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Having made the transition from star athlete to sports business executive, Paul Rabil is continuing to widen the aperture. The co-founder and commissioner of the Premier Lacrosse League is hosting a new ESPN+ series, Rabil’s Places, whose producers include Omaha Productions, Words + Pictures and Rabil’s own Two Point Productions. He is the author of The Way of the Champion, a memoir/inspirational book published in 2024 by Penguin Press imprint Portfolio. Its jacket features blurbs from the likes of Sony Pictures film boss Tom Rothman, Pivot podcast co-host Scott Galloway and Arianna Huffington.

Rabil spoke with Deadline as the Pll was getting set to kick off its 2025 season with a doubleheader this evening and another on Saturday. The games will stream on ESPN+ and Saturday’s opener will air on ABC. He talked about the state of the Pll’s talks with potential media rights partners as its...

Robert and Michelle King’s latest drama project for CBS is taking a step forward, with the network ordering a full writers room to produce 12 scripts of Cupertino, described as David vs. Goliath legal show set in Silicon Valley. The series is targeted for the 2026-27 season.

The move was announced by CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach at the network’s upfront press event Wednesday.

It comes after Deadline reported earlier this spring that the Kings’ pilot script had been delivered to CBS to a great response. (Cupertino had originally been set up at CBS for development last summer.)

“When we read the script, it was a no-brainer that we wanted to move forward with the project under our longterm development,” Reisenbach said.

Related: CBS Exec Addresses Cancellations Of ‘The Equalizer’ & ‘FBI’ Shows: “We Have To Be Fiscally Responsible”

The Kings and Liz Glotzer executive produce for King Size Productions.

Vox Media today announced a strategic partnership with Tefi Pessoa, who is joining The Cut as a special contributor. The influential host, content creator, and comedian will write a monthly advice column and launch a weekly pop culture podcast that builds on the signature takes she brings to her over 2 million followers on TikTok and Instagram. The column, called “Ask Tefi,” debuts on Friday, May 23rd, with the podcast set to launch this summer and publish across audio, video, and social platforms. Pessoa, who served as The Cut’s red carpet correspondent at the Academy Awards earlier this year, will also appear regularly on the Cut’s social channels.

“After years of connecting with people online, I wanted a space to go deeper,” said Tefi Pessoa. “This column and podcast are for anyone who's ever thought, ‘Am I the only one feeling this way?’ You’re not. Whether it’s breakups,...

The Signal Awards, the premier honor recognizing excellence in podcasting, is officially open for entries for its 4th annual season. As the podcast industry continues to shape culture and conversations worldwide, The Signal Awards seeks to celebrate the voices, stories, and innovations that define this ever-evolving medium.

Podcasts are no longer commentating from the outside—they are where culture is created. From breaking news to personal narratives that inspire change, the power of audio storytelling has never been stronger. This year, The Signal Awards expands its categories to further recognize the creators, hosts, and productions that continue to push the boundaries of the industry.

New additions to Signal’s categories include separate Best Host categories in News and Politics, Culture, and Documentary to reflect the skills required of hosts in these genres to capture and move audiences. We are opening more avenues for fiction podcasts, such as Best Voice Acting.

October 7, 2023, marked the largest massacre of Jews to take place since the Holocaust, with 251 hostages taken by Hamas as well. Wendy Sachs’ documentary isn’t about that horrific event, although it includes disturbing footage from the infamous day and harrowing testimony by survivors. Rather, it concerns what happened immediately afterward, namely the precipitous rise in antisemitism that manifested itself in demonstrations on college campuses, on the streets and in social media. For those concerned about this growing problem — and everyone should be — October 8 is mandatory viewing.

There is certainly a strong case to be made against Israel’s longstanding mistreatment of Palestinians, as well as against the morality and legality of its ongoing military response in Gaza. But there was something truly perverse about the way in which anti-Israel sentiment came to a fever pitch in the immediate aftermath of the massacre, and the manner in which it morphed into antisemitism.

