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Jamie Lang FilmRise, a New York-based film and TV studio and streaming network, has announced the launch of a groundbreaking initiative to update the visual quality of its content by utilizing a mix of AI software and human editorial know-how. Employing this new blend, the company has converted the hugely popular true crime series “Forensic Files” into high definition. The upscaled episodes will be available across multiple streaming platforms as FilmRise pushes to further enhance the viewer experience for its popular brands.

Giada De Laurentiis is revealing the reason why she stepped away from her hosting gig at the Food Network.

EXCLUSIVE: Assemble Media has appointed Greg Ferguson as Vice President, Executive Editor of Literary and IP. Ferguson will oversee the development, acquisition, and sale of literary properties with strong multi-platform potential.

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter William Earl has been promoted to executive digital director of Variety. He oversees all digital editorial operations for the venerable entertainment business news brand, and he steers Variety‘s coverage of horror and emerging genre fare. Earl is based in New York and reports to Cynthia Littleton and Ramin Setoodeh, Variety‘s co-editors-in-chief.

Gizmodo’s editorial staff has reached a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement via the Writers Guild of America East.

Historical TV drama Wolf Hall may have won critical acclaim when its second series debuted on the BBC last year, but its director has shared that many editorial decisions had to be made due to lack of funds.

The BBC has received more than 600 audience complaints about Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone, the scandal-engulfed documentary with links to the Hamas regime.

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Kate Middleton is often photographed in a pair of Superga sneakers and they are on sale at their lowest prices in a long time!

Doechii will receive the Woman of the Year Award at Billboard’s 2025 Women in Music Event.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor CBS has asked the FCC to reject a complaint by a right-wing public interest law firm alleging a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris represented “news distortion” — with the Paramount Global-owned broadcaster saying the complaint is premised on the notion that the U.S. government can be a “roving censor.” Last October, the Center for American Rights filed a complaint accusing CBS’s WCBS station in New York of “significant and intentional news distortion” through an interview with Harris on “Face the Nation” and “60 Minutes” that had “two conflicting responses.” Separately, President Trump sued CBS over the same interview, demanding $20 billion in damages and alleging violation of a consumer protection law; Paramount and CBS filed motions March 6 seeking to dismiss the lawsuit, calling it an “affront to the First Amendment.” CBS, in its March 7 response to the FCC over the Center for American Rights complaint, said that “The Complaint filed against CBS for ‘news distortion’ envisions a less free world in which the federal government becomes a roving censor — one that second guesses and even punishes specific editorial decisions that are an essential part of producing news programming.” “The protections of the First Amendment apply to all Americans, including broadcasters like CBS and its stations,” CBS said in the filing.

CBS is calling out the FCC‘s inquiry into how 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris as inappropriate for the federal agency, while warning that any government sanction against the network “would open the door to regular and repeated second guessing of broadcasters’ editorial judgments across the ideological spectrum.”

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Scott Matthews, a veteran of CNBC and WABC’s local-news operations, among other venues, has been named senior vice president of newsgathering for MSNBC, spotlighting the progressive-news outlet’s plans as it faces a separation from NBC News in a looming spin-off of the company’s cable assets into a new company. Matthews, who is expected to start his new role on March 17, will build a new editorial and production operation for MSNBC, including an assignment desk and a team of producers and correspondents.

Variety Staff Follow Us on Twitter Zack Sharf has been named managing editor of Variety.com. He previously served as digital news director since 2022.

Naman Ramachandran UPDATE: The BBC has acknowledged “serious flaws” in the production of its controversial documentary “Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone” and initiated a further review following revelations about its narrator’s family connections to Hamas. “BBC News has conducted an initial review on the program ‘Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone.’ Today the BBC Board was updated on that work. It has identified serious flaws in the making of this program.

Jeff Bezos is exerting more influence over the content of The Washington Post opinion pages, as he announced that the editorials will now focus on “defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jeff Bezos is shaking up the Washington Post again. The billionaire owner of the newspaper said he will change the focus of the opinion section to focus on “support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” According to Bezos, he offered editorial opinion page editor David Shipley “the opportunity to lead this new chapter.

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is facing a dilemma over whether to push on with a new series from Jamie Roberts, director of the controversial Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone.

Sweden’s TV4 and Finland’s MTV are being sold in a deal worth SEK6.55B ($613M).

EXCLUSIVE: When the BBC admits to making editorial errors in its coverage of the Gaza conflict, its mistakes are overwhelmingly skewing against Israeli interests, according to new analysis from Deadline.

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