Author: Erik Pedersen

‘Road To Evolution’ Special Set For USA Network; Follows Journey To WWE’s First All-Female PPV Event

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  1. WWE Sets First All Female Wrestler Pay-Per-View Event ‘Evolution’ (Video)
  2. Global Road Bankruptcy This Week?
  3. Global Road Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection
  4. Hulu Acquires ‘Food Evolution,’ Acclaimed, Highly Controversial Doc

‘The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition’: Premiere Date & Spicy New Host For ABC Competition Series

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  1. ‘Great American Baking Show’ Undercooks Sexual Harassment Questions in Q&A With Winner
  2. ‘The Great British Baking Show’ Returning To PBS
  3. Ratings: ABC’s ‘Great American Baking Show’ Premiere Gets Burned at 10pm
  4. ABC Pulls ‘The Great American Baking Show’ & Axes Judge Johnny Iuzzini Amid Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Hugh Jackman & Glenn Close Set For Acting Honors From Hollywood Film Awards

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  1. Hugh Jackman To Receive Santa Barbara Film Festival’s Kirk Douglas Award For Excellence In Film
  2. ‘The Front Runner’ Trailer: Hugh Jackman & Jason Reitman Get To Heart Of Gary Hart
  3. Hugh Jackman to Receive Kirk Douglas Award from Santa Barbara Film Festival
  4. Sony Pictures Classics Hitched To Glenn Close Drama ‘The Wife’

‘Utopia’: Toby Haynes To Direct Amazon Drama Based On UK Series

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  1. Amazon Orders ‘Utopia’ Drama Series From Gillian Flynn Based On UK Format
  2. ‘The Boys’: Erin Moriarty Cast In Amazon’s Superhero Drama Series Based On Comic Book
  3. ‘The Boys’: Dan Trachtenberg To Direct First Episode Of Superhero Drama Series For Amazon
  4. Amazon Orders ‘Utopia’ Series From ‘Gone Girl’ Writer Gillian Flynn

Garth Brooks ‘Live At Notre Dame’ Set For December On CBS

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  1. Garth Brooks is No. 1 again with ‘Anthology’ book-music hybrid
  2. Garth Brooks’ aim is off on the too-safe ‘Gunslinger’
  3. Garth Brooks Will Not Perform at Trump Inauguration
  4. Notre Dame Grads Walk Out During Mike Pence’s Commencement Speech (Video)

‘The Aftermath’ Trailer: Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard & Forbidden Romance In Postwar Germany

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  1. ‘The Aftermath’ Trailer: Keira Knightley Gets Cozy With Alexander Skarsgård in Steamy WWII Drama
  2. Fionn O’Shea Joins Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgard in ‘The Aftermath’ (EXCLUSIVE)
  3. Keira Knightley And Wash Westmoreland On ‘Colette’: “She’s A Singular Being” – Toronto Studio
  4. ‘Colette’ Trailer: Keira Knightley Fights For Ownership Of Her Writing As Feminist French Writer In Sundance Film

Animal Planet Rebrands With New Logo, Look & Mission

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  1. Irwin Family Will Return To Animal Planet This Fall With New Series
  2. Steve Irwin Family to Return to Animal Planet After 10 Years
  3. Animal Planet To Air ‘World’s Funniest Animal Commercials’ Special
  4. Animal Planet Orders ‘Animal House’ Starring HGTV ‘Design Star’ Winner (Exclusive)

APA Ups Jules Urbanski To Music Agent; Triage Entertainment Partners With Terence Wrong, Hires Josh Poole As VP

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  1. Comedy Central Names Jake Urbanski VP Communications & Head Of Scripted Publicity
  2. ICM Partners Hires Music Agent Joel Roman; Michael Mariano Joins APA
  3. ICM Partners Hires London TV Agent Ian Moffitt, Promotes Two to Agent Stateside
  4. ICM Partners Hires London-Based TV Agent Ian Moffitt, Promotes 2 In L.A. & NY

Eddie Griffin Signs With Abrams Artists Agency

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  1. Abrams Artists Agency Acquired By Group Including Longtime Execs, Adam Bold
  2. Frank Whaley & Gabrielle Anwar Ink With Abrams Artists Agency
  3. Abrams Artists Agency Expands Alternative Programming & Digital Department With New Hire
  4. More/Medavoy Signs Show Creators Kit Williamson & Amani Walker; Kelsey Scott Inks With Abrams Artists Agency

‘The Possession Of Hannah Grace’ Trailer: Shay Mitchell Battles Her Demons – Literally

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  1. Shay Mitchell Gets Haunted in the Morgue in First Trailer for ‘Possession of Hannah Grace’ (Video)
  2. ‘Pretty Little Liars’ Alum Shay Mitchell Sets Overall Deal at Warner Bros. TV, Joins Lifetime Series ‘You’
  3. ‘The Heiresses’ Family Soap Starring Shay Mitchell From ‘PLL’s Marlene King & Sara Shepard Set At ABC As Put Pilot
  4. ‘Incarnate’ Trailer: Aaron Eckhart Battles Demons of the Mind in New Blumhouse Exorcism Film — Watch

