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Chris O’Dell, one of Fremantle’s longest-serving entertainment execs, is retiring from the Got Talent and X Factor company. He has been at RTL-owned Fremantle since 2007 and left just shy of 20 years of service on October 9. During that time he has worked on shows such as Got Talent, Idol, X Fact…

A day after Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters faced anxious investors on the company’s Q3 earnings call after reporting mixed financial results, the duo on Wednesday faced anxious staffers at a town hall meeting after laying off 1,000 and shaking up the executive ranks by replacing Chief…

Elon Musk will put up to $10 billion into Skydance to help the media giant pay down debt while also giving SpaceX satellite subsidiary Starlink a foothold in the entertainment business. That was the eye-opening prediction offered Wednesday by John Malone, the billionaire media mogul who has…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Disney, NBCUniversal and Bloomberg TV execs have formed part of a new advisory board at storyboarding and previsualisation platform Pzaz. Paul Robinson, Rose Stacey, Lindsey Oliver, Jonathan Levi and Weerada Sucharitkul have been named to board, as part of a plan to expand Pzaz…

Versant Media CEO Mark Lazarus said the company spun off by Comcast/NBCUniversal earlier this year is unlikely to be a buyer if Skydance looks to shop some of its dozens of cable TV networks. “Buying more cable assets on a large scale would prolong our life but not necessarily make our life…

Newly appointed Netflix content chief Peter Rice will blend “art and commerce” in re-orienting the company’s film and TV operations, Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said. The executive turnover was a key topic during Netflix’s third-quarter earnings call Tuesday with Wall Street analysts. The call followed t…

Five days after Bela Bajaria was fired as Netflix’s Chief Content Officer and replaced by Peter Rice, Ted Sarandos had nothing but kind words for his former loyal lieutenant, kinda. “Bela had an incredible decade-long run here,” the amped up co-CEO said during Netflix’s Q3 earnings call Tuesday…

Penguin Random House has unveiled Bob Iger's upcoming book One Last Time: Managing Crisis and Building Resilience at Disney, out March 1, calling it "an inspiring candid memoir of leadership in times of adversity." The book by the former two-time Disney CEO and author of The Ride of a Lifetime…

Amazon MGM Studios is revamping its film division, with Julie Rapaport and Alana Mayo each being tapped as as Head of Film, Production & Development. Both will report to Courtenay Valenti, Head of Film, Streaming and Theatrical at Amazon MGM. Valenti revealed the restructuring Tuesday and sent a…

Tracy Brady has been appointed to the role of Chief Marketing, Brand and Communications Officer at the Sundance Institute. Brady will lead marketing and communications strategy for the organization across all of its initiatives. Based in Boulder, she’ll be tasked with unifying its messaging and…

EXCLUSIVE: Jinny Howe, Netflix’s Head of UCAN (U.S.-Canada) Scripted Series, is introducing a new structure to the division she has overseen for almost 14 months. The changes include breaking the teams into genre-specific pods, Cole Galvin being elevated from Director to VP and Neil Thomas to…

The newly-minted Banijay Entertainment has set out its senior leadership team following the merger with All3Media. The Survivor and The Traitors company had already installed RedBird IMI CEO Jeff Zucker as Chairman, Marco Bassetti as CEO and Jane Turton as Deputy CEO, and today confirmed the…