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So many stars stepped out to attend the Power Of Women: Los Angeles Event Presented By Lifetime at Mother Wolf on Thursday night (October 24) in Los Angeles.

More than 30 celebrities were on the guestlist. We pulled the photos together so that you could easily scroll and see who was there and what they were wearing!

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June Squibb

Diane Warren

Jessica Lord

Sarah Drew

Kelly Campbell

Sarah Hyland and Wells Adams

Jesse Tyler-Ferguson

Justine Lupe

Selma Blair

Jessica Gunning

Julie Bowen

Fyi: Julie is wearing Rami Al Ali.

Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear

Tay Lautner

Zoe Saldana

Fyi: Zoe is wearing Emilia Wickstead SS25 Rtw.

Sasha Pieterse

Jay Shetty

Kaitlin Olson

Karrueche Tran

Judy Reyes

Elizabeth Banks

Brenda Song

Fyi: Brenda is wearing Saint Laurent.

Gia Coppola

Rylee Arnold

Amy Adams

Carol Burnett

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Steve Kornacki is just one of the attractions for MSNBC fans who tune in for the cable-news outlet’s Election Night coverage. On Peacock, the interactive-map guru gets to be the star of his own little show.

The NBCUniversal streaming service will offer a “Kornacki Cam,” or a live-stream that centers on Kornacki as he analyzes polling numbers and incoming voter data. It’s just one of three different bespoke streams that will be available for news and politics aficionados on the evening of November 5. Peacock will also offer a stream of NBC News Now, the digital news service, and a third that focuses on key results coming in from the NBC News Decision Desk.

Executives at Peacock are actually tapping into a video concept called “multiview” that gained traction during the recent Paris Olympics More than 25% of Olympics viewers on Peacock watched via the feature, which allowed them to...

Get ready for the “Kornacki Cam.”

Steve Kornacki, the veteran NBC News and MSNBC national political correspondent, will get his own video feed on election night, part of Peacock’s plan to bring the multiview experience that it debuted during the Paris Olympics earlier this year to other live events.

Peacock will debut a three-feed version of multiview on election night, anchored by a main feed of NBC News Now, which will be led by Lester Holt and Savannah Guthrie; as well as the Kornacki Cam, which will see Kornacki at the big board analyzing the polling numbers as they come in through the night; and a decision desk feed, which will focus on electoral results and the balance of power.

“Peacock continues to define the live streaming experience for audiences,” said Kelly Campbell, president of Peacock and direct-to-donsumer for NBCUniversal. “By expanding our popular Multiview feature to election night,...

Peacock will offer all events from the 2024 Paralympic Games. (Courtesy image)

Comcast’s NBC Universal says two of its popular streaming features from the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will soon be available for the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games.

On Thursday, executives at NBC Sports confirmed the whip-around style channel Gold Zone and dedicated multi-view pop-up feeds will be available through Peacock for the 2024 Paralympic Games, which run from August 28 through September 8.

“Coming off its resounding success during the Paris Olympics, Gold Zone will make its Paralympics debut and provide a whirlwind trip around the Games each day as Team USA’s athletes compete against the world’s best,” said Molly Solomon, the Executive Producer and President of Programming at NBC Olympics and Paralympics.

CNN reporter and host Carolyn Manno will serve as the host of Peacock’s Gold Zone for about five hours each day, starting at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (8 a.

Peacock is continuing its Olympic love story with the Paralympic Games. The streamer will employ both its multiview functionality and its buzzy coverage show, “Gold Zone,” to cover the upcoming sporting event, which begins on Aug. 29.

CNN personality Carolyn Manno will host “Gold Zone” from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Et each day of the Paralympics, which will run from Aug. 29 to Sept. 7. This will mark the sixth consecutive Paralympic Games Manno has hosted for NBCUniversal. Previously, she served as a sled hockey reporter for Beijing 2022 as well as a studio host from Sochi 2014 to Tokyo 2020. Manno also recently finished her seventh Olympic Games assignment for NBCU during Paris 2024, hosting coverage on USA Network.

Additionally, Peacock will stream over 1,500 hours of live coverage of the event, a record-breaking number of streaming hours for the event. That total will include all 22 Paralympic sports.

Peacock’s Paralympics hub will be available on Aug.

The story of Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale will continue. The supernatural series has been renewed for a six-episode second season on the AMC+ and Sundance Now streaming services. The series premiered in January.

Elaine Cassidy, Hazel Doupe, Amy de Bhrun, Stephanie Levi-John, Valerie O’Connor, Kelly Campbell, and Stephen Lord star in the series based on Vv James's novel. The story is set in a world where witchcraft is real.

