Keshet Moves Into Unscripted In U.S. With Hires Of Banijay’s Rebecca Mayer & Benjamin Long

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Disney will roll out a single streaming app with programming from ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+ by the end of this year.

The long-awaited sequel to “Beetlejuice” now has a release date, scheduled to come out in 2024.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega have been confirmed as the stars of the upcoming Beetlejuice sequel.

SoundCloud has launched a new product called “Fans” that provides artists with access to deep user data and makes it easy for them to connect with their most loyal listeners. Now available on SoundCloud for Artists, the tool allows artists to view the platform’s data and sort their most engaged listeners based on factors like comments, listening behavior, sharing habits and location — and even directly message individual fans and share previews of upcoming music, info, sell tickets and merch and more. (There’s also an opt-out for those who don’t want Beyonce cluttering up their DMs.) The program had been in beta for around six weeks but is now ramping up to 60,000 artists who are members of its premium Next Pro tier. The company considered it the next logical step in their fan-powered royalties system, under which the company pays out each listener’s subscriber revenue entirely to the rights-holders or the artists they’ve actually listened to, rather than the all-in model used by most streaming services.

Following a four year focus of launching and overseeing the growth of company, Sister co-founder Stacey Snider is stepping down as CEO of the company and stepping into a creative advisor role for the company as well as an independent producer. Having served four years in the role and led the company through its launch and initial growth phase, Snider will remain a shareholder and creative leader in the business and will shift to a creative and advisory role for the Group.

A Canadian comedy from the exec producer of Schitt’s Creek is heading to The CW.

 spinoff. follows 12 friends from across the country, reuniting for a two-week getaway in the coastal community, historically a travel destination for Black Americans. Newlyweds Jasmine Ellis and Silas Cooper organized the retreat, but had no clue when they signed themselves up for reality TV that it would be under the  banner.«We had no idea,» Jasmine confesses to ET over video chat.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Roku is reinvesting in — and bulking up — its originals lineup, announcing a new season of “The Great American Baking Show” and an unscripted comedy featuring singer-songwriter Charlie Puth among the shows coming to the Roku Channel. Notably, the content announcements at Roku’s 2023 NewFronts presentation — coming on Day One of the WGA writers strike — were unscripted/reality formats. Also at the event in New York Tuesday, the streaming platform unveiled a suite of new ad solutions, including sponsorships for its popular Roku City screensaver. The company announced that it has renewed reality competition series “The Great American Baking Show” for Season 2. The news came ahead of the premiere Friday, May 5, of the new six-episode run of the show featuring Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Ellie Kemper and Zach Cherry (pictured above, left) on the Roku Channel. “The Great American Baking Show,” produced by Love Productions USA, ran for five seasons on ABC as a spinoff of original hit “The Great British Baking Show” before it was picked up last year by Roku. The streaming company previously acquired U.S. rights to dozens of episodes in the “Great Baking Show” franchise for a FAST channel. Roku will also bring back the holiday special of “The Great American Baking Show,” which will feature all-new celebrity bakers and debut this upcoming holiday season.

Kylie Jenner kept the night going at the 2023 Met Gala After Party and she changed into a new look to attend the event.

Clear your calendar, Bravo fans! Lisa Vanderpump offered an update on the season 10 reunion of Vanderpump Rules, and it sounds like it’s going to be epic.

The Daily Show has had a busy six months after host Trevor Noah surprised everyone by announcing he was stepping down after seven years.

The wait just got a little shorter for audiences to see Tom Cruise back in action as Ethan Hunt with Paramount/Skydance’s highly-anticipated Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One now set for domestic release on July 12 rather than July 14. That puts it in step with the start of international rollout and is a move designed to take advantage of early summer play.

Carol Vorderman jumped straight back into I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! life after seven years away with a terrifying 50-metre cliff plunge just moments after re-entering the show.

’ fold,” Traugott said. “As individuals, their extensive development and production experience is impressive, but together as a team their combined creativity and passion make them a dream hire as we look to expand our remit into unscripted.” Keren Shahar, CEO of  Keshet International, added that Mayer and Long’s hiring signifies “the beginning of a new journey” for the studio branch of the company and a return to form for KI as a whole. “We launched as a formats business a decade ago and I am personally very excited to be announcing KI’s expansion into unscripted in the US,”  Shahar said.

BreAnna Bell Keshet Studios has appointed Rebecca Mayer and Benjamin Long to head the company’s unscripted division as it continues to expand its US footprint. Mayer will serve as executive vice president with Long reporting to her as vice president. In their new roles, the duo’s focus will be examining Keshet International’s catalog of international IP to build a non-scripted slate of entertainment formats specifically for the US broadcast, cable and streaming markets, alongside developing original IP with the potential to be distributed internationally by KI. Mayer will report to Peter Traugott, president of Keshet Studios, and will be based in Los Angeles.

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple sources tell Deadline that the woman who filed the complaint against NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell for inappropriate conduct was CNBC anchor and Senior International Correspondent Hadley Gamble.

Wishing her the best. Tom Sandoval claimed he’s rooting for ex Ariana Madix’s happiness after their breakup — and his affair with Raquel Leviss — made headlines earlier this year.

Tom Sandoval slammed Mirival Resorts for suggesting he was staying at the Arizona wellness retreat while it was reported Raquel Leviss was seeking treatment for her mental health. ET exclusively learned on Friday that Raquel had checked herself into a mental health treatment facility amid the Scandoval fallout. This comes over a month after it was revealed that Sandoval and his longtime girlfriend, Ariana Madix, had broken up amid allegations that he had cheated on her with Leviss.«Raquel and her family decided before the relationship was discovered that she would enter a voluntary facility for mental health counseling,» her rep told ET.Once the news broke, fans started to speculate that Leviss was at Mirival Resorts and Sandoval would soon be joining her.

regularity of school shootings? The host noted that such violence dates all the way back to Columbine, when Clinton was president and many thought of the tragedy “as a one-off.” “Well, one thing’s pretty clear is, whatever we do, we need to do it more together,” Clinton said. “And I think we need to start talking across this divide.”The former president’s main takeaway is that constituents and voters on both sides of the argument need to talk to each other to find common ground at the polls: “Neighbors have to talk to neighbors,” Clinton said.“A big problem with gun owners is they say, ‘Well, you know, what these people wanna do sounds reasonable, but it’s a slippery slope.