Author: Madiha Ahmed

NBC/Pop TV Last year, Game of Thrones ended in awards style with its final season securing 32 nomination and the HBO fantasy drama winning the Emmy for Best Drama Series. There won’t be any comparable achievement on the drama side this year, but the teams behind Schitt’s Creek and The Good Place will be crossing their fingers that their comedies can … Continue reading ‘Schitt’s Creek’ & ‘The Good Place’ End With An Emmy Nomination Bang While Others Finish Quietly Continue Reading →

Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo Lionsgate has named former FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to its board of directors. The company announced her nomination in a proxy statement filed with the SEC Tuesday. She is currently president of MLC Strategies, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm, a position she’s held since January 2019. Clyburn served as a Commissioner of the U.S. … Continue reading Lionsgate Names Former FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn To Its Board Continue Reading →

Samuel Goldwyn Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights Sean Cisterna’s dramatic feature From the Vine for a PVOD and digital release this fall.   The movie, written by Willem Wennekers, and adapted from Ken Cancellara’s novel Finding Marco, follows Mark Gentile (Joe Pantoliano), an attorney and automotive company executive, who travels to Italy after a major humiliation in business.   … Continue reading Samuel Goldwyn Picks Up Joe Pantoliano Italy-Set Drama ‘From The Vine’ Continue Reading →

NBC’s This Is Us ended a five-year Emmy drought for broadcast in the Outstanding Drama Series category when it landed a nomination for its breakout first season in 2017. It was nominated in the top drama category for each of its three seasons as the only U.S. broadcast drama to crack the top category in almost a … Continue reading ‘This Is Us’ Creator Dan Fogelman Offers Consolation Prize To Snubbed Cast Members As NBC Series Continues To Carry Emmy Torch For Broadcast Drama Continue Reading →

With four Emmy nominations announced on Tuesday, BBC/ Hulu limited series Normal People got its just desserts—almost. Although one of its two leads, Paul Mescal, received an acting nom, Daisy Edgar-Jones did not. As magnetic love match Connell and Marianne in this adaptation of Sally Rooney’s bestselling novel, the duo have gained almost cult status, so a nominations list that eschews Edgar-Jones felt … Continue reading ‘Normal People’s Paul Mescal & Director Lenny Abrahamson Address Daisy Edgar-Jones Emmy Snub; ‘Conversations With Friends’ Progress Continue Reading →

Sarah Ferguson and former husband Prince Andrew at horse race meeting Royal Ascot last year.AP EXCLUSIVE: Claudia Rosencrantz, the former ITV commissioner behind megahits Got Talent and Idol, has revealed more details about the Dancing With Horses entertainment show she is attempting to get away with Fox. Fox reality chief Rob Wade first discussed the format, billed as Dancing With The Stars but with … Continue reading Claudia Rosencrantz Lifts Lid On Fox’s ‘Dancing With Horses’ Pilot, Which Featured Prince Andrew’s Ex Sarah Ferguson Continue Reading →

AP The Hunger Games and Fortitude actor Stanley Tucci is to star in Oscar-winner Alejandro Amenábar’s first TV series La Fortuna, which is a co-production between AMC and Spain’s pay-TV broadcaster Movistar+. Based on Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure Of The Black Swan), the story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative … Continue reading Stanley Tucci To Star In Alejandro Amenábar’s AMC Series ‘La Fortuna’ Continue Reading →

Andrew Matthews/PA Wire Spotify saw monthly active users jump 29% to 299 million last quarter with boosts in paid and premium subscribers but earnings were squeezed by costs associated with the streaming music giant’s stock price gains. Premium subscribers rose 27% from a year earlier. Paid subscribers, 138 million, beat Wall Street estimates for the three … Continue reading Spotify Q2 Montly Active Users Jump 29% To 299 Million, Podcast Engagement Grows; But Losses Widen, Stock Slips Continue Reading →

‘Sun Children’Celluloid Dreams After yesterday’s unveiling of the Venice line-up, the sales announcements have rolled in: Celluloid Dreams has boarded international sales on Sun Children, which screens in competition. The company previously repped director Majid Majidi’s debut feature Baduk back in 1991. The new feature is the story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. When Ali is entrusted … Continue reading Venice Titles ‘Sun Children’ & ‘The Furnace’ Sales Deals; Locarno Opener & Jury – Global Briefs Continue Reading →

Zig Zag EXCLUSIVE: BT Sport and Netherlands-based Insight TV have partnered to commission Zig Zag Productions to make Ultimate Goal, a six-part reality competition format about women’s football. Zig Zag Productions, which made the Fox reality series I Wanna Marry Harry, is in pre-production on the show, which will follow 28 women as they compete for the chance to take part in a … Continue reading ‘The Next Jamie Vardy’ Producer Zig Zag To Make Women’s Football Competition Series For BT Sport/Insight TV Continue Reading →