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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mariska Hargitay is set to host the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards, airing on NBC on Sept. 14.

NBCUniversal announced Hargitay as host on Tuesday, the day before nominations are announced. The show will also stream on Peacock and will be held, fittingly, at the Peacock Theater, the longtime Emmys home that will also soon be home to the Oscars.

Hargitay, 62, has long been one of NBC’s signature personalities as the star since 1999 of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” one of t

July 6 (UPI) — Britain’s ITV public broadcast television network and Sky said Monday they had reached a deal for Comcast-owned Sky to take over ITV’s media and entertainment businesses for as much as $2.1 billion, pending the approval of regulators.

The merger, following eight months of negotiations, will combine the strengths of both groups in a single competitor with the capacity to take on the “global streaming giants” and YouTube in the British market, said the companies.

The deal include

The transaction includes ITV’s UK broadcast channels, ITVX streaming platform, and UTV but excludes ITV Studios and STV, which remain separate companies.

Sky has agreed to buy ITV’s Media & Entertainment business in a deal worth up to 1.6 billion pounds ($2.1 billion), bringing together two of the UK’s biggest television companies.

The deal, announced by Sky and parent company Comcast on July 6, would combine ITV’s free-to-air television channels, advertising-supported streaming platform ITVX,

Adam Sandler had a central role at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, serving as the officiant for the couple’s ceremony Friday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The detail stood out in the wedding announcement, adding an unexpected entertainment connection to one of the most publicized celebrity ceremonies of the year. Sandler, long known for his work in film and comedy, guided the couple through the formal part of the event as they exchanged vows in front of family, frien

Merger and acquisition activity in the media business was already in high gear when Comcast announced this week that it was splitting the company in two, separating its broadband business from NBCUniversal.

Comcast stock went up on the news and the big question on investors’ minds: who will acquire NBCU? Wall Street has already started to place bets on what chunks NBCU or Comcast might sell off and which buyers will surface. Netflix, anyone?

I talked with Michael LaSalle of Shamrock Capital ab

“Supergirl” may have stumbled, but that isn’t stopping James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Universe from moving forward with a new TV series seemingly revealed today.

As we know, DC Studios has “Clayface,” “Man of Tomorrow,” “Dynamic Duo,” “Deathstroke and Bane,” and the non-DCU “The Batman: Part II” all coming to cinemas in the next few years

On the TV front, there’s the TV series centering on Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo) and Gorilla Grodd that’s very much in the works, along with a second seaso

Enola Holmes 3 landed on Netflix July 1 with Millie Bobby Brown returning as Sherlock’s brilliant younger sister. The film sets her wedding day on Malta as its backdrop, though her plans derail when Sherlock vanishes and duty calls.

The third installment leans into what made the previous two work: a protagonist who outthinks everyone in the room, a mystery worth unraveling, and enough chemistry between its ensemble to carry the weight of plot contrivances.

The Malta Mystery

Enola arrives in M

Of all Disney’s relatively recent franchise’s its no stretch to say that “Moana” is among the most beloved. The first film was a massive hit with children everywhere and only gained more popularity with the sequel’s release. The fan-favorite film franchise has even received a live-action adaptation, which is set to debut incredibly soon. Although the trailers have received a lot of scrutiny online, most negative statements are from people outside the film’s target audience.

Almost all of Disney

July 2 (Reuters) – “Lethal Weapon” star Danny Glover has said he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.

In an interview that aired on Wednesday’s edition of The Today Show, the 79-year-old San Francisco-born actor and activist said he got the diagnosis soon after receiving an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his advocacy for justice and human rights, in 2022.

“I can live with it in ⁠a sense,” Glover said. “I’m ⁠sure as it advances, things are going

July 2 (Reuters) – “Lethal Weapon” star Danny Glover has said he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.

In an interview that aired on Wednesday’s edition of The Today Show, the 79-year-old San Francisco-born actor and activist said he got the diagnosis soon after receiving an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his advocacy for justice and human rights, in 2022.

“I can live with it in ⁠a sense,” Glover said. “I’m ⁠sure as it advances, things are going

July 2 (Reuters) – “Lethal Weapon” star Danny Glover has said he has been living with Alzheimer’s disease for several years.