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NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock launched with a big bet on the Olympics. In January 2020, in Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center, executives unveiled a plan to use that year’s Tokyo Olympics to help launch Peacock, including streaming the opening and closing ceremonies live before they aired on TV in the evening.

The Covid-19 pandemic, of course, would warp those plans. Peacock still launched in 2020, but when the Tokyo games finally happened the following year, NBCU had pivoted. Peacock would have live coverage of certain events like gymnastics and basketball, paired with some exclusive studio shows. Unfortunately, a confusing interface and some technical glitches marred the company’s plans, as executives now acknowledge.

“Frankly, we didn’t do a very good job for our customers,” said Mark Lazarus, chairman of NBCUniversal Media Group, speaking to reporters once again in Studio 8H. “We didn’t exactly deliver what we said we were going to deliver.

Michaels was the voice of ‘Sunday Night Football’ on NBC for years, and will now lend that voice to its Olympics coverage…kind of.

Peacock is going all-out to ensure its coverage of the Games of the Xxxiii Olympiad this summer draws the attention of audiences. The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris open on Friday, July 26, and Peacock has already announced an unprecedented level of coverage for the games. But NBC is taking things a step further, and announced today that it would be presenting “Your Daily Olympic Recap on Peacock” each day of the games, and that voiceovers for the recaps would be provided by none other than legendary sportscaster Al Michaels…or at least, an artificial intelligence (AI)-generated version of him.

Key Details: The daily recaps will become available on Peacock starting July 27. Fans can curate the types of highlights they want to see in the recap each day.

Al Michaels, whose call of the U.S. hockey team’s Olympics upset over the Ussr is a sports broadcasting milestone, will deliver AI-enhanced daily recaps of the Paris Games this summer on Peacock.

NBCUniversal’s flagship streaming service, which is carrying full coverage of all Olympic events, will present “Your Daily Olympic Recap on Peacock.” The company describes the mobile-focused feature as “a first-of-its-kind, personalized experience complementing NBCUniversal’s comprehensive coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.”

The feature stems from a collaboration with Michaels, the company said, using generative A.I. and A.I. voice synthesis technology. The recap will provide fans with their own customized playlist featuring highlights of the events most relevant to them from the previous day. Each compilation will feature clips from NBCU Paris coverage. A “high-quality A.I. recreation of Michaels’ voice” will provide voiceovers, with the virtual host trained on past appearances by Michaels on NBC.

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Peacock subscribers wanting to be dialed into the Summer Olympics (kicking off July 27 in Paris and airing across NBCUniversal platforms) will have the option of receiving daily, personalized recaps that feature the voice of Emmy-winning, Hall of Fame announcer Al Michaels.

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NBC is bringing Al Michaels back for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Or rather, NBC is bringing a version of Al Michaels generated by artificial intelligence to this year’s Games.

The company says that it is turning to generative AI software to re-create the iconic sportscaster’s voice, which will provide customized Olympic recaps for Peacock subscribers during the Olympics. It announced the offering at a press event held at Studio 8H in NBC’s 30 Rockefeller Center headquarters.

The result, which the company is calling “Your Daily Olympic Recap on Peacock,” will see users presented with a highly customized highlight playlist, narrated by Michaels, or at least by an AI voice that sounds eerily like the sportscaster.

That includes Michaels greeting the user by name, and digging into highlights from specific sports that the user has said they are interested in. The highlights can also be further customized to focus on things like viral moments,...

The platform will also air an NFL RedZone-style whip-around show hosted by the NFL Red Zone hosts.

While much of the sports world prepares for the men’s and women’s March Madness basketball tournaments to begin in earnest this week, on Wednesday, NBCSports unveiled a host of new features coming to Peacock for its upcoming complete coverage of the Summer Olympics in Paris. Last spring, the streamer announced that it would stream every single event of the Xxxiii Olympiad in France this summer. Now we have a few more details about what that coverage will look like; including brand new “Live Actions” and “Discovery Multiview” features.

Last year, Peacock announced that it would broadcast every event from the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Tuesday, the streamer announced two new features designed to enhance viewers’ Olympic-watching experience. One of the features is a Multiview function that provides context to what is happening in each event.

To understand the connection between sports and streaming video, consider this: Amazon’s $1 billion per year deal to stream Thursday Night Football is literally changing U.S. internet habits. Comcast president Mike Cavanagh, speaking Dec. 4 at a Ubs conference, said Amazon’s Tnf game “comprises roughly 25 percent of all internet traffic on Thursday nights” and that it single-handedly “moved peak data usage on our broadband network from Sunday night to Thursday night.” And Comcast, with more than 32 million broadband internet subscribers, knows where users are spending that valuable bandwidth.

