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Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVDisney Television entertainment chief Dana Walden is reshuffling her executive team as she consolidates the company’s programming operations. The moves will see Disney streamline its three distinct studios into two and integrate programming teams at ABC and Hulu.Karey Burke will move from her role as head of ABC Entertainment into a new position as president of studio 20th Television.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Storia Americana,” the fourth season finale of “Fargo.”The Season 4 finale of “Fargo,” which aired Sunday night, was the second of two episodes that were — thanks to the coronavirus pandemic — short four months after the eight preceding episodes were forced to wrap.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWhen Sylvia Bugg rejoined PBS for a third stint in February 2020, the public broadcaster faced a conventional set of challenges. Then March happened, and everything became very unconventional.The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVLongtime programming exec Bill McGoldrick is leaving NBCUniversal after spending the better part of more than 20 years at the company and its predecessors.McGoldrick’s departure comes amid a restructuring of NBCUniversal’s television and streaming content teams under new programming chief Susan Rovner, who on Tuesday unveiled her new leadership team.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWarnerMedia has initiated a new round of layoffs.In a memo circulated Tuesday morning, CEO Jason Kilar wrote, “Today, we have arrived at a number of difficult decisions that are resulting in a smaller WarnerMedia team. This is a function of removing layers and the impact of consolidating previously separate organizations.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVRaúl De Molina has been on U.S. television for nearly three decades.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWhen the Tampa Bay Buccaneers face the New York Giants this evening on “Monday Night Football,” it will mark a sort-of reunion — Bucs quarterback Tom Brady reunited with the Giants, the team that most bedeviled him during his legendary run with the New England Patriots.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVGale Sayers, the Hall of Fame NFL runningback whose friendship with Chicago Bears teammate Brian Piccolo was memorialized in the 1971 TV movie “Brian’s Song,” has died at the age of 77.According to the Associated Press, which confirmed his death through the Pro Football Hall of Fame, relatives of Sayers confirmed that he suffered from dementia in recent years.Sayers played seven seasons for the Bears from 1965 to 1971, and was widely regarded as the best