In a major podcast and digital media deal that shakes up the landscape, Fox Corp. has acquired Red Seat Ventures.

Res Seat Ventures produces audio and video podcasts and other programming with talent that includes a slew of former Fox and cable news stars.

Among Red Seat’s clients are Megyn Kelly, whose show streams on YouTube and runs on SiriusXM, and Tucker Carlson, who was ousted by Fox two years ago. Another former Fox host, Bill O’Reilly, is also a client, as is Dr. Phil. Former CNN host Piers Morgan and former Hln host Nancy Grace are also clients of Red Seat.

Founded by Chris Balfe and his brother Kevin Balfe, Red Seat provides production, distribution, branding and sales services for creators, with a particular emphasis on right-leaning politics and true crime (former To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen is also a client, and the company produces the...

Offering a twist on the body-swap genre, Amanda Kramer’s Sundance Next entry By Design feels, at first glance, more suited to the stage or gallery than cinema. It’s a story about luxury, envy, and longing with a dry tone that requires patience but doesn’t quite deliver a rewarding experience beyond the metaphor it continues returning to: resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. For the characters there is a certain fear of missing out and becoming simply another piece of furniture. When the narrator (Melanie Griffith) can no longer adequately provide the right expository information, the film switches to dance.

Juliette Lewis stars as Camile, a broke woman who lunches with pals Lisa (Samantha Mathis) and Irene (Robin Tunney) before going shopping at an exclusive furniture store that sells one-off chairs. Camile finds herself fixated on a chair that may or...

SXSW has added new Keynotes and a third round of Featured Speakers for its 39th edition. Keynote speakers are Grammy winner John Fogerty and Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.

“Whether it be insights from the CEO of one of the fastest-growing social media platforms or tales from a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, the unique perspectives showcased each March is what makes SXSW such an exceptional event,” said Hugh Forrest, president and chief programming officer. “Jay Graber and John Fogerty are excellent additions to what is developing into a fascinating Keynote Speaker lineup.”

Fogerty and Graber join the previously announced Ibm chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna as keynote speakers for the festival, which runs March 7-15.

The Featured Speakers announced today include President and CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated Cristiano Amon; co-Chairman, Disney Entertainment Alan Bergman; professor, podcast host, New York Times bestselling author, co-founder of HiddenLight Productions and Vice Chair...

Exclusive: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the documentary October H8te, the explosive Oscar-contending film directed by Wendy Sachs.

Briarcliff plans a theatrical release in the first quarter of 2025 for the film, which documents the sharp rise in antisemitism and anti-Israel demonstrations that immediately followed the devastating October 7 Hamas sneak attack on Israel and have continued since. It devotes particular attention to anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests that erupted on college campuses in the U.S., leading to instances of harassment of Jewish students and defenders of Israel.

Debra Messing on November 18, 2024 in New York City

Actress Debra Messing, one of the few Hollywood stars to speak out ardently and publicly against acts of hate against Jewish and pro-Israel individuals, serves as an executive producer of October H8te and appears on camera in the documentary.

“We are thrilled to have the world see this important film,” Messing said in a statement.

Vox Media and Enjoy Basketball today announced that YouTube star and NBA superfan Kenny Beecham will bring his flagship show, Small Ball with Kenny Beecham (formerly The Kenny Beecham Podcast) to the Vox Media Podcast Network via a strategic partnership. On Small Ball, which provides year-round basketball coverage and publishes weekly on Fridays during the NBA season, Beecham will share his unique insights through game analysis, player stories, and more. Vox Media will assume sales, marketing, and distribution duties for the show, which is available on podcast and video platforms, and collaborate with Beecham on live event extensions and editorial crossovers with Vox Media brands like Sb Nation.

“I’m excited to team up with Vox Media and take Small Ball to the next level,” says Beecham. “This partnership allows us to continue delivering great basketball content to our fans, with even more reach and resources. The show has grown so much since we started,...