It’s a cliché to say that sports is the glue holding together what’s left of the pay TV bundle, but while the bundle isn’t dead yet, every media company with sports rights has decided to go all in on streaming. Or, as analyst Brad Adgate notes, this is the year that leagues and broadcasters are starting to say,...

AMC+ and Sundance Now reveal the trailer and key art for the seven-part drama series, Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, written and created by Debbie Horsfield and adapted from the novel by V.V. James, which was hailed as “brilliant” and “captivating” by critics worldwide. The Sundance Now Original series debuts with a two-episode premiere on Thursday, January 4, exclusively on AMC+ and Sundance Now, with new episodes airing weekly. The series will be available on applicable platforms in the U.S. and Canada.

Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale is set in a contemporary world where witchcraft is real. It takes place in the idyllic English town of Sanctuary, where for hundreds of years witches have lived peacefully, as valued members of society. Until now…

At the heart of the story is Sarah Fenn (Elaine Cassidy), Sanctuary’s resident witch, on whom the town relies to solve their problems when conventional remedies have failed.

Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale is coming to Sundance Now and AMC+ in January, and viewers are getting a look at the new supernatural series with the release of a trailer.

Starring Elaine Cassidy, Hazel Doupe, Amy de Bhrun, Stephanie Levi-John, Valerie O’Connor, Kelly Campbell, and Stephen Lord, the series was created by Debbie Horsfield and based on the novel by Vv James. The contemporary drama is set in a world where witchcraft is real, and the story follows witches in the small English town of Sanctuary.

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Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Thursday, December 12, 2023.

Netflix has shared the official trailer for The Brothers Sun, its upcoming drama series from Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu.

"When the head of a powerful Taiwanese triad is shot by a mysterious assassin, his eldest son, legendary killer Charles 'Chairleg' Sun (Justin Chien) heads to Los Angeles to protect his mother, Eileen (Michelle Yeoh), and his naive younger brother, Bruce (Sam Song Li) — who’s been completely sheltered from the truth of his family until now," the logline teases.

"But as Taipei’s deadliest societies and a new rising faction go head-to-head for dominance — Charles, Bruce and their mother must heal the wounds caused by their separation and figure out what brotherhood and family truly mean before one of their countless enemies kills them all.

The trailer takes us into the world of the action-packed comedy,...

AMC+ and Sundance Now just released the first official trailer for the drama Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, based on the novel by V.V. James. The two-minute trailer introduces the town of Sanctuary, a haven for witches until a horrific accident changes everything.

The seven-episode season stars Elaine Cassidy as Sarah Fenn, Hazel Doupe as Harper, and Amy de Bhrun as Abigail. Stephanie Levi-John is Maggie, Valerie O’Connor plays Bridget Patterson, Kelly Campbell is Julia Garston, and Stephen Lord plays Ted. Debbie Horsfield created the series and adapted James’ novel. Lisa Mulcahy and Justin Molotnikov direct, and Monumental Television executive produces.

Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale premieres on January 4, 2024 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes arrive on Thursdays.

Poster for AMC+ and Sundance Now’s ‘Sanctuary A Witch’s Tale’

“Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale is set in a contemporary world where witchcraft is real. It takes place in...

Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale is coming soon. Sundance Now has revealed the premiere date for the supernatural drama series with the release of first-look photos. The show will also be released on AMC+.

Based on the novel by Vv James, the series is set in a world where witchcraft is real, and witches live among us. Elaine Cassidy, Hazel Doupe, Amy de Bhrun, Stephanie Levi-John, Valerie O’Connor, Kelly Campbell, and Stephen Lord star in the series created by Debbie Horsfield.

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Mike Birbiglia Sets “The Old Man and the Pool” Comedy Special at Netflix

Following a run on both Broadway and in the West End, Mike Birbiglia is bringing his comedy special “The Old Man and the Pool” to Netflix for all to see.

The new special is Birbiglia’s fifth for the streamer, starting with 2008’s “What I Should Have Said Was Nothing” and up to his most recent, “The New One,” in 2019. “The Old Man and the Pool” sees Birbiglia “take on life’s big questions: why are we here? What’s next? Exactly how much chlorine are they putting in the Ymca pool?”

The show ran on Broadway from Nov. 13, 2022–Jan. 15, 2023, followed by its run in London’s West End from Sept. 12–Oct. 7. The hour-long special debuts on the streamer on Nov. 21.