In an interview that aired on Wednesday’s edition of The Today Show, the 79-year-old San Francisco-born actor and activist said he got the diagnosis soon after receiving an honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his advocacy for justice and human rights, in 2022.

“I can live with it in a sense,” Glover ⁠said. “I’m sure as it advances, things are going t

Josh Gad is the latest to join Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper’s crew for their forthcoming “Ocean’s 11” prequel at Warner Bros, sources told Variety.

Gad has booked a significant role in the period heist film, the sources added, and joins a starry ensemble led by Robbie and her director-costar Cooper. Casting has been coming at a steady clip as the film heads toward production. Reps for Gad and Warner Bros. Pictures did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment.

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By Anthony Thompson and James Powel, USA TODAY USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect

The mouse is set to pay.

The deadline to apply for a $50 million settlement from The Walt Disney Company, linked to a class action case claiming the company helped drive up subscription prices for streaming platforms, is approaching.

The settlement stems from a 2022 federal class action suit filed by YouTube TV subscribers who argued that Disney used its control over must-have programming, including content t

Actor and activist Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s disease

NEW YORK (AP) — Actor and activist Danny Glover says he has Alzheimer’s disease. The “Lethal Weapon” star, who turns 80 on July 22, was diagnosed three years ago. He told “Today” and People magazine that he’s still coming to terms with the disease. Alzheimer’s affects more than 6 million people in the U.S. and millions more worldwide. Glover earned four Emmy nominations and an honorary Oscar in 2022. He also received awards from t

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Warner Bros. is going all in with the casting for its Ocean’s Eleven prequel. Another Oscar-nominated actor has joined the heist movie, which Margot Robbie and Bradley Cooper are headlining.

Deadline reported that Monica Ba

LOS ANGELES, June 30 (Reuters) – Netflix has partnered with AI firm ElevenLabs to recreate late actor Gene Wilder’s voice for the reality competition series “Wonka’s The Golden Ticket,” the streamer said on Tuesday.

ElevenLabs specializes in AI-generated, human-like speech and voice cloning technology.

Wilder, who played the title character in the original 1971 “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” film, died in 2016 at the age of 83.

“More than five decades after Gene brought Willy Wonka t

Tom Hardy appears to be back in the fold at MobLand.

The actor had reportedly clashed with producers of the Paramount+ series during the filming of season two; THR reported that Hardy at times refused to leave his trailer and gave script notes to executive producer Jez Butterworth and MobLand creator Ronan Barrett.

“He kept the cast waiting, [which is] a power play,” a source told THR. “Keeping [co-stars] Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and others waiting is career suicide, I would wager.”

Now,

* The Comcast and NBCUniversal split sets up both companies to pursue transactions even if they aren’t in the plans yet, according to a Deutsche Bank analyst.

* Paramount Skydance’s megamerger with Warner Bros. Discovery and others like it eclipses the lack of volume with very large values.

This year is shaping up to be one for mega unions. We’re not talking about the Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce nuptials — we mean big-time M&A.

Comcast (CMCSA) on Monday said it plans to spin off NBCUniversal,

Comcast on Monday announced plans for a company split, whereby its NBCUniversal media and entertainment operations will be spun out from the Comcast connectivity business, resulting in two standalone publicly traded entities.

It follows Comcast’s earlier move to spin out traditional linear cable networks into the standalone Versant entity.

Post-split, the NBCU business will be led by current Comcast chief executive Mike Cavanagh as CEO and include the NBCU theme parks division, Universal film

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy will ask the competition and media watchdogs to probe Paramount’s £85bn acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery to ensure the mega-deal doesn’t stifle the breadth of Britain’s media ecosystem.

The Wigan MP said on Tuesday that she planned to authorise both the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Ofcom to examine the impact of the deal, which will see two of America’s largest media titans brought under one roof.

“Following engagement with the parties and indepe

Comcast plans to split off NBCUniversal and Sky into a separate publicly traded company, a major shakeup for one of Hollywood’s biggest media empires.