Zero Gravity Launches Film Slate With Ghost Story ‘Wraith’

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  1. Zero Gravity Secures $100 Million, Sets Ghost Story ‘Wraith’
  2. Zero Gravity Expands Into Digital With New Department Headed By Ray Jimenez
  3. Movie Academy Sets Careers In Film Summit; AFM Lines Up Speakers; Napa Valley Film Festival Slate – Film Briefs
  4. Carel Cutler’s Laurelmont Management Group Merging With Zero Gravity

Sony Moves ‘Escape Room’ Up By A Month & ‘Miss Bala’ By A Week

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  1. Tyler Labine, ‘Insecure’s Jay Ellis & Nik Dodani Join Sony’s ‘The Maze’
  2. Hollywood’s 1st Plus Sized Superhero? Sony Sets Maria Melnik To Script Pic On Valiant Comics Hero ‘Faith’
  3. ‘Miss Bala,’ Animated Spider-Man Show Sony’s Commitment to Diverse Heroes
  4. Catherine Hardwicke to Direct ‘Miss Bala’ Remake for Sony

NBC Sets Premiere Dates For ‘Ellen’s Game Of Games’, ‘Titan Games’ & ‘AGT’ Spinoff ‘The Champions’

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  1. ‘The Titan Games’ Physical Competition Series With Dwayne Johnson Set At NBC
  2. CBS Sets Premiere Dates for ‘Training Day,’ Katherine Heigl’s ‘Doubt’
  3. NBC Sets Premiere Dates For ‘Ellen’s Game Of Games’, ‘Better Late Than Never’ & ‘The Wall’
  4. ABC Sets Premiere Dates For ‘Match Game’, ‘The Proposal’, And ‘Take Two’

HBO Acquires ‘O.G.’, Prison-Filmed Feature Starring Jeffrey Wright

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  1. ‘Diane’, ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’, Alia Shawkat & Jeffrey Wright Among Tribeca Winners
  2. HBO Films Acquires Jeffrey Wright Prison Movie ‘O.G.’
  3. HBO Acquires Jeffrey Wright Feature ‘O.G.’
  4. ‘O.G.’ Star Jeffrey Wright On The Experience Of Shooting In Maximum Security Prison — Tribeca Studio

‘Love You To Death’: Emily Skeggs & Tate Donovan Join Marcia Gay Harden In Lifetime Movie

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  1. Kyle Gallner & Emily Skeggs Star In Punk Rock Indie ‘Dinner In America’ With Ben Stiller Producing
  2. Tate Donovan, Katie Cassidy, Matthew Lillard & More Round Cast Of Indie Film ‘Grace’
  3. Marcia Gay Harden Joins Netflix’s ‘Point Blank’ Remake (EXCLUSIVE)
  4. Quentin Tarantino’s Manson Movie Set For Release On 50th Anniversary Of Sharon Tate’s Death

Crew Member In Critical Condition After Fall On Set Of Mister Rogers Biopic – Report

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  1. Sound Mixer in Critical Condition After Fall on Set of Tom Hanks’ Mr. Rogers Biopic (Report)
  2. Crew Member on Tom Hanks’ ‘Mr. Rogers’ Movie in Hospital After Serious Fall on Set
  3. Tom Hanks To Play Mister Rogers In Biopic Set Up At TriStar
  4. Actress Carrie Fisher is in critical condition after a ‘cardiac episode’ on flight from London to L.A.

‘Arrow’: Kirk Acevedo Upped To Series Regular For Season 7 On The CW

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  1. ‘Arrow’: Kirk Acevedo Cast As Ricardo Diaz (Richard Dragon) In Season 6
  2. ‘Arrow’: Holly Elissa, Michael Jonsson & Miranda Edwards Cast As The Lethal Longbow Hunters In Season 7 – Comic-Con
  3. ‘Arrow’ Star Paul Blackthorne to Exit Series After Season 6
  4. ‘Arrow’: Another Major Actor Will Not Return For Season 7 As Series Regular

Tavis Smiley Rips PBS Again, Reveals Possible Accusation Of Public Funds Misappropriation

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  1. Tavis Smiley Admitted to ‘Multiple Sexual Encounters With Subordinates,’ PBS Says
  2. Tavis Smiley Hits PBS With Lawsuit
  3. ‘Tavis Smiley’ Talk Show Suspended After PBS Investigation Into Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Host
  4. PBS CEO Paula Kerger Takes Questions On Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley At TCA

‘True Detective’ Season 3 Gets HBO Premiere Date; See The First-Look Images

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  1. ‘True Detective’ Season 3 Adds ‘Justice League’ Star Ray Fisher as Series Regular
  2. ‘True Detective’: Stephen Dorff Cast In Season 3 Of HBO Anthology Series
  3. ‘True Detective’: Josh Hopkins, Jodi Balfour Set To Recur In Season 3 Of HBO Series
  4. ‘True Detective’: Brandon Flynn & Michael Graziadei Set To Recur In Season 3 Of HBO Anthology Series