YouTube TV Returns to Roku as Google Strikes New Multiyear Deal

Sky Studios has signed a development deal with Be Water producer Dorothy Street Pictures to co-produce a slate of high-end series and feature docs mainly told from the female gaze.

A new show pinning some of the greatest RuPaul’s Drag Race UK contestants against worldwide stars will air on a newly-revived BBC Three.

YouTube TV and Disney agreed to a new deal that will restore access to a number of the entertainment giant’s networks including ESPN, ABC and FX. News of the updated carriage deal comes Sunday afternoon, just days after negotiations between Disney and Google failed to reach fruition, leading to the Disney networks going dark on YouTube TV.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDisney’s suite of 18 networks — including ABC and ESPN — have gone dark on YouTube TV after the media conglomerate and Google failed to come to terms on a new deal before the midnight ET deadline.It’s the first contract-related blackout for YouTube TV in its nearly five-year history.

Patrick Schwarzenegger is rocking a new look, but he’s worried not everyone will like it.

EXCLUSIVE: The film and TV arm of Quality Control, the record label behind artists including hip hop artists including Lil Yachty and Migos, has struck an unscripted TV partnership with Catfish and Celebrity Game Face producer Critical Content.

ZEE5 Global, the streaming platform specializing in South Asian content, has inked an agreement with local content studio Applause Entertainment that will see the latter create multiple Hindi shows for the streamer as ZEE5 originals.

Viaplay Strikes Mega Banijay Scripted Deal On Eve Of U.S. Launch

EXCLUSIVE: Rasika Dugal, whose recent credits include the Amazon series Mirzapur and the Netflix show Delhi Crime, is leading the cast of Spike (working title), a Hindi-language sports drama.

NEW YORK -- Anne Rice, the novelist whose lush, best-selling gothic tales, including “Interview With the Vampire,” reinvented the blood-drinking immortals as tragic antiheroes, has died. She was 80.Rice died late Saturday due to complications from a stroke, her son Christopher Rice announced on her Facebook page and his Twitter page.“As a writer, she taught me to defy genre boundaries and surrender to my obsessive passions,” Christopher Rice, also an author, wrote.

The beloved author who wrote the memorable 1976 novel Interview with the Vampire has died.

Naman Ramachandran Anne Rice, influential author of “Interview with the Vampire,” died on Saturday due to complications resulting from a stroke. She was 80.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 14 is almost here and Jennifer Lopez will finally be making her first-ever appearance on the show in a special guest role.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorRoku and Google have buried the hatchet, announcing a multiyear extension for both YouTube and YouTube TV apps on the Roku streaming platform.The companies reached the agreement just days before their previous deal covering YouTube on Roku was set to expire Dec. 9.

In what might go down in history as the most unpredictable year in the dominant Marvel Studios run dating back more than a decade, one of the biggest hits for the studio in 2021 has been “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.” So, you better believe Disney is ready to expand its relationship with the filmmaker behind the blockbuster, Destin Daniel Cretton.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentMauricio Ochmann, one of the biggest stars in the Latino world, has signed a multiyear first look deal with Pantaya, the leading premium Spanish-language streaming service.Under the terms of the deal, actor-producer Ochmann will develop and executive produce a slate of original films and TV series for the company.

Bella Hadid may have cut her angel wings off last year, but now she’s back at Victoria’s Secret in a whole new role!