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Netflix’s latest YA drama series “Crew Girl” is racing right into Season 2, the streamer announced on Wednesday. “Crew Girl” came out on Sept. 10 and rowed to the top in the Netflix English TV Top 10, where it has remained since its release, climbing to number two this week. It r

Alec Berg has signed an overall deal with Netflix, Variety has learned. The highly-successful TV writer and producer has previously been under overall deals at 20th Television (formerly ABC Signature) and HBO, the latter of which for nearly a decade. He has already set up his fir

Netflix has commissioned a new documentary from Optomen focusing on weddings in Britain’s traveller community. Provisionally titled “My Big Day,” the feature-length doc will follow young couples as they prepare for their nuptials, some of which have turned into jaw-dropping spect

Disney has set Cathleen Taff as president of its newly combined Disney Entertainment – Studios and Consumer Products team. Beginning Oct. 4, the global licensing and publishing businesses will move under Disney Entertainment – Studios. Staying put under the Disney Experiences div

The “Darkwing Duck” reboot has been ordered to series at Disney+, Variety has learned. The news comes nearly six years after Variety exclusively reported the project was in development at the streamer. The voice cast for the new series will include: Mark Hamill (“Batman: The Anim

Diane Lane has joined the upcoming Hulu-Onyx Collective limited series “Victoria,” Variety has learned. The erotic thriller, which was announced last week with a series order, will star Li Jun Li as Maxine Tao, who is described as “a brilliant con artist who finds herself in a da

The general mood on both sides of the Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance aisles on Monday was shock and surprise over the sudden turn of events. And now that Paramount-WB merger has the all-clear signal, staffers are gearing up for what are expected to be multiple roun

There’s no long tail like a “Choosin’ Texas” long tail. Ella Langley’s smash has just set the all-time record for the most weeks spent by a single at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: 23. That pushes it out of the tie it held last week with Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for […]

Jensen Ackles is set to star in the thriller series “Rules of Prey,” which has been greenlit at MGM+. The eight-episode series is based on the book of the same name by John Sandford (a.k.a John Camp), which is the first in Sandford’s “Prey” novel series that focus on former polic

In line with mega-mergers that have come before, the impending marriage of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery will lead to a media company packed with assets. What differentiates this deal — which is now in the clear to move forward — from others is the sheer amount of

CBS News’ “60 Minutes” shed some of the viewers it snared during its much-anticipated Season 59 debut as it grappled with the effects of CBS’ football programming on its audience, even as it notched a gain in audience compared to its year-earlier performance. The audience for the

Nancy Meyers has spent decades making audiences covet the kitchens, living rooms and impossibly cozy interiors in her movies. Now, her daughter is making that aesthetic a little easier to bring home. Target has teamed with Annie Meyers-Shyer, the author and creator behind @ThisOa

In a competitive situation, Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Sports have landed the spec script “Knockouts” from writers Clara Nevins and Harper Oreck, Variety has learned exclusively. Per the official logline, the show is “set against the glossy world of SEC sports and

Jake Paul’s gambling app Betr has fired back at HBO after the cabler sent a cease-and-desist letter over an ad reuniting “Entourage” stars Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier. In the letter, HBO threatened legal action if the commercial was not taken down, arguing that the three-minu

Sometimes films come out at a time that lines up eerily well with real life. As Americans debate the ethics of the nearly ubiquitous Flock cameras that are being placed in neighborhoods all throughout the nation, with only vague information made available about how they will help

Patty Jenkins, Halle Berry, Regina King, Misty Copeland and others gathered at downtown Manhattan’s Locanda Verde on Tuesday morning for Tribeca and Chanel’s Through Her Lens luncheon. The timing was notable for an event centered on emerging filmmakers, coming just 24 hours after

Netflix’s latest YA drama series “Crew Girl” is racing right into Season 2, the streamer announced on Wednesday. “Crew Girl” came out on Sept. 10 and rowed to the top in the Netflix English TV Top 10, where it has remained since its release, climbing to number two this week. It r

Mahershala Ali is dumbfounded like the rest of us when it comes to Marvel’s inability to get his “Blade” movie reboot off the ground. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast over the summer that he was “feeling like a gigantic loser and failure”

The fall festival triple crown ended the way it always does, with a Toronto audience getting the last word. On Sunday, those words were in Spanish. “La Bola Negra,” the sprawling Netflix epic from Los Javis, took TIFF’s People’s Choice Award, capping three weeks in which Venice h