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MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount want to stay in business with the Emmy-winning Antoine Fuqua and his Hill District Media banner. The executive producer of the Paramount+ drama Mayor of Kingstown has signed an overall deal with the studios that will focus on original scripted and unscripted content for TV. 101…

Yellowstone continues to defy gravity, posting linear ratings not seen on ad-supported cable in years and rarely seen on broadcast television these days. In Week 2 of Season 4, the Taylor Sheridan drama starring Kevin Costner drew massive 7.5 million viewers in Live+Same Day, just -7% off its record-breaking two-hour…

ViacomCBS has restructured its international reporting structure, bringing its global business under the control of a trio of U.S. execs. George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins have all been promoted as part of the move. Cheeks, who is President and CEO, CBS Entertainment Group, will expand his role to…

UPDATED 1:30 PM: ViacomCBS has unveiled a powerful 8-minute, 46-second video tribute to George Floyd, which marks the time in which Floyd was pinned to the ground with a police officer’s knee on his neck, resulting in his death. You can watch above. In an internal memo, ViacomCBS President of Entertainment and Youth…

The ripple effect from the Viacom-CBS merger — and the network realignment and executive shakeup that accompanied it — continues. The company’s Entertainment & Youth division, run by Chris McCarthy, has promoted two senior scripted executives, Comedy Central Co-head of Original Content Sarah Babineau, as well as…

EXCLUSIVE: Peabody has appointed six new members to its bicoastal board of directors, with the aim of advancing the organization’s commitment to storytelling. Chris McCarthy, ViacomCBS's newly appointed president of entertainment and youth brands, and ESPN’s executive vice president of content, Connor Schell, have…

2ND UPDATE with confirmation and Bob Bakish statement: Viacom and CBS has officially confirmed the wide-ranging content shake-up across its ranks that will see Comedy Central veteran Kent Alterman leaving the fold and MTV Networks boss Chris McCarthy and CBS Chief Creative Officer David Nevins  adding to their…

With CMT being integrated into the Music Group (MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo), the Viacom network is eliminating several positions in the Nashville operations of CMT. Deadline has learned that the effort to streamline departments such as scheduling, communications and marketing is resulting in a number of positions being…

EXCLUSIVE. On his way up the corporate ladder at Viacom, Chris McCarthy has added oversight of several networks, including MTV, VH1, Logo and CMT. As is the case everywhere in television, most of them have needed revitalizing. But no rebuilding project came close to the challenges at MTV. For most of the 2010s, the…

Viacom Media Networks is undergoing another round of consolidation into four brand groups: Comedy Central, Paramount Network and TV Land under Kent Alterman; MTV, VH1, CMT and Logo under Chris McCarthy; BET Networks and Nickelodeon. Kevin Kay will step down as President, Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT following a…

EXCLUSIVE: Three years after Van Toffler exited as President of MTV Networks Music & Logo Group after a 28-year career at Viacom, he is returning to MTV as a producer. The cable network has given an eight-episode series order to Too Stupid To Die, a reality show from Van Toffler’s Gunpowder & Sky. It is set for a June…

MTV has renewed Jersey Shore Family Vacation for a second season ahead of the Jersey Shore revival’s April 5 debut as MTV's first ever day-and-date global premiere. Jersey Shore Family Vacation, from creator/executive producer SallyAnn Salsano, is part of the recent ramp-up of unscripted programming at MTV that has…