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EXCLUSIVE: Gilles Bannier, the director of the first seasons of hit series Blue Lights and Trigger Point is opening up a new drama indie, Alef UK. The London-based label will be a subsidiary of Alef One, Nora Melhli’s Paris-based prodco that counts Flight MH370 and doc Carlos Ghosn The Last Flight among its credits.

EXCLUSIVE: James Corden and SiriusXM boss Scott Greenstein will take to the stage at The Podcast Show in London next month.

Travis Kelce is a hands-on kind of man!

Ethan and I just had one hell of a day,” Charles said of his “Dead Poets Society” co-star. “It was a great opportunity for us to spend some time together and laugh. It was great.

EXCLUSIVE: Nancy Travis and Felix Avitia are set as the final two series regulars in Grosse Pointe Garden Society, NBC‘s drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Bill Krebs and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. They join previously announced Melissa Fumero, AnnaSophia Robb, Ben Rappaport, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge and Aja Naomi King

EXCLUSIVE: Arizona Distribution has acquired French rights for Argentinian director Federico Luis’s first feature Simon of the Mountain ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Critics’ Week in May.

Zoya Akhtar (The Archies), Fawzia Mirza (Queen of My Dreams), and Roshan Sethi (A Nice Indian Boy) are set to join the 1497 Features Lab as Mentors.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor AMC Networks’ plans to submit the zombie spinoff “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” as a limited series for the Emmys have been killed. The cable network had announced plans to submit the six-episode spinoff, created by Scott M.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor NBCUniversal is looking to wring more money out of Peacock subscribers, with the streamer set to raise prices this summer — one year after its last fee hike. Beginning in mid-July, the price for Peacock Premium (with ads) will increase by $2 to $7.99 per month and Peacock Premium Plus (mostly ad-free) is also going up by $2 to $13.99 per month. Peacock Premium’s annual price will increase from $59.99 to $79.99, while Premium Plus is going from $119.99 to $139.99 per year. The new prices will be effective starting July 18 for new Peacock customers and for existing subscribers with their next billing date on or after Aug.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Anthony Hemingway has boarded the Netflix series adaptation of the Judy Blume novel “Forever” to direct multiple episodes, Variety has learned exclusively. The series stars Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. and hails from creator Mara Brock Akil.

EXCLUSIVE: Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy franchise) and Zoë Chao (Nightbitch) will lead the cast of Let’s Have Kids!, a feature comedy from MRC that’s heading into production this week.

EXCLUSIVE: LeBron James, Naomi Osaka, and Joel Embiid have signed on to lead the selection committee for this year’s Uninterrupted Film Festival, an LA-based film event focused on the intersection of sports culture and filmmaking backed by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Enterprises.

EXCLUSIVE: Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger are embarking on a quest to find the origins of human creativity, which will be chronicled in a docuseries for Roku. The friends, longtime collaborators and Arch Motorcycle co-founders are headlining and executive producing the series, tentatively titled The Arch Project.

Naman Ramachandran Studiocanal and Editions Albert René have signed an exclusive development agreement for the sixth live-action film of the adventures of beloved French comic book character Asterix. Created in 1959 by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, Asterix is celebrating its 65th anniversary in 2024. The series follows the adventures of Asterix and Obelix and their friends who live in a small village in Gaul, the only outpost of resistance against Julius Caesar’s mighty Roman empire.

reality dating series “MILF Manor” has a twist.Spoilers below for Sunday night’s season premiere. “MILF Manor,” airing Sunday nights (10 p.m.), follows six moms ranging from their 40s to 60s, as they date younger men in their 20s. In the first season, the catch was that they were dating each other’s sons.

social media account captioned a never-before-seen throwback wedding day image of the couple.And as for celebrations, the pair are marking their anniversary “very privately and quietly,” according to Princess Diana’s former butler Paul Burrell.“William is not a show person,” Burrell revealed. “He is a very private man and celebrations are done behind closed doors.

NME’s latest star of The Cover, J Noa, has shared a playlist exclusively to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.The Dominican rapper is on this week’s (April 29) edition of The Cover, a renewal of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of J Noa here, written by Fred Garratt-Stanley and featuring photography by Fiona Garden.Accompanying the story is an exclusive playlist of songs J Noa has compiled under the title ‘Walking through the hood’, featuring 21 Savage, 2Pac, Flo Milli, Nathy Peluso, Tokischa and more. Listen to the full playlist on Spotify below and on Apple Music.In her Cover story, 18-year-old J Noa expounds on her belief that rappers are “the journalists of the hood”.

EXCLUSIVE: Australian fitness influencer Kayla Itsines is launching a podcast featuring the likes of Jameela Jamil.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer As turmoil continues to surround the future of Paramount Global, details surrounding interim leadership and its proposed Skydance deal are coming to light, multiple sources told Variety. Sunday was a consequential day in Shari Redstone’s ongoing exclusive bargaining window with David Ellison‘s Skydance, one that would see the Hollywood scion take majority ownership of Paramount Global and its owner National Amusements Inc. Skydance offered its “best and final” offer to Redstone on Sunday, sources added.

K-Pop is a hard industry, and not every act is built to last.

Paramount Global is set to announce as early as Monday morning that Bob Bakish is stepping down as CEO amid talks with Skydance and ahead of the company’s quarterly earnings that afternoon.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Amid the M&A drama enveloping Paramount Global, Bob Bakish is about to step down as CEO after eight years at the helm of Shari Redstone’s media empire. Bakish is expected to resign under pressure as early as Monday.

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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship — and one milestone bettors can put money on is when the power couple will announce they’re tying the knot.There is a 75% chance that the pop princess and the football star will make their engagement public before the NFL season kicks off Sept. 5, according to a report this week by the online sports betting community OLBG.“People will bet on them, especially with the rise of Swift being on television a lot with the NFL,” Jake Ashton, OLBG senior news editor, told The Post.“The markets now for each of Kelce’s games, they all have Taylor Swift specials in there because there has been an increase in men watching it with their partners who have shown interest in Swift.

Kelly Oubre Jr. lofted an insult at Madison Square Garden’s famed Celebrity Row, calling the stars who sit courtside fake fans — and the bold-faced names are firing back.“They’re gonna give celebrities those $100,000 [worth of] free tickets just to be there and not care about the game. That’s what they do,” Oubre said at an April 19 news conference ahead of the first round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, where the Knicks play the 76ers in Game 4 Sunday.“He’s talking a little bit out of his ass there and he’s wrong, because they’re real fans,” “Sopranos” star Steve Schirripa told The Post.“I don’t know who he’s talking about.

As construction work continues around him, Tim Leiweke's optimism is unwavering.

Meghan Markle has been savagely mocked online after sending Kris Jenner a basket of her new lifestyle brand's "garbage" strawberry jam accompanied by "wilted" lemons.

EXCLUSIVE: Stu Goldstein is the newly minted head of Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel for Vice Media Group

Board members at Paramount Global are reportedly considering the removal of CEO Bob Bakish as discussions continue with Skydance Media about a complex, multi-step merger.

Michael Nordine If you’ve been wondering when a heist movie would wed traditional bank-robbing sequences with the current fixation on cryptocurrency, “Cash Out” is here to answer that question. And yet little about this John Travolta vehicle feels new or even timely, as the would-be thriller directed by Ives trades exclusively in shopworn tropes that by now are de rigueur for the genre.