‘Succession’ Showrunner Jesse Armstrong’s Production Company Doubles Profits Following Success of ‘I May Destroy You’

EXCLUSIVE: The legacy of Jamie Tarses will live on. FanFare, the production company of the trailblazing TV executive and producer who died a year ago at the age of 56, will continue to function with the help of Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and the support of Tarses’ family, honoring her lasting impact on the television industry.

Jen Namoff, whose 15-year career has included casting, artist representation, talent management and production in both New York and Los Angeles, is launching Namoff & Company, a bi-coastal, full-service talent management and production company representing clients across television, film, music, and theater with a client roster that includes Tituss Burgess, Tammy Blanchard, Katrina Lenk and others.

EXCLUSIVE: Film and television production company Culture House is expanding its offices to Los Angeles along with two key new hires. 

Amazon Prime Video is continuing its push into the African market by signing a second exclusive licensing agreement with a production company based in Nigeria.

Two generations of an Annan family have been given a festive gift they’ll never forget.

In the wake of playing the wise and balanced god of the universe, Doctor Manhattan, in HBO’s Watchmen, a role which earned Yahya Abdul-Mateen II a Primetime Emmy for supporting actor in a limited series, the actor has accumulated a resume of socially philosophical protagonists including Bobby Seale in The Trial of the Chicago 7, Anthony McCoy in Candyman and now Morpheus in Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s Matrix Resurrections.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-writer-director Ryan Eggold has inked a new first-look deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop projects across various platforms.

EXCLUSIVE: Vernon Wells (Mad Max), Laurene Landon (Aramon’s Gate) and Sadie Katz (The Bill Murray Experience) have joined the cast of paranormal horror film The Beast Inside. 

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Emeraude Toubia, and her production company, The Emerald Co., in all areas. Troubia is the lead of Gloria Calederon Kellet’s Amazon Prime series With Love and can next be seen in The Ballad of a Hustler. She was also recently seen in the television movie, Holiday in Santa Fe, which she executive produced.

Succession boss Jesse Armstrong has opened up about writing Kendall’s confession scene in the season three finale.The writer and showrunner detailed his process with Variety, including the moment Kendall that admitted to killing a man at the end of the first season.“I knew that scene was going to happen,” Armstrong said of the scene in which Kendall confesses to his siblings Shiv and Roman.“I knew what was going to happen with Tom and Shiv at the end. But honestly – I found it hard.

Warning: The following interview contains spoilers about the season 3 finale of HBO‘s Succession, “All the Bells Say”

Kate Aurthur editorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the Season 3 finale of HBO’s “Succession.”Logan Roy is selling Waystar Royco — the prized possession at the center of HBO’s “Succession” — to Lukas Matsson (Alexander Skarsgård), the Elon Musk-shaded tech entrepreneur whom Logan (Brian Cox) was supposed to buy out.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning writer-playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, creator of the acclaimed series David Makes Man, has teamed up with actor-producer Glenn Davis, artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, to launch Chatham Grove, a production company which has inked an overall deal with UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.

last year’s diversity breakdown when there was a smaller lineup of films, though 51% of 2021’s slate were directed by people of color. This comes from a submission class of 3,762 films, in which only 28% were directed by women.

A shift at Intelligence. During the Wednesday, December 8, episode of Chicago P.D., not only did Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) finally face Voight (Jason Beghe) and changed — well, everything — he also took a huge step in his relationship with Hailey (Tracy Spiradakos).

Amy Goodman Kass, showrunner and exec producer of Showtime documentary series Love Fraud, has joined Queer Eye producer Scout Productions.

EXCLUSIVE: Hallmark Channel veterans Jessica Lowndes and Jesse Metcalfe have been tapped to star in Harmony From The Heart, a GAC Family film set for premiere on February 12. Lowndes also wrote the film and will executive produce, and performs several of the film’s original songs, which she also wrote and produced. Production is underway.