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It’s a blisteringly hot afternoon in Paris and Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie are midway through an edition of NBC’s Today show against the spectacular backdrop of the Eiffel Tower.

Olympic swimming legend Michael Phelps has just left after a live interview on their couch.

In a pre-recorded segment, the show’s Barefoot Contessa food correspondent, Ina Garten, is taking Kotb and Guthrie on a tour of her favorite Paris markets, to be followed by an item on French fashion in an adjacent studio set up for lifestyle coverage.

For the duration of the 2024 Olympics, Today is unfolding in NBCUniversal’s main Olympics studio in the Museum of Mankind (Musée de l’Homme) in Paris.

The institution, housing a 1,800 artefact collection exploring the trajectory of humanity over the course of seven million years, is situated in a grandiose building in the Palais de Chaillot with breathtaking views on...

A DS9 movie reboot could explore Dominion War with a trilogy, but casting may face challenges due to a large ensemble cast, and the love for the original actors. Actors like Asante Blackk, Brian Gleeson, and Daryl McCormack are great options for roles in a DS9 movie reboot. Cast options such as Jodie Comer, Winston Duke, and Elisabeth Moss bring versatility and experience to iconic DS9 characters.

In a world where J.J. Abrams' Star Trek: The Original Series reboot led to other shows getting the same treatment, which stars would be cast in a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine movie? Given that DS9 was the show that pioneered serialization in Star Trek TV shows, it would be hard to boil the story of Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) into one movie. However, where the Kelvin Timeline movies were effectively big-screen episodic Star Trek, a trilogy of movies could give...

White Pine Pictures executive Andrew Munger has re-launched his outfit Ultramagnetic Productions with a slate of drama and documentary projects.

Munger first operated Ultramagnetic Productions from 1997 to 2004, producing non-fiction projects including “Walmart Nation,” “Campaign: The Making of a Candidate,” “Xanadu: In Search of Domestic Perfection” and “Make Some Noise!” for networks such as the CBC, Discovery, History and Life/Slice. He shuttered the company in 2005 to run television production at World Vision, Canada’s largest non-profit organization, before moving to Toronto’s White Pine Pictures in 2014.

After eight years, Munger is stepping down from his role as director of unscripted development at White Pine in order to restart Ultramagnetic.

However, he will continue as an executive producer on several key White Pine feature documentaries, including “Buffy Sainte Marie: Carry It On” (Bell/PBS) and “The Con: Churchill and Roosevelt Secret American War” (Super Channel/Wnet/Arte/Beyond Rights). The latter...