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College football’s championship series is expanding from six to 12 teams, embracing the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large teams.

The Telluride Film Festival didn’t officially kick off its 50th edition until Thursday, but at least one attendee decided to get an early start the night before.

While supporters of Joe Exotic were hoping he would be released today, a federal judge resentenced the star of Netflix’s Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness to 21 years in prison, taking just one year off his original 22-year sentence for his participation in a murder-for-hire plot. AP first reported the news.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorNominations for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards are set to be revealed Tuesday beginning at noon ET/9 a.m. PT in a livestream by awards organizer the Recording Academy.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorFormer champion Ken Jennings will be the first of several guest hosts on Jeopardy! when it resumes production at the end of the month. It will be the first episodes shot on the game show since longtime host Alex Trebek died earlier this month after a long fight against pancreatic cancer at age 80.Jennings earlier this year claimed the title of Jeopardy!’s “Greatest of All Time” in a series of primetime matches.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorFox’s Thursday Night Football matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals was the night’s top-rated and most-watched show in broadcast primetime, which also saw the series finale of the CW’s Supernatural wrapping a 15-season run and the Season 3 premiere of ABC’s A Million Little Things.TNF drew a 2.6 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 9.64 million viewers to the Seahawks’ 28-21 victory in the key NFC West matchup, pushing it up a

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorRoadside Attractions has acquired U.S. wide theatrical release rights to Pinocchio, the live-action take on the classic tale from Matteo Garrone and starring Roberto Benigni.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: The Horror Collective has landed rights to Rot, the horror thriller that reps the feature directing debut of one of Deadline’s own, video producer Andrew Merrill. The film will bow via Amazon Instant Video on Thursday.The plot: When Madison’s ex goes missing, his friends expect her to lead the search to find him.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorSimon Kilmurry, executive director of the International Documentary Association since 2015, will step down in mid-2021, the organization said.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDanai Gurira has been set to star in The Fighting Shirley Chisholm, a feature film that will tell the story behind Chisholm’s historical 1972 run for the U.S. presidency.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorMGM is teaming with Plan B, Harpo Films and Kamilah Forbes on the film adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2019 bestselling novel The Water Dancer, the studio said Tuesday. Coates will adapt the screenplay and Kamilah Forbes, Plan B and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo will produce.The first fiction work from Coates (he won the National Book Award in 2015 for Between the World and Me) enters on Hiram Walker, born into slavery in Virginia.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: La Leyenda Negra, the Patricia Vidal Delgado pic that premiered in the NEXT section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, has been acquired by HBO.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDisney will enact more furloughs at its marquee Disneyland, with coronavirus cases on the rise globally and no sign from California officials that the Anaheim theme park will reopen anytime in the near future. The news was broken in a memo from Disneyland president Ken Potrock to staff Monday (read it in full below).In September, Disney said it would be laying off 28,000 staff at its U.S.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorLisa Gregorian, Warner Bros Television Group’s president and chief marketing officer, is exiting at the end of the year, WarnerMedia said Monday. She had served in those roles since May 2010 and has been at the company more than three decades.Karen Miller, currently EVP Creative Services, will absorb some of Gregorian’s duties after her exit, including leading Marketing Operations and Creative Services for the TV group.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorPresident-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will give his acceptance speech Saturday night at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Saturday call that Joe Biden has been elected the 46th President of the United States elicited a swarm of congratulations as is the custom after an election. Reactions from world leaders and U.S.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorJayro Bustamente’s politically charged horror film La Llorona, which won the Venice Days sidebar at last year’s Venice Film Festival, is Guatemala’s selection to the 2021 International Oscar race.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorFox’s coverage of the Green Bay Packers’ 34-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday Night Football topped a busy night in primetime, which saw its schedule tweaked by ongoing Election 2020 coverage along with the return of ABC’s The Bachelorette and season premieres of CBS’ comedies Young Sheldon, Mom and the series debut of B Positive.Meanwhile, NBC aired the Superstore episode (0.5, 2.31M) that said goodbye to star America Ferrera.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe second night of the news networks’ coverage of the 2020 presidential election saw CNN surpass Fox News for No. 1 overall in primetime, scoring 7.12 million viewers Wednesday, its second-highest total in its 40-year history, to lead all broadcast and cable outlets.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorGreece on Wednesday selected Christos Nikou’s Apples as the country’s official entry into the 2021 Oscar International Feature race. Nikou’s debut feature, which premiered as the opening-night film in the Horizons section of this year’s Venice Film Festival, has since been acquired by Cohen Media Group for distribution in the U.S.

