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Disney’s board of directors will meet next week with the drama over longtime CEO Bob Iger’s successor reaching its final act. A person familiar with the situation confirmed the board meeting to Deadline. The board typically meets in close proximity to the company’s earnings reports. Disney will…

The Walt Disney Co. has hired veteran media analyst Benjamin Swinburne as EVP of Investor Relations and Corporate Strategy. Swinburne comes to the company after a long stint at Morgan Stanley, which is also the alma mater of Disney Chairman James Gorman. He will be a key member of the executive…

Cameron Tang has been promoted to SVP, Head of Development and Current Series for Adult Swim. He will be responsible for the development of all Adult Swim programming and will continue to report to Adult Swim President Michael Ouweleen. There had been a programming leadership vacuum at Adult…

Former Paramount Global co-CEO Brian Robbins has opened the doors on Big Shot Pictures, a next generation animation company dedicated to family fare. Big Shot secured around $100M in investment from Greycroft, Sony Pictures, MarcyPen Capital Partners, ValueAct Capital, and CAA. We told you that…

EXCLUSIVE: Bunim/Murray Productions, the company behind series such as MTV's The Challenge and Hulu's Vanderpump Villa, has a new Vice President. The Banijay Americas label has promoted Nikki Cameron to VP, Development. She was previously Director of Development, a position she held since…

French film finance, production and distribution company Logical Pictures Group has revamped its international film sales activities. The Paris and Lyon-based company has officially launched Logical Pictures International (LPI), which succeeds its previous sales label Pulsar Content…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney Television Animation, the studio behind animated hits such as Big City Greens and Phineas and Ferb, has brought on Zack Olin as senior vice president of Development and Current Series. In his role, Olin will oversee development and current series, helping guide creative…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios’ new Head of Global Television Peter Friedlander is putting his stamp by restructuring the studio’s scripted series team and bringing in Blair Fetter, who previously worked with him at Netflix. Leaving as part of the reorg are the two top scripted executives under…

Jessica Rhoades has been in the TV game for more than two decades with series such as Sharp Objects, Station Eleven, The Affair, Dirty John and Black Mirror all under her belt, but now, as her Pacesetter Productions banner enters its 10th year, she's really finding her groove.  The California…

Christian Vesper is exiting his role as Fremantle’s CEO of Global Drama and Film. The news brings to an end a ten-year run at the super-indie, during which time he executive-produced shows such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and films including Bugonia and Pillion. Vesper has joined Fremantle…

Forget Warner Bros, the real war zone between Netflix and Paramount this weekend is live spectacle sports. Originally locked in for tonight from Taiwan, the Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters-run streamer’s Skyscraper Live was already set to steal some of the thunder of the UFC’s much-promoted debut…

The temperature is rising in the Warner Bros Discovery chase, with key figures at Netflix and Paramount ridiculing the other companies’ merger proposals. Netflix, running what might be termed Operation Reassure Wall Street, has recently made Co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters available to…