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SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the extended version of the series finale of Riverdale. The sun has set on The CW’s Riverdale after seven seasons. The nostalgic final episode, aptly titled “Goodbye, Riverdale,” payed homage not only to the characters that audiences have watched…

Ava DuVernay is plotting a new path in television as her overall deal with Warner Bros. TV is coming to a close at the end of May.   The Selma director, who is behind series such as Netflix's When They See Us and Colin In Black & White as well as OWN series Queen Sugar, signed a five-year deal with…

Chuck Lorre unveiled his custom vanity card No. 669 at the end of each of his four comedies on CBS’ Thursday night lineup, with a tribute to former Warner Bros. Television Group chairman Peter Roth. Dubbed Peter In The Hug (With apologies to Casey at the Bat), Lorre referred to Roth as “our happy hugging hero”, a nod…

EXCLUSIVE: “I have to create and be a part of the change that I want to see, and so, after I go through the period of being on every panel and being in every article about diversity, I stopped doing that a couple years ago, and I said, no more panels," Ava DuVernay says of the impetus to create Array Crew, which…

It’s an end of an era at Warner Bros. as Peter Roth, one of the most accomplished TV executives of the past couple of decades, will be leaving the independent television studio in early 2021 after 22 years. Roth was upped to his current role as Chairman of the Warner Bros. Television Group in February when he signed a…

Peter Roth, who has overseen the television production operations of Warner Bros for the past 21 years, has signed a new one-year contract extension to remain at the helm of the independent TV studio. In conjunction with his new deal, Roth has been elevated to the newly created position of Chairman of the Warner Bros…

So, what’s been the big change at Warner Bros. studios since AT&T took over? “We used to have three bars, but now we have five bars,” joked Warner Bros. Studio chairman Toby Emmerich about the studio’s new corporate parent at today’s Produced By Conference. But, in all seriousness, Emmerich, who sat down in a morning…

Veteran Warner Bros. Television Group executives Susan Rovner and Brett Paul, most recently Presidents of Warner Horizon Scripted Television, have been promoted to Presidents of Warner Bros. Television, the group’s flagship scripted programming production unit. Both will continue to serve as Presidents of Warner…

UPDATED with John Stankey memo: WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey sent an internal memo to staffers Tuesday officially naming Toby Emmerich, Peter Roth and Kim Williams as the company’s interim leadership team. “We all recognize that operating day-to-day in this manner will be a little different from the normal course of…

The Peabody Awards has five new board members, and all are veterans of the entertainment business. Newly seated are Susanne Daniels, global head of original content at YouTube; Peter Roth, president and chief content officer for Warner Bros. Television Group; Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios; Michael Schwimmer…