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Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVTruTV has opted not to go ahead with the previously greenlighted season of scripted comedy I’m Sorry, created by and starring Andrea Savage. The series had been renewed for a 10-episode third season to air in 2020.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders“Due to circumstances created by COVID, we unfortunately cannot move forward with production on the third season of I’m Sorry,” the network said in a statement to Deadline.

Dade Hayes Finance EditorFortnite publisher Epic Games has suffered a setback in its legal fight against Apple, with a federal judge denying the company’s bid for an emergency order seeking to have the game restored on Apple’s App Store.Technically, it was a split decision by U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

Tara Conlan ViacomCBS Networks UK’s director of programs Ben Frow has said the British TV industry is “inherently snobbish” and should care less about what people’s backgrounds are and more about their talent.Frow admitted that he has “got a big chip on my shoulder” about a lack of inclusivity in the business, revealing at the Edinburgh TV Festival today that he was “floored” by a snobbish remark made by a rival a few years ago about his education.“I was at Edinburgh a few years ago and a competitor of mine said to me, as I was about to walk out on stage for a debate: ‘You know for someone who hasn’t got a degree you’ve done very well to be up on this stage with us.’ “It actually floored me. I could get a bit tearful about it.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: ABC’s reboot Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was one of the last non-scripted shows to finish production before the COVID-19 production shutdown in March.Host Jimmy Kimmel and the production team shot eight episodes of the gameshow the weekend of March 14 without an audience to get in under the wire.Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is now back for a second Kimmel-hosted season on ABC and Deadline understands the show, which is based on the British format, is back in production as of today.The show is shooting in LA with a minimal crew and without an audience.

Tara Conlan An interview with John Lennon’s murderer and the UK’s first kidnapping case are being explored in new films unveiled by Sky for its recently-launched Sky Documentaries channel.The programs were unveiled as Sky UK and Ireland managing director of content Zai Bennett said the Comcast-owned broadcaster is focusing on building its brands by getting in early with creators to help it in the “arms race” of content, particularly in drama.Speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Sky’s director of factual Poppy Dixon said Let Me Take You Down is an investigation into the killing of Lennon in 1980 by Mark David Chapman, which she hopes will air at the end of this year to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Lennon’s death.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticIn an impassioned defense of his beloved and beleaguered New York City, comedian Jerry Seinfeld has some harsh words for a Manhattan comedy club owner who bolted for Florida and recently claimed the Big Apple is “completely dead” with no hope for a rebound.“You say New York will not bounce back this time,” Seinfeld writes in a New York Times opinion column posted today, not naming his target but linking to a LinkedIn post written earlier this month by Stand Up N.Y. comedy club co-owner James Altucher.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorThe big man has a big new deal. Basketball Hall of Famer Shaquille has inked a multiyear contract renewal with Turner Sports to continue on its NBA coverage.The 15-time All-Star who won three titles with Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers and another with the Miami Heat is expending his role to include TNT’s Tuesday night Inside the NBA and NBA on TNT coverage. He also will serve as an executive producer for a number of projects with Turner Sports’ Bleacher Report, among other duties.O’Neal, who joined Turner Sports in 2011, also will appear on NBA TV and contribute to NBA.com.

Ted Johnson The Republican National Convention has already begun, with a morning session in which Donald Trump and Mike Pence will be renominated.The heart of the proceedings, though, will come this evening, when we’ll finally get a look at how the Trump team manages a very different convention in the midst of the pandemic.With a vastly scaled back presence in the host city of Charlotte, Trump plans to deliver his acceptance speech on Thursday from the south lawn of the White House. But he also plans to speak on each of the other three nights, albeit it is not exactly clear when and from where.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorJames McAvoy is to narrate Channel 4 Entertainment reality competition show The Bridge.The show will see 12 strangers come together on the banks of a picturesque lake in the British countryside where they will need to work together to build a bridge in 20 days to an island 250 meters away. Each person in the winning team will get a vote for who they think is the most deserving of of the £100k prize.

Ted Johnson ABC News devoted an hour on Sunday to the first joint interview with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and while their naturally was a focus on just what chemistry there is between the two former rivals, the news out of the special was on the campaign ahead.A few examples:Biden on taxes: “I will raise taxes for anybody making over $400,000. Let me tell you why I’m going to do it.

