Television

May 16, 2019 7:15AM PT German media giant ProSiebenSat.1 has promoted Thomas Lasarzik to head up its group content acquisitions and sales, the company announced Thursday. Lasarzik will be responsible for the negotiation and acquisition of all licensed content, including films and TV series across all group channels and platforms. Lasarzik’s new title will be

The CW loves its big franchises, and has found a way to pair them almost too neatly in the fall. Back-to-back nightly lineups include comic-book shows with comic-book shows, remakes with remakes, teens with teens, and families with families. It makes a lot of sense from a scheduling flow perspective — which makes it ironic

UPDATED: A petition by an angry fan demanding that HBO remake the final season of “Game of Thrones” has now been signed by more than 400,000 people. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are the target of the petition, which asserts that the pair, who have shepherded the HBO hit from the beginning, “have proven

The CW is sending its buzzed-about “Batwoman” to Sunday in the fall to pair with “Supergirl,” while the new spin on “Nancy Drew” slides behind the buzzy “Riverdale” on Wednesday. CW is adding just two new shows in the fall, a nod to the underlying strength of its schedule. CW president Mark Pedowitz emphasized as

May 16, 2019 2:16AM PT [embedded content] HBO Europe has released the first-look teaser trailer for Lukas Moodysson’s upcoming TV comedy series “Gosta.” The highly-anticipated show marks the acclaimed Swedish filmmaker’s first foray into television and was HBO’s first commissioned drama series out of Scandinavia. The eponymous Gosta (Vilhelm Blomgren) is a 28-year old child

May 16, 2019 12:01AM PT ITV, Netflix crime drama “Marcella” has been acquired by Polar+ for France. Cineflix Rights, which handles global rights to the Anna Friel show, announced the French deal with Polar+, which is part of the Canal+ group. Polar+ took rights to the eight-part first season of the award-winning show which is

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Chapter Fifty-Seven: Survive the Night,” the third season finale of “Riverdale.” The Gargoyle King was finally unmasked on “Riverdale’s” third season finale, but like everything within that show, things were not as simple as they first appeared to be. While it was Chic (Hart Denton)

British production company Fulwell 73 is set to produce documentary series “Flying High,” following a season in the lives of the Chelsea soccer club’s women’s team. The fly-on-the-wall series will follow the team through the 2019-20 season and look at the rapid rise in interest in the women’s game. The eight-part series will go behind

May 15, 2019 3:51PM PT In today’s roundup, “Preacher” releases the first looks of the final season, and TNT drops the first official trailer for the Ann Curry-hosted show “Chasing the Cure.“ FIRST LOOKS  AMC has released new images from the upcoming fourth and final season of “Preacher,” which finds Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), Tulip

Between HBO’s “True Detective” and Hulu’s upcoming “Catch-22,” producer Richard Brown has proved his mastery of the limited-series TV format. On the latest episode of the Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” he shares how he steered his career from music and film to TV once he saw there was a way to make closed-ended stories anywhere

CBS held its annual upfront presentation at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, and it was notable for being the first in over two decades without former CEO Leslie Moonves. Instead, besides sales president JoAnn Ross, it was CBS chief creative officer David Nevins who opened the show, along with CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl and Thom

CBS has released trailers for the five new shows joining its 2019-2020 schedule. On the drama side, the Eye is adding “All Rise” and “Evil,” while on the comedy front Chuck Lorre’s “Bob Hearts Abishola,” “The Unicorn,” and “Carol’s Second Act” will all join the lineup. Watch the trailers and read the official series descriptions

The phrase “Welcome the f— back” marks the billboards and posters for the return of “Deadwood,” but that sentiment doesn’t just apply to the audience. Returning to the town of Deadwood was a homecoming of sorts for the cast and crew of the HBO show, who shared that stepping back into the meticulously recreated late-1800s

Never let be said that Bill Prady wasted his chance to explore the awkwardness of his life as a young adult. The co-creator of Warner Bros. TV’s “The Big Bang Theory” mined his experiences working as a computer programmer in the early 1980s to launch the powerhouse CBS sitcom that bows out Thursday after 12

May 15, 2019 11:51AM PT Chernin Entertainment has announced it will keep its “Fear Street” trilogy and “P-Valley” TV series in Georgia while donating to oppose the state’s controversial “heartbeat” bill — which would ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy — signed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. The move mirrors recent actions by Jordan

