Grady Craig Promoted To President Of Buffalo 8, SVP Business Development At BondIt Media Capital

Former Big Brother winner Craig Phillips, 52, recently faced a harrowing ordeal when the brakes of his car malfunctioned, leaving him fearing for the safety of his wife and two young children. The TV personality, who famously won the inaugural series of Big Brother, recounted the terrifying incident that occurred while he was driving his £76,000 Jaguar I-Pace. Just days after the vehicle was returned from the manufacturer for a separate issue, Craig found himself unable to use the brakes as he approached a red light with his family onboard.Travelling with his wife Laura Sherriff, 37, and their two young children aged three and five, Craig described the panic he felt when he realised he couldn't stop the car.

EXCLUSIVE: Sony has preemptively closed a deal for film rights to Grady Hendrix‘s short story “Ankle Snatcher,” tapping Hendrix to adapt it for the screen, sources tell Deadline. Hendrix is also set to produce alongside Escape Artists‘ Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Tony Shaw, as well as Aperture Entertainment‘s Adam Goldworm.

Paul O'Grady's final TV appearance has been confirmed and will air to mark the first anniversary of his death. The TV star, fondly known for his drag queen persona Lily Savage, passed away "unexpectedly but peacefully" at his Kent home in March 2023.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Sony Pictures Entertainment is upping its head of television Ravi Ahuja to president and chief operating officer of the entire studio. While not explicitly stated by SPE chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra in his internal memo regarding Ahuja’s appointment to the No.

EXCLUSIVE: Imagine Entertainment has hired Jeb Brody to be President of Imagine Features. Brody had most recently been President of Amblin Partners, which was downsized by Steven Spielberg. Imagine founders Brian Grazer and Ron Howard are bringing Brody aboard to lean more heavily into feature films.

EXCLUSIVE: After a five-year run at the company and the recent acquisition of Oscar nominee Io Capitano, Robert Aaronson has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Cohen Media Group (CMG).

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Former Jax Media president Brooke Posch has opened her own shingle, Good&Done, aiming to focus on comedy projects from new and undiscovered voices. As part of the launch, Posch has hired former Broadway Video and Universal TV exec Hannah Kitziger to serve as head of development.

Paradigm has hired Kyle Jensen as a Literary Content Agent and Jamie Kaye-Phillips as a Theatre Literary Content Agent, upping Matthew Nutty from Coordinator to Agent in the Talent department.

Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Chief Communications Officer Robert Lawson is being upped to SVP, Corporate Communications for the entire Sony Group. The new job will bring Lawson, a nine-year vet of the Culver City lot who was a key consigliere during the 2014 cyber-attack, to Sony HQ in Tokyo, Japan, reporting to Sony Group Corp Chairman and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida.

2500 Media, the Los Angeles-based production company founded by former WME non-scripted packaging agent and partner Sean Perry, has named its senior management team.

EXCLUSIVE: Craig Mazin, co-creator, writer, director and executive producer of HBO‘s breakout new drama series The Last Of Us, has re-upped his exclusive television deal with the network and sibling streamer Max for an additional four years.

Craig Revel Horwood and Anton Du Beke are among those paying tribute following the tragic death of dancer Robin Windsor. The Strictly Come Dancing judges were responding to the news after it was confirmed the show's former star had died, aged 44, on Tuesday (February 20).

There are plenty of celebrities who have refused to join any kind of social media platform and have opened up about their reasons why.

William Earl Variety veteran Todd Spangler has been promoted to Business Editor, overseeing coverage of corporate and financial news, mergers and acquisitions and other deal activity for media and entertainment’s largest conglomerates. Spangler will also continue to drive Variety‘s coverage of digital media and Silicon Valley tech giants. Based in New York, Spangler is a pillar of daily breaking news coverage.

A musical comedy television series created by Meredith Scardino, “Girls5eva,” started life as a Peacock series before getting canceled after a second season. Centering on a one-hit-wonder band from the ’90s who gain a second shot at fame when a young rapper samples their song, the series, fortunately, had enough ride-or-die fans that Netflix deemed it worthy of a season pick-up and bought it from Peacock for season three, which is soon approaching.

Trey Gargano has been promoted to executive vice president of as sales for all Fox News Media platforms.

Sony is rewarding its game show chief.

Longtime Lifetime PR executive Kannie Yu LaPack is expanding her oversight with a promotion to EVP, Publicity, Public Affairs and Social Media, for Lifetime, LMN and A+E Studios.

David Harewood is the new President of famed British acting school the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

K.J. Yossman David Harewood is succeeding Kenneth Branagh as president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, the school has confirmed. Cynthia Erivo has been appointed vice president.