NBCUniversal Hires Fremantle’s Melissa Harper To Oversee Physical Production For TV & Streaming Unit

The mystery around Wyatt Pike’s American Idol exit remains. Caroline Boyer addressed rumors that the season 19 contestant quit the competition because of a physical fight with her husband, Luke Bryan.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHulu has acquired U.S streaming rights to Sabrina Van Tassel’s timely documentary “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” which was selected for Tribeca in 2020 and has won a flurry of accolades, including Raindance’s best documentary award.Hulu acquired the documentary from FilmRise, which represents theatrical and digital rights to the film for North America, the U.K.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNetflix’s multibillion-dollar content spending continues paying off: The lion’s share of U.S. consumers say the streamer has the best original programming, according to a new Morgan Stanley survey.Netflix remains the most frequently cited as offering the best original programming — with 38% of survey respondents picking it as No.

Superstore actor Lauren Ash is staying in business with NBCUniversal after signing an overall deal that includes a commitment for her to write her own comedy pilot.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” alum Lauren Ash has inked an overall talent and development deal with NBCUniversal.

Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry are enjoying their new parenthood phase but looks like the Pirates Of The Carribean actor has too many to-do lists on the home front to check. Recently, Katy Perry who returned as a judge on American Idol, dropped a stunning photo of herself.

DMX‘s music increased by 928 per cent following his death last week at the age of 50.The rapper, whose real name was Earl Simmons, passed away on Friday (April 9) after suffering a heart attack the previous week.Streams of DMX’s music spiked in the US in the days following his death, according to initial reports to MRC Data (via Billboard).His songs racked up a collective total of 75.7 million on-demand streams (audio and video combined) on April 9 and 10 – a figure up by 928 per cent compared

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Also Read: Nate Parker Apologizes for Response to Rape Accusation, Gets Support From Spike LeeBut the film’s buzz was derailed after the resurfacing of rape accusations against Parker and his “Birth of a Nation” co-writer Jean Celestin in 1999, when he was a student at Penn State University. The two men were accused of raping a young white woman on campus and later starting a harassment campaign against her.

USA Network’s Nash Bridges revival is getting closer to reality. Series star Don Johnson confirmed Wednesday on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that he is in “heavy prep” on the revival. Johnson will reprise the title character in the project, which has been in development at USA since 2019 as a two-hour movie/backdoor pilot.

Declan O'Rourke will perform his single The Harbour on RTÉ One's The Late Late Show this Friday, April 9.

My Krazy Life, the 2014 debut album from YG, has returned to music streaming platforms after a brief disappearance on Monday, as Pitchfork reports. The project's song "Meet The Flockers" has been newly edited to remove a lyric about burglarizing "Chinese neighborhoods" — lyrics that came under scrutiny once more this month following a wave of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States.

Joe Giudice may no longer be on The Real Housewives of New Jersey (or in the United States), but he’s still involved in the drama. Teresa Giudice’s ex-husband fired back at Joe Gorga and Melissa Gorga after the couple slammed him on the Bravo series.

Celtic kid Cameron Harper has claimed the Hoops lacked solid team spirit amid 'cliques' and a lack of 'togetherness' in both the first team and youth set ups. The 19-year-old winger departed for New York Red Bulls in March despite the Hoops being keen to strike a deal to keep him in the Scottish Premiership.

Amazon Prime Video has scored its first win on Nielsen’s weekly U.S. streaming chart with Coming 2 America.

Disney Television Studios is doubling down on adult animation with the launch of a new division devoted to the genre and has tapped 20th Century Television veteran Marci Proietto to run it.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterLongtime 20th animation exec Marci Proietto has been tapped to lead Disney Television Studios’ new production unit, 20th Television Animation, which currently has 11 series in production.Under Proietto’s leadership as executive vice president of the unit, 20th Television Animation will continue to manage and produce the company’s long-running series, including “Family Guy,” “American Dad,” “Bob’s Burgers” and “The Simpsons,” as well as Apple TV Plus’ “Central Park,”