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVExecutive Janine Jones-Clark has expanded her role at NBCUniversal.Jones-Clark has been named executive vice president, inclusion – talent and content, NBCUniversal film, television and streaming. In her new position, she will continue to oversee diversity, inclusion and equity strategies for Universal Filmed Entertainment Group under Donna Langley.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVApple TV Plus won its first ever Emmy Sunday night, with Billy Crudup taking the award for best supporting actor in a drama series. Crudup won for his performance as TV executive Cory Ellison in the streamer’s flagship original drama “The Morning Show.”“I knew the second I got this part that it was something to be fortunate about,” Crudup said when accepting his award.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVVeteran cable executive Chris McCumber is leaving NBCUniversal.The exec, who announced his departure in a memo to staff in Wednesday, played a key role in USA Network’s success during the aughts “blue sky” era and later developed and launched that channel’s most prestigious hit, “Mr.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVSusan Rovner has made her departure from Warner Bros. official.Rovner, who is expected in the coming days to be named head of television programming at NBCUniversal, sent a memo to the staff of Warner Bros.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVDerek Hough has joined “Dancing With the Stars” as a judge for the show’s upcoming season.Hough, a professional dancer on the show, will replace Len Goodman, who is exiting his longtime judges-table role due to circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWith sights set on shaking up the competitive entertainment-industry representation landscape, Peter Micelli and a group of high-profile defectors from super-agencies including CAA, UTA and WME have launched a new management firm that will target Hollywood’s most powerful potential clients for bespoke representation services.The new company, Range Media Partners, is backed by Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVAudible has announced a new service that will provide unlimited listening to a curated library of audio entertainment. Audible Plus will provide subscribers access to 68,000 hours of content from more than 11,000 original productions, audiobooks, and podcasts.The new offering will be available for $7.95 per month.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVViacomCBS has opened the door to working again with Nick Cannon, more than a month after the company severed ties with him over anti-Semitic comments the multi-hyphenate made on his podcast.Speaking at a town hall with employees Monday, Chris McCarthy, president of entertainment and youth brands at ViacomCBS, praised work that Canon claims to have done to make amends for his comments and gain a better understanding of why they were offensive.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVSAG-AFTRA’s health plan announced changes Wednesday night that would see premiums for members increase and rules around eligibility tighten.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVStarz has closed a deal to make its international service Starzplay available on Claro, Brazil’s largest content distribution platform. Under the new agreement, Starzplay will be available for customers to access through Claro’s Now service, which is accessible through computers and mobile devices.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVRarely has a high-level TV-exec job opening been announced quite so loudly.When NBCUniversal pulled the trigger on a massive reorganization of its television business last week, the company made clear that one key position in the new structure had yet to be filled — a new head of entertainment programming who would oversee creative decisions for NBC, cable channels including USA and Bravo, and fledgling streaming service Peacock.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVThe reorganization of NBCUniversal’s television business was prefaced by a windup that company insiders characterized as tortuous and demoralizing. When the moment finally came, it provided only some clarity as to whom the internal winners and losers would be in a restructuring that is expected to be broad in scope.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVMichael Wright joined Epix in 2017, just six months after MGM assumed control of what had been a joint venture between the studio, Lionsgate and Viacom by buying out its former partners. Since then, the premium cabler has grown its linear distribution, built out SVOD subscribers, and increased the breadth of its original programming by multiples of hours.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TV“The Ren & Stimpy Show” is the most recent Viacom throwback getting a new life.Comedy Central announced Wednesday that it has ordered a revival of the ’90s animated series. The move comes amid a significant push into adult animation at ViacomCBS’ entertainment and youth group, which comprises most of the company’s cable brands and is headed by Chris McCarthy.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVSarah Barnett is stepping down from her role as president of AMC Networks Entertainment Group president.A television veteran who has been with company for more than a decade, Barnett will stay on in her current role through Labor Day. No immediate successor for her position is in place.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVPBS’ 50th year is also its 14th with Paula Kerger at its helm. She is now the longest-serving top executive in PBS’ history — and has guided it through a period of accelerated change.“I don’t think I have words to express how much I feel that Paula’s been the perfect leader for the perfect time for PBS,” says the documentarian Ken Burns.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVPBS’ 50th anniversary wasn’t supposed to be quite so interesting.What the public broadcaster had expected was a forward-looking celebration of a half-century of service. But as with any other organization, PBS was forced to change plans in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVUniversal Content Productions is launching a comics shingle, UCP Graphic. The new initiative will focus on the publication of graphic novels from up-and-coming talent.The first effort from UCP Graphic will be an original comic-book series, “Proctor Valley Road,” from Alex Child and veteran comics and TV writer Grant Morrison (pictured), who will co-write the first five issues.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVGrant Morrison has been riding out the coronavirus pandemic at a safe distance from Hollywood.“As a writer, you’re self-isolating your entire life anyway,” Morrison says from his home in his native Scotland. “So it hasn’t been that difficult.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWhen “The Simpsons” premiered in 1989, it was an outlier. Animated shows in primetime were by no means unprecedented — “The Flintstones” broke that barrier in the ’60s — but never before had an animated series aimed at adults resonated so powerfully or had as significant an impact on a network as “The Simpsons” did for Fox.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TV“Wizards,” the final series in Guillermo del Toro’s animated “Tales of Arcadia” saga, will premiere Aug. 7 on Netflix.The DreamWorks Animation series tells the the story of wizard-in-training Douxie (Colin O’Donoghue) and other heroes of Arcadia on time travel adventure that takes them to the medieval realm of Camelot.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TV“Days of Our Lives” producers plan to resume production later this summer.In a memo sent Friday to cast and crew, producer Corday Productions announced plans to begin work on new episodes of the long-running NBC daytime drama Sept. 1.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVRarely in recent memory has a TV show been so propitiously timed as “The Last Dance.” The 10-episode documentary series about the Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls premiered in May, weeks after the coronavirus pandemic caused the shutdown of all major live sports events, leaving fans bereft.Into that void slipped “The Last Dance,” turning five straight Sunday nights into must-see events for large swathes of audiences quarantined at home.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVPaul Kerger entered 2020 planning to spend much of it celebrating PBS’ 50th anniversary. But plans change.“It certainly is not the way we thought we would be celebrating our 50th anniversary,” the PBS CEO said during a Q&A Wednesday for Variety’s Virtual TV Fest.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVMany of the best-known science-fiction comedies are parodies. Such films as “Spaceballs,” “Galaxy Quest” and “Mars Attacks!” work by skewering the genre.

Daniel Holloway Executive Editor, TVWhen the prospect of working on a reimagined “Perry Mason” was first floated to veteran TV writer Rolin Jones, he asked himself the question that many might ask themselves in that particular situation.“Everybody has the same reaction,” says Jones. “They go ‘Why? What the f–k for? No one is asking for that show.’”Fair enough.

By Daniel Holloway

By Daniel Holloway