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Elaine Cassidy as Sarah Fenn in ‘Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale’ (Photo Credit: Szymon Lazewski/AMC)

Sundance Now and AMC+ have set a January 4, 2024 premiere date for Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, based on V.V James’ novel published in 2019. The drama will debut with the release of two episodes, followed by new episodes of the seven-episode season on Thursdays.

The premiere date announcement was accompanied by the first three photos from the series. The stills feature the series’ stars Elaine Cassidy as Sarah Fenn, Kelly Campbell as Julia Garston, Amy de Bhrun as Abigail Whithall, and Valerie O’Connor as Bridget Patterson.

The cast also includes Hazel Doupe, Stephanie Levi-John, and Stephen Lord. Debbie Horsfield created the series and adapted James’ novel. Lisa Mulcahy and Justin Molotnikov direct, and Monumental Television executive produces.

Valerie O’Connor as Bridget Patterson, Kelly Campbell as Julia Garston, Amy de Bhrun as Abigail Whithall,...

The highly-anticipated spin-off “The Continental: From the World of John Wick” premiered Friday on a streaming platform some in the industry would find surprising.

What makes the show stand out — apart from its miniseries format, comprised of three movie-sized episodes spread across three consecutive Fridays (a callback to television events of yore) — is the fact that the prequel, spun off from one of the crown jewels of the Lionsgate portfolio, landed on the NBCUniversal-owned streamer rather than on Starz, Lionsgate’s own premiere cable channel and streaming platform.

The question remains: Why?

The show takes place in New York in the 1970s, but exists in the same shared, blood-splattered universe where, decades later, Keanu Reeves’ John Wick would go on a roaring rampage of revenge.

Basil Iwanyk, founder of Thunder Road Films, the production and financing company behind “John Wick” and “The Continental,” said the decision to move the...

Your prospective stay at The Continental has been officially booked.

On Friday afternoon at the San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Peacock’s The Continental: From the World of John Wick will be released over three “nights” (read: days) on Friday, Sept. 22, Friday, Sept. 29, and Friday, Oct. 6.

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Apparently, Peacock saw the news that Netflix was going to open its first-ever pop-up restaurant in Los Angeles this week, and decided that it needed to upstage its much larger streaming rival. On Thursday, it was announced that the NBCUniversal streaming service would officially be taking over the naming rights of the iconic theater in the L.A. Live district.

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The 7,100-seat concert and special events venue formerly known as the Microsoft Theater is owned by Aeg and will be redubbed the Peacock Theater. Also, the 40,000 outdoor plaza formerly known as Xbox Plaza will now be known as Peacock Plaza.

Since 2008, the now-Peacock Theater has been the home of the Primetime Emmy Awards and has hosted the Grammys, American Music Awards, Espy Awards, People’s Choice Awards, BET Awards, and more throughout the years. The venue is also set to host weightlifting competitions as part of the 2028 Summer Olympics.

Peacock and Aeg have entered into a mutliyear agreement that will see major parts of LA Live in downtown Los Angeles renamed after the NBCUniversal streaming service.

Starting July 11, the Microsoft Theater will be known as the Peacock Theater, while the Xbox Plaza outside will be renamed Peacock Place. The deal, which was brokered by Aeg Global Partnerships, also makes Peacock the exclusive streaming partner of LA Live.

“Like Peacock, L.A. Live is at the epicenter of premium original entertainment, exhilarating sports, one-of-a-kind experiences and extreme fandom,” said Kelly Campbell, president of Peacock and direct-to-consumer for NBCUniversal. “Through Peacock Theater and Peacock Place, we’ll have the opportunity to bring all the elements of our brand to life with the millions of fans who visit L.A. Live each year, while partnering with the incredible team at Aeg to further cement Peacock as the ultimate destination for audiences.”

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ESPN, Fox and a pair of quadrennial global athletic events were among the big winners as the 44th annual Sports Emmy Awards were handed out tonight during a ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall in Manhattan.

Among programs, Fox and FS1’s coverage of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and NBC/USA’s Xxiv Winter Olympics tied with three Emmys apiece. ESPN and Fox led all network with nine trophies each, though the former beat with latter among network groups, 13 Emmys to nine.

A list of wins by program is here, and see the full list of winners recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences below.

Multiple Winners By Program

ProgramWinnersNetwork 2022 FIFA World Cup3 Fox/FS1XXIV Olympic Winter Games3NBC/USA2022 NCAA March Madness2tbs/CBS/TNT/truTVFox NFL Sunday2FoxNFL 3602Nfl NetworkOutside the Lines2ESPNSuper Bowl LVII2FOX

ESPN came into the ceremony with a leading 42 nominations.

