The relationshipbetween Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass and the cityschief recovery officer,Steve Soboroff, who sheappointedin January to lead the first phase of the citys wildfire rebuilding effort,is starting to fray. At an event last week,Soboroff, a real estate developer andaformerLos Angelespolice commissioner,addressedpublic pushbackover hisannouncedsalary for theposition, which wascreatedto help rebuild the city after the devastation caused bythe Pacific Palisades and...

Telefilm Canada, the Canadian federal governments film financer, has cancelled its Canada House event at the 2025 South by Southwest Conference and Festival amid cross-border political tensions. Canada House at the Austin, Texas media festival has long been a meeting hub for Canadian content producers, musicians, film distributors and other industry players looking to network, forge international sales and secure...

Administrators have been appointed for Technicolor Creative Studios UK, the historic visual effects studio that has shut down, with 440 redundancies. Nick Holloway and David Pike from advisory firm Interpath were named as joint administrators to the UK Technicolor division on Monday. The Group had been facing financial challenges for some time, exacerbated by rising labor costs, as well as...

MSNBC is making its lineup overhaul official, elevating a handful of key talent to the evenings while also making substantial changes to its weekend and dayside hours. The most notable changes were telegraphed over the weekend, and will see major changes to MSNBCs evening and primetime lineups. As expected, when Rachel Maddow returns to her one day per week schedule...

Theres a lot of moving pieces at Comcast right now and a big wild card is its former NBC The Apprentice host Donald Trump. As the NBCUniversal owner looks to spin off many of its cable channels including MSNBC into a separate untitled holding company (aka SpinCo), the President is stepping up attacks on the company, weeks after his Federal...

Listeners and fans of BBC podcasts outside of Britain will soon get to discover and access them via BBC.com and BBC app, while the BBC Sounds audio service will become exclusive to U.K. audiences. The change is set to take effect in the spring. The newly launched audio section of BBC.com and app is curated with international audiences in mind,...

Odenkirk Provissiero, the management and production outfit behind talent and projects like Tim Robinson and Pen15, is rebranding as OPE Partners in light of the companys continued growth and evolution. Along with the new name, OPE has announced that manager Tiffany Schloesser, whose clients include Rachel Sennott and Heidi Gardner, has been elevated to executive partner. Tiffany Schlosser Birdie Thompson...

Justin Baldonis fate in his clash over It Ends With Us with Blake Lively is yet to be determined. But one things certain. His lawyer Bryan Freedman is already victorious. Put aside the billable-hour payday: Baldonis co-defendant and partner in production company Wayfarer, the billionaire Steve Sarowitz, has reportedly pledged $100 million to their defense. This case has supersized the...

It turns out Bikini Bottom is in Frisco, Texas. NBCUniversal has cut a deal with Paramount Global, an agreement that will bring the long-running popular Nickelodeon show Spongebob Squarepants to the kids and family-focused theme park Universal Destinations and Experiences is building in the Lone Star State. Universal officially announced all of the IP-driven lands that it is building at...

As negotiations over their first union contract near the one-year mark, workers at Malcolm Gladwells podcast company are sending a clear message: We are ready to strike. The bargaining unit at Pushkin Industries, which is unionized with the Writers Guild of America East, threaten a potential work stoppage in a letter delivered to management on Friday. The letter calls for...

Elizabeth Warren is asking the Department of Justice to investigate and potentially block Disneys surprise deal to buy the streaming service Fubo, arguing that it raises notable antitrust concerns. The Democrat Senator wrote a letter on Feb. 19 to acting DOJ assistant attorney general Omeed Assefi asking the agency to look in to the Jan. 6 deal that, if it...

In January, reports that Paramount Global was mulling whether to settle a longshot lawsuit filed by President Trump against its CBS News unit sparked a frenzy over the appearance that the company was capitulating to the administration as it sought regulatory approval for its merger with Skydance Media. A month later, that settlement hasnt materialized, with Paramount now signaling that...

In a move that dramatically shakes up the sports TV landscape, ESPN and Major League Baseball have decided to part ways after the upcoming MLB season, ending a 35-year relationship between the sports TV giant and league, and bringing some prime sports rights to the market. We are grateful for our longstanding relationship with Major League Baseball and proud of...