Part of the material includes texts from the network’s CEO Casey Bloys imploring lower-level staffers to create fake accounts on Twitter to respond to critics talking about their shows and on websites discussing HBO. - New York Magazine
In an excerpt from his upcoming book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter reports that Carlson's sacking wasn't a condition of the Dominion settlement. "Think, for just a moment, about the worst relationship in your past — and why it ended. Odds are, there wasn’t just one reason, it wasn’t one thing," - Vanity Fair
"Disney has agreed to take full control of Hulu in a deal (worth $8.61 billion) with Comcast, which has owned a third of the streamer ever since Disney’s acquisition of the 21st Century Fox entertainment assets." - The Hollywood Reporter
The city agency FilmL.A. has raised fees for various permits needed to film within Los Angeles proper — and introduced a new set of fees for the use of drones or helicopters, street closures, etc. Says one location manager, "It makes people think, 'Why don’t we shoot this in Canada?'" - The Hollywood Reporter
In the past 16 months, seven publishers crossed the one million subscriber mark to enter Press Gazette’s ranking for the first time – including the accounts for opinion-led UK broadcaster GB News and global TalkTV programme Piers Morgan Uncensored. - Press Gazette
The podcast market is increasingly interested only in those that take the listener on a journey from one episode to the next. Without a throughline, listeners stick with your documentary only if they’re already invested in the issue. - Current
"These AI ad-generation products are less visible to regular users than, for example, an Instagram bot pretending to be Tom Brady. ... But they’re also clearer in purpose and tell us a lot about what sorts of problems these companies think generative AI can solve — for them, anyway." - MSN (New York Magazine)
The disgraced ex-prime minister has been hired as a presenter and commentator on the UK's right-leaning network GB News. "I’m going to be giving this remarkable new TV channel my unvarnished views on everything," he says, "… (and) why I believe our best days are yet to come." - Press Gazette (UK)
The BBC has recovered three missing episodes of shows from the 1960s - episodes it had probably thrown out. Luckily, collectors "saved them from the skip." - BBC
Caveat to optimistic studio press releases: "Issues remain unresolved with the actors, including protections around the use of artificial intelligence technology to create digital replicas of their likenesses without payment or approval." - The New York Times
She rode a wave of 1980s and 1990s rom-coms to superstardom, and that no longer interests her. Now, she wants a story that asks "vulnerable, wounded questions." - The New York Times
"To be a silent star is to be almost completely, but maybe imperfectly, physically gone; to be a fan of silent films is to feel as though you’ve been given the gift of seeing the dead." - The Smart Set
