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Sean Combs may not get out of prison until 2028, but the ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ performer has been cut a couple of breaks lately that could make his sentence softer, and perhaps even shorter. Mere days after Diddy was moved to a low security facility in New Jersey, a federal appeals judge today…

Netflix has retained financial advisory firm Moelis & Co to explore a potential bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The streaming service has enlisted the investment bank to evaluate a potential offer for Warners’ streaming and studio business, following its work advising Skydance Media on its Paramo…

Like everyone in town, Ken Ziffren knows someone new is going to own Warner Bros Discovery soon, but he won't say who – sort of. "Can’t help but mention the pending acquisition of WBD by a company called Paramount, Paramount Skydance or PSKY," the circumspect grand dean of Tinseltown lawyers…

A carriage battle may see all the Disney-owned channels disappear from YouTube TV on Thursday, but today the Bob Iger-run company and the Google-owned platform have reached a detente over an executive they both wanted working for them. “A Notice of Settlement of Entire Case has been filed in…

UPDATED, 2:24 PM: The man convicted or murdering model and aspiring actress Christy Giles and her friend Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola was sentenced today to life in prison. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter imposed the maximum sentence David Pearce, 43, which actually was 146 years…

With an appeal filed this week, Warner Bros TV is making another incision to stop the legal exhumation of The Pitt, and whether or not claims the Noah Wyle-starring Emmy-winning medical drama is a rip-off of ER will go to trial. "There was no evidence that The Pitt was made by copying from or…

(Updated with second Dr. Phil statement + Trinity Broadcasting & Professional Bull Riders statements) A federal judge today ruled Dr. Phil cannot clean his own slate with a Chapter 11 for his now dead Merit Street Media and the multi-million dollar deal he had with Trinity Broadcasting. However, the…

UPDATED with latest: A Paris public prosecutor requested suspended sentences of between three to 12 months for 10 people accused of cyberbullying against French First Lady Brigitte Macron as a two-day trial drew to an end Tuesday. Most the defendants, who are accused of spreading fake news…

The much-accused Sean Combs could be out of prison in less than three years, if he keeps out of trouble. Almost a month after the sex trafficking- and RICO-charged Diddy was sentenced to four years (50 months) behind bars on the two lesser counts of transportation to engage in prostitution he…

UPDATED with Steve Coogan statement: Steve Coogan has issued a statement reacting to the settlement that he has struck with Richard Taylor over the 2021 film The Lost King. He said that due to the ill health of Philippa Langley, whose recollection of events around the finding of King Richard…

Among the broadcast networks, the CBS Evening News on Thursday was the only news program not to mention Donald Trump's sudden pardon of money-laundering cryptocurrency billionaire Changpeng Zhao. While ABC, CBS and PBS all covered the somewhat surprising legal break delivered to the convicted…

Sony's It Ends With Us adapted Colleen Hoover's powerful story about domestic violence and a resilient woman, but drama between stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni behind the scenes and afterwards has lingered beyond the film's release in theaters. Arriving to the big screen last August and later…