The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics will be taking over daytime programming on NBC.

NBCUniversal announced its coverage plans for the upcoming summer games on Thursday, which includes at least nine hours of daytime programming on the broadcast network — more than any previous Olympics.

NBC plans to feature “that day’s most popular events live” across the morning and afternoon, including finals coverage of swimming, gymnastics, and track & field.

Following the daytime live coverage, NBC plans to deliver a primetime show each night with a three-hour recap of competitions, moments, and stories from the day’s events.

Peacock will be the streaming home of the 2024 Paris Olympics throughout the Games, which are scheduled to unfold from July 26 to August 11. In a first for the Summer Games, Peacock will stream every sport and event, including all 329 medal events, and will feature full-event replays. The streamer will also provide access to all NBC programming,...

NBCUniversal has stuck to a simple plan when it comes to its subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) streaming service. However, the way that the company has rolled out Peacock since the service’s launch in July 2020 has varied substantially from how other companies have entered the streaming space. Peacock is taking another big swing as it was announced on Thursday that the platform will provide live streams of every event at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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Peacock will stream every event from every sport, including all 329 medal events at the Games of the Xxxiii Olympiad. The service will also offer on-demand replays, complete NBC coverage, curated video clips, exclusive content, virtual channels, and more. The goal for NBCU is to provide the most-comprehensive Olympic coverage in U.S.-broadcast history.

NBC will provide a three-hour primetime recap show every evening designed to “take the American audience up close and inside the Olympic day.

NBC is betting big on broadcast TV and its Peacock streaming service for its 2024 Paris Olympics coverage, as it embraces more live coverage of the summer games.

NBCUniversal said Thursday that it planned to stream all 2024 Olympics events live on Peacock next year, a first for the summer games (the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics only saw a handful of events streamed live). In addition, the company says that it will air at least nine hours of coverage during the daytime hours, including live coverage of the finals for key events like gymnastics, swimming, and track & field.

The company says that the 2024 Olympics will see the NBC broadcast network air more live programming than in any prior Olympics. Telemundo will, as usual, have exclusive Spanish-language rights.

At the same time, the company says it plans to offer an “enhanced” version of its traditional primetime show. In years past when time zones have proved challenging,...

Peacock is spreading its wings and taking flight. NBCUniversal’s streaming platform stands at over 20 million users, and according to the company, viewers are not just flocking to the service for hit original shows like “Mrs. Davis” and “Poker Face,” or for content from Bravo or the Hallmark Channel.

Universal movies have also been a big draw for the service. Peacock reports that two out of every three of its users have watched a Universal film on the service, and since the service now claims around 22 million users, rough math indicates that translates to around 14.5 million viewers.

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That figure validates NBCU’s decision to shift its pay-one rights from HBO Max to its own streaming service. Until 2022, Universal movies were sent to the then Warner Media-owned streaming platform after their theatrical runs had concluded. At the beginning of last year, NBCU said enough was enough,...

NBCUniversal executives did not comment on the writers strike at Peacock’s New York-based NewFront presentation to advertisers Tuesday, even as hundreds of Writers Guild of America members and their supporters rallied in a picket line outside the 5th Avenue event.

The scripts for the occasion, led by Peacock president Kelly Campbell, were prepped ahead of Monday’s late-night call for a strike once contract negotiations broke down between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). They were not modified Tuesday to include remarks about the strike, despite the fact TV and film writers had gathered in mass outside at the WGA East’s only planned protest for Day 1 of the work stoppage.

“At NBCUniversal, we’re known for incredible storytelling. But my favorite story from this past year isn’t about a big-hearted human lie detector or a kick-ass nun on a mission,” Campbell...

Two-thirds of Peacock’s 22 million subscribers have watched a recent Universal theatrical film, the NBCUniversal streaming service announced at its NewFronts presentation Tuesday.

Emphasizing the value to advertisers of the pay-1 window for Universal films, the company told ad buyers in the audience that 95% of viewers expressed a favorable opinion of the ad experience during movies. Fresh releases generally have only pre-roll ads and then stream without commercial interruption. The new pay-1 setup came about last year when Universal’s output deal with HBO reached its end and NBCU, like all media players, re-examined its pay-1 strategy in light of streaming.

The NewFronts event unfolded against a rancorous backdrop as WGA members set up a picket line on Fifth Avenue just outside of the venue, forcing attendees to weave their way through hundreds of picketers. On the corporate front, NBCU is also regrouping after the sudden ouster of former CEO Jeff Shell.

The new regime at Peacock has spent the past nine months preparing to take its baby bird to new heights.

