ESPN, Other Disney Networks & ABC Stations Go Dark On Spectrum Cable Systems In Carriage Fight

PIXY have announced their upcoming 2023 ‘Last Night in the Dark City’ tour of Europe.Today (September 8), PIXY announced on social media that they will tour Europe later this year. Their new ‘Last Night in the Dark City’ Europe tour will feature 12 shows over late-November and early-December.The K-pop girl group’s forthcoming concerts will kick off on November 19 at La Sala in Madrid, Spain.

With its carriage fight with Charter about to enter its second week, Disney issued a statement blasting the Spectrum TV owner’s “indifference” to customers and a Wall Street investment bank predicted a compromise by the ESPN parent.

Charter CEO Chris Winfrey indicated that little progress has been made in the week-long carriage fight with Disney and he said a leaner, ESPN-free TV bundle “could stick” with price-sensitive Spectrum customers.

Goosebumps, Disney+’s live-action series based on R.L. Stine’s bestselling Scholastic book series, is set to premiere on both Disney+ and Hulu on Friday, October 13. The 10-part series from Disney Branded Television and Sony TV, will drop the first five episodes as part of Disney+’s “Hallowstream” and Hulu’s “Huluween” celebrations, with subsequent new episodes streaming weekly. Additionally, the series’ first two episodes will air on Freeform on October 13th, as part of its “31 Nights of Halloween” programming.

“I don’t know that much in particular about this dispute, but it feels like this is a moment,” said Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav about the current showdown between big cable provider Charter and the Disney.

Ethan Shanfeld Michael Imperioli says he took supernatural steps to help him materialize his 1999 movie “Summer of Sam.” The “Sopranos” and “White Lotus” actor was living at the Chelsea Hotel at the time and, in a new documentary about the notoriously haunted locale, recalls meeting with a witch in order to push the crime thriller “through the studio system” in Hollywood. “I had just begun writing ‘Summer of Sam’ with Victor Colicchio — we wrote that script together,” Imperioli says in an exclusive clip from “Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel.” “I really wanted to get it made. So I met somebody who was living here who was a witch, who said she could help me get it made, but it wasn’t going to happen the way I thought it would.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Russian tennis pro Daniil Medvedev is as frustrated as Charter Communications’ millions of cable TV customers that he can’t watch ESPN’s U.S. Open coverage because of the operator’s carriage fight with Disney. Medvedev, one of the sport’s top-ranked players, revealed that he had resorted to piracy to watch the U.S.

Foo Fighters teamed up with Billy Idol over the weekend to perform a cover of Sex Pistols classic ‘Pretty Vacant’.Idol joined Dave Grohl‘s band on vocals for a performance of the 1977 single during the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day festival on Sunday night (September 3). You can view footage below.The band last teamed up with with Idol in 2018 when they covered John Lennon’s ‘Gimme Some Truth’ at the Welcome to Rockville festival.Idol’s guitarist, Billy Morrison also shared a photo with the band following the performance, writing: “Thank you Aspen, and thank you @foofighters – it was a great day yesterday.

Disney has hit back at claims by Charter Communications execs that the media company declined to pursue innovative carriage deals and instead just wanted to ram through price increases.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Charter Communications, enmeshed overnight in a massive carriage dispute with Walt Disney Co., said Friday it hopes it can turn the breakdown into a new fix for the media industry as cable subscribers keep migrating to streaming alternatives. “This is not a typical carriage dispute,” said Christopher Winfrey, Charter’s CEO, during a call with Investors Friday morning.

J. Kim Murphy ESPN, ABC, Disney Channel and other outlets owned by the Walt Disney Co. have gone dark on Charter Spectrum cable systems, which serve nearly 15 million subscribers in New York, Los Angeles and other major markets.

If you ask any Outlander fan, Caitriona Balfe is the perfect Claire Randall Fraser.

Foo Fighters will be performing.Dave Grohl’s hard-rocking group is headlining at five major music festivals from Sept. 1 through Oct. 18.Currently, they’re scheduled to close out Aspen, CO’s Jazz Aspen Snowmass on Sept.

Adele isn’t here for her fans not having fun at her concerts.

Jonas Brothers are for an emotional tour moment.On Friday, the trio took the stage at Wrigley Field in Chicago as part of The Tour. At one point of the show, Joe Jonas was moved to tears during their performance of «Little Bird,» after a fan asked them to perform it in honor of her father who died.

EXCLUSIVE: Amid a focus on content curation and Disney-owned IP, Disney+ is not proceeding with The Spiderwick Chronicles, its live-action series adaptation of the popular children’s fantasy books, Deadline has learned.

The idea of exclusivity with streaming services is starting to lose its meaning quite a bit. During the pandemic, it felt as if streaming services couldn’t spend enough money to grab up as many “exclusive” films and TV series to draw in subscribers.

“I’ve been doing this a long time where, look, I don’t want to do that forever,” Scott Van Pelt said in June of his perch at SportsCenter. “At some point you just gotta step aside and let somebody else have it.”

Jonas household — according to their mother!Kevin, Joe, Nick and Franklin Jonas' mother, Denise, says that while everyone thinks her favorite child is Nick, she loves all her boys equally.«I think they all think Nick’s the favorite,» Denise said during an interview with on Monday. «But I really don’t have a favorite.

The BBC, ARD/ZDF and other major European public service networks have seen viewer engagement in their services dive by nearly a fifth in the past six years, an Ampere Analysis study revealed today.