Netflix has officially greenlit a new corporate thriller series titled Thumblite, which finds Gone Girl and The Wheel of Time star Rosamund Pike in the lead role. It is to be set in the high-stakes world of Silicon Valley and promises to dive into the power dynamics that play out within the most competitive and influential industry in the world. The streaming giant ended up winning the distribution rights to the project after a healthy bidding war, with the streamer showing confidence in its potential by giving the show a straight-to-series order based on a pitch. Something that is pretty rare in the world of television. The official logline for Thumblite has also been revealed by Netflix and reads:

"Thumblite will examine the schemes, rivalries, visions, and obsessions of Silicon Valleys power brokers and their underlings as they vie for control of the most powerful industry the world has ever known.

Exclusive: Eight years after the end of The Good Wife, Robert King and Michelle King are developing another legal drama for CBS. Tentatively titled Cupertino, after the city in California’s Silicon Valley known as the headquarters of Apple, the project is described as David vs. Goliath legal show set in Silicon Valley.

The Kings are writing the script for Cupertino, which the duo and Liz Glotzer are executive producing for King Size Productions. CBS Studios, where Robert and Michelle King have been based for the past 15 years, is producing with their King Size Productions.

Silicon Valley is proving to be a hot drama series setting this summer. A project about the rise of the tech industry starring Rosamund Pike from Scott Galloway and Scott Z. Burns is currently being shopped to streamers.

Robert and Michelle King created and executive produced The Good Wife, which aired on CBS for seven seasons and won five Emmys.

Kara Swisher’s recently-published Burn Book: A Tech Love Story, described as part memoir, part history, chronicling tech’s most powerful players, is in the works for the small screen.

Tomorrow Studios has optioned the book for development as a television series, Swisher announced on her Pivot podcast Tuesday with co-host Scott Galloway. The project is in very early development as either a limited or regular series, a decision Tbd, a studio spokesperson told Deadline.

On the podcast, Swisher mused who would play her in the series. She suggested Kristen Stewart, which was countered by Galloway, who suggested Anne Hathaway.

Swisher has covered the business of the internet since 1994, breaking stories on the biggest names in tech over those years, including a litany of stories on Yahoo and its revolving gallery of CEOs in the early oughts and the Marissa Mayer period.

She has been a contributing editor at New York Magazine,...

Update: The White Dudes for Harris X account is back up.

“After a groundswell of complaints to Elon Musk from the White Dudes for Harris community, our account was reinstated & we’re allowed to post again,” the group said this afternoon.

Ross Morales Rocketto, key organizer of the group, wrote that it was “funny” that after the call on Monday night, which raised more than $4 million for Kamala Harris’ campaign, “Elon Musk suspended our account as I got hundreds of insults and memes from white supremacist bot accounts that are still active.”

Previously: A White Dudes for Harris online rally raised more than $4M in donations in a matter of hours but then saw its X account suspended, prompting concern from organizers.

Among those to contribute to the virtual You Tube event were J.J. Abrams, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Groban, Sean Astin, Michael Kelly, Josh Gad, Jeff Bridges and Mark Hamill.

Updated: A White Dudes for Harris online rally raised more than $4 million for Kamala Harris’ campaign, as a mix of vice presidential hopefuls, labor leaders and Hollywood celebrities sought to capitalize on the new Democratic enthusiasm with a bit of a twist.

On the virtual You Tube event, J.J. Abrams chipped in a $50,000 match, while figures like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Groban, Bradley Whitford, Rory O’Malley, Paul Scheer, Adam Conover, Sean Astin, Michael Kelly, Lance Bass, Tim Daly and Josh Gad appeared. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the appearance of Jeff Bridges, “The Dude” in The Big Lebowski.

“I’m white, I’m a dude and I’m for Harris,” Bridges said.

The viewership reached about 65,000, while more than 190,000 tuned in at some point, organizers said.

“I can see her being president,” Bridges said. “A woman president, man, how exciting.” He cited her stance on women’s rights and her stance...

