Category Archives: Variety

Peter Naylor, a media-industry veteran who has held senior ad-sales roles at NBCUniversal, Snap and Hulu, is leaving Netflix after joining the company in 2022 as it launched its first foray into lurin...

Netflix isn’t against creating a streaming bundle — just a certain type of bundle. In a Thursday letter to shareholders that accompanied its Q2 financial results, the company noted why you...

Netflix rang up solid subscriber gains in the second quarter of 2024 — which were considerably better than Wall Street expected — and posted financial results that beat forecasts. The indu...

JoAnn M. Hunter, the choreographer of Broadway’s “School of Rock” and “Bad Cinderella,” has been hired to direct the upcoming musical “Yasuke: The Black Samurai....

Bob Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical comic whose TV series "The Bob Newhart Show" and "Newhart" were huge hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94. N...

“Trust in Love” has been acquired by Gravitas Ventures for theatrical distribution and video-on-demand release following a successful festival run during which it garnered it 30 awards acr...

Leighton Meester and Quenlin Blackwell have both been cast in guest star roles in Rachel Sennott’s HBO comedy pilot, Variety has learned exclusively. The two will appear alongside Sennott in the...

At just 15 years old, actor Chloe Coleman’s list of co-stars already includes Hollywood legends and A-listers. Appearing in blockbuster productions such as “Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Amo...

After decades of fighting for pay equity, costume designers in theatrical and television (other than on one half-hour television) received a wage increase of over 40%, bringing the scale rate in line ...

CNBC just made its last call on “Last Call,” the outlet’s second attempt in recent months to offer business-news programming to evening audiences. The NBCUniversal-backed cable netwo...