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Peter, who joined Deadline in 2017, is a respected veteran TV journalist who previously worked at UK-based Broadcast, where after starting there in 2013 rose to News Editor responsible for putting together the weekly magazine as well as breaking daily news. Before that he was deputy editor of Television Business International magazine. He covers the television industry from Deadline's Los Angeles bureau.
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Rock Doc ‘Boom: A Film About The Sonics’ Lands At The Forge, Makes AFM Debut
EXCLUSIVE: A documentary about legendary Pacific Northwest band The Sonics, who influenced the likes of Nirvana, Mudhoney and The White Stripes, has been picked up by nascent distributor The Forge.
Jordan Albertsen's Boom: A Film About the Sonics will get a limited theatrical release across North…
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Amy Israel Officially Joins Peter Chernin’s The North Road Company As President Of Television
Amy Israel, the former Showtime exec, has officially been installed as President of Television at Peter Chernin's The North Road Company.
It comes after Israel, who was EVP, Original Programming, Global Scripted at the Paramount network, left last month.
Deadline told you that she was heading to…
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Thousands Of Stars Including Sarah Paulson, Chelsea Handler, Jon Hamm, Daveed Diggs, Christian Slater & Sandra Oh Tell SAG-AFTRA Leadership: “We Would Rather Stay On Strike Than Take A Bad Deal”
A group of high-profile actors have signed a public letter declaring that they would rather stay on strike than accept a bad deal.
Thousands of stars including Sarah Paulson, Chelsea Handler, Christian Slater, Sandra Oh, Daveed Diggs, Pedro Pascal and Kal Penn have signed the letter, which is…
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‘The Daily Show’ Introduces Another New Face, Grace Kuhlenschmidt
The Daily Show continues to add funny folk to its roster.
The Comedy Central series introduced another new face last night, Grace Kuhlenschmidt.
Kuhlenschmidt is a stand-up comedian, actress and writer, who recurred in the final season of Max's Search Party and was in the first season of…
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The Untold Story Of A Lost Classic: What Ever Happened To Gram Parsons’ Sci-Fi Film ‘Saturation 70’?
In the late 1960s, Gram Parsons, fresh from leaving The Byrds and becoming close pals with the Rolling Stones, signed on to star in a sci-fi film, Saturation 70.
Directed by Anthony Foutz, who worked with the likes of Orson Welles and Richard Lyford and was the son of a very early Walt Disney exec…
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All Kurtis Blow Wants In This World (Is To End This Strike): Hip-Hop Legend Joins SAG-AFTRA Picket Line To Support Actors Strike
The actors were joined by some hip-hop legends on the picket lines this morning.
Kurtis Blow, co-founder of the Hip Hop Alliance, joined SAG-AFTRA outside Paramount to call an end to the strike that has lasted for over 100 days.
He also highlighted how his membership of the guild was…
Kids Podcast Boom: Nearly Half Of Children Listen Weekly According To New Report
EXCLUSIVE: The kids podcast world is booming, according to a new report.
All Ears: The Booming Children's & Family Podcast Market, a study put together by UTA, has found that children's passion for podcast has grown over the last year with 93% of parents surveyed saying that their children have…
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CAA Reminds Agents To Use Common Sense On Social Media
CAA reminded its staff about its common sense social media policy.
The agency held an all-hands meeting this afternoon and one of the topics that came up related to agents and others posting on services and apps such as Instagram and X, formerly known as Twitter.
The short of it? Use good…
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Paramount Streaming Reorg: Chief Product Officer Rob Gelick Out As Streamer Merges Units
EXCLUSIVE: Paramount is restructuring its streaming operations.
Deadline understands that the company is combining its product and tech teams leading to the departure of Rob Gelick, who was Chief Product Officer and "played a critical role" of the company's streaming…
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Matt Rife Special ‘Natural Selection’ Sets Netflix Premiere Date, Unveils Teaser – Update
UPDATED, 10:28 a.m.: Netflix announced on Wednesday that the new comedy special Natural Selection from today’s most discussed comic, Matt Rife, will be debuting on the platform November 15th. Check out a new teaser for it above.
Recently seeing his career launched into the stratosphere after taking…
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Aaron Sorkin Moves From CAA To WME After Maha Dakhil Controversy
CAA is dealing with the fallout of the Maha Dakhil situation.
Aaron Sorkin has left the agency and returned to WME on Tuesday following the controversial social media post about Israel by CAA’s co-head of motion pictures Dakhil.
"Maha isn't an antisemite, she's just wrong. She's a great agent…
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Skydance Television Bolsters Development & Production Team With Shelley Zimmerman & David Wolkis Hires
EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Television is bolstering its executive ranks. The Foundation and Reacher studio has hired Shelley Zimmerman and David Wolkis.
Zimmerman joins as EVP, Head of Development and Wolkis becomes SVP, Physical Production.
It comes a year after Matt Thunell, the former Netflix exec …
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