EXCLUSIVE: Liam Keelan is exiting his role as Disney’s SVP of Original Content, EMEA, we can reveal. The veteran British exec has been with Disney for nearly five years, but has decided to leave in early 2025. News of the departure was transmitted internally moments ago. A recruitment process…

After dipping a toe into the continuous, live programming waters last month, Disney+ is adding four more live channels. The new offerings, Hallowstream, Hits & Heroes, Throwbacks, and Real Life, expand on the two launched in August, ABC News and Disney+ Playtime. In announcing the expansion, the…

EXCLUSIVE: More layoff news in what already has been a depressing week. Disney is in the middle of a new wave of cuts as part of a “cost-saving initiative,” sources tell Deadline. We hear about 300 or so people are affected by the layoffs that started yesterday and are continuing today and tomorrow, with…

Disney+’s Rivals is nearly here. The Jilly Cooper adaptation’s launch is less than a month away and full-length trail has been unveiled. Trailer starts in 1986 introducing its cast of characters. The series chronicles the cutthroat world of independent television and the long-standing rivalry of…

Venu Sports, the joint sports streaming venture backed by Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery, has laid out its case to a federal appeals court, requesting permission to resume its plans to launch. The company’s brief, filed late Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit…

EXCLUSIVE: Jon Watts, his production company Freshman Year and producer Dianne McGunigle have been staked to a first-look feature deal with Walt Disney Studios. Under the deal, Watts will direct feature-length projects for Disney live action and 20th Century Studios with the option to produce. Watts…

Ryan Reynolds said a single, four-word line of advice from Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has driven him – and haunted him – in the years since he first heard it. Prior to the release of Deadpool & Wolverine this summer, Reynolds recalled, “It had been six years since I had done one of those movies…

Disney says it is looking to strike more bundling deals after offering an upbeat assessment of its agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer Max. The Disney+, Hulu and Max bundle, echoing the glory days of cable television, was inked in May and launched two months later in the U.S for as…

John Landgraf says that there's still "magic" in the television business as evidenced by the likes of actors such as The Bear's Liza Colón-Zayas beating Carol Burnett and Meryl Streep to win her first Emmy or Shōgun winning major awards. It was a fantastic night for both FX and The Walt Disney…

2016 was a pretty good year for FX as five wins at the Primetime Emmys for The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story helped it to a total 18 trophies at the 68th Emmy Awards. Eight years on, with new owners in the shape of The Walt Disney Company, it was an even better night for John…

Disney and DirecTV have ended their 13-day carriage impasse, restoring ABC, ESPN and 14 other networks in time for Saturday college football games and Sunday night’s Emmy telecast. While the return of linear service will come as a relief to millions of subscribers, the other terms of the agreement…

Sunday’s Emmy Awards will take place nearly two weeks after 16 Disney networks went dark on DirecTV due to a carriage dispute between the companies. Barring a resolution before the show, the unavailability of ABC for 11 million DirecTV subscribers (a healthy number of them in the L.A. market) will…