Sky Inks “Long-Term” DreamWorks Deal For Kids Series Including ‘Madagascar’ & ‘Dragons Rescue Riders’

Tom Grater International Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Los Angeles-based virtual design studio The Third Floor, which has credits including The Mandalorian, Watchmen and Game of Thrones, has added two experienced execs to its board.Chris deFaria arrives having having served as President of DreamWorks Animation, where he guided both creative development and technology advancement.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorRebel Wilson Stars In Sky’s ‘Straight Talking’Pitch Perfect actress Rebel Wilson has signed up for Sky’s wilderness interview format Straight Talking, hosted by SAS: Who Dares Wins star Ant Middleton. Produced by ITV Studios-owned Potato, Ant Middleton & Rebel Wilson: Straight Talking airs next year and features the pair traveling across Mexico with only a 4×4, a backpack, and each other’s company.

NBA star Shaquille O'Neal is set to star in the animated kids series Shaq's Garage. The action adventure series will portray the secret adventures of O'Neal's collection of animated cars and trucks, with each having unique skills like musical stylings, Shaq Fu and their mastery of the ultra-secret language of Shaqanese and the Shaqtionary.

Lily Allen has just released her new adult range and of course she wanted to spread the word to her pals by sending them their own sex toy. Pals Stacey Dooley and Laura Whitmore were thrilled when a bouquet of flowers turned up at their doors alongside the box containing Lily's £89 sex toy.

The Bachelorette early to be with Dale? If you didn't, you would have figured it out .5 seconds into this episode when Clare says she didn't sleep well because she spent thinking about Dale.

Comcast-owned European pay TV giant Sky has signed a deal with NBCUniversal Global Distribution for hundreds of hours of content from DreamWorks Animation, including spin-off series from film franchises including How to Train Your Dragon, Trolls and Madagascar. The deal —between Sky's U.K.

Manori Ravindran International EditorDeepa Mehta’s latest film, an adaptation of Shyam Selvadurai’s Sri Lanka-set coming-of-age novel “Funny Boy,” has been picked up by Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Releasing, and will land worldwide on Netflix this December, Variety can reveal.The Oscar-nominated “Earth” and “Midnight’s Children” director wrote the screenplay for the film alongside Selvadurai, whose debut 1994 novel is set in Sri Lanka during the 1970s and 1980s and was ground-breaking in its

Warner Bros. Television has signed an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with one of the founders of Black Lives Matter.

Will Thorne Staff WriterJorge Gutierrez is expanding his relationship with Netflix beyond the fantasy animated series “Maya and the Three” he already has coming to the streamer next year.The animator, best known for directing 2014’s “The Book Of Life,” and his his production company Mexopolis have signed an overall deal with Netflix.

Jimmy Kimmel grilled “Bachelorette” Clare Crawley during her appearance on his talk show on Thursday night — and her answers have the TV host totally perplexed. Kimmel’s wife, Molly McNearney, appeared earlier in the show to give him the scoop on Crawley’s season, but her account doesn’t exactly line up with Crawley’s.

Jimmy Kimmel grilled Bachelorette Clare Crawley during her appearance on his talk show on Thursday night — and her answers have the TV host totally perplexed. Kimmel's wife, Molly McNearney, appeared earlier in the show to give him the scoop on Crawley's season, but her account doesn't exactly line up with Crawley's. As McNearney explained — and ET learned in August — Crawley's time as Bachelorette ended roughly two weeks into filming, after she fell for one of her contestants.

Naman Ramachandran Popular Tamil cinema actor Vijay Sethupathi (“96”) is set to star as iconic Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan in upcoming biopic “800.”With 800 wickets in test match cricket and 534 in one day internationals, Muralitharan is the bowler with world records for the highest number of wickets in both versions of the sport.

pandemic as he slapped down Westminster Health Secretary Matt Hancock who had earlier dismissed the concept. Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, was responding to comments by the Tory Health Secretary that it is "a flawed goal".

Nellie Andreeva, Denise Petski CBS has set the first airdates for scripted series from its regular fall lineup.

Tehran, Apple TV+'s nail-biting Israeli espionage thriller, is back for a new episode today, and the complications are escalating.In this exclusive clip, Faraz Kamali (Shaun Toub), the Iranian intelligence officer who is trying to catch Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan) before she completes her sabotage mission, learns that his beloved wife, who was in France getting brain surgery, has been kidnapped.He finds a cellphone on his doorstep, which rings from an unknown caller.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorWME has signed Niv Sultan, the breakout Israeli star of Apple TV+’s spy thriller Tehran.Sultan headlines the eight-part drama, playing Tamar Rabinyan, a Mossad computer hacker-agent undertaking her very first mission in Iran’s capital, which is also her place of birth.She started her career in Israel, starring in series including She Has It and Temporarily Dead.