The number of big moves made by the NBCUniversal-owned streamer — from amping up its original content slate to livestream deals with Hallmark, Reelz and Big 10 college football to bringing NBC shows back into the fold for next-day viewing and eliminating its free tier for new users — is setting the stage for what executives hope will be a growth spurt in 2023. Peacock, which launched three years ago last month, will show of its brighter plumage Tuesday with its New Fronts presentation to advertisers.

“It’s all coming together,” says Peacock president Kelly Campbell, who signed on in October 2021 after serving as president of Hulu. “We’re just seeing an increasing interest overall when it comes to inflow and engagement, and people are stickier than they were in the past.”

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Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York City, including red carpets for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Love & Death, Bupkis and Fatal Attraction.

Chaplin Award Gala

Viola Davis was honored at the Chaplin Awards Gala in NYC on Monday, with support from Meryl Streep, Jessica Chastain, Steve McQueen, Gina Prince-Bythewood and husband Julius Tennon.

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Fatal Attraction premiere

Joshua Jackson, Lizzy Caplan, Amanda Peet, Alyssa Jirrels, Toby Huss, Brian Goodman, Reno Wilson and showrunner Alexandra Cunningham walked the carpet at the Fatal Attraction premiere in L.A. on Monday.

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Projects include ‘Orange World’, the latest from ’Sunlight’ filmmaker Claire Dix.

Katie Holly’s Irish production company Blinder Films, the outfit behind Extra Ordinary, Mr Malcolm’s List, Love And Friendship and Dublin premiere Sunlight, has re-launched as Keeper Pictures, with an expanded team and a bustling slate of development projects.

Long-standing Keeper Pictures producer Yvonne Donohoe has been promoted to a newly created role, head of creative. Evan Horan, who was associate producer on Mr Malcolm’s List, has been promoted to producer. Amy Carroll has joined as development executive, previously working at South of the River and Kudos,...

Do you want streaming to be more like network TV again? Well, Peacock has heard your prayers. The streamer has begun rolling out a new feature on the service allowing subscribers to watch their local NBC affiliate station online.

The livestream feature, announced by Peacock on Tuesday, is set to officially launch on November 30, but will begin appearing on certain subscribers’ profiles immediately, as the streamer rolls it out. The livestream can be found on the service’s channels page, which hosts linear broadcasts of other brands such as WWE, NBC News, and several sports franchises like the NFL and Premier League. Although Peacock has three subscriber tiers, the NBC affiliate livestream will be exclusive to the Peacock Premium Plus subscription, which charges 9.99 per month in exchange for zero ads.

Peacock will use geotagging to match subscribers with the NBC affiliate in their area. All 210 NBC affiliate markets across the U.

NBC is bringing further synergy to streamer Peacock with the addition of all-day access to the broadcast network for paying customers.

For Peacock Premium Plus customers, users who pay for the upgraded, ad-free version of the NBCUniversal platform, a 24/7 livestream for their local NBC affiliate station will launch beginning Nov. 8 and be available in all 210 markets by Nov. 30.

This livestream will offer real-time access to NBC’s local news, sports and weather, based on your local market, but also nationwide, daytime and primetime programming, including the “Today” show, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” and all of NBC’s primetime programming.

Per Peacock and NBC, “As early as today, Premium Plus subscribers will begin to see their NBC local affiliate channel livestream appear on Peacock as part of the soft launch, with all stations officially launching on November 30. Premium Plus customers will automatically see their geo-targeted, local channel appear on platform in the channels page,...

Subscribers to Peacock’s top tier will soon have 24/7 access to their local NBC affiliate stations via a dedicated channel on the streaming service.

The geotargeted channel will be available in all 210 NBC affiliate markets on November 30. The channel will only be on Premium Plus, the top subscription tier, which costs 9.99 a month. In theory, Plus was created for subscribers who are looking to pay more in order to have no ads, but the local station feed will have advertising, just as the conventional linear TV version does.

The move is a significant leap forward for local TV stations in the streaming era. Paramount+, since its earlier incarnation as CBS All Access, has similarly featured local CBS stations at the same top subscription tier as Peacock’s new offering. Execs at Paramount Global have long noted the significance of that viewing of live station programming, especially since sports and news...

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Live programming from NBC and local TV stations will begin to stream live on Peacock later this month, part of a broader push into live content by the NBCUniversal-owned streaming service.

All 210 local NBC affiliates are on board with the plan, which will launch nationwide on Nov. 30 (some markets will launch the streams sooner). The livestreams of local NBC stations will be available to Peacock Premium Plus subscribers, which costs 9.99 per month and does not have ads for its on-demand entertainment programming.

