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NBCUniversal veteran Sumithra Barry is leaving the company after almost two decades. For the past three years, she served as SVP, Content and Consumer Insights, Entertainment Networks at NBCUniversal Television and Streaming. Barry's departure is part of a round of layoffs within the NBCUniversal…

EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA's chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said it on the picket lines earlier Thursday, and now it seems that "cautious optimism," as an insider also characterized it today, has become the takeaway term for the state of talks between the actors guild and the studios. In that…

Wall Street gave decidedly mixed reviews to Comcast’s third-quarter earnings report, even though the numbers beat analysts’ expectations on both the top and bottom lines. Shares in the media giant fell more than 8% to close at $39.15, in part due to investor angst over a surprising decline in…

Comcast beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue and earnings despite an 8% year-over-year drop in domestic advertising. The NBCUniversal parent reported revenue of $30.1 billion in the period ending September 30, up 1% from the same quarter of 2022. Earnings per share reached $1.08 on an…

NBCUniversal still considers the Olympic Games to be “the great aggregator of viewership,” in the words of top exec Dan Lovinger, and sees 2024 revenue for Paris on pace to exceed the tally of the 2020 Tokyo Games. Lovinger provided the outlook on Olympic ads during Advertising Week in New York…

NBC Sports Next, a subsidiary of NBC Sports focused on golf as well as youth and amateur sports, has launched a new streaming outlet called SportsEngine Play. The service is billed by the company as the first of its kind, providing a range of live and on demand video of youth and amateur sporting…

Bassem Youssef Helming Health Reality Series With Propagate Selling Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef is launching a reality series in which best friends, couples and family members are flown to a remote exotic island in Abu Dhabi to face their biggest fear: learning to become healthy. Propagate…

Former America’s Got Talent: Extreme reality show contestant Jonathan Goodwin has filed a lawsuit claiming lax safety standards on the show led to an accident that nearly killed him and left him a paraplegic. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Named as defendants were…

EXCLUSIVE: For the past four months, Suits has been the hottest series on television, breaking a slew of streaming viewership records. Now the franchise, which ended in September 2019 with the Suits series finale, is plotting a comeback. Series creator Aaron Korsh is in development of a Suits…

Welcome to Deadline's The Hot Ones, our guide to some of the best television being sold at Mipcom next week. Our editorial team has done extensive research in the run-up to the 2023 market and handpicked what we think are sure to be the shows that will be big talking points at this year's event in Cannes…

Donna Langley, Chairman, NBCUniversal Studio Group & Chief Content Officer, has been one of the key figures negotiating with the writers and actors. While talks with the latter do not seem to have gone very well today, Langley didn't give many details of the negotiations, but did say, "The best way I…

(Updated with SAG-AFTRA statement) Writers have officially approved their deal with the studios. This afternoon, the WGA membership ratified its contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, bringing to a final end to the strike that lasted for nearly five months. After…