Sony Pictures Television and CBS have settled their year-long court battle over the distribution of syndicated game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Under the settlement, Sony will gradually take over various aspects of the two shows distribution, starting with international markets on Dec. 1. CBS will continue to distribute Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune in the United States through...

Matt Abby, popular social media influencers and podcast hosts, have signed with Currents Management for representation. The couple, Matt and Abby Howard, are looking to expand their brand partnerships, launch new business ventures and grow as voices in the relationships and parenthood media content spaces. The Howards, high school sweethearts turned Arizona-based social media stars, have amassed over 13 million...

AMC Networks, the company behindsuch cable channel brands asAMC, IFC and Sundance TV, as well as such streaming services asAMC+, Acorn TV andhorror streamer Shudder, reported a 17 percent drop in third-quarter U.S. advertising revenue on Friday. The company, led by CEO Kristin Dolan, added streaming subscribers year-over-year to end the latest quarter that ended on Sept. 30 with a...

Comcasts European pay-TV business Sky is in talks to acquire U.K. TV giant ITVs media and entertainment (ME) unit. In a statement early Friday morning London time, ITV said itis in preliminary discussionsregardingapossiblesaleofitsEbusiness to Skyfor an enterprise value of 1.6 billion, which translates to $2.1 billion. The ME business includes ITVs commercial free-to-air TV channels in the U.K., as well...

Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Iger has some thoughts about Walts legacy, and about what matters for the people entrusted with carrying on that legacy. Iger is the guest on the latest episode of the podcast The Rest Is History, hosted by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland (no, not that Tom Holland), and his looming departure from the company (Disneys...

The blackout of Disney networks on YouTube TV may be affecting ratings for those networks. A carriage dispute between the two companies led to ABC, ESPN and other Disney outlets going dark on YouTube TV on Oct. 31. With about 10 million subscribers, YouTube TV is among the larger multi-channel providers in the U.S., covering about 8 percent of TV...

Newly-solo Lionsgate on Thursday posted sharply lower overall film and TV businesses revenues and a reduced loss for the second quarter of fiscal 2026. The Hollywood studio, led by CEO Jon Feltheimer, posted a net loss attributable to shareholders at $113.5 million, compared to a year-earlier $163.3 million loss, after spinning off its Starz streaming platform. Investors reacted in after-market...

Can The New York Times steal time and attention away from TikTok or YouTube? Probably not, but the venerable news outlet is moving aggressively in the video space by trying to carve out a strategy that is true to what it is, with less fretting over the specific platform that the videos it produces live on. I think our goal...

Navy helicopter pilot Mikie Sherrill is going Hollywood East. On Tuesday, the Democratic candidate defeated Republican Jack Ciattarelli by a wide margin in the New Jersey gubernatorial race. Among her future duties in tending to the Garden State will be oversight of its flourishing film and TV industry. Sherrill will have support. One key cabinet position will be whomever Sherrill...

Cineplex released its third quarter financial results on Thursday and swung to a modest profit against the backdrop of lower Hollywood box office for the Canadian exhibition giant. Cineplex reported box office revenues down 8.8 percent to $159.5 million for the latest financial quarter due to a weaker film slate with no comparison to Deadpool Wolverine that played on its...

Faced with a surfeit of submissions, a documentary development grant inspired by the Stay in L.A. production movement has selected three films for financial support. The Stay in L.A. Documentary Development Grant committee announced on Thursday that an untitled true crime film from Adam Saltzberg, Mobolaji Olambiwonnus The Village on My Block and Mackenzie Rohans Stepping Out of the Background...

Leading local TV station ownerNexstarMedia Group, led by chairman and CEO Perry Sook,has unveiled its third quarter financial results, with advertising sales sliding on sharply lower political ad revenue. Advertising revenues during the third quarter fell 23.5 percent to $476 million, compared to a year-earlier $622 million when the U.S. election cycle contributed $145 million in ad revenue. And distribution...

The cable company Altice, which services parts of New York City and many of its immediate suburbs, says that it will undergo a corporate rebranding. The company says that beginning tomorrow, it will change its name to Optimum Communications, taking the trade name of its consumer-facing internet connectivity and pay-TV brand. This is more than a name change its a...