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HBO’s Casey Bloys Keeps Rising, Gets Ready For New Challenge At Paramount-Warner Bros: Programming At Scale For The Masses

A survivor of multiple mergers, Casey Bloys, Chairman and CEO of HBO and HBO Max Content, looked unfazed during the year-long saga of HBO parent company Warner Bros. Discovery’s sale and its many twists and turns. First, he had seen this movie before — Bloys was HBO President of Programming when the…

Paramount-WBD Deal Architect Gerry Cardinale Says Most Of $6B In Expected Cost Savings Will Not Be Layoffs

Gerry Cardinale, Paramount board member and principal architect of the company’s imminent merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, insists that most of the deal’s cost savings will not come from layoffs. The company has promised investors it will deliver $6 billion in cost savings from the $110 billion…

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Fox News Tops September And Q3 Ratings; MS NOW Sees Gains, CNN Shows Uptick In Some Categories

Fox News again handily topped the September and third quarter ratings, although as its viewership was down versus the same periods in 2025. MS NOW saw gains in the most recent figures, and CNN also showed uptick in September and in certain dayparts for the quarter. In primetime in September…

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David Ellison’s “Coziness” With Donald Trump Is “Way Overstated”, Per Paramount Backer Gerry Cardinale

Gerry Cardinale, Paramount board member, investor and key architect of its pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, says the notion that CEO David Ellison is tight with Donald Trump has been “way overstated.” “Forget about where you are on the political spectrum,” Cardinale said at the Bloomberg…

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Eddie Murphy Moves Into Scripted TV With ‘The Chairman’ For Peacock From Matthew Weiner

Eddie Murphy is heading back to the small screen for his first scripted series. The Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America star, who got his start on Saturday Night Live, will star in The Chairman, a drama series from Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner that is in the works at Peacock. Murphy has…

‘Fast & Furious’ TV Series Greenlit At Peacock

EXCLUSIVE: Start those engines because the Fast & Furious franchise is coming to television. Deadline understands that Peacock has greenlit its first television series based on the hit movie franchise, which has made more than $7 billion at the global box office over the past 25 years. The…

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Oct 1, 2026 4:00 pm
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‘Boston Strong’ Author Casey Sherman Lines Up Book & Film ‘Vegas Strong’ About 2017 Killings

EXCLUSIVE: Author Casey Sherman, whose book Boston Strong was adapted into the 2016 feature film Patriots Day starring Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Bacon, has partnered with Midnight Lute Productions on a new book and feature film project, Vegas Strong. The project will chronicle the worst mass shooting…

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Diddy In The Hole As Plethora Of Contraband Violations Revealed; Grammy Winner Faces Delayed Release

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sweet ride behind bars has come to an end. No official word has come down yet from the federal Bureau of Prisons in response to a NBC News segment this week revealing the Bad Boy Records founder has been using banned cellphones, allegedly smuggling in booze and having a paid for a…

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Warner Bros Fires Off Cease And Desist Over Fox Nation’s ‘The Vow,’ But Network Rejects Claim New Series Infringes On ‘The Bachelor’

Fox News Media is rejecting Warner Bros’ claim that the upcoming Fox Nation reality series Chris Harrison’s The Vow infringes on its copyright and trademarks to The Bachelor. The new dating series, set to debut in November, is hosted by Harrison, who hosted The Bachelor from 2002-2021. In a…

Starz Goes Dark On Verizon FiOS Amid Carriage Dispute; Verizon Responds

UPDATED with Verizon statement: Starz on Wednesday warned of the potential loss of all of its channels, Starz on Demand and the Starz app through Verizon FiOs amid negotiations with Verizon on a distribution agreement. Now, the company says those channels have gone dark. “Since an agreement was not…

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Kevin Mayer Shares Thoughts On Paramount-Warner Bros Discovery Merger

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Bill Kramer, Kane Parsons Say Youth Not Only Into Short-Form; AMPAS Boss On YouTube Deal

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Rachel Reid Found It “Very Difficult” Writing Next ‘Heated Rivalry’ Book’s Sex Scenes After Seeing Show: “It’s Very Weird”

As Heated Rivalry fans await another season of the steamy hit Crave series, Rachel Reid is dealing with a whole new level of pressure in continuing her novels. The author of the Game Changer book series on which the show is based explained that it’s “very difficult” writing sex scenes for the…

Ynon Kreiz, Newly Minted Co-CEO Of Paramount, To Get Pay Bump After WBD Merger Close, $31.5M Signing Bonus

Ynon Kreiz, who was tapped Wednesday as Co-CEO of the soon-to-merge Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, will collect a $31.5 million signing bonus and at least $35.1 million a year in total compensation by 2027. In an SEC filing Thursday, Paramount laid out terms of the former Mattel CEO’s 5-year…