Giada De Laurentiis Renews Food Network Deal, Will Launch ‘Simply Giada’ Series

At long last, the new season of “Atlanta” is on its way to FX next year after a three-year hiatus. Could this be the most anticipated season of comedy television of all time? After the show’s second season racked up 14 Emmy nominations, the most by any comedy series ever, it’s safe to say the new one is at the top of almost everyone’s list (including ours!).

Ariel Robinson, the former Worst Cooks in America Season 20 winner on the Food Network who stands accused of homicide by child abuse, has been ordered to submit to a DNA test, according to online court records.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefOnce billed as the “Netflix of China,” video streaming firm iQiyi is now laying off staff in order to bring its costs under control.

Grey’s Anatomy‘s record-breaking run may continue. Renewal talks are underway for a potential 19th season of ABC’s flagship scripted series though sources caution that conversations are in early stages. I hear series star and co-executive producer Ellen Pompeo also has been approached about continuing on the show for another season.

Before premiering the first two episodes of his Yellowstone origin story 1883 last Saturday at Wynn Las Vegas, Taylor Sheridan described the pace of Westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, at least when ViacomCBS’ just-launched streaming service Paramount+ dictates the timing.

The new Showtime series Yellowjackets has been renewed for a second season!

Megan Thee Stallion has signed a first-look deal with Netflix to produce content for the streaming service.Netflix announced the agreement on Thursday (December 16), where the rapper will create and executive produce a television series and other projects for the platform.“I’ve always had a passion for telling creative and entertaining stories, so I’m thrilled about this partnership with Netflix,” Megan said.

EXCLUSIVE: A slew of rising chefs and online culinary talent has made it on to the Food Network’s inaugural Hot List.

EXCLUSIVE: Rasika Dugal, whose recent credits include the Amazon series Mirzapur and the Netflix show Delhi Crime, is leading the cast of Spike (working title), a Hindi-language sports drama.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorHorizon Media, one of the largest advertising companies not owned by the big publicly-traded entities that dominate the industry, intends to sell off a minority stake to investment firms, ending its decades of pursuing a purely go-it-alone strategy.Horizon, long controlled by entrepreneur Bill Koenigsberg, said it had sold a piece of the company to Temasek, a Singapore investment firm.

Apple Original Films has confirmed it will be the studio backing and distributing Bad Blood, the drama about the shocking rise and fall of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes that Adam McKay is writing to direct, with Jennifer Lawrence starring. The project was originally set up at Legendary after a heated auction in 2016, and it will be a coproduction between Apple Studios and Legendary. McKay’s Hyperobject Industries has a multi-year first look deal at Apple for scripted movies.

EXCLUSIVE: Valerie Bertinelli will remain in the Food Network kitchen after closing a new deal with the Discovery-owned network.

J. Kim Murphy administratorMartha De Laurentiis, a producer with more than forty years of experience in the entertainment industry and wife of the late Dino De Laurentiis, died on Saturday following a long battle with cancer.

Martha De Laurentiis (née Schumacher), an American film producer and wife of Dino De Laurentiis, died Dec. 4 after a long battle with cancer.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorFox Business Network offers a market forecast each weekday. On weekends, it will start to offer one related to the weather.Starting Saturday, December 4, the Fox Corp.-owned cable outlet will offer two hours of Fox Weather programming in the early morning, the first time the streaming weather service, which launched in October, will be made available for linear TV audiences.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorComcast and Disney renewed a critical carriage pact that will keep ESPN, Disney Channel, ABC and more flowing to the subscribers of the Philadelphia cable giant.The two companies said they had struck a “multi-year agreement” that includes carriage of the ESPN networks, Disney’s kid-focused cable networks, Freeform, the FX and National Geographic networks and ABC stations on Comcast’s Xfinity service.

Food Network and Discovery+ are cooking up a primetime cooking competition series starring chef Alex Guarnaschelli.