Viacom Cost-Cutting Helps Q1 Profit Beat Wall Street Estimates As it mulls a re-combination with CBS, Viacom is continuing to gradually turn its ship in a better direction. Related Twitter Shares Rise After Company Finally Reports A Quarterly Profit Driven by a 10% drop in expenses..

‘Superman’ Star Teri Hatcher To Battle It Out In Celebrity ‘Bake Off’ Special Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman star Teri Hatcher is among the celebrities to have signed up for a charity version of The Great British Bake Off. Related BBC Studios Scores C4 Doc; Ian McKelle..

Kids’ Book ‘The Tiger That Came To Tea’ To Be Adapted For Television Celebrated British kids’ book The Tiger That Came To Tea is heading to television after Lupus Films and HarperCollins Children’s Books struck a deal to produce an animated special to mark the 50th anniversary of Judith Kerr’s b..

Eurosport & Global Broadcasters Kick Off “Transformative” 2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics, which kick off in Pyeongchang, South Korea on Friday, are set to be a “transformative” event politically, digitally and from an international sports rights perspective. Related T..

Russell Brand To Star As A Hitman In Indie Romp ‘Butterfingers’ – Berlin Get Him To The Greek star Russell Brand is heading back to the big screen in action feature Butterfingers. The comedian is to play a hitman in the movie, which is directed by I, Anna’s by Barnaby Southcombe and based on a s..

BBC Studios Scores C4 Doc; Ian McKellen As King Lear; MTV UK Channel Launch – Global Briefs BBC Studios has scored its second third-party commission this week after UK broadcaster Channel 4 ordered a one-off documentary about a mass of congealed fat and waste clogging up London’s sewers. The ind..

TV Academy’s “Penning Pennsylvania Avenue” Panel: Producers, Actors Talk Impeachment In A Fictitious White House Tapping into every Democrat’s dream, Michelle King, creator of The Good Fight, said her show is currently working on an episode about the impeachment of the president. Sadly for Dems,..

Jimmy Kimmel Begs Donald Trump To Meet With Robert Mueller: “You’ll Run Circles Around These Clowns” Jimmy Kimmel has joined the pantheon of late-night TV show hosts urging President Donald Trump to go ahead and talk to special counsel Robert Mueller. Related John Oliver Joins Steph..

‘Hedwig’ Producer David Binder Named BAM Artistic Director David Binder, a theater producer best known for a critically acclaimed and commercially successful Broadway production of the punk rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, will become the first artistic director of the Brooklyn Academy of..