As part of larger layoffs at Amazon, the company will let go of 400 Twitch employees. This is the second major round of Amazon layoffs in the past six months; around 9,000 total workers will be impacted, including the Twitch staffers. More: - The news came just days after Twitch co-founder and CEO Emmett Shear stepped down and was replaced by former president Dan Clancy.
- Twitch reaches around 31 million visitors each day, and ranks among the Top 50 most visited websites in the world.
- Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has indicated that more layoffs may be on the way, but that the process should be completed by "mid to late April."
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 Kevin Garnett The sports-focused cable replacement service FuboTV plans to rebrand itself as simply "Fubo." The company announced a new marketing and branding campaign to evangelize and promote the service, led by Ryan Reynolds' agency, Maximum Effort. More: - The new Fubo tagline will be "If Sports Fans Built a Streaming Service."
- NBA star Kevin Garnett and NFL vet Mark Sanchez will serve as the company's first celebrity endorsers.
- Last year, Fubo inked an unscripted development deal with Maximum Effort and launched a dedicated channel for the company's content on the platform; in exchange Maximum Effort received equity in the streamer.
- Fubo added 323,000 net subscribers in 2022; it now boasts around 1.44 million total paying users.
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DAILY CALENDAR TUESDAY, MARCH 21 WE LOST OUR HUMAN: Interactive animated adventure comedy special from the creators of the kids' series "Pinky Malinky." When a glitch in the multiverse causes all humans to disappear, two pampered pets go on a journey through time and space to bring them home. The voice cast includes Ayo Edebiri, Ben Schwartz, Lauren Tom, Henry Rollins, and Jon Glaser. [Netflix] NOPE: 2022 sci-fi horror film from writer/director Jordan Peele, starring Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer as sibling ranch owners determined to capture the bizarre phenomenon taking place in the skies above their property on film. Steven Yeun, Michaell Wincott, Brandon Perea, and Keith David co-star. [Amazon]
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 HBO's "The Last of Us" GLAAD released the 18th edition of their "Where We Are on TV" report, about LGBTQ representation on television in the previous year. The group found that overall representation of gay people and relationships was down, but racial diversity among depicted members of the LGBTQ community had increased to more than 50%. More: - The survey is based on regular and recurring characters appearing on scripted primetime broadcast, cable, and streaming series between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023.
- GLAAD found 141 LGBTQ characters on broadcast, 139 on cable, and 356 on streaming services.
- The streaming services included in the survey were Apple TV+, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, and Paramount+.
- The group expects these numbers to dip next year, as several shows featuring LGBTQ characters have been canceled or are in the midst of their final seasons.
- The percentage of bisexual characters had also sharply dipped this year, from 29% last season to just 25% in 2022; there were additionally eight asexual TV characters this year, on shows including "Chucky," "Big Mouth," and "The Umbrella Academy."
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 Daniels Filmmakers Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, often billed as "Daniels," collaborated on the upcoming Disney+ "Star Wars" series "Skeleton Crew." The duo recently wrote and directed "Everything Everywhere All At Once," which took home seven Oscars this month, including Best Picture and Best Director. More: - The secretive "Star Wars" project was produced starting last summer, and wrapped within the last few months.
- Kwan responded on Instagram to concerned fans who feared the duo would be "sucked up by the corporate machine," noting that the duo only guest-directed a single episode of the series.
- The series is produced by "Spider-Man: No Way Home" director Jon Watts, and centers on a group of kids who get lost in the galaxy and must find their way home.
- Jude Law has been cast in a central role in the series.
- Daniels have also inked a five-year deal with Universal to produce additional films.
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 "Gutfeld" According to Variety, Fox News Media plans to de-emphasize politics and focus on entertainment and lifestyle programming in its upcoming pitch to advertisers. Fox News Media executives will meet with potential sponsors on Tuesday, and plan to spotlight the comedy chat show "Gutfeld" and original content produced for the Fox Nation streaming service, which airs on weekend evenings on the cable network. More: - Current Fox News Media executive VP of advertising sales, Jeff Collins, notes that 40% of the company's overall audience tunes in for "lifestyle" content, which includes sports, weather, and entertainment, as opposed to news and current events.
- Annual TV network pitches to advertisers are known as "upfronts."
- A defamation lawsuit brought against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems, alleging the network's anchors knowingly aired false claims about the company's actions and technology, is slated to go to trial in April.
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 Paul Feig Netflix grabbed the rights to produce a film adaptation of the Riley Sager novel "The House Across the Lake." "Bridesmaids" and "The School for Good and Evil" vet Paul Feig may come on board to direct the film. More: - The project comes from producing duo Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter, the duo behind the CW's "Arrowverse" TV series.
- The book centers on a recently-widowed actress who retreats to a remote Vermont lakehouse to escape the attention of the press and becomes fascinated with the glamorous couple living across the way.
- Feig is next slated to direct the dystopian action-comedy "Grand Death Lotto," starring Awkwafina and John Cena, for Amazon.
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 Julianne Hough Julianne Hough will rejoin "Dancing with the Stars" as a co-host in its upcoming 32nd Season. She first appeared on the show as a dancer in 2007, then returned in 2014 for a three-year stint as a judge. More: - Tyra Banks recently announced she won't return as host for Season 32.
- Alfonso Ribeiro will replace Banks as the show's new permanent host; Hough will assume Ribeiro's former duties, interviewing dancers following their performances.
- Judges for Season 32 include Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Derek Hough; Len Goodman also announced his departure from the franchise.
- Banks had replaced long-time hosts Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews after Season 29.
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 "Rebel Moon" During a recent appearance on the "Nerd Queens" podcast, filmmaker Zack Snyder announced development of an immersive new role-playing video game (RPG) based on his upcoming Netflix film "Rebel Moon." Snyder said he'd pitched the concept himself to an unnamed game studio, while noting the project is still early in the development process. More: - The two-part sci-fi film stars Sofia Boutella, Djimon Hounsou, and Ed Skrein, and centers on an interplanetary battle against a brutal warlord.
- "Rebel Moon" is scheduled for release on December 22.
- This week, Snyder also announced a theatrical re-release of his DC Universe films.
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- The bilingual limited series "Casa Grande," about the interconnected lives of California migrant workers and the landowners who reap the profits from their labor, will stream on Amazon Freevee in the US starting on May 1.
- The Sundance hit "Rye Lane," a rom-com about two strangers (Vivan Oparah and David Jonsson) bonding during a walk around South London, comes to Hulu in the US on March 31.
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