WarnerMedia Poised to Pick Up NHL Package as NBC Exits Hockey Rights

Mónica Marie Zorrilla Angelo Pizzo, screenwriter of “Hoosiers” and “Rudy” has been tapped to adapt Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins’ highly-acclaimed and rated book “The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, A People, A Nation.” It is the first film property that has been optioned by Ray Halbritter, Oneida Indian Nation Representative, CEO of Oneida Nation Enterprises and trustee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Museum, for his Standing Arrow Productions

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Gravitas Ventures has picked up North American distribution rights to Fully Realized Humans, an indie comedy from director Joshua Leonard. The film, which screened at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, will get a day-and-date release on July 30.

While Bridgerton fans anxiously anticipate the next few seasons, which will focus on Daphne Bridgerton's siblings' pursuit of finding love in suitors, there's also major heartbreak being felt over Regé-Jean Page's permanent departure.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDisney’s ESPN struck a new deal with Major League Baseball that will see the sports-media giant air a narrower package of games, primarily for its “Sunday Night Baseball” franchise.The new seven-year deal, which will commence in 2022, will last through 2028.More to come… 

The search is on for a replacement for Ellen DeGeneres after she announced she’ll be stepping away from her talk show in 2022 after 19 seasons on the air.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJimmy Fallon, host of “The Tonight Show,” and NBCU are expanding their programming together under a new development deal.“The Kids Tonight Show,” a late-night program hosted by young people, is among the projects being developed under a new pact struck between NBCUniversal and Fallon’s production outlet, Electric Hot Dog.

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC and Lilly Singh will end her late-night program, “A Little Late With Lilly Singh,” after two years, the latest sign that TV networks are rethinking how to handle a widening array of wee-hours programs as viewing habits shift.Singh has signed a first-look deal with Universal Television Alternative Studio, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop unscripted projects.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorComcast said first-quarter profit rose due largely to increases in business at its cable and Sky operations, while its NBCUniversal business continued to recover from the results of the coronavirus pandemic.The Philadelphia media giant said first quarter profit rose 55% to $3.33 billion, or 71 cents a share, compared with$2.1 billion, or $4.6 billion in the year-earlier period.

National Hockey League's second television package.The two sides have agreed on a seven-year contract that includes three Stanley Cup Finals, two people familiar with the deal told The Associated Press.

Elliot Page is talking about how his life has changed since coming out as a transgender man in December, and how this will affect his future acting roles.In a new interview for, 34-year-old Page speaks to a trans journalist, Thomas Page McBee. The star said that for the first time ever in his life, he's able to «just exist» and let go of constant anxiety.«The most significant difference is that I'm really able to just exist,» he says.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorHockey is going somewhere it has never been before.WarnerMedia gained rights to show live NHL games on its two big cable networks, TBS and TNT, as well as its new streaming hub, HBO Max, in a seven-year pact valued at least at $200 million that expands the company’s sports-rights portfolio for the first time in years. Disney’s ESPN already secured rights to a larger NHL package.