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📄 A group of former FCC chairs and top agency officials of both parties are asking current chairman Brendan Carr to end the early review of broadcast licenses for ABC stations, calling it “an assault on free speech disguised as regulatory process.”
🖥️ MGM+ has picked up internationally financed drama series Embassy starring Anna Kendrick, Sam Heughan and J.K. Simmons.
🏆 The Television Academy, which is behind the Emmy Awards, and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which puts together the Daytime Emmy Awards, have begun exploratory talks on a potential reunification almost 50 years after their acrimonious split.
🎬 Netflix has announced Women Like Us, a new comedy from Charles D. King’s Macro Film Studios and the Obamas’ Higher Ground. It will star Whoopi Goldberg, Jenifer Lewis, Vanessa Williams and Vivica A. Fox.
🦚 In a significant boost to NBCUniversal's streaming fortunes, the media giant has set an agreement to bundle Peacock with YouTube Premium.
💜 Purple Rain is coming to Broadway in 2027 as a musical adapted from Prince’s 1984 feature film and Grammy-winning album of the same name.
⚖️ A federal magistrate judge ruled that Donald Trump's trust will be compelled to provide financial documents from his businesses to the BBC, as the network defends itself from the president’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit.
