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Prime Video has picked up the family drama series The Baxters, from LightWorkers Media, the faith and family-focused company founded by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey which is owned by Amazon MGM Studios through Amazon’s the acquisition of LightWorkers parent MGM. The 10-episode series, based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM Studios’ production partnership with Dutch format creator Concept Street has come to an end. In a statement issued this morning, Concept Street chief Roy Aalderink revealed the joint venture with the Amazon-owned company had “concluded as originally intended after five…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Burnett is in talks to launch his next production venture following his departure from Amazon-owned MGM. Deadline understands that Survivor and The Apprentice creator Burnett has been approached by various people about financing opportunities for a new production…

Mark Burnett, Chairman of MGM's Worldwide Television Group, is exiting after the company's $8.5B acquisition by Amazon. Burnett is leaving the company and will return to "independently creating and innovating" but will continue to oversee his legacy series, which include Survivor, Shark Tank and The V…

EXCLUSIVE: The process of integrating MGM into the broader Amazon universe is starting to gain momentum eight months after the $8.5B sale by the tech giant was completed. Deadline understands that employees across MGM's television and film business who have contracts have been offered one-year…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contain details about Maggie Haberman’s Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, which was published today.  "Trump's not an actor," Maggie Haberman says of the man who once fronted The Apprentice and occupied the Oval Office. "He just happened…

Editor’s note: This post on the Jan 6 committee hearings by our TV critic Dominic Patten has been reclassified from a review to a commentary, and has been edited to better reflect the author’s point of view. In trying to opine that the presentation of evidence about a horrific day in American history did not rise to…

EXCLUSIVE: CNBC, which has long aired daily Shark Tank episodes in primetime, has greenlit a new variation on the entrepreneurial mainstay called Business Hunters. The new series, which focuses on everyday people deciding to take a risk and buy business as a departure from their 9-to-5 job, is from the same duo behind…

Generation Gap, the game show from Jimmy Kimmel and Mark Burnett, is finally getting a slot at ABC. Nearly three years after its order, the network will launch the series this July with Kelly Ripa as host. TV Cancellations Photo Gallery: Shows Ending In 2022 & Beyond The show, which is produced by Kimmel's Kimmelot…

Following the $8.5 billion sale of MGM to Amazon, two town hall meetings were held today, the first with MGM employees and the second with Amazon Studios and Prime Video staffers. Both led by Amazon Studios and Prime Video SVP Mike Hopkins detailed a new organization structure: MGM Motion Picture Group Chairman…

EXCLUSIVE: Major League Soccer (MLS) is one of the fastest growing sports leagues in the U.S. and it's now getting its own reality TV treatment. Mark Burnett and MGM Television have teamed up with the booming soccer league and its newest expansion team Charlotte FC for reality competition series Welcome To The Team…

Much of the coverage of Amazon's $8.45 billion deal to acquire MGM has focused on the company's film attributes and the impact on theatrical distribution. The executive shuffle on the film side, featuring the likes of Michael De Luca, will get a lot of headlines, as will the importance of owning IP and a film library…