On Wednesday, July 24, NBC’s The Today Show will welcome Scott Galloway, author of The Algebra of Wealth, will be a guest, sharing his insights on building wealth and the mathematics behind it. The show will also present “Steals & Deals: Home Upgrades,” offering viewers the opportunity to enhance their living spaces without breaking the […]

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Catch “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central airing July 17, 2024, for an episode featuring Scott Galloway and host Ronny Chieng. Expect a lively discussion as they delve into current events, business trends, and societal issues with humor and sharp insights. Don’t miss this engaging episode of “The Daily Show” on July 17, 2024, for a blend of satire and thoughtful analysis.

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Jon Stewart is reprising what he once called the “worst legacy” of The Daily Show. Former Fox News host and conservative personality Bill O’Reilly will appear as a guest on Tuesday, July 16 when Stewart returns to the desk of the Comedy Central talk show. The former host of The O’Reilly Factor, which was one of Fox News’ most popular news programs for years, was fired from network in April 2017 after an investigation into harassment allegations against the host. He was replaced by Tucker Carlson, who has since been replaced by Jesse Watters. This 2024 return marks O’Reilly’s first appearance on The Daily Show since 2015 when Stewart left. O’Reilly will be promoting his new book, Confronting the Presidents. The guest for Wednesday, July 17 will be Scott Galloway. From 2001 to 2015, O’Reilly came on ...

Jon Stewart is coming back to The Daily Show earlier than planned.

Stewart will return to the news desk tonight — Tuesday — rather than returning Thursday as previously announced.

Update: Stewart remarks on Trump’s shooting: “We dodged a catastrophe”

After the assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Saturday, Comedy Central canceled its previously scheduled Monday show from Milwaukee where the Republican National Convention is taking place. “Our apologies for the inconvenience, but due to logistical issues and the evolving situation in Milwaukee, we need to reschedule our events on the ground in Wisconsin and will look to make those up in the coming weeks,” the network said.

The Daily Show will also air on Wednesday hosted by the News Team. In addition, Thursday’s show will be live following the closing night of the RNC, where Trump is expected to make his speech accepting his party’s nomination for president.

Journalist Kara Swisher will interview OpenAI’s Mira Murati on Monday, June 10, as the inaugural guest of a four-part live event series hosted at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C.

Swisher’s interview with Murati about AI, misinformation, and the 2024 elections will begin a yearlong partnership between Johns Hopkins and Vox Media that will convene discussions among the brightest minds working at the high-stakes intersection of technology, science, and public policy.

Each of the four live events in the new “Discovery” series will focus on a different AI-related issue and feature Swisher recording an interview with a topic-specific guest for her podcast, On with Kara Swisher, and a panel discussion moderated by Swisher with leading experts from Hopkins and other organizations.

When: 5:30 p.m., Monday, June 10.

Where: The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Who: In addition to her interview with Murati, Swisher...

When did Columbia become Kanye State? Bill Maher asked that question at the top of Friday’s Real Time on HBO, setting the tone for a show that focused on the national campus unrest and what’s behind it.

Maher attempted to answer that himself in his “New Rules” editorial, saying in a message to protesters blocking traffic in the name of a cause: “No one likes you.”

He contended that protesters fail to realize that they are not bringing people around to their point of view by making them late for work or from picking up a child from day care.

“You can glue your hands to the street, since your hands don’t have to do any work today,” Maher said, and claimed that for many social justice warriors, “It’s more about the warrioring than the causes.”

Vis-a-vis the current wave of pro-Palestinian protests, he suggested that...

