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Anime meets airline! Crunchyroll and Delta are taking off on a partnership that will bring a selection of in-flight anime into seat backs.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Dana Walden will receive the 2025 International Emmy® Founders Award at the November 24 gala in New York City, recognizing her impact on the global media industry. Walden, who previously served as CEO of Fox Television Group, joins prestigious past recipients including Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Shonda Rhimes.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Fox has been mad about moving more into multi-camera comedy series, and tapped Paul Reiser, co-creator and star of 1990s sitcom, “Mad About You,” to partner with Adam F. Goldberg, creator of another popular family comedy of the last decade, “The Goldbergs.” The untitled series is in development and follows a family’s failed-to-launch 20-something fictional son, played by Reiser’s real-life son, Leon, forced to work with his dad. We believe Leon Reiser will be working with dad Paul Reiser by choice.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have reupped the creative partnership they began in 2020 between their media company, Archewell Productions, and Netflix, with a multi-year, first look deal for film and television projects. Also, season two of “With Love, Meghan” will include a special episode titled “Holiday Celebration” to premiere in December.
(Source: Cynopsis)
David Weil, showrunner of “Hunters” and “Invasion,” will make his feature directing debut with “Tyrant,” a thriller a la “Whiplash” but set in the fine dining world, that Amazon MGM Studios acquired in a preemptive spec deal. Casting set to begin immediately with The Picture Company’s Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona producing. Weil, who also wrote the script and will produce, is currently adapting the Evan Gershkovich story for United Artists and writing “Extraction 3” for Netflix.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Australia production company WildBear Entertainment will co-pro a new history series, “Fatal Conflicts,” with ZDF Arte, with ZDF Studios handling international distribution. The series recreates two pivotal ancient wars – Xerxes v Themistocles and Hannibal v Scipio, adding expert commentary and inviting viewers to engage with the narrative.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Asian entertainment destination, Viki, part of Rakuten Group, Inc., of e-commerce and internet services, is bringing the K-drama “My Youth” exclusively to the streaming platform in the US, Latin America, and Europe. The series set to launch in September.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Counterpart Studios officially launched as an independent production company.The founding team, CEO Tony Hernandez, President Elise Henderson, and Chief Creative Officer Lilly Burns, stated their approach centers on offering buyers “premium content at the right price” while staying focused on a “creator-centric model” that prioritizes artist relationships and nimble execution.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Sarayu Blue (“Good American Family”) has joined the cast of Netflix’s upcoming eight-episode adaptation of “Unaccustomed Earth,” based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s award-winning collection of short stories.
(Source: Cynopsis)
And, Onyx Collective announced entrepreneur and beauty mogul Lori Harvey will join Hulu’s legal drama “Reasonable Doubt” as a recurring guest star when season three premieres on Sept. 18, 2025.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Hallmark Channel is teaming up for the first time with the Grand Ole Opry for “A Grand Ole Opry Christmas,” an original movie starring Nikki DeLoach and Kristoffer Polaha, set to debut during Countdown to Christmas. The project celebrates the Opry’s centennial year, with production beginning soon at notable Nashville locations. The partnership also features a collection of co-branded products launching at Hallmark.com this season. Brad Paisley will write original music and will also perform.
(Source: Cynopsis)
A&E’s ten-episode docuseries, “Family Lockup,” premieres Thursday, August 21, covering a re-entry program in which family members of inmates spend two nights behind bars in an attempt to rebuild their broken relationships from within prison walls, working Psychologist Dr. Jeff Gardere, in an innovative correctional rehabilitation initiative in Hampden County, MA.
(Source: Cynopsis)
William H. Macy (Shameless) will star as Hank Durkin in Hulu’s upcoming, Dan Fogelman drama series set around an NFL family. He joins Christopher Meloni as the team’s head coach. The show is produced by 20th Television and Skydance Sports, with Fogelman among the executive producers.
(Source: Cynopsis)
And then there were two. In “The Last Rhinos: A New Hope” photographer Ami Vitale follows scientists racing to save the northern white rhinoceros from extinction, with only two females remaining. The documentary, which captures the world’s first surrogate rhino pregnancy, premieres August 24 on National Geographic and streams the following day on Disney+ and Hulu.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Representing one of the first major content acquisitions since the merger of Paramount Skydance, the newly formed company has landed a knockout deal for seven years, at $1.1 billion per year, with TKO Group to become the exclusive US home of all UFC events, starting in 2026. Stepping into the streaming ring, Paramount+ will host all 13 numbered bouts and 30 Fight Nights at no extra charge for subscribers, with select matchups simulcast on CBS.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Taking a Big Swing, multi-Emmy-winning journalist Jimmy Roberts, longtime media executive Fred Bucher (ESPN, Time Warner, Charter, Weather),and marketing and agency executive Spence Kramer (Wieden + Kennedy, J. Walter Thompson) have teamed up to lead a new media company focused on the business of lifestyle sports, starting with golf in September. Big Swing Media will deliver editorial and production, access to newsmakers and industry insights through podcasts, subscription newsletters, and custom events.
(Source: Cynopsis)
Gutfeld sparked a double digit increase in Fallon viewers. The FOX News Channel’s Greg Gutfeld’s appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” on Thursday, August 7, averaged 1.7 million viewers (+57%) and 294,000 (+13%) in A25-54, the biggest kickers since November 2024.
(Source: Cynopsis)
CBS’ “Big Brother” on Sunday reached 3.22 million viewers, up 7% over last week and 1% year-over-year, according to Nielsen.
(Source: Cynopsis)
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