WPP’s GroupM Merges Media Agencies in Bid to Streamline

Saturday Kitchen is the perfect antidote to a busy week. It is a show packed with fabulously scrumptious food, inspiration and recipes that viewers are encouraged to recreate at home.

EXCLUSIVE: Peacock has acquired British drag doc City of Queens, the Sky doc which features star of RuPaul’s Drag Race Bimini Bon Boulash.

EXCLUSIVE: Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Laura Nyro, one of the most revered singer-songwriters of the 20thcentury, will be the subject of an upcoming documentary from Vistas Media Capital.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLondon- and Singapore-based 108 Media has announced plans to acquire Malaysian film and TV production firm Revolution Media (previously Ideate Media). Led by Zainir Aminullah, Revolution was founded in 2013 and underwent a management buy-out in 2019.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorPeople who want to “Meet The Press” with Chuck Todd Monday through Friday will have to do so via their broadband connection, not their set-top box.“Meet The Press Daily,” the weekday counterpart to NBC News’ flagship Sunday public-affairs program, will move to NBC News Now starting June 6, the latest example of how much more focused big TV-news outlets are on streaming video as a rising generation of news aficionados reaches out to digital venues for the latest information and headlines. Chris Jansing, the NBC News veteran, will take over Todd’s 1 p.m.

Matt Blank, interim CEO of AMC Networks, said the company has “no plans” for ad-supported tiers of its family of targeted streaming services including Shudder, Acorn TV and AMC+.

Dolly Parton is officially a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame! The country music icon -- who appeared on the ballot for the first time in February -- will join this year’s class of inductees.Parton is in good company! Joining her in the performers category is Carly Simon, Eminem,Lionel Richie, Duran Duran, Eurythmics and Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo.Judas Priest and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis will receive this year’s Musical Excellence Award, while Harry Belafonte and Elizabeth Cotton will be honored with the Early Influence Award. Allen Grubman, Jimmy Iovine and Sylvia Robinson are the recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

Life after the final rose proved to be more challenging than expected for Matt James, but the former Bachelor is ready to share his side of the story in his new book, First Impressions: Off Screen Conversations with a Bachelor on Race, Family, and Forgiveness.

Matthew McConaughey indulges in foods with tons of carbohydrates? The actor’s wife, Camila Alves McConaughey, took to social media to share how the Serenity star and their 13-year-old son Levi are obsessed with the South American starchy tuberous root. The Brazilian-American model, designer, and mother of three shared an Instagram video showing how her yuca fries disappeared from the plate she was holding.

Matt Blank, interim CEO of AMC Networks, made just shy of $7 million in total compensation in 2021, according to a proxy filing with the SEC.

Before NATO Boss John Fithian and MPA Chief Charles Rivkin took the stage this AM at CinemaCon in Las Vegas,  The Batman director Matt Reeves started things off, praising exhibition, and promising theater owners, he’s in for the long haul when it comes to making movies for the big screen.

Matt Di Angelo and his wife Sophia Perry recently revealed that they're expecting twins, with the couple taking to Instagram to announce the happy news. Former EastEnders star Matt, 34, who portrayed Dean Wicks in the hit BBC soap, shared a photo of him and Sophia as they found out that they are expecting a boy and a girl. He excitedly wrote: "'The lottery of life’, still a fair way to go but we feel VERY blessed.The boys name will be JACK, and the girls will be POT." The couple tied the knot at the end of 2021, and currently reside in a gorgeous home in London.

Camera are rolling on an ITV drama that tells the true story of Britain’s biggest ever police manhunt.

EXCLUSIVE: Singapore-based Indian financier Vistas Media Capital has launched a North American division to be run by film industry vet Ben Waisbren.

TMZ reporter said to him. ‘Yeah well, you know, I use my lungs for a living,’ he laughed in response. However, he acknowledges that he might be in the minority, since people on his flight were cheering when the captain announced that masks were no longer required.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAs TV networks race to find a new yardstick to measure modern video audiences, one top buyer of commercial time says it’s already waiting at the finish line.Horizon Media, an independent Madison Avenue media agency that works for big-spending clients like Berkshire Hathaway’s Geico and Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Corona, said it intends to commit “up to 15% of its deals” in the industry’s coming upfront market using new measurement currencies that don’t rely on the sector’s longtime tabulator of audiences, Nielsen. Horizon issued a request for information to various media companies in the fourth quarter of 2021, and expects to work “with media entities including Paramount, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros.