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Hyphenate Media Group co-founders Cris Abrego and Eva Longoria have set the company’s executive leadership team. Jada Miranda will serve as President of Television, Karla Pita Loor as Chief Strategy Officer and Alex Chang as Chief Operating Officer. All executives will report to Abrego and Longoria.

William Earl Hyphenate Media Group, the production venture and holding company launched in October by Eva Longoria and Cris Abrego with backing from Banijay, has set its leadership team with the appointments of three senior executives. Jada Miranda, formerly of STX Entertainment, has been named president of television for the Los Angeles-based company headed by actor/director/producer Longoria and the veteran producer and TV executive Abrego.

Manchester United have already started looking at possible options for Casemiro who could depart the club in the summer, and Joao Gomes has emerged as a potential replacement.

New synthetic opioids have been banned by the UK Government in a bid to prevent drug deaths.

NBCUniversal Media Group has promoted veteran executive David Pietrycha to the newly created position of Chief Business Officer, reporting into the group’s chairman, Mark Lazarus. 

In 2015 the Our Manchester Strategy was developed - a 10-year plan based on how Mancunians wanted to see our city grow.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Former Activision Blizzard executive Chris Paulson has been named Skybound Games‘ executive vice president and general manager of games publishing. In his new role, Paulson will lead commercial strategy and go-to-market efforts for Skybound’s ambitious slate of games, including a new “secret project” Skybound revealed in connection with Paulson’s hiring announcement Monday.

Is Kanye West trying to come for Kim Kardashian‘s crown?! That is what one expert thinks!

Veteran producer and sales agent Rosa Bosch has joined the Madrid-based distributor and international sales agency Begin Again Films. Bosch will serve as part of the company’s international department. 

One of south Manchester's most popular suburban centres is on the brink of change.

Stephen Flynn has accused Rishi Sunak of "putting money before morals" after he refused to return £10m given to the Conservatives by a donor accused of racism.

Faye Bradley Chinese creatives are refining a new trend in entertainment: the super-short streaming series. Each episode in the series typically lasts less than two minutes, making them easily consumable on mobile devices. Each series consists of 20 to 100 episodes in total, and covers a wide range of genres such as comedy and romance. “The mini-drama series is the industry’s response to the new mode of viewing enabled by portable devices such as mobile phones,” said Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, dean of arts and director of the Centre for Film and Creative Industries at Lingnan University.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music As the vast reorganization of Universal Music Group’s labels continues, as expected, the company’s East Coast operations are uniting under the Republic Corps umbrella. The move reflects the company’s reorganization of its labels under the domains of Republic’s Monte Lipman (East Coast) and Interscope’s John Janick (West Coast).

Has Bianca Censori been playing chess this whole time while the world has been assuming she’s been in Trouble?!

The mayor of Greater Manchester stood outside Ashton Old Baths alongside Tameside’s council bosses to mark the start of a rebirth for the town.

Erik ten Hag hit back at suggestions that Manchester United are allowing the opposition too many shots by pointing to the expected goals figure within their games.

A betting technology provider has set out a mathematical tactic it believes gives you a great chance of a lottery win - by purchasing a specific set of 27 tickets.

Erik ten Hag insists managers are duty-bound to adjust to players amid Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's criticism of portions of the Manchester United dressing room.

Bethenny Frankel gave some questionable tips on how she stays “so thin” — and folks online have a lot of thoughts about it!

Nationwide banking customers have received a message from the company as it prepares to 'consider' making a big offer that could mean better deals and savings.

A second company has announced that it will bid to buy Rochdale AFC.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The annual Academy Awards derby has been a long been a subject of interest for Las Vegas oddsmakers. But since 2019, more than half a dozen states have enacted legislation around sports betting that opened the door to legal wagering on Hollywood’s glitziest annual race. Gambling experts say there are more states to come in the near future, including Alabama.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor ProSiebenSat.1 Group, which owns one of Germany’s leading broadcasters and one of its top streaming platforms, continues to feel the effects of a “challenging” economic environment, but, nevertheless, has pledged to ramp up investment in local shows. On Thursday, the group reported revenues of Euros 3.85 billion ($4.2 billion) in the 2023 financial year, down 7% on the previous year. Adjusted EBITDA decreased to Euros 578 million ($629 million) from the previous year’s Euros 678 million ($739 million).

A ‘10 year’ saga that has dominated Greater Manchester politics is set to finally be resolved. The saga centres around a plan to build 165,000 homes in the region; bring in ‘significant growth’ in the core urban area from Port Salford to the Etihad; address the GM north-south divide in jobs and housing; and support existing ‘economic drivers’ in the south.

Emily Longeretta 10PM Curfew, a social-first publisher that owns and operates over 60 lifestyle channels, has acquired the celebrity entertainment news site HollywoodLife.com. The website, created by Bonnie Fuller, was acquired by media company Factz only seven months ago in August.

Jordan Moreau Peter Weber, known as Pilot Pete to Bachelor Nation, became the second person to trade in the “Bachelor” mansion for the Scottish castle of “The Traitors.” Weber joined Season 2 of Peacock’s competition series as a Faithful, someone who is covertly working to sniff out the three Traitors within the cast and banish them out to take home the cash prize. The “Bachelor” leading man follows in the footsteps of Arie Luyendyk Jr., who was a Faithful in Season 1 and nearly made it to the end of the game. Halfway through this season, Weber put a major target on his back by going after the Traitors (“Big Brother” star Dan Gheesling, “Survivor” queen Parvati Shallow and “Real Housewives of Atlanta” icon Phaedra Parks).

Angelique Jackson Queen Latifah will return to host the 55th annual NAACP Image Awards after emceeing the ceremony for the first time last year. The NAACP also announced that writer, poet and activist Amanda Gorman will be honored with the prestigious Chairman’s Award, while this year’s Vanguard Award will go to costume designer, designer and tastemaker June Ambrose in honor of her decades as a pioneer in the fashion industry.

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STV boss Simon Pitts is exiting the business after six years.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Nelson Peltz’s Trian Partners, which is agitating to get two seats on Disney’s board, on Monday released a lengthy white paper analyzing the Mouse House’s financial performance — and suggesting strategic fixes. The recommendations, according to Trian, are aimed at turning around Disney‘s stock performance, which has trailed most of its peers (except Warner Bros.