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Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Warner Bros. Discovery, amid a war on diversity, equity and inclusion programs by the Trump administration, is jettisoning the diversity and equity parts of its DEI initiatives. Going forward, WBD’s “overarching work in this space will now be referred to as Inclusion,” according to a memo sent to staffers Thursday.

Jamie Lang ITV has announced an additional £80 million ($101.4 million) ring-fenced for diverse commissioning over the next three years, alongside doubling its Diversity Development Fund to £1 million ($1.3 million). This follows the success of the inaugural Diversity Commissioning Fund, launched in 2022, which originally committed £80 million ($101 million) over three years to support diverse-led projects and a £500,000 ($633,645) fund to help develop qualifying ideas.

Katcy Stephan After celebrating the success of the recent SCAD TVfest, the Savannah College of Arts and Design and SCADFilm will present SCADFilm In Focus: True Crime Thursday, March 6, spotlighting the popularity of TV, podcast and streaming true crime shows. All events will be held at SCADshow, the university’s state-of-the-art theater complex in Midtown Atlanta. SCADFilm In Focus: True Crime will narrow the lens on the people behind the scenes of popular true crime shows, investigating the macabre power of the genre.

Abigail Lee Paul Scanlan, CEO and co-founder of the fan-owned Legion M, attributes some of the success of the company’s latest film “My Dead Friend Zoe” to the community support from its many fan investors. Speaking with Variety‘s Jennifer Maas on the weekly Variety podcast “Strictly Business,” Scanlan explained that Legion M seeks input from its investors on everything it does. Legion M is a company that fans can own a part of for as low an investment as $40.

Naman Ramachandran Two Daughters Entertainment has secured a significant distribution deal for its animated hit “Moley,” bringing the beloved mole to Chinese audiences through streaming giants iQiyi and Youku. The series, which already reaches viewers in more than 160 territories globally, will launch all 52 episodes of its first season in China on Feb.

EXCLUSIVE: Baker and YouTube content maker Gemma Stafford and connected TV biz Future Today are launching a channel dedicated to baking.

Lionsgate’s long-in-the-works The Hunger Games: On Stage has set an October 20 debut at a new 1,200 capacity in-the-round venue: the Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre in London’s financial district, Canary Wharf.

We’ve just heard that The Hunger Games stage production is coming to London’s Canary Wharf later this year. The production is titled The Hunger Games On...Planning a night out? Instead of your usual dinner or movie, why not surprise your loved ones with tickets to the...An unmissable, truly unique stage event to rival anything we've ever seen.Playing across the UK this autumn.The Sex Education star to tread the boards for the first time in 2025.From Thursday 20 February to Saturday 26 April 2025, Theatre Royal Haymarket will play host to legendary stage and screen actor Brian...As rehearsals began this week for the first ever adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr.

Warner Bros. Discovery linear networks continued to lose ground amid ongoing challenges, weighing on the fourth quarter.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Warner Bros. Discovery posted a fourth-quarter loss as the company grappled with $1.9 billion in charges and restructuring expenses, even as the company added 4.6 million subscribers to its streaming outlets.

Jamie Lang The European Investment Fund (EIF) has committed €25 million ($26.2 million) to the Finland-based IPR VC Fund III. The investment aims to enhance the production of European films and TV series, and the fund now exceeds €100 million ($105 million).

Comedy stars Jason Manford and Ben Nickless will reunite for a fourth year at the big Manchester Opera House Christmas pantomime this year. The duo are loved by families and most recently had audiences rolling in the aisles with their performance in Cinderella at the Opera House.

Fresh from winning the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, Seeds will germinate at True/False, the acclaimed documentary festival in Columbia, MO. Brittany Shyne’s film, exploring the experience of Black farmers who till the soil in the South, bows on the festival’s opening night on Thursday, with additional screenings on Friday and on Sunday, the closing night of True/False.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Adam Lambert is currently living out a dream, playing the role of the Emcee in the current Broadway run of “Cabaret,” or, as it’s officially known in this production, “Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.” That extended titling reflects just how immersive the club-like transformation of the August Wilson Theatre is meant to be, with Lambert as host to an intimate, in-the-round audience in his first leading role on Broadway, every bit as impishly sensual — or should it be sensually impish? — as you’d expect in the iconic part. But there’s also a bit of nightmare to this dream… not in how it’s working out for Lambert, who has scored wide plaudits for his take on the Emcee, but in the nature of the show itself, which is only light-spirited up to a very finite point.

now have news worth raising a martini to: The gang is about to reunite for A Simple Favor 2—Another Simple Favor—an .Here’s everything we know about the film.The logline teasing the follow-up promised audiences would “see the return of Stephanie Smothers (Kendrick) and Emily Nelson (Lively) as they head to the beautiful island of Capri for Emily’s extravagant wedding to a rich Italian businessman. Along with the glamorous guests, expect murder and betrayal to RSVP for a wedding with more twists and turns than the road from the Marina Grande to the Capri town square.”So Emily, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison the last time we saw her, is not only a free woman once again but has had enough time to meet and secure a new husband? Well, this is, after all, the same cinematic universe in which characters fake their deaths, falsify their identities, and drown their long-lost twins so…maybe we shouldn’t be that surprised.

Andrew Scott tells me over the phone in his lilting Irish accent. It’s a little over two weeks before the actor, who was just in Berlin premiering Richard Linklater’s upcoming “Blue Moon,” will head to Austin to attend SXSW, where he’s curated a lineup of his favorite shorts as part of a campaign with Redbreast Whiskey.

Carolyn Giardina Escape.ai, a neo-cinema content distribution platform and creator marketplace founded by “The Matrix” VFX Oscar winner John Gaeta, has debuted in beta. The aim of the platform is to allow filmmakers, digital artists, and game creators to showcase and monetize original content while offering audiences a curated viewing experience.

Ethan Shanfeld “Doc” has been prescribed another season. Fox has renewed the medical drama for a 22-episode Season 2, a few weeks before the Season 1 finale on March 18. “Doc” stars Molly Parker as Dr.

Naman Ramachandran Universal’s “Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy” continued its box office dominance in the U.K. and Ireland, bringing in £6.8 million ($8.7 million) in its second weekend, according to Comscore. The highly anticipated fourth installment in the “Bridget Jones” franchise has now reached $34.6 million, maintaining a firm grip on the No.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor The battle to become the de factor measuring stick for the media industry continues. VideoAmp, one of several rivals to Nielsen that have emerged in recent years, unveiled VXP, a new media-planning tool that will incorporate first-party streaming data from Disney, Fox and Paramount Global to help advertisers understand how audiences are consuming content across various media platforms.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Podcasts started as an audio-only phenomenon. But now YouTube — the world’s biggest video platform — might be the biggest platform for podcasts. According to the Google-owned video giant, YouTube now has more than 1 billion monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide.