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EXCLUSIVE: SAG-AFTRA and the studios don’t have a deal, but they are planning on talking more. Any agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the studios to end the 106-day strike by the 160,000-strong guild looks almost certain to not be coming tonight, though the two sides are still in deliberations right…

Former ESPN President John Skipper, who led the effort to secure the current NBA rights deal, says incumbents Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have no choice but to re-up with the league. “These are existential rights for ESPN,” he said during an episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, a podcast…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Rock the Bells and Paramount exec Rich Morris has been tapped for the newly created role of Senior Vice President of Content & Brands at Composition Media, the animation studio led by Hair Love producer Carl Reed. Morris will be responsible for spearheading licensing and…

The board of Mediapro has voted to have co-founder Jaume Roures step down as Managing Partner of the Spanish content giant, with Taxto Benet remaining in post as President and CEO. According to a statement released a few moments ago, the company’s directors approved a request from majority…

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…

As it grew into a tech behemoth over its first two decades, Amazon was regarded as a sleeping giant in the digital advertising business, largely ceding the market to the duopoly of Facebook and Google. It is now very much awake, and CEO Andy Jassy believes it has “barely scraped the surface” of the…

Warner Bros. Discovery is restructuring its Global Brands, Franchises, and Experiences — overseeing worldwide consumer products, themed entertainment, franchise management and DC Comics businesses – following the departure of the division's president Pam Lifford. Lifford is stepping back from her…

EXCLUSIVE: Amidst a recent expansion into docs and scripted series, after just two years as a producer-financier of features, Closer Media has added accomplished producers Joey Marra and Nate Matteson to its leadership team. Former Jigsaw exec Marra will lead the company’s non-fiction division, with…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime entertainment executives Tom Ascheim and Tricia Melton, who worked together at Warner Bros. Discovery and Freeform, have launched Pith and Pixie Dust, a consulting firm. With the new venture, Ascheim, former President Of Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classic, and Melton…

EXCLUSIVE: Last month, it emerged Paramount Global vet Georgia Arnold was exiting after nearly three decades, and we’ve now learned her departure has sparked a global restructure of the company’s Social Impact unit. In an internal memo seen by Deadline, Paramount told staff it remains “committed to…