You hear it from programming executives all the time: TV fans don’t watch networks; they watch shows. AT&T seems ready to transform that maxim into a truism. In a presentation to advertisers today, the telecom giant’s WarnerMedia broke down plenty of silos – some of which advertisers might prefer remain standing, at least in the

Pour one out for the Emmy DVD screener. The Television Academy will no longer allow networks and studios to campaign by sending out physical discs as of next year, and thankfully some companies aren’t even waiting that long to eliminate the much-maligned mailers.   With Emmy For Your Consideration campaign season in high gear, those screener

The evolution of the former Turner networks continues, as WarnerMedia is making less of a distinction now between entertainment channels TNT, TBS and TruTV. Moving forward, the conglomerate’s execs say they’ll be less rigid in defining what type of show airs on which network — with a few differences. Most notably, TBS, which had been

The British government is conducting an inquiry into reality television after the recent suicide of a participant on ITV’s “The Jeremy Kyle Show,” which resulted in the long-running talk show’s cancellation. Parliament’s culture and media committee announced the probe Wednesday hours after ITV CEO Carolyn McCall confirmed that production on “The Jeremy Kyle Show” would

May 15, 2019 8:03AM PT “Rick and Morty” Season 4 is on its way! The hit Adult Swim series is set to return for its fourth season in November 2019, it was announced Wednesday at the WarnerMedia upfront presentation in New York. Season 4 will premiere just over two years after the finale of Season

May 15, 2019 7:08AM PT CBS considered “the totality of the situation” and remorse expressed by actor Michael Weatherly in making the decision to renewal drama series “Bull” for a fourth season. Weatherly was accused by fellow “Bull” actor Eliza Dushku of sexual harassment during her brief time on the series in its second season.

The long-gestating “Snowpiercer” series is on the move. WarnerMedia announced Wednesday ahead of their upfront presentation that the series, based on the 2013 film of the same name (pictured above), will now air on TBS instead of TNT as originally planned. In addition, the series has been renewed for a second season well ahead of

May 15, 2019 6:15AM PT Ian McShane and Timothy Olyphant make a triumphant, foul-mouthed return to HBO’s Western Like sipping whiskey on a lazy Sunday afternoon, “Deadwood: The Movie” gradually but deliberately rewards fans who have waited 13 years to find out what happened to our favorite foul-mouthed ne’er-do-wells. South Dakota’s 1889 statehood celebration reunites

CBS is shuffling its comedy lineup in the fall as the network serves up its first primetime schedule without “The Big Bang Theory” in more than 12 years. CBS also confirmed the Tea Leoni drama “Madam Secretary” will end with its sixth season and a final 10-episode run. CBS will add three new comedies to

CBS’ fall schedule for the 2019-20 season brings five new series to its primetime lineup, including the return of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “The Middle” alum Patricia Heaton in the comedy “Carol’s Second Act.” Two more dramas — “FBI: Most Wanted” and “Tommy” — are on tap for midseason, along with new comedy “Broke.” Here

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) could very soon shake up the world of professional wrestling on television for the first time in years. It was announced Wednesday that the nascent promotion has signed a deal with WarnerMedia that will see AEW air a weekly wrestling show on TNT primetime beginning later this year. This marks the

Timed to its participation in the WarnerMedia upfront festivities, TBS has ordered two new shows to series and announced the renewal of two comedies. Take a look at what shows will be joining and returning to the network’s 2019-2020 schedule. Series Orders TBS has decided to give “Full Frontal” correspondant Amy Hoggart her own show.

Disney’s upfront presentation on Tuesday at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall amounted to the second half of the starry unveiling of its Television Universe. The two-hour-plus showcase came on a month after the April 11 showcase of plans for the Disney Plus streaming service, which came less than a month after Disney completed its historic

In today’s TV news roundup, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman” returns to Netflix on May 31 and the Jonas Brothers are set to perform for the June 15 premiere of  “All That” on Nickelodeon.  DATES: ”My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman” will return to Netflix on May 31.

The newly merged suite of Disney networks held its first ever “Disney Upfront Experience” on Tuesday, featuring segments devoted to ESPN, FX, Freeform, ABC News and ABC. Highlights included comedic bits from ESPN’s Kenny Mayne and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, while singer John Mayer closed the show with two numbers. Here are some tidbits gleaned from