The NBC livestreams will mean that Peacock subscribers will be able to watch local news and sports, as well as NBC primetime programming, NBC News and late night shows like Saturday Night Live and The Tonight Show live through the streaming service.

Peacock already streamed some live sporting events and news programming, but the deal with affiliates brings the entire NBC network to the service,...

What better way to celebrate this festive season than with another way to watch those beloved Hallmark holiday movies? Peacock has announced that it has entered an agreement with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from its three channels — Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama — as part of a first-of-its-kind linear plus SVOD deal. You’ll be able to find the hub beginning on Wednesday, November 2, on Peacock’s home page. It will feature live simulcasts of all three channels with current season programming available live and on-demand the next day as well as a robust library of movies within the Hallmark library, including signature holiday favorites. “As we continue to make Peacock a premium streaming destination, Hallmark is exactly the type of brand we want to align with,” Kelly Campbell, President of Peacock, and Direct-to-Consumer, NBCUniversal, said in a statement. “Through this groundbreaking partnership,...

Just in time for holiday movie binge season, Peacock has cut a deal with Hallmark Media that calls for the NBCUniversal streamer to carry some live linear programming as well as on-demand options for Hallmark’s signature movies.

The deal reflects Peacock’s efforts to broaden its scope under the new management regime led by president Kelly Campbell. She decribed it as a “first-of-its-kind” deal for Peacock, which has struggled with visiblity and traction amid the larger industry battle for subscribers and market share.

“As we continue to make Peacock a premium streaming destination, Hallmark is exactly the type of brand we want to align with,” said Campbell, who is also president of direct-to-consumer for NBCUniversal. “Through this groundbreaking partnership, we’re giving Hallmark viewers a unique viewing experience while continuing to grow our audience, boosting engagement across both brands.”

The Hallmark-branded hub on Peacock, with content form Hallmark Channel,...

Peacock is adding a wealth of Hallmark content for premium subscribers.

The streaming service has joined forces with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama as part of a first-of-its-kind linear plus SVOD deal for the network.

Going live Wednesday, the dedicated brand hub will be prominently featured on Peacock’s home page as a singular destination for all things Hallmark Media.

Pretty great, right?

The hub will feature live simulcasts of all three channels with current season programming available live and on-demand next day as well as a robust library of movies within the Hallmark library, including signature holiday favorites.

“As we continue to make Peacock a premium streaming destination, Hallmark is exactly the type of brand we want to align with,” said Kelly Campbell, President of Peacock, and Direct-to-Consumer, NBCUniversal.

“Through this groundbreaking partnership, we’re giving...

Peacock is unwrapping an early Christmas gift for Hallmark groupies — a special hub that will offer live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama.

Going live on Wednesday, Nov. 2, the dedicated Hallmark hub will be prominently featured on Peacock’s home page as a singular destination for “all things Hallmark Media,” offering Peacock Premium subscribers (sign up here) live simulcasts of all three channels, next-day streaming of episodes from new seasons from current shows (such as When Calls the Heart and the 2023 premieres Ride and The Way Home), and a robust library of movies...

It’s not even November, but Peacock is getting ready for the holidays. The streamer has inked a deal with Hallmark Media to become the main home for the company’s original programming — including its many popular holiday films.

Starting November 2, Peacock will host a dedicated hub for Hallmark Media movies and TV shows. The hub will give subscribers the ability to watch live simulcasts of Hallmark Media’s three major channels: Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama. New premiere shows and movies — including the long-running “When Calls the Heart” and 2023 primetime premieres “Ride” and “The Way Home” — will be available to stream on demand the day after their linear premiere.

“We’re proud to enter this partnership with Peacock and bring our widely beloved Hallmark content to their subscribers,” Wonya Lucas, Hallmark Media CEO, said in a statement. “The opportunity to provide our devoted fanbase access to...

You’ll soon have another streaming option for Hallmark Christmas movies. Peacock has entered into an agreement with Hallmark Media to stream both live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama as part of a linear plus SVOD deal for the network.

Starting Wednesday, Nov. 2, there will be a dedicated Hallmark brand hub on Peacock as a destination for all things Hallmark, including live simulcasts of all three channels with current season programming available live and on-demand the next day, as well as the robust library of movies in the Hallmark library – including holiday favorites.

This launches just in time for Hallmark’s busiest time of the year, as it rolls out 40 new Christmas movies in 2022, all of which will be available to stream on Peacock throughout the season.

Prior to this deal, the only streaming option for Hallmark movies was the Hallmark Movies Now service.

