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‘Saturday Night Live’: All the Season 49 Hosts and Musical Guests
After a shortened 2022-23 season, Saturday Night Live returned a bit later than usual to kick off its 2023-24 run. The writers strike affected both the end of last season and the start of season 49; the end of the labor action on Sept. 25 meant a mid-October start for SNL — with former castmember Pete […]
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‘Loki’ Director Dan DeLeeuw Didn’t Want to Get Bored After ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’
Loki director Dan DeLeeuw spent nearly 30 years in visual effects, but he knew it was time for a change after receiving his second and third Oscar nominations for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. DeLeeuw worked as the on-set visual effects supervisor on all four of the Russo brothers’ Marvel films, and having directed […]
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Michael Chow Shares the Pain Behind the Glamour in New Documentary ‘AKA Mr. Chow’
Michael Chow is meant to be in Riyadh. But as drones spell out his name in the sky above Saudi Arabia’s capital, heralding the Oct. 5 opening of the latest outpost of his eponymous restaurant, the charismatic restaurateur, artist and bon vivant is in his Los Angeles home, grounded with a positive COVID-19 test. He is […]
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MIPCOM Deal Memo Day 2: BBC Nabs ‘Marie Antoinette’ Season 2, Newen Takes Full Control of Felicita Films
Day two of the MIPCOM international television market brought a slew of new deals and a major corporate acquisition. French group Newen Studios, owned by commercial channel TF1, announced it had secured a majority stake in Marie Guillaumond’s French production company Felicita Films. The boutique group has some 10 projects in development for local French […]
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Reality TV Features More Onscreen Female Representation Than Scripted, Study Finds
It should perhaps come as no surprise that reality television more accurately represents real-world gender distribution than its scripted series counterparts. The latest Boxed In report from San Diego State’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that during the 2022-23 season, women accounted for 50 percent of characters or participants […]
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Clintons Producing Doc on Clooney Foundation Probe Into Russian War Crimes in Ukraine (Exclusive)
HiddenLight Productions, the production outfit co-founded by Hillary Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton, is backing a new documentary on efforts by George and Amal Clooney’s Clooney Foundation for Justice to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The feature doc, The Swallows Will Return (working title), will follow the investigative work of Anya Neistat, a […]
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MIPCOM: Banijay Launches Program to Support Women Creatives in the Non-Scripted TV Business
Leading independent production company Banijay has launched a global accelerator program designed to support women creators in the non-scripted television business. Sharon Levy, CEO of Endemol Shine North America, announced the new program together with Banijay Chief Content Officer James Townley, at the international television conference MIPCOM Cannes on Tuesday. The program, Banijay Launch, will […]
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NFL Drives Broadcast, Amazon Viewing Bumps in September
The opening of the NFL and college football seasons gave broadcasters a significant gain in TV viewing in September. Amazon’s Prime Video got a boost too. Broadcast networks drew 23 percent of all TV use in the United States in September, according to Nielsen’s monthly Gauge report. That’s up from 20.4 percent in August and […]
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MIPCOM Diversify TV Awards Winners Unveiled
Television market MIPCOM in Cannes on Tuesday unveiled the winners for the Diversify TV Awards, which honor international programming promoting diversity and inclusion. The nominees were picked from 165 submissions from more than 27 countries. To be eligible, programs were required to provide a fair and balanced representation of race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ and […]
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Shohei Ohtani Documentary ‘Beyond the Dream’ Set for Release on ESPN+ in U.S., Disney+ Internationally
Fans and admirers of Shohei Ohtani, the once-in-10-generations baseball phenom, will soon be given an unprecedentedly intimate look at this life and career in Shohei Ohtani: Beyond the Dream, the first official documentary about the Los Angeles Angels ace pitcher and homerun slugger. The film has been set for release on ESPN+ in the U.S. […]
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MIPCOM: EbonyLife CEO Mo Abudu Calls on Studios, Streamers to Put Real Money Into Telling “African and Black Stories”
Efforts to diversify the global television industry have fallen short, argued Nigerian-British Media Mogul Mo Abudu, CEO of EbonyLife Media, in a keynote on diversity and inclusion at global film and television industry at the MIPCOM Cannes on Tuesday. Despite much-ballyhooed D&I attempts by studios and streamers, Abudu said she still sees a startling lack […]
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Roy Wood Jr. Says His Decision to Leave ‘The Daily Show’ Even Shocked Himself
Roy Wood Jr. said that he hasn’t counted out the possibility of becoming the Daily Show host but knows that it’s a long process and being a correspondent is too “mentally stressful” to do while also trying to “figure out what’s next for myself.” The comedian and former Daily Show correspondent opened up more about […]
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After ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Finale, Here Are 10 More Murder Mysteries to Watch
Only Murders in the Building may be done for now — after Ben Gilroy’s (Paul Rudd) murder was solved in the third season finale. But binge-worthy whodunnits with elusive killers pursued by troubled detectives or amateur sleuths are everywhere. Below, The Hollywood Reporter plucks 10 murder mysteries to keep viewers sharp and solving crime puzzles until […]
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Gary Dauberman, James Wan’s Atomic Monster Tackling Live-Action ‘Gargoyles’ for Disney+ (Exclusive)
Almost 30 years after first appearing as an animated television series, Gargoyles is taking flight once more, this time in live-action. Two major names in the creature feature business, Gary Dauberman and James Wan’s Atomic Monster banner, known for their collaborations on the hit Annabelle horror movies, have teamed up to remake the 1990s cartoon […]
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Lara Parker, the Witch Angelique on ‘Dark Shadows,’ Dies at 84
Lara Parker, who as the vengeful witch Angelique Bouchard spent centuries entangled in a love-hate relationship with Jonathan Frid’s Barnabas Collins on the gothic ABC soap opera Dark Shadows, has died. She was 84. Parker died Thursday in her sleep at her home in Topanga Canyon in Los Angeles, her daughter, Caitlin, told The Hollywood […]
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‘The Fall of the House of Usher’: Mike Flanagan Points Out a Detail Some Viewers Missed
The Fall of the House of Usher showrunner Mike Flanagan has been largely keeping quiet amid the rollout of his latest Netflix horror series, but he took to Twitter/X late last week to clarify a burning question from a fan. And if you’re going to take a single question from the internet, it might as […]
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