Roku And Google End YouTube Impasse, Set Multi-Year Distribution Renewal

Friends’ Ross and Rachel. Theirs was a thunderous romance, with euphoric highs and cataclysmic lows.

St Johnstone will “fight like hell” on Sunday to lay the foundations for a “magic” second half of the season.

Noella Bergener is making some claims against her estranged husband James.

YouTube TV and Disney agreed to a new deal that will restore access to a number of the entertainment giant’s networks including ESPN, ABC and FX. News of the updated carriage deal comes Sunday afternoon, just days after negotiations between Disney and Google failed to reach fruition, leading to the Disney networks going dark on YouTube TV.

statement from YouTube.The restoration comes after Disney-owned channels, including ABC and ESPN, were yanked from YouTube TV Friday night. Disney and Google were unable to reach a new carriage agreement, which YouTube addressed in a statement Friday: “We’ve held good faith negotiations with Disney for several months.

Spike Lee has signed a multi-year creative partnership with Netflix to direct and produce features through his production company, Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks.The acclaimed director has teamed up with Netflix on four projects so far, including Da 5 Bloods, She’s Gotta Have It, Rodney King and as a producer on See You Yesterday.Lee’s next project for the streaming service is Gordon Hemingway & The Realm Of Cthulu, where he serves as producer.Speaking about the partnership with Netflix, Lee

Angelique Jackson Academy Award-winner Spike Lee and his 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks have formed a multi-year creative partnership with Netflix, following successful collaborations on “Da 5 Bloods” and the “She’s Gotta Have It” series.News of the multi-year partnership comes after Lee and Netflix collaborated on four projects, with Lee writing and directing “Da 5 Bloods” and “She’s Gotta Have It,” directing “Rodney King” and producing “See You Yesterday.” In previous interviews with Variety,

Ryan Seacrest will be ringing in New Year’s Eve in Times Square for years to come. MRC Live and Alternative have signed Seacrest to a multi-year deal extension to host and EP Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

Manori Ravindran International EditorAmazon Prime Video is breaking into the Nigerian film market, also known as “Nollywood.”The global streaming service has struck a multi-year licensing deal with Nigerian production outfit Inkblot Studios. Under the deal, Prime Video will have exclusive, worldwide distribution rights for the company’s slate of theatrical releases from 2022.

NBC Sports will televise USFL games along with Fox Sports when the pro football league returns in a new incarnation next spring.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorHere’s another TV distribution fight that is escalating — and could result in a blackout: Google is telling YouTube TV subscribers that its current contract for Disney’s suite of networks is due to expire this week and that they could be removed from the service.Disney confirmed that the contract with YouTube TV for ABC-owned TV stations, the ESPN networks, Disney channels, Freeform, the FX networks and the National Geographic channels is due to expire on Friday,

New Regency, which was formerly housed at 20th Century Fox before being absorbed into Disney in 2019 via the big studio merger, has re-upped a new long-term global theatrical distribution deal with the Burbank, CA studio.

NEW YORK -- Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With the Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.Rice died late Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page.“As a writer, she taught me to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions,” Christopher Rice, also an author, wrote.

They say that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

 53.6 million active accounts and YouTube TV is one of the most popular live TV streaming services on the market, alongside Hulu’s live streaming plan.More to come…

The stars are taking over the 2021 E! People’s Choice Awards!

Fantasy Island star Roselyn Sanchez has been tapped to co-host Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest in Puerto Rico. The show also will feature Reggaeton superstar and San Juan native Daddy Yankee in a hometown performance.

Roselyn Sanchez is ringing in 2022 by making history! The 48-year-old Puerto Rican actress will co-host  from Puerto Rico, along with musical headliner Daddy Yankee. While in her homeland, Sanchez will be part of the annual show's first-ever Spanish language countdown into the new year. Sanchez is the latest in a list of co-hosts joining Seacrest during this year's show. Other stars co-hosting the televised event are Liza Koshy, Ciara, and Billy Porter.