‘Friends’ to Continue Airing on Nick at Nite Under New Syndication Deal

New York City residents may be looking at paying a $3 surcharge for online package deliveries to aid the failing Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). In an op-ed for the Daily News, John Samuelsen International President for the Transport Workers Union and Brooklyn Assemblyman Robert Carroll said the MTA’s budget crisis could be resolved with a new measure – a fee that would reportedly raise more than $1 billion a year.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLuckyChap Entertainment has signed a first-look TV deal with Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.Under the deal, LuckyChap’s Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley, and Josey McNamara will work with Amazon Studios to create television projects that will premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

football has worked well in the past — the annual National Dog Show on NBC routinely attracts a total audience of over 20 million on Thanksgiving Day for an event held outside Philadelphia.“People just love their dogs and our viewers responded very well to our previous AKC telecasts,” Burke Magnus, ESPN executive vice president of programming and original content, said in a statement.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterIssa Rae and Adam McKay are teaming up to adapt the Serial Productions podcast “Nice White Parents” into a half-hour series at HBO, Variety has learned.The project has received a pilot commitment at the premium cabler.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterRachel Kaplan has signed a multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group, Variety has learned.Kaplan, the former head of Keshet Studios, is also launching her own production company — Absecon Entertainment. Under the deal, she will develop and produce original scripted programming to be produced by Absecon in association with Warner Bros.

direct to your inboxA ‘vital’ local shop and community hub in Stalybridge are now to be retained under new plans by an affordable housing developer to regenerate the area.More than 400 people had signed a petition against previous proposals to knock down the shops on Ambleside Parade and replace them with houses.Ward councillors who opposed the original plans said loss of the shops – including Waz’s convenience store and the Big Local Hub – would be ‘another crucial blow to local people’.And in

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Joe Otterson TV ReporterDee Harris-Lawrence has signed a multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.Harris-Lawrence is currently an executive producer and showrunner on the OWN series “David Makes Man” as well as executive producer and co-showrunner on the CBS legal drama “All Rise,” both of which are produced by Warner Bros.“I am thrilled to be continuing my relationship with Warner Bros,” Harris-Lawrence said.

Limited crowds will be allowed back into football grounds and other live sporting events in some areas of England, it has been announced today.The country is to move back into a three-tiered local lockdown system when the current national lockdown ends on December 2 the Prime Minister has announced.And from that date crowds will be allowed back into Covid-safe sporting events held in areas placed in Tier 1 and Tier 2 of the Covid Alert level system it has now been confirmed."In Tiers 1 and 2,

states that the stay at home requirement will end, with domestic and international travel being permitted again.

For fans of global TV, the International Emmys are the Burning Man of awards season. For years, the event, held in New York each November, was the only place where the sort of series loved by international TV binge watchers — Scandinavian noir, Asian horror or Israeli spy dramas — got celebrated.

Get ready to go up close and personal with Nicki Minaj.

Nicki Minaj is giving fans an up close and personal look at her life in a new HBO Max docuseries! The “MEGATRON” rapper, 37, announced the news in a video on Instagram on Friday, and promised to deliver a “next level” doc that her beloved “Barbz” with cherish “forever.” Nicki, who introduced herself as Onika Tanya Maraj (her real name), rocked a bright orange wig, front bangs and a half-up, half-down hairstyle.

Georgia Senate candidate Raphael Warnock's ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright have come under scrutiny as his runoff is one of few remaining races determining the balance of power in Congress.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNiecy Nash has joined the cast of the upcoming ABC limited anthology series “Women of the Movement,” Variety has learned.The series will tell the story of key female figures in the Civil Rights Movement. Season 1 will focus on Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCord Jefferson has signed a multi-year overall deal with Warner Bros.