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Cassandra Vinograd, a London-based associate producer with 60 Minutes, has sued CBS Broadcasting for allegedly retaliating against her after she complained about the conduct of her boss. According to the lawsuit, senior producer Michael Gavshon frequently consumed large amounts of alcohol, berated junior staffers and…

Discovery is expanding its golf portfolio with the acquisition of Latin American Golf, which operates Golf Channel Latin America. The 24-hour pay-TV channel has 10 million subscribers in 17 countries, along with digital platforms. Discovery acquired the property from Simple Networks and Fornaluz Productions, an…

The Crown‘s Claire Foy and Matt Smith will reprise their acclaimed London stage roles for a New York production of director Matthew Warchus’ staging of Duncan Macmillan's play Lungs. Following its sold-out run at London’s Old Vic, Lungs will be presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater for a limited run…

(UPDATED WITH DARABONT & CAA ATTORNEY STATEMENT) Just over six months before the trial is finally set to start on Frank Darabont and CAA's consolidated multi-million dollars cases against AMC over profits from The Walking Dead, the cabler today threw a new potential spanner in the works. "Defendants respectfully…

The opposition party at SAG-AFTRA's local in New Orleans has won a resounding victory in a re-run of the August election that was mandated by the local's election committee. Olga Wilhelmine, who won the original contest for a seat on the national board, won again in the re-run, as did all of her running mates on the…

Emphasizing its surge in growth internationally as its domestic business settles into a more sedate pattern, Netflix released three years of revenue and subscription figures Monday. More than half of the company’s 158 million global subscribers and 90% of its growth is coming outside of the U.S. at this point. Europe…

Well, that was fast: Director Ivo van Hove’s West Side Story joined Broadway’s Million Dollar Club after only six previews, grossing $1,254,440 in its first week of performances. The musical revival, with all-new choreography by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, filled all seats at the Broadway Theatre for the week ending…

The Black List was revealed Monday, the annual breakdown of the year’s most-liked unproduced screenplays culled via voting by more than 250 film execs about their favorite scripts that did not go into production during calendar-year 2019. This year, Ken Kobayashi’s Move On topped the list, with UTA his agency and…

EXCLUSIVE: Creed and Avengers: Endgame star Tessa Thompson will star in and produce podcast The Left Right Game, the latest fiction pod from Blackout and Carrier outfit QCode. Cast also includes W. Earl Brown, Aml Ameen, Dayo Okeniyi, Inanna Sarkis, Colleen Camp, Robin Bartlett, John Billingsley, Jojo T Gibbs, Brian…

ICM Partners has received an investment from New York-based private equity firm Crestview Partners. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the agency confirmed the ICM partnership will maintain majority ownership, with Crestview Partners becoming a minority owner. According to sources, Crestview paid about $150…

EXCLUSIVE: The company behind hit podcast Crime Junkie has found its next case – a true crime podcast that revisits a murder in a small coastal town in North Carolina. Podcast network Audiochuck, set up by Crime Junkie host Ashley Flowers, is launching Counterclock, which it hopes will be the latest true crime story…

Paramount Pictures and San Francisco-based virtual reality startup Bigscreen have set a multi-year agreement that will see select titles from the studio distributed to social VR viewers. The pact includes the U.S., UK, Canada, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, and Japan. On Bigscreen's…