Vox Media and South by Southwest today announced that the award-winning Vox Media Podcast Network will be officially partnering with the Conference for 2024. Running from March 8-10th at the Jw Marriott, The Vox Media Podcast Stage at SXSW will bring fan favorite shows from across Vox Media to the stage, including Pivot (hosted by journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Stern Marketing professor Scott Galloway), On with Kara Swisher (hosted by Swisher), Where Should We Begin?, (hosted by acclaimed psychotherapist Esther Perel), Today, Explained (featuring host Noel King), Decoder (hosted by The Verge’s editor-in-chief Nilay Patel), The Vergecast , Point Forward (co-hosted by former NBA stars Andre Iguodala and Evan Turner), Stay Tuned with Preet (hosted by former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara), Waveform: The Mkbhd Podcast (hosted by tech reviewers Marques Brownlee) and Mma Hour (hosted by sports journalist Ariel Helwani) – with more to be announced soon.

Update: President Joe Biden signed an executive order on AI, billing the U.S. as out front of other countries when it comes to establishing guardrails around the fast-emerging technology.

But Biden told those gathered in the East Room that other steps will require congressional action. That will be a much more complicated process, as lawmakers have been in a stalemate for years when it comes to any meaningful action on tech giants.

Speaking to reporters after the White House ceremony, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-ny) said that his effort to craft a bill. “This is about the hardest thing I have attempted to undertake legislatively because a) it is so complicated, and b) it affects every aspect of society.” Schumer said that he and the rest of a bipartisan group of lawmakers will meet with Biden on Tuesday to talk about the legislation.

Biden specifically mentioned the need...

How do you deal with a world where finger-pointing, bureaucracy, mob actions and a lack of initiative stall progress? That was the running theme of Friday’s Real Time on HBO, as a downbeat Bill Maher took on a world that was clearly vexing him greatly.

The show started out with an appearance by former Democratic Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo and his former Chief of Staff, Melissa DeRosa, author of What’s Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics and Crisis.

Cuomo was forced to resign his post because of sexual harassment allegations. But there’s apparently more to the story than the accusations, and DeRosa and Cuomo blamed the New York Times and the lemming-like approach of the media in sloppily telling the story for Cuomo’s fall from grace.

Maher – who said he didn’t want to carry water for the two – did...

Kasie Hunt left a fast-track career at NBC News in 2021 to dip her toes into digital waters at CNN. Two years later, she’s just starting to find out whether she might sink or swim.

On Wednesday, Hunt will launch “State of the Race,” a new hour-long weekday show for CNN’s international service focused on U.S. politics and the 2024 election. “It won’t be any less sophisticated than what my most specific viewers in Washington are hearing, the ones who are my sources,” she says. Expect to hear from people who know how political campaigns work and why candidates make the decisions they do. Could the program show up for U.S. audiences on CNN Max, the new live-streaming service set to debut the same day? .There is a strong expectation within CNN that the new product will feature several hours of Cnni. “That question is above my pay grade,...

Never Give A Sucker An Even Break was a 1941 movie from W.C. Fields. But it could have been the theme to Bill Maher’s Real Time on Friday night.

From Donald Trump’s latest foibles, through TikTok’s right to exist in the US, to the growing lost generation of young men, Maher and his guests tried to make sense of a world that seems to be flailing in its battle to find solutions.

Ultimately, Maher turned his guns on nepo babies, the children of the famous who feel they’ve hit a triple when they’re born on third base.

Maher’s New Rules editorial focused on the long string of Hollywood stars that got a leg up thanks to their connections, starting with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. “It doesn’t make them bad people or untalented,” Maher said. “But let’s also admit they weren’t the only...

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Kara Swisher is returning to Vox Media.

The technology writer and commentator will leave The New York Times, where she was a columnist and podcast host, next month as she plans to launch a new podcast with Vox Media. The new series will serve as a companion show to Pivot, the podcast Swisher hosts with Scott Galloway for Vox’s New York magazine.

“Vox Media has been a great creative partner over the course of the last seven years,” Swisher said on Tuesday. “So I am incredibly excited to expand my work with them on a new show that will be essential listening for the current moment, as well as continuing working (and sparring) with Scott on building out the Pivot universe across platforms.”

Swisher first joined the Times in 2018, where she published columns and newsletters for the opinion section about the ins and outs of Silicon Valley.

South by Southwest Conference and Festivals has set additional Keynotes and Featured Speakers names for the 36th annual festival, which celebrates the intersections of the technology, film, and music industries.

