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Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has sent a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to ask the streamer to correct a “mistake” in its doc series The Devil Next Door. The show, which premiered online last week, chronicles a Cleveland grandfather, John Demjanjuk, who is brought to trial in Israel, standing accused…

ITV is giving President Donald Trump's pal Piers Morgan an extra half hour in the mornings as it refreshes its daytime schedule. The British broadcaster has extended its collection of live daytime shows in the morning schedule following the cancellation of The Jeremy Kyle Show. The Jerry Springer-esque studio format…

ITV is forecasting that revenue at its production arm, ITV Studios, will grow at least 5% in 2019 thanks to a bumper year in the U.S. where it has delivered shows including Love Island for CBS. In a third-quarter trading update on Tuesday, ITV said that ITV Studios’ total sales should increase to around £1.8BN…

"I don't think that there is any denying that the future of how people are going to consume their content on what we used to call television is through streamers," WarnerMedia's Sandra Dewey says as her company’s HBO Max prepares to launch in May 2020. Just hours before the much anticipated and heavily promoted…

Don Cherry has made his living on being outspoken and stirring the pot, but this time the legendary NHL commentator appears to have gone too far. Rogers Sportsnet has fired the former coach from Hockey Night in Canada after his on-air remarks about immigrants on Saturday. Known for his often outrageous suits and…

EXCLUSIVE: AFM buyers flocked to Gerard Butler action package The Plane over the weekend with MadRiver International pitching a sellout on the project. After Lionsgate took North America, Latin America, the UK and India in the first days of the market, MadRiver has closed multi-million dollar pre-sales in major…

EXCLUSIVE: Anna Sawai, who was recently cast in Universal’s upcoming Fast & Furious 9 opposite Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren, has signed with WME. The move comes after Sawai, who made her feature film debut in 2009 with a co-starring role in Warner Bros’ Ninja Assassin, co-starred this fall on Season 1…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate home ent genre label Grindstone Entertainment Group has picked up North American rights to completed U.S. action movie Hollow Point, featuring Luke Goss (Hellboy II: The Golden Army). The film follows a professor’s revenge after his family is killed by a Los Angeles gang. Starring are Sri Lankan…

Sudabeh Mortezai’s Joy, Austria’s submission for the Best International Feature Oscar this year, has been disqualified from the category after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences determined the film did not meet eligibility requirements of a submitted film being predominately in a foreign language. The…

Five global platforms led by Disney+ will dominate the streaming wars by 2025, according to a new SVOD study. Digital TV Research reports that the anticipated Disney service that launches Tuesday will amass 101 million subscriptions in the next six years as it will combine with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+…

EXCLUSIVE: Gersh has signed Canadian-American actress Lauren Glazier, a series regular in season two of Netflix’s crime drama Mindhunter. Glazier plays the character of Kay Manz in the hit series from creator Joe Penhall and director David Fincher. She also has a recurring arc on See, the new Apple TV+ show, and she…

Channel 4 has pulled forward the UK premiere of season four of Rick And Morty after fans voiced their displeasure at the original broadcast plans. Channel 4 had planned to show Adult Swim’s animated series from January next year, but will now begin broadcasting the program from November 20 at 10PM on youth channel…