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EXCLUSIVE: Higher Ground is stepping up its TV series efforts. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's media company, which just re-upped its Netflix deal with a multiyear first-look film and TV agreement, has brought in Showtime’s Jessie Dicovitsky as Head of Television. This marks the first time…

María José Rodríguez, the veteran international TV executive who just exited her role in charge of original production at Amazon’s Prime Video in Spain, has been hired as managing director of Globomedia, the Spanish-based content producer run by The Mediapro Studio. In the new role, Rodríguez, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Natalie Bjelajac has been set as Netflix’s new VP of U.S. publicity, events and publishing. Bjelajac joined Netflix 6 1/2 years ago. Before that she was at Fox for 10 years and Sony Entertainment for six years. She began her career in personal publicity at BWR. Campaigns she has played a…

Armando Nuñez Sr., the longtime international television distribution executive who worked for CBS, 20th Century Fox and ITC Entertainment, died of natural causes July 10 in Miami. He was 96. The Cuba-born Nuñez worked for 20th Century Fox both in Havana and New York before moving to ITC…

EXCLUSIVE: Hidden Empire Films has hired Tracey L. Kemble as Head of Feature Development. Kemble previously worked at Jesse Collins Entertainment, where she served as EVP of the company's scripted content. Prior to that she was SVP Development & Production at Reina and Regina King's Royal Ties…

Steven Cardwell, the former vice president of Originals Marketing at HBO and Max, has joined the entertainment strategy and audience insights agency Waiting in the Sky as a partner. In his new role, Cardwell will help bolster the company’s mission to “build a home for the world's most inspiring and…

Warner Bros Discovery’s international kids content unit has reshaped, with several execs taking on expanded roles and APAC chief Christopher Ho exiting. Kids content chief Vanessa Brookman outlined the changes in the past few minutes in a note to staff seen by Deadline. She was promoted to GM of…

Sony Pictures Entertainment has upped Louise Heseltine to SVP, Corporate Communications in the Motion Picture Group. Heseltine will continue to report to Tahra Grant, EVP, Chief Communications Officer, who was promoted earlier this year.   Heseltine joined the Culver City, CA lot in 2020 as…

Paramount Global stock fell 5% on Monday as investors absorbed details of the company’s merger agreement with Skydance Media. The companies are targeting a closing of the deal in the third quarter of 2025. Skydance and its backers are investing $8 billion in Paramount in a transaction assigning the…

In the wake of Skydance Media’s landmark merger agreement with Paramount Global, Skydance CEO David Ellison acknowledged the need for patience during the road ahead before the deal is expected to close. With about a year’s worth of regulatory review and preparation ahead of the projected…

EXCLUSIVE: Neighborhood Watch, the New York-based production company behind titles like Cannes prize winner Blue Ruin and the Netflix docuseries Killer Sally, has brought in Dal Wolf to serve as Managing Director and Executive Producer. Other new additions to the roster, who will create projects…

EXCLUSIVE: Linden Productions has hired veteran producer and executive Deanna Barillari as SVP of Development and Production, Deadline has learned. Barillari joins after consulting in Physical Production at MGM Features and serving as VP of Production and Development for Wishmore Entertainment. In…