Peacock has closed a pact with Hallmark Media to stream live and on-demand programming from Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama. It’s a first-of-its-kind linear plus SVOD deal for the network.

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Going live Wednesday, the brand hub will be featured on Peacock’s home page. It will feature live simulcasts of all three channels with current-season programming available live and on-demand next day as well as a library of movies within the Hallmark library, which includes holiday titles.

“As we continue to make Peacock a premium streaming destination, Hallmark is exactly the type of brand we want to align with,...

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Hallmark Channel is coming to Peacock.

The NBCUniversal-owned streaming platform announced a wide-ranging content deal with Hallmark Media on Monday, a deal that include streaming simulcasts of Hallmark’s linear channels, as well as a library of on-demand and next-day content.

The companies are branding the deal as a “first of its kind” arrangement that includes both the live linear channels (typically available through a cable or satellite provider) and a subscription video on-demand library deal.

Perhaps best known for its Christmas and holiday movies, Hallmark Media will bring those original films and it current series to Peacock, alongside a “robust” library offering. The linear channels available will include Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries and Hallmark Drama.

Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The deal with Hallmark is a rare streaming deal with a third-party for Peacock, which has mostly built...

Exclusive: NBCUniversal is restructuring Peacock’s publicity and corporate communications operations, sources tell Deadline. The streamer’s corporate communications team is being integrated into the broader TV & Streaming business, reporting into Mark Lazarus, Chairman, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, while publicity will become part of the marketing division, reporting to Peacock’s CMO Shannon Willett.

As a result, Peacock’s two senior corporate communications executives — Lisa Scalzo, EVP, Communications, Direct-to-Consumer and International, NBCUniversal Media; and Lisa McGann, SVP, Communications, Direct-to-Consumer — are leaving the company, we have learned. A rep for NBCU had no comment.

Peacock’s publicity group, led by Traci Saulsberry, SVP, Communications, Peacock, previously reported to Scalzo. The new publicity structure under Willett is still being figured out and executive changes/departures are expected in the coming weeks. The publicity team will continue to work closely with the Entertainment publicity team, something they have recently done on Days of...

Exclusive: The Writers Lab has set Shari Albert (Fishtown), Stephanie Bast (FrankenFamily), Kelly Campbell (Pyramid Scheme), Shari Lynette Carpenter (Translate), Nic Cohen (Artemis One), Rebecca Dreyfus (Men), Gwen Goodkin (The Plant), Tamara Maloney & Maeve McQuillan (Darkened Room), Arianna Ortiz, Zuri Rice (Green Hill), Roses Urquhart (This Is My Body) and Robin Shanea Williams (Adrienne Is Always Single) as the participants and projects for its eighth annual lab, supporting women screenwriters over the age of 40.

Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman have renewed their support for The Writers Lab, which will return to its in-person format for script development in 2022. The Lab has re-doubled its efforts to amplify the voices of women writers, calling for greater inclusion of their stories in film and television, in response to growing threats to women’s rights, with genre scripts (particularly comedies) and historical stories about pioneering women being seen most...

Peacock continues to expand its offerings in the reality show space and recently added the British series Made in Chelsea. The NBCUniversal streaming service released Season 18 through Season 22 on August 25 of the E4 reality series produced by Monkey Kingdom.

Made in Chelsea is a structured reality show following the lives of affluent twentysomethings living in London boroughs like Chelsea and Knightsbridge. The series has been airing since 2011 with a rotating cast of people throughout the years. E4 just finished airing in the U.K. the summer season that is set in Mallorca, Spain ahead of Season 24, which is expected to premiere in the coming weeks.

Made in Chelsea aired in the U.S. on the now-defunct Style Network back in 2012. In 2014, Bravo aired the summer season set in New York City. However, American viewers eager for more British reality television did not have access to the newer seasons of Mic until now.

With other streaming services like Netflix and Disney+ announcing price hikes in August of 2022, and/or adding ad-supported tiers, here's some news you'll likely be happy to hear. Well, for a while, anyway. Peacock, the NBC streaming service which is home to titles like "Modern Family," "The Office," and "They/Them," is about to become the exclusive stop for next day NBC and Bravo show streaming, according to TVLine. The change will happen on September 19, 2022, and will only affect current seasons of shows.

The outlet reports that the streamer will temporarily cut prices for their Premium tier, which you'll need to see those shows the next day. Subscribers to this tier will also have access to "Days of Our Lives," the soap opera that has been running for a whopping 57 years on NBC. It's about to move to streaming-only on September 12, 2022, meaning you're likely going to get a call from your parents or grandparents,...