Wichita State Men’s basketball player Isaiah Poor Bear-Chandler isn’t pleased with how his culturally significant name was mocked by CBS Broadcasters. The basketballer is half Native American from the Oglala Lakota tribe and grew up on a reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. CBS Sports broadcasters Chris Walker and Chick Hernandez joked that “Poor-Bear” was “Pooh Bear” … Read more
Television Critics Tour will resume in-person panels in January, but not everyone is coming back to the party at The Landham Huntington in Pasadena. CBS will be a no-show, as well as The CW. Half of the press tour is Disney. The TCA president told members in an email that production changes, as well as … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: NCIS: Los Angeles co-star Eric Christian Olsen’s Cloud Nine Productions (Woke) has sold four projects, two comedies and two dramas, at CBS. The network is developing Family Insurance, a single-camera Latinx family workplace comedy co-written, executive produced and starring Al Madrigal; Mixed Signals, a single-camera romantic comedy from writer Liz Thompson inspired by her … Read more
CBS has set a date for Byron Allen presents theGrio Awards special where African-American excellence is honored. Co-hosted by Sheryl Underwood from The Talk and Taye Diggs, the two-hour award show will air on Saturday, Nov. 26 starting at 8 p.m. ET. Honorees include Dave Chappelle (Cultural Icon Award), Ben Crump (Justice Icon Award), Allyson … Read more
One of CBS’s West Coast subsidiaries has paused its postings and interactions on Twitter, in light of ongoing uncertainty over the future of the social media platform. Taking to Twitter, naturally, to announce the news, KPIX-TV said it would be pausing its activity while it continues to monitor the platform. In light of the uncertainty … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing The Hilsons, a multi-camera family comedy from The Neighborhood team of writer/actor Malik Sanon and star/executive producer Cedric the Entertainer, production companies Kapital Entertainment and TrillTV, and studio CBS Studios. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders Cedric the Entertainer and Malik Sanon on ‘The Neighborhood’ In The Hilsons, … Read more
Newly installed entertainment president Amy Reisenbach sent a memo to staff today to bolster confidence in CBS and to remind her team that “broadcast is not dead.” “I want to let you in on my mantra. Despite what you may have read or heard; BROADCAST IS NOT DEAD,” she wrote in the memo obtained by Variety. … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Kahl, one of the longest-tenured top executives in broadcast TV, will leave his post as President of CBS Entertainment at the end of the year after five and a half years in his current role and 26 years total at the network. George Cheeks, President & CEO, CBS and CCO, News & Sports, Paramount+, … Read more
Ten United States senators are seeking an update on a series of auto safety improvements called for in the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure bill, which was signed into law one year ago today. The senators’ letter inquires about the status of a total of 10 safety improvements called for in the year-old infrastructure bill and comes … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: The single-camera comedy series Talk Nerdy To Me, created by writer and podcaster Dana Schwartz (She-Hulk: Attorney At Law), is in early development at CBS, Deadline has learned. The project is produced by Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit under their overall deal at with Disney Television Studios. Talk Nerdy to Me is a single-cam workplace … Read more