Universal Television Alternative Studios Moves Under Universal Studio Group Umbrella Following Meredith Ahr’s Departure

Becca Kufrin seems to have thoughts about her ex-fiancé, Garrett Yrigoyen, moving on with Alex Farrar less than two months after the former Bachelorette star confirmed their split.“Sunday lesson,” the 30-year-old captioned an Instagram Story post on Sunday, November 1, as she shared a quote from We the Urban’s account.

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Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, NBC has landed drama Family History with a script commitment plus sizable penalty.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFrance-based Vivendi plans to have an initial public offering for Universal Music Group in 2022.The news came as the company reported financial results for the third quarter, with UMG posting a 3% uptick in revenue to €1.855 billion, or about $2.2 billion.Taking Universal Music public will follow what Vivendi described as “the first phase of the opening of UMG’s share capital,” which was completed earlier this year.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorOn Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom teased the release of reopening rules for theme parks saying cryptically, “We are going to break up the theme parks…Not just one or two brands, it is many different parts of the theme park industry.”Well, now we know what that means.Smaller theme parks can resume operations in the state’s Orange Tier.All theme parks may resume operations in tier 4, Yellow, which is much further down the road.California’s director of Health and Human

Universal Music Group will launch in IPO in 2022, the conglomerate’s parent company, Vivendi, announced on Tuesday.UMG becomes the second major music company to announce its intentions to go public this year, following Warner Music Group, which launched its IPO in June. UMG sold a 10% stake to China’s Tencent Holdings earlier this year.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorVivendi, parent company of Universal Music Group, confirmed that it plans to take UMG public in 2022.

Arizona's nationally watched Senate race between Republican incumbent Sen. Martha McSally and Democratic challenger Mark Kelly has become one of the battleground state's costliest campaigns.

Did you know that Richard Gere and Martha Stewart are neighbors?

Two strange things are going on in the theatrical industrial complex.

California state officials visited the Disneyland Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood this week as Gov. Gavin Newsom mulls issuing guidelines to allow the major theme parks to reopen.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAfter outlining her exec team, recently appointed Universal Studio Group chief Pearlena Igbokwe is adding another studio to that group.Igbokwe has announced, via a letter obtained by Variety, that the Universal Television Alternative Studios is being incorporated into Universal Studio Group.

As theme parks await guidancefrom the state of California on reopening amid the pandemic, operators are undergoing multiple rounds of layoffs. Since July 1,Universal Studios Hollywood has temporarily laid off at least 849 employees and permanently cut 1374 staffers in Los Angeles County, according to filings with California's Employment Development Department.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorUniversal Studios Hollywood has cut more than 1,300 jobs permanently and temporarily laid off 849 workers since July, according to public documents, as the NBCUniversal theme park remains shuttered.Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notices filed by the Comcast unit with the California Employment Development Department show 1.374 permanent job cuts.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVSeth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door is expanding the executive team under president Erica Huggins with the hire of former Marvel Television exec Aimee Carlson as SVP.Reporting to Huggins, Carlson will work to grow Fuzzy Door’s slate spanning drama, comedy and areas such as science, history, politics and music across film, television, digital and animation.

Offset has no problem shelling out the big bucks for his 2-year-old daughter, Kulture.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden hasn't traveled to Texas in months, but on Tuesday, his campaign will dispatch his wife, Jill Biden, to help boost early voting turnout in the Lone Star State. The Biden campaign announced that Jill Biden will make three stops in Texas, with planned events in El Paso, where she will be joined by former presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke; Dallas and Houston, where she'll be joined by U.S.

Eccho represents Sony Pictures Television titles; ViacomCBS commissions Artemesia Gentileschi series; Channel 4 revives “Changing Rooms”; and Cake sells “Tish Tash.”Sweden-based global distributor Eccho Rights has agreed an exclusive representation deal with Sony Pictures Television that includes 15 titles from all over the world.The titles that are part of this deal are “Leverage” (South Korea), “Crane in the Sky,” “Midwives” (Russia), “Friday on My Mind,” “Love Child” (Australia), “Hugo El

Jonathan Price recently had moved back to his East Texas hometown - before being fatally shot by a police officer  last weekend while intervening in a domestic dispute, his family's attorney told Fox News.  Price, 31, took a job with Wolfe City in maintenance after moving back to the area from Dallas to help his mother. In his free time the former college football player was a personal trainer, trained for fitness competitions and spent most of his time with family, said Lee Merritt, the Price