Netflix is proudly commissioning U.K. programming with a focus on U.K. audiences while being happy if they also end up becoming global hits, a top executive of the streamer told the Media Telecoms 2025 Beyond Conference in London, organized by Deloitte and Enders Analysis, on Tuesday. Maybe this is finally my chance [to debunk a] myth, Larry Tanz, vp, content,...

Audiences: What do they want and from where? That was the question, and the title, of a panel session at the Media Telecoms 2025 Beyond Conference in London on Tuesday, organized by Deloitte and Enders Analysis. Tasked with providing answers were top executives from the Walt Disney Co., YouTube, and U.K. TV giant ITV. The panelists were Alison Lomax, managing...

Comcast-owned European pay-TV, media and telecom giantSkysCEO Dana Strongtold a London conference on Tuesday that getting AI policies and regulations right is key given the speed of technological change. During a fireside chat at Deloitte and Enders Analysis Media Telecoms 2025 Beyond Conference, she said about Skys approach to AI: We are thinking about AI as a cultural movement nside...

At a critical moment for the company, Paramount Global says that it will add three new independent directors to its board, asking shareholders to support the nominees at its upcoming annual meeting. In its proxy filing, filed Monday, Paramount said that attorney Mary Boies, former judge Roanne Sragow Licht and venture capitalist Charles Ryan have been nominated to join its...

The management and production company 3 Arts Entertainment is expanding into sports, acquiring AA Management in a significant deal for the Lionsgate-controlled company. AAs clients include Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce (as well as the New Heights podcast, which he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce), Cleveland browns star Denzel Ward, NBA star Jonathan Kuminga, and model and TV host...

Disney is laying off several hundred employees globally as part of cost-cutting measures. The impacted teams are employees working on marketing for both film and television, as well as TV publicity, casting and development and corporate financial operations, a source familiar with the matter confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. While individual employees from those teams are impacted, and were notified...

CNN chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 report portraying a U.S. Navy veteran as illegally exploiting Afghans was found to be defamatory earlier this year, is leaving the network. Tough to say goodbye but its been an honor to work among the very best in the business, Marquardt wrote in a Monday post on X. Profound thank you...

Bank of Americas securities research team sees the spinoff drama at Warner Bros. Discovery over its linear TV, studios and streaming businesses worth viewing for outsized investor returns. We believe the market value for WBDs Studio and DTC (direct-to-consumer) assets standalone could far exceed the market cap of the company today, BofA Securities analyst Jessica Reif Ehrlich said in a...

TelevisaUnivision is making a major change in its senior leadership ranks, with ad sales chief Donna Speciale to exit, and Tim Natividad set to join the company later this month as its president of ad sales. TelevisaUnivision CEO Daniel Alegre announced the news to staff Monday morning. Over the past several months, Donna and I have been in thoughtful conversation...

Hallmark Media has elevated John Matts to president, in a leadership change at the company that operates Hallmark Channel. Matts was most recently COO of Hallmark Media after joining as CFO in 2022. In his new role Matts will oversee advertising sales, culture, distribution, finance, research, and strategic insights, and will report to Hallmark Cards CEO Mike Perry. Darren Abbott,...

Byron Allen is putting his local TV stations up for sale. Allens Allen Media Group (AMG) says that it has hired the investment bank Moelis Company to market its local stations, which are comprised of 28 ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox affiliated stations in 21 markets. AMG owns stations in Honolulu, Hawaii; Madison, Wisconsin; Montgomery, Alabama; Flint, Michigan; and Tucson,...

Former crewmembers on Doctor Odyssey have sued 20th Television and parent company Disney over alleged sexual harassment and retaliation on the set of the medical drama. Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland and Ava Steinbrenner, in a lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claim they were targets of an unchecked campaign of sexual harassment in which their supervisor bombarded...

Four publications have reached the end of the road: In Touch, Life Style, Closer and First for Women. McClatchy Media Company, which owns and operates the magazines, informed staff on Friday that all four will be sunsetting in the coming weeks when final issues are published by the end of June, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Despite the best efforts...