cooper and Conan O’Brien were threatened by the Church of Scientology after airing content about the organization.

A new month means a new wave of TV shows and films to choose from on Netflix.

EXCLUSIVE: Pixel United, a gaming firm led by former Discovery, Miramax and Fox exec Mike Lang, is developing a second season of Raid: Call of the Arbiter, an animated series based on a well-established mobile game.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Fox Corp.’s Tubi, its free, ad-supported streaming TV service, has pounced on two high-profile Fantasia titles, led by “Where the Devil Roams,” the Adams family’s follow-up to “Hellbender,” Rotten Tomatoes No. 1 movie on its Top 10 of best-rated horror films of 2022, just besting Eskil Vogt’s “The Innocents.” Estimating that it reaches 64 million monthly active users, Tubi also pounced on doc feature “Satan Wants You,” which world premiered at March’s SXSW.

McKinley Franklin editor One network’s scandal is another network’s treasure. Tom Sandoval, who is currently filming the next season of “Vanderpump Rules” amid much drama, is joining the cast of another reality show and will compete on the second season of Fox’s “Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test.” Sandoval will be joined by a slew of impressive (well, depends which way you look at it) reality stars, actors, athletes and personalities for Season 2 of the Fox’s reality competition show.

Fox Corp. and Flutter Entertainment are shuttering sports betting platform Fox Bet in a phased closure between July 31 and August 31.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Two of the nation’s biggest purveyors of primetime television are relying more heavily on other kinds of video inventory to fuel their advertising flows for 2023 and 202r, Fox Corp. and Paramount Global are both near the end of their processes in TV’s annual “upfront” ad sales market, and both expect to see some volume gains in specific areas of their portfolio.

CBS and Fox weighed in on their upfronts today, following NBC last week. CBS has closed its 2024 selling season up “low-to-mid single digits” in dollar commitments. Fox Corp. showed gains in news and is looking at a fall slate of sports, animated and unsripted content.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Longtime Fox exec Michael Biard has be named the new president and chief operating officer of TV station group giant Nexstar, the owner of NewsNation and the CW Network. Current Nexstar president and COO Thomas Carter is stepping down from his post and shifting to senior advisor.

Anderson Cooper is remembering his brother, Carter, on the 35th anniversary of his death.

Anderson Cooper is remembering his brother, Carter, on the 35th anniversary of his death.The 56-year-old CNN anchor took to Instagram to share a set of photos of Carter, then a child, starting the slideshow with a black-and-white photo of the pair. Anderson also included two solo shots of his older brother — one of him as a kid and a photo of Carter as a teen.«It is 35 years today since my brother, Carter Cooper, died.

Anderson Cooper is paying tribute to his late brother.