‘The Proud Family’ Reboot Director Latoya Raveneau Enters Overall Deal at Disney

EXCLUSIVE: Amina Munir is formalizing her relationship with Universal Television.

Angelique Jackson Taraji P. Henson’s TPH Entertainment has signed a new overall deal with BET Studios.Under the new pact, Henson and TPH Entertainment will partner with the studio venture, which supplies content to Paramount Plus, Showtime, CBS, Nickelodeon, BET Plus and BET, as well as select third-party platforms.

MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount want to stay in business with the Emmy-winning Antoine Fuqua and his Hill District Media banner. The executive producer of the Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown has signed overall deal with the studios that will focus on original scripted and unscripted content for TV.

Katherine Schwarzenegger is pregnant with her second child with her husband, Chris Pratt.  Schwarzenegger, 32, shared a first glimpse of her baby bump in an Instagram video posted Sunday morning.  In the video, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daughter is modeling a Stanley reusable water bottle as she goes about her day-to-day life. She shows off her pregnant stomach throughout the video.  Katherine Schwarzenegger is pregnant with her second child with her husband, Chris Pratt. (Photo by Rich Polk/Getty Images for Disney) Her comment section is full of messages congratulating the author on her second pregnancy.  Schwarzenegger and the Marvel star, 42, welcomed their first child together, a baby girl named Lyla Maria Schwarzenegger Pratt, in August 2020.  Pratt confirmed the news with a photo on social media and two Bible verses.

Rich Moore, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind such titles as Zootopia and Wreck-It Ralph, has entered into an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Skydance Animation, which will see him create, develop and produce original animated features for the studio.

Skydance Animation has landed another major talent.Rich Moore, director of “Zootopia,” “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” is joining the team in an exclusive, multi-year overall deal. Under the new pact, Moore will create, develop and produce original animated features for the studio.

Tony McNamara, creator of Hulu series The Great, is staying in the Disney family.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterABC Signature has signed a two-year overall deal with Tony McNamara, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated writer who created Hulu’s “The Great” and penned films “The Favourite” and Disney’s “Cruella.”Under the pact, McNamara will develop and supervise projects for the Disney Television Studios-owned division.“Tony’s work on ‘The Great’ and ‘Cruella’ is sly, subversive and delicious, and we made it our mission to get this spectacular talent to our studio,” ABC Signature president Jonnie Davis said in a statement Wednesday. “Thankfully, he said ‘yes.’ We’re so excited to support him in whatever he wants to do next.”McNamara is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer of the Emmy-nominated series “The Great” on Hulu, starring Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult, which is based on his stage play.

 revival, but she has one condition if something ever gets off the ground — her youngest TV child, Judy Winslow, must be written back in.At the 90s Con in Hartford, Connecticut, over the weekend, Payton reunited with her former co-stars, Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow), Darius McCrary (Eddie Winslow) and Kellie Williams (Laura Winslow). In a video posted by Williams' media company, Dream Merchant Media Entertainment, LLC, the cast was asked whether they would consider reviving their iconic characters from the hit series, whether in a reboot or a revival. Payton, who played the stern but loving TV matriarch Harriette Winslow, noted that while a -esque reboot wouldn't be in the cards for the cast, they would be happy to return to their roots as a sitcom.But, she said that she would only do it if Judy Winslow, the family's youngest child played by Jaimee Foxworth who mysteriously disappeared in the fourth season, was written back into the show.Revealing that she was «personally hurt» by the creative decision, she told fans at the convention, «Don’t think for a minute that we did not go in.»«When I mentioned it to the producers, I said, 'You guys need to tell me something that is not only creative, but also politically correct to straighten out this situation because there's nowhere in the world a family… You gave me three kids, you took away my baby,» Payton, 71, recalled.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Grown-ish co-showrunner Jeni Rice-Genzuk Henry has signed an overall deal with BET Studios, the venture launched last year by Paramount and BET to generate premium content from Black creators for Paramount+, Showtime, CBS, Nickelodeon, BET+ and BET, as well as select third-party platforms.

EXCLUSIVE: The Blacklist showrunner John Eisendrath is extending his relationship with Sony Pictures Television, the studio behind the long-running NBC drama. He has signed a new three-year overall deal with Sony TV through 2025.

Adria Arjona and Jared Leto look fire in the Morbius Mexican premiere red carpet. The actors were spotted at Cinepolis Plaza Carso in Mexico City, Mexico, rocking amazing outfits. Adria posed next to her co-star while wearing a Versace dress, Gianvito Rossi shoes, and Tiffany & Co.

Coronation Street actress Rebecca Ryan is currently front and centre of the show as manipulative Lydia Chambers, but it’s not the first time the actress has starred in an ITV soap. Speaking exclusively to OK! Rebecca, 30, revealed she previously played Emmerdale character Bob Hope’s (Tony Audenshaw) daughter Carly.

Writer-producer-director Latoya Raveneau is expanding her relationship with Disney. The Rise Up, Sing Out EP and Proud Family revival series director has signed an overall deal to develop and produce animated projects with Disney Television Animation and 20th Television Animation, along with live-action content development.

Apple TV+ has signed an overall deal extension with Jonathan Tropper, the executive producer/showrunner of streamer’s original series See, starring Jason Momoa. In addition to continuing to shepherd See, currently in production on Season 3, under the new three-year pact Tropper will develop television projects exclusively for Apple TV+ through his banner Tropper Ink.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSelwyn Seyfu Hinds has signed an overall deal with UCP, which will see him adapt the Civil War graphic novel series “The Sixth Gun” into a TV series for the Universal Studio Group-owned studio.Under the pact, Hinds will produce projects across various platforms through his production company Mad Massive Entertainment. First up is “The Sixth Gun,” based on the graphic novels from Oni Press by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt.Per UCP’s description for the potential show, “During the darkest days of the Civil War, vile men unearthed six pistols of otherworldly power.

Richard Pratt was the bass singer with Philadelphia soul group Blue Magic, known for hits including “Sideshow.”We invite you to share condolences for Richard Pratt in our Guest Book.Pratt was a founding member of Blue Magic in 1972 in Philadelphia. Some of their earliest singles were moderately successful on R&B radio, including 1973’s “Spell” and “Stop to Start.” Their biggest success came in 1974 with “Sideshow,” a slow and dreamy ballad with a circus theme.

Chelsea Devantez, who was previously head writer on The Problem with Jon Stewart, has signed an overall deal with 20th Television.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Celebrity Book Club” podcast host and Apple’s “The Problem With Jon Stewart” head writer Chelsea Devantez has signed a multi-year overall deal at Disney’s 20th Television.Under the pact, Devantez will write and produce her own comedy projects for the studio, as well as supervise others.Devantez began her TV writing career on Stewart’s writing staff on his never-released and untitled HBO show. Her other TV credits include Tina Fey and Meredith Scardino’s Peacock comedy “Girls5Eva” and Liz Meriwether and Lake Bell’s ABC comedy “Bless This Mess.” Last year, Devantez sold her pilot, “This Is Our Year,” to 20th Television and CBS.