Ted Johnson Kellyanne Conway, a high profile senior adviser to President Donald Trump, will leave the White House at the end of the month.The news comes as her husband, George Conway, announced on Twitter that he was stepping away from the Lincoln Project, the conservative group devoted to defeating Trump in the fall.“So I’m withdrawing from @ProjectLincoln to devote more time to family matters. And I’ll be taking a Twitter hiatus.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorRefresh for updates: “We’ve only shot 25% of the movie,” said The Batman director Matt Reeves today during his DC Fandome panel, “but there was no way I couldn’t show part of the movie.”And alas, we have a lot here to watch in the first trailer of The Batman, which doesn’t give an exact release date for 2021, even though Warner Bros. slated it for Oct.

Brandon Choe Photo EditorAt the DC Fandome virtual panel today, director James Wan teased a new direction with Aquaman 2. Though Wan wants to further develop the stories of Aquaman‘s characters, he yearned to do something fresh and exciting with the second installment.“I think the second one is a little bit more serious, a little bit more relevant in the world we are living in today.

Brandon Choe, Anthony D'Alessandro So how does this whole crossover between DC’s TV and film world work?Greg Berlanti’s Arrowverse took the whole notion of superhero crossovers to another level earlier this year when TV’s Flash (Grant Gustin)met film Flash (Ezra Miller) during the Arrow hour of the five-part event that also spanned Supergirl, Batwoman, The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.  It was a monumental moment, for prior to that, DC always kept their film and TV universes completely separate, never would they intertwine.But as awesome as that was for fans, don’t expect any more crossovers like that, at least in the immediate future.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerAt the VMAs, it’s quarantine for thee, but not for me.New York City quarantine rules are now being enforced on travelers from 34 states, requiring a two-week isolation if arriving in the five boroughs for longer than a 24-hour stopover.That is, if you’re just a citizen. If you’re a celebrity or part of their crew, you can apparently come right in.The New York Post is reporting that the likes of Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande will not be subject to isolation for performing at the 2020 VMAs, which take place Aug.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterBrazilian hosts Érico Borgo and Aline Diniz picked up from where they left off at CCXP and continued to fuel the excitement for Warner Bros’ Wonder Woman 1984 with director Patty Jenkins and stars Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig and Pedro Pascal… and a couple of special guests.As the first panel of the morning, Gadot and the panel was excited to be at the virtual confab and share details about the movie which is set to hit theaters on October 2.They fielded questions from fans and while doing so, tennis superstar Venus Williams popped up and asked who would win in a tennis match between Wonder Woman and Cheetah.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerJack Sherman, who was the guitarist on the first Red Hot Chili Peppers album and contributed to the group’s second, has died. He was 64 and no cause of death has been determined.“We of the RHCP family would like to wish Jack Sherman smooth sailing into the worlds beyond, for he has passed,” the group said on Instagram.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorAfter the week that was — when a QAnon backer won a congressional primary and President Donald Trump embraced the, uh, fringe group during a White House briefing, Bill Maher felt it’s time that America learned the true identity of the shadowy figure behind it all.“It makes perfect sense that I — libertine, atheist, pot-smoking Trump-hating Bill Maher — am Q,” the Real Time said. “I am, which I revealed on this show two years ago.” He then cut to quick clip from that night and returned, bathed in blue light and sitting at a laptop, and said it’s true because, as serious followers know, “It makes the least sense.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: For the first time in the history of MTV’s Video Music Awards, the show will air live on a broadcast network.The 2020 VMAs will simulcast on the CW. The network joins 11 ViacomCBS brands, which also will carry the show live alongside MTV on Sunday, August 30, at 8 PM ET.Held amid a global pandemic, the 2020 VMAs will pay homage to the resiliency of New York, which has rebounded after once being the COVID epicenter of the world.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: For the first time in the history of MTV’s Video Music Awards, the show will air live on a broadcast network.The 2020 VMAs will simulcast on the CW. The network joins 11 ViacomCBS brands, which also will carry the show live alongside MTV on Sunday, August 30, at 8 PM ET.Held amid a global pandemic, the 2020 VMAs will pay homage to the resiliency of New York, which has rebounded after once being the COVID epicenter of the world.

Ted Johnson Joe Biden’s acceptance speech drew the highest TV viewership of the week of convention coverage.The convention drew an average 21.8 million viewers across six networks during the 10 PM ET to 11:15 ET time frame. That’s a slight uptick from the previous night, but still off about 21% from the Democratic convention finale in 2016.