Patrick Hipes, Erik Pedersen This is it, America – Election Day 2020. With President Donald Trump, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and so many others declaring this “the most important election of our lifetimes,” it’s time for the final votes to be cast and tallied.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe Palm Springs International Film Festival Society said Monday that it has canceled its 32nd annual Palm Springs Film Festival that had most recently been scheduled for February 25-March 8, 2021.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDan Limerick has been promoted to chief operating officer of WME, the agency said Monday, moving up from his previous role as Head of Business Affairs at Endeavor Client Group.He will now work with Endeavor Client Group president and WME chairman Lloyd Braun and WME president Ari Greenburg to oversee all areas of the agency, business priorities and strategic initiatives.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: PBS’ documentary series POV has acquired U.S.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorTony Lewis, the distinctive voice at the front of the 1980s band The Outfield which scored a Top 10 hit with “Your Love” among other catchy pop rock singles, has died, according to his official website and social channels. He was 62.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe World Series gets underway tonight when the Los Angeles Dodgers take on the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of a best-of-7 showdown to crown the champion of this most unusual Major League Baseball season.Fox is airing all seven games of the series, with the first pitches for each set for 8:09 p.m. ET/5:09 p.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorHulu said Tuesday that has acquired U.S. rights to Clea DuVall’s Happiest Season, the holiday romantic comedy starring Kristen Stewart that had aiming for a November 25 theatrical release from Sony Pictures.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorSony Pictures has landed Adulting, a high-concept family comedy feature film from Studio 8 that was written by Chris Hazzard and Michael Fontana based on their original idea. Studio 8’s Jeff Robinov, John Graham and Guy Danella are producing the pic, which is now in development.The logline is under wraps but is said to be a unique spin on the coming-of-age movie, exploring the themes of marriage, divorce and parenting through the lens of adolescence.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDon Cheadle, Common, Cindy Crawford, Whitney Cummings, Stephen Curry, Zachary Levi and Kelly Rowland are the latest additions to the lineup for the the MDA Kevin Hart Kids Telethon, the upcoming two-hour special hosted by Hart that reimagines the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s annual variety show fundraiser.The special, which will benefit the MDA and Help From the Hart Charity, streams live Saturday from 8-10 p.m.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, whose feature film debut Violation premiered in the Midnight Madness section at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, have signed with WME. The duo co-directed, co-wrote and co-produced the revenge thriller, which also earned Sims-Fewer a TIFF Rising Star award for her starring role.Canada-born pair Sims-Fewer and Mancinelli had been making short films since meeting at the 2015 TIFF Talent Lab.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Madelaine Petsch, who plays Cheryl Blossom on the CW’s Riverdale, has signed with CAA. The move comes as she recently starred and co-produced the indie thriller Sightless, written and directed by Cooper Karl.Petsch also is one of the faces of Bioré Skincare and on the business side launched a line of sunglasses with Privé Revaux and introduced an athleisure line with Fabletics.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: Lauren Greenfield’s Girl Culture Films, a female-driven commercial production company founded earlier this year by The Queen of Versailles director and her producing partner/husband Frank Evers, is bolstering its roster and adding a screening series to showcase its clients.John Lewis: Good Trouble director Dawn Porter, The Breaker Uppers duo Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami and former Snapchat exec Rylee Jean Ebsen are the latest names to join

Nellie Andreeva, Patrick Hipes HBO is development a limited series about the rise of SpaceX, Elon Musk’s private rocket company that is in the midst of reviving the United States’ space aspirations.The six-episode series would tells the story of Musk as he handpicks a team of engineers to work on a remote Pacific Island where they build, and launch, the first manned SpaceX rocket into orbit — the Falcon 9 — on May 30, 2020.

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorDisney+ has released the character posters for Season 2 of The Mandalorian, which premieres on October 30 after its wildly successful first season that saw the first live-action Star Wars spinoff score 15 Emmy nominations including for Drama Series.The posters reveal the four main characters from that first season: Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers and The Child (see them below).The new season of the Lucasfilm-produced returns Pascal as The

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorA Thursday Night Football game that saw the Chicago Bears and Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers go down to the wire helped Fox to the top spot in Thursday’s primetime ratings, with the game scoring a 2.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 10.07 viewers.The Bears’ victory did see the broadcast well off from CBS’ Monday one-off New England-Kansas City game in broadcast primetime (3.6, 12.7 million) in early Nielsen Live+Same Day data, but last night’s

Anthony D'Alessandro, Patrick Hipes Thanksgiving Week just got a lot more grim at the box office as Disney on Thursday moved its bit Pixar movie Soul to Disney+, where it will now be released on December 25. It had been set for a November 20 release in domestic theaters.The move is similar to what Disney did with Mulan, which had been set for a global release in March before the coronavirus pandemic lockdown forced it to delay its theatrical release several times.