“The 2022 Conference program is coming together in a spectacular fashion. We could not be more thrilled to announce a Keynote lineup that includes Lizzo, Beck, Neal Stephenson, and Celine Tricart,” said Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer. “These acclaimed creatives, along with the Featured Speakers revealed today, exemplify why SXSW is an essential destination for global professionals.”

The SXSW Conference, is organized into 15 programming tracks presented in a variety of session formats. New for 2022 is the addition of Summits, which take a deep dive into specific topics relevant to the SXSW audience.

SXSW runs March 11-20 in Austin.

The list of keynotes and featured speakers includes Grammy-winning artist Lizzo, also star and executive producer of Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,...

Yes, there is going to be some CNN in CNN Plus.

After focusing largely on new talent for the soon-to-launch streaming-video service, WarnerMedia’s CNN is turning some attention to new programming from current staff. CNN has captured attention in recent weeks for unveiling new shows led by people such as Scott Galloway, Chris Wallace, Eva Longoria, Audie Cornish and Alison Roman. Aside from a parenting series led by Anderson Cooper, however, news about new programming from the CNN staffers familiar to viewers has been kept under guard.

Kate Bolduan, who anchors a late-morning hour on the WarnerMedia-backed outlet’s linear cable network, will also lead “Five Things,” s daily morning show that is an extension of a popular newsletter and podcaster. Bolduan will count down five essential stories viewers need to know to start their day. Meanwhile, Sara Sidner, a CNN senior national correspondent, will host “The Big Picture,...

NPR veteran Audie Cornish is joining CNN to host a weekly program on its soon-to-launch streaming service, CNN Plus, as well as a new podcast.

She is also expected to will appear on CNN covering national, political and breaking news.

“I am very excited to join CNN and the CNN Plus team. There are fresh stories to be told and new ways to tell them,” said Cornish, who was a co-host of NPR’s popular “All Things Considered,” in a prepared statement. “CNN has a dynamic system of reporters and storytelling channels. I am thrilled to be a part of it.” She is expected to start in February.

Cornish is one of a parade of new hosts and correspondents joining the WarnerMedia-backed outlet, which is expected to launch CNN Plus in the next few months. CNN has hired cooking writer Alison Roman; business professor Scott Galloway; congressional correspondent Kasie Hunt...

Anderson Cooper, the longtime anchor who leads off CNN’s primetime schedule each weeknight, will expand his hosting duties with a new show, “Parental Guidance” on CNN Plus, the streaming-video hub expected to debut in the first quarter of 2022. Cooper will also continue to host “Full Circle,” which will move to the streaming service in 2022.

Cooper will add to the options already announced for the new venue, which aims to lure news aficionados and CNN “superfans” to a new broadband subscription product. CNN has already announced series led by Chris Wallace, Eva Longoria, Kasie Hunt, Scott Galloway and Poppy Harlow.

CNN’s interest in streaming in the past came mainly in ancillary businesses, like Great Big Story, a site devoted to short-form documentaries, and a project with YouTube influencer Casey Neistat. CNN Plus, however, will rely on the news outlet’s full resources and brand, entering a field already crowded by rivals and upstarts.

CNN’s coming foray into the streaming wars will send the network searching for customers in both regular haunts and surprising places.

The WarnerMedia cable-news outlet typically runs a significant chunk of promotions for its programming on its own air and in other venues owned by its parent company. On Friday, it’s airing an initial ad to entice loyal viewers to consider CNN Plus, its new video-streaming service slated to launch in 2022. In weeks to come, however, CNN Plus ads will show up in movie theaters, on ad-supported streaming outlets, on billboards and print pages and in the primetime schedules of networks owned by other companies. Last week, CNN quietly managed to insert the CNN Plus logo on a wall behind home plate digitally during a post-season baseball telecast on sibling network TBS.

“We’ve got different groups of people we need to reach,” says Rick Lewchuk, senior vice...