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Power Book III: Raising Kanan is gearing up for its Season 3 premiere on December 1 with the official trailer release above. New episodes of the series will be available weekly on Fridays at midnight ET on the Starz app, all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms. On linear, it will debut at 8 p.m…

Starz has handed an eight-episode series order to thriller drama The Hunting Wives. The project, based on the novel by May Cobb, is executive produced by Cobb, Hightown creator Rebecca Cutter, who wrote the adaptation and will serve as showrunner, and 3 Arts Entertainment’s Erwin Stoff. Lionsgate…

Heels showrunner Mike O’Malley has weighed in on strike comments made in July by Stephen Amell, who called the SAG-AFTRA strike "myopic," "incredibly frustrating" and a "reductive negotiating tactic" earlier this summer. While talking to EW about his desire to find a new home for Heels, the…

Starz has axed three existing drama series and one upcoming project. The network has binned Heels, Run The World and Blindspotting as well as not moving forward with The Venery of Samantha Bird. Heels, Run The World and Blindspotting all aired two seasons and The Venery of Samantha Bird paused…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Yen (Little Fires Everywhere) is set to recur in the third season of Starz’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan in the role of Quân. The show returns with all new episodes on December 1. With emotions high and the stakes even higher, the show returns to Southside Jamaica, Queens…

Starz CEO Jeff Hirsch said the long-in-the-works separation of the premium linear and streaming programmer from Lionsgate’s studio unit will be a boost to both entities. “I don’t think the Starz story is as clear as it could be because we’re part of a bigger company,” he said during an appearance at…

Shining Vale returns with Season 2 via Starz on Friday, October 13 and the first official trailer (above) teases more darkness lies ahead for the Phelps family. New episodes will be available to stream weekly on Fridays at midnight on the Starz app, all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms and will air…

Starz has hired veteran entertainment executive Sofia Chang as EVP, Chief Distribution Officer. Based in New York, Chang will report into Alison Hoffman, Starz President of Domestic Networks. In her new role, Chang will oversee all of the streaming platform's sales activities with multichannel video and…

Liberty Strategic Capital, a private equity fund led by former Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, has acquired a hefty 5.5% stake in Lionsgate Class A voting shares at a strategically sensitive moment for the company as it prepares to close a $500 million acquisition of eOne and plans to split up…

Power Book III: Raising Kanan will return to Starz with Season 3 on December 1. First-look photos can be found below. New episodes will be available weekly on Fridays at midnight on the Starz app, all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms and internationally on the Lionsgate+ premium streaming…

Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear will return for Season 2 of Starz’s Shining Vale on October 13 at midnight ET on the Starz app, all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms and on Lionsgate+ streaming platform in the U.K. and Ireland; on linear at 9 p.m. ET/PT in the U.S. and Canada. New episodes will…

UPDATED, 8:10 AM: “You ever get tired of being at the bottom of the top? What’s standing in our way? asks Joseph Sikora’s Tommy Egan at the beginning of the official Season 2 trailer for Starz’s Power Book IV: Force. Tommy is clearly ready for war and on a mission to avenge the death of his former…