The Sunday Telegraph reports former Sunrise EP Michael Pell is now working for a national morning show on Dr Philâs TV network Merit Street.
DirecTV said the deal, which is structured as a debt exchange, will yield $1 billion in annual cost savings. The combined firm will have more than 19 million subscribers, or about one-quarter of the total U.S. market.
Aussie OâDonnellâs extensive resume includes directing/executive producing stints on such series as CBS Studiosâ Ghosts, No Activity, which he also co-created, and The Moodys, whose Australian original he co-created, as well as directing episodes of Hacks, The Good Place, Grace and Frankie and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
I watched on youtube promos of a show âHappyâs Placeâ starring Reba McEntire. It aired last night on NBC. It looked great, will any Australian network (most likely Binge) pick it up?
Sony said in its suit that CBS signed long-term contracts with networks in New Zealand and Australia even though their agreement limits the length of distribution deals abroad to two years. Sony said CBS has rejected requests to hand over distribution fees from those deals.
Oops, did CBS selling Wheel of Fortune to Channel 10 help convince Sony to sue CBS and end its distribution deal?
NCIS Hawaiiâs Alex Tarrant, soon to appear in TVNZ/Nine drama A Remarkable Place to Die, is joining Harriet Dyer in CBS comedy pilot DMV.
Industry sources have told Deadline in recent months that private equity firms, which have invested in satellite TV operators, newspapers and other traditional forms of media, have had difficulty valuing cable assets given the freefall of subscribers and the flight of advertisers to streaming.
Wonder what makes a satellite TV operator interesting to PE, but not a cable TV operator (Iâm guessing you donât get the physical cable infrastructure)