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Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVJamie Foxx has signed a new production deal with MTV Entertainment Group.Under the agreement, Foxx will produce feature films across the ViacomCBS division’s portfolio.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVSherri Shepherd has boarded the ABC comedy pilot “Black Don’t Crack.” She is set to star and produce.Shepherd will play Angela Wright, a native New Yorker who is somewhere between 45 and death. She’s a single mom who’s put aside her musical dreams to raise her son after her husband dies.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVABC’s new Krista Vernoff drama “Rebel” is generating a lot of buzz.According to numbers provided by the network, the trailer for the new show has been viewed more than 27 million times across multiple video and social media channels. That puts the “Rebel” promo well ahead of the network’s most watched trailers from the pre-pandemic era.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVHBO Max has ordered a documentary about the late actor Brittany Murphy. The two-part series hails from Blumhouse Television and Pyramid Productions.The documentary will explore the life and death of Murphy, who was best known for the film “Clueless” and whose other credits included “8 Mile,” “Just Married” and the Fox animated comedy series “King of the Hill.” She died in 2009 at the age of 32.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVShowtime has added two new senior executives to its communications team.Patricia Kollappallil has joined the premium service as senior vice president, corporate communications.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVCBS has renewed “The Equalizer,” starring Queen Latifah, for a second season.The hour-long drama premiered last month in the coveted post-Super Bowl time slot. Airing immediately after the game, the debut averaged 23.8 million total viewers.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVIn an interview special that took up the bulk of CBS’ Sunday primetime programming block Sunday, Meghan Markle told Oprah Winfrey of the first meeting with Prince Harry’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth.Describing the moment she was told by Harry that she would need to curtsy to the queen upon meeting her, Markle told Winfrey, “I thought genuinely that that was what happens outside. I thought that was part of the fanfare.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVThe Paley Center for Media has launched a new paid internship program named in honor of longtime television-studio chief Peter Roth. The new program has been endowed through grants from Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Alliance, the Berlanti Family Foundation, the Chuck Lorre Family Foundation, and the Katie McGrath & J.J.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVThe Walt Disney Co. streaming service Disney Plus on Wednesday expressed support for civil rights organizations advocating for Asian Americans amid a wave of violence against people in the AAPI community.In a statement posted on Twitter, Disney shouted out the organizations Asian Americans Advancing Justice and Stop AAPI Hate.

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Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVGladys Knight and Alessia Cara will be among the artists set to perform for the 2021 NBA All-Star Game in Atlanta. The All-Star festivities will also include performances by HBCU musical groups, including marching bands, step teams, glee clubs and choirs.Knight — an Atlanta native, seven-time Grammy winner and graduate of one of the nation’s oldest HBCUs, Shaw University — will sing the U.S.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVHBO Max has given a series order to “Subject to Change,” a new drama created by J.J. Abrams.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVThe streaming wars are about to stop being polite and start getting real.ViacomCBS is reviving “The Real World” for streaming service Paramount Plus.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVGina Carano is “not currently employed by Lucasfilm,” the company said in a statement Wednesday after controversy erupted over “The Mandalorian” star’s social media posts.“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” a Lucasfilm spokesperson said in a statement.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVViewers looking to stream the Super Bowl took a blindside hit Sunday.As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers kicked off against the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday ViacomCBS’ streaming app, CBS All Access, experienced technical issues and outages for customers.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVViacomCBS has reestablished its working relationship with Nick Cannon.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVNBC has given a straight to series order to crime drama “The Thing About Pam,” with Renee Zellweger set to executive produce and star.The six-episode true-crime series from Blumhouse Television, NBC News Studios and Zellweger’s Big Picture Co.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVEven Peak TV felt the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.The number of original scripted series to premiere in 2020 was 493, according to data released Friday by FX Networks — down 7% from 2019. That marks the first such year-to-year decline since FX first began an annual count of scripted series on broadcast, cable and streaming several years ago.FX did not provide further details.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVKnown to friends and family as Sparky, “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz died in 2000.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVMTV Entertainment Group is marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a public-service spot across all its brands.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWhen Kobe Bryant died one year ago today, the news arrived as a shock, particularly in the Los Angeles area where Bryant was widely beloved. Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash alongside eight other people, among them his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, was 41.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVAmerican viewers have long had deep appetites for TV shows imported from overseas —  so long as the characters in those shows spoke British-accented English.But with a crush of new streaming services in need of content and American attitudes toward subtitles warming, the market for so-called “tape sales” of local-language programming from abroad has grown more robust than ever.“There’s no question, I think that streaming in general has made U.S.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVJust before kickoff in the New Orleans Saints’ divisional playoff game against the Tampa Bay Buccanneers last week, Fox Sports’ Jay Glazer reported that Saints quarterback Drew Brees would retire after the season. The news forced an adjustment by the Fox team broadcasting the game.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVAmong other things, John Lurie is a reality-television pioneer.A musician who founded jazz group the Lounge Lizards and who moonlighted as an actor in films such as Jim Jarmusch’s “Down By Law,” Lurie’s a polymath. His first television series, “Fishing With John,” premiered on Bravo in 1991 and riffed on the fishing shows found across the local-television landscape in the late 20th century — TV that made fun of itself when that was still weird.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVHulu has promoted Candice Ashton to vice president, originals publicity. In her new role, the veteran communications exec will oversee publicity across series, film and documentaries.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Group will underwrite the newly created Joel Schumacher Mentorship Award, honoring the veteran filmmaker. The endowment was announced Monday at the Gotham Awards by Gotham Film and Media Institute executive director Jeff Sharp.The new program is inspired by Schumacher’s rich history of collaboration with MTV’s longtime creative director, Sophia Cranshaw.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVReboots aren’t just for grown-ups anymore.The proliferation of streaming platforms reliant on free-flowing programming pipelines has led to the development of new versions of shows such as “Battlestar Galactica” and “True Blood” that last aired when Barack Obama was president.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVIn normal times, the certification by Congress of electoral votes for president would be, at best, a nominal news event. But these aren’t normal times.On Wednesday, Congress is expected to complete the final step in making Joe Biden’s election official.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVBess Kalb didn’t mean to end 2020 by making Christopher Hitchens’ “Why Women Aren’t Funny” go viral. The 2007 Vanity Fair essay is — like so much of its late author’s work — self-indulgent, poorly written and lacking any well-defined quality beside its ability to irritate people.One of those irritated people, more than a decade ago, was a young Kalb.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWarner Bros. Television and Universal Television have put their series on hiatus amid calls for a pause in production activity as COVID infection rates rise in Los Angeles County.Warner Bros.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVThe NBA delivered its most watched opener since 2012 last week. Over the Dec.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterVariety has hired Mónica Marie Zorrilla as a TV reporter.Zorrilla most recently served as a breaking-news reporter at Adweek. At Variety, she will cover the television-programming business, including streaming services, studios, networks and development for all Variety platforms.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVDisney is developing an animated series based on the feature film “Moana.”The new project, titled “Moana: The Series” is set to premiere in 2023.More to come …

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVMartin Luther King Jr. will be profiled in an upcoming season of National Geographic’s “Genius.”National Geographic exec Courteney Monroe announced the programming move Thursday during the Walt Disney Company’s investor relations day presentation.Previous seasons of “Genius” have profiled Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVThirty years after his first unscripted TV series aired, John Lurie is getting another.HBO will debut “Painting With John,” a new series directed by, written by and starring Lurie, Jan. 22.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVHollywood loves a comeback story.From Martha Stewart to Mel Gibson, the entertainment industry is known for welcoming back their own with open arms.