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‘Supacell’ Renewed for Second Season at Netflix
Netflix is powering up a second season of Supacell. The streamer has renewed the series about five Black people in South London who unexpectedly develop superpowers. Supacell, created by Rapman, premiered on June 27 and has been a fixture in Netflix’s internal top 10 list of English-language series since its debut. Netflix announced the renewal […]
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Olympics Close With Huge Ratings Gains for NBCUniversal
NBCUniversal will always have Paris — the setting for a huge bounceback for its Summer Olympics efforts. The company says the 2024 Olympics, which closed Sunday with a ceremony from Stade de France and a handoff to the next summer games in Los Angeles, averaged a combined 30.6 million viewers across all platforms for its “Paris […]
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Nickelodeon, Paramount+ Marketing Exec Sabrina Caluori Exits
A second top marketing executive is departing Paramount Global. Sabrina Caluori, executive vp kids and family marketing for Nickelodeon and Paramount+, is leaving the company. Her departure follows that of Paramount+ and Showtime chief marketing officer Michael Engleman, and comes at a time when Paramount is looking at large numbers of layoffs ahead of its […]
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Bill Camp, Merritt Wever Board HBO’s ‘Gilded Age’ for Season 3
The Gilded Age is bringing in a host of new faces for its third season. The HBO drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has added eight actors to its ensemble for season three, which is in production. Bill Camp, Merritt Wever, Leslie Uggams, LisaGay Hamilton, Paul Alexander Nolan, Hattie Morahan, Andrea Martin and Jessica […]
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Peacock’s ‘Hysteria!’ Teaser Brings Demons to the Suburbs
Peacock, fresh off its huge Olympics surge, is transitioning back to its regular offerings — including a 1980s-set thriller revolving around the Satanic Panic of the era. The streamer has released a teaser and set an Oct. 18 premiere date for Hysteria!, a drama in which a high-school heavy metal band decides to capitalize on the […]
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‘Percy Jackson’ Teases Season 2, Reveals New Cast at D23
Percy Jackson and the Olympians has begun filming its second season, but its stars took a pause to appear at Disney’s D23 fan event Saturday — where they revealed a few new actors will be joining the cast. Walker Scobell, Aryan Simhadri and Leah Sava Jeffries appeared on stage alongside fellow series regulars Charlie Bushnell […]
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Warner Bros. Discovery Shutters Cartoon Network Website
Cartoon Network’s website is no more. As of Friday, the landing page of CartoonNetwork.com features a popup directing users to sign up for Max, Warner Bros. Discovery’s flagship streaming service. “Looking for episodes of your favorite Cartoon Network shows? Check out what’s available to stream on Max (subscription required),” the message reads in part. It […]
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Streaming Ratings: ‘House of the Dragon’ Climbs to No. 1 Overall
Overall streaming numbers for July 8-14 came down a fair amount from the record-breaking previous week. HBO’s House of the Dragon, however, was virtually even with its prior viewing total — which was good enough to move it to the top spot for the first time. House of the Dragon amassed 1.27 billion minutes of viewing […]
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Roy Wood Jr. to Host CNN’s ‘Have I Got News for You’
Roy Wood Jr. is getting back into the news-and-comedy game. The comedian and Daily Show alum has been named the host of Have I Got News for You at CNN. The cable news outlet will debut its version of the long-running BBC panel show on Sept. 14. Have I Got News for You is a […]
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‘A Different World’ Sequel in the Works at Netflix
Netflix is eyeing a return to Hillman College. The streamer is in the early stages of development on a sequel series to A Different World, the 1987-93 NBC sitcom that was set at a historically Black university. The new project would center on the youngest daughter of Whitley (Jasmine Guy) and Dwayne Wayne (Kadeem Hardison), […]
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Paramount+, Showtime CMO Michael Engleman Departing
Veteran marketing executive Michael Engleman is leaving Paramount. Engleman is currently chief marketing officer for Paramount+ in the United States and Paramount+ With Showtime. He told staff in a memo Tuesday (read it below) that he’ll leave his post later this month. “In notes like this, often we describe our time together as an honor […]
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‘Reservation Dogs’ Star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai On When He Knew Series Would be “Legendary for Our Community”
D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai wouldn’t let an interview about his Emmy nomination go by without praising one of his Reservation Dogs co-stars: “I want to add one thing — there’s a project that Devery Jacobs did with director D.W. Waterson, an amazing film called Backspot,” he tells THR. “It’s a sports film about cheerleading. I want to […]
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