YouTube TV Calls Disney “Unnecessarily Aggressive” In Carriage Talks, With “Antiquated View” Of Pay-TV Economics

YouTube TV Calls Disney “Unnecessarily Aggressive” In Carriage Talks, With “Antiquated View” Of Pay-TV Economics

Disney has been ‘unnecessarily aggressive and assertive” in carriage talks with YouTube TV, with an “antiquated view” of the economics of pay-TV. That’s the assessment of a YouTube executive involved in the negotiations, who agreed to share perspective from inside the tech giant with Deadline, on the condition that their name and job title would…

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‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Winner Fik-Shun Leading Vertical Series ‘Pizza Guys Vs Vampires’ For New Streamer

‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Winner Fik-Shun Leading Vertical Series ‘Pizza Guys Vs Vampires’ For New Streamer

EXCLUSIVE: A fitting one for Halloween. Former So You Think You Can Dance winner Dushaunt “Fik-Shun” Stegall is leading cast in short form mobile series Pizza Guys vs Vampires, which is due to debut this week on new US vertical streaming platform Inverted.film. The Flashback Pictures production is an 80s-inspired action-comedy following pizza delivery driver…

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Busy Philipps, Sean Kaufman & Alfredo Narciso To Guest Star In NBC’s ‘Stumble’

Busy Philipps, Sean Kaufman & Alfredo Narciso To Guest Star In NBC’s ‘Stumble’

EXCLUSIVE: Busy Philipps (Girls5eva, Cougar Town), Sean Kaufman (The Summer I Turned Pretty, For All Mankind), and Alfredo Narciso (The Summer I Turned Pretty, Manifest) have been set as guest stars in NBC‘s new comedy Stumble, from Jeff and Liz Astrof. Stumble, which has a mockumentary style, will follow Happy’s Place on Fridays as part of two comedy blocks…

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