Posts by Nathan Pine
Tammy Fine To Lead Talent Development For NBC News
NBC News has named Tammy Fine as vice president, talent development, leading the team tasked with attracting, developing and retaining the network’s journalists and other newsroom personnel. Fine will succeed Liza Eaton, who has led the team over the past year and has decided to take a part time role, according to a memo sent…
Read MoreSpotify to label ‘AI personas’ and exclude AI music from personal recommendations
In its latest effort to protect human creators from the flood of synthetic music, Spotify will soon require AI-generated identities to carry an “AI Persona” label while barring their tracks from users’ algorithmic mixes. The change will take effect in mid-September. It follows Spotify’s earlier moves to help subscribers understand the difference between genuine and…
Read MoreFremantle Revenues Slide But Earnings Shoot Up To $69.2M
Kill Jackie producer Fremantle saw its half-yearly revenues slide nearly 8% due to drama and film production, but earnings still shot up to nearly $70M. In results released by parent RTL this morning, the London-based company posted revenues of €835M ($963M), down 7.7% on the €905M from the same period last year. RTL attributed the…
Read More‘Newlyweds’ Téa Leoni & Tim Daly Playing Couple, Jamie Lee Curtis Boss
NBC did some method casting on its comedy pilot Newlyweds earlier this year, with Tèa Leoni and Tim Daly, who had tied the knot just months prior, tapped as the titular leads in the multi-camera comedy. It marked an on-screen reunion of the duo who also played a husband and wife on the 2014 CBS…
Read MoreNikki Glaser Signs With WME
Comedian Nikki Glaser has taken on a new agency, signing with WME in all areas. Glaser currently holds three Emmy nominations for her Hulu special Good Girl and her work as host of the 83rd Annual Golden Globes. She’s been working as a stand-up since the early 2000s but saw her career take off to a new level…
Read MoreWatch Pete Hegseth Wipe Actual Snot in His Hair
This video of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may just be the grossest thing you see all day. Hegseth just took the criticism that he acts like a little kid “playing army” to a whole new level. At the renaming ceremony for the Joint Base Lindsey Graham Monday, Hegseth was caught on camera wiping his nose…
Read MoreLisa Ann Walter Hosting 2026 Astra TV Awards; These Are The Honorees
The Hollywood Creative Alliance (HCA) is back with its 6th annual Astra TV Awards, announcing this year’s host and its latest batch of honorees. Hosted by Lisa Ann Walter, this year’s awards ceremony is set for Saturday, Aug. 15 at InterContinental in Los Angeles, to be live-streamed at 7pm on YouTube, celebrating excellence across television…
Read MoreBBC Joins Aimee Lou Wood & Working Title’s Jane Eyre TV Adaptation
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal that the BBC has joined Working Title’s new TV adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre, which will be led by The White Lotus and Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood. As we revealed earlier this year, Emmy nominee Wood is attached to play the indomitable heroine in the buzzy adaptation, which is being produced…
Read MoreIf you don’t hear the siren, police are sure you’ll feel the Rumbler
Los Angeles police are rolling out a new siren, and you don’t just hear it. It rattles your bones. When the New York Police Department started using the Rumbler in 2009, one opponent called it an “acoustic assault” on citizens. But L.A. Police Cmdr. Blake Chow says the new low-frequency siren is the solution to…
Read MoreHalloween Horror Nights Lineup: Full 2026 List Of Offerings
Universal Studios Hollywood has unveiled the final additions to its fan-favorite Halloween Horror Nights event. Among them are the return of a haunted house based on the 1988 camp slasher classic Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Other new frights include “KILLceañera: Music by SLASH” and “Dead, Deader, Deadest.” There will also be a fiery stunt…
Read MoreAnthony Bourdain Biopic A Top 2026 Limited Opening; Jane Schoenbrun, ‘CatVideoFest’, Fire Up Indie Weekend – Specialty Box Office
Independents posted impressive numbers this weekend, another good one for moviegoing but competitive with blockbuster commercial films in the marketplace. Tony and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma are notable newcomers with CatVideoFest 2026 landing in the top 10 and a sweet debut for doc Cookie Queens. A24’s Tony cooked with one of the…
Read MoreBox Office: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ 2nd Fastest To Cross $1B Int’l, WW at $1.67B
The global box office is humming with Sony/Marvel Studio’s Spider-Man: Brand New Day crossing the $1 billion threshold abroad in 12 days of release, the second-fastest to do so after Avengers: Endgame. The Destin Daniel Cretton movie is now the 12th highest ever at the worldwide B.O. with $1.67B ($655M domestic, $1.01B overseas). Brand New…
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