Comcast Exploring Spinoff Of Nbcu Cable Networks Into New Company

The Latin Grammy Premiere ceremony taking place on Nov. 14 will be hosted by María Becerra, Juliana and Luísa Sonza, Variety can exclusively confirm. The event — which will be live streamed across all Latin Academy platforms ahead of the Latin Grammys — will also feature performances by nominees Fonseca, Ale Acosta and Valeria Castro, […]

Comcast, amid the upheaval in the TV biz caused by cord-cutting, is considering spinning off NBCUniversal’s portfolio of cable networks into a new publicly traded company. Comcast president Mike Cavanagh announced the exploratory plans on the conglomerate’s Q3 2024 earnings call. NBCU’s cable networks include Oxygen True Crime, Bravo, MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, E!, Syfy, […]

In a cinematic first, both Queen Elizabeth II from “The Crown” and the real Queen Elizabeth feature in “Paddington in Peru.” Olivia Colman’s all-singing, guitar-wielding and “The Sound of Music”-inspired nun — who runs a “home for retired bears” — is one of the noisier (and wildly entertaining) new additions to the franchise.

Despite blue skies over Greece’s second city ahead of the opening ceremony, the 65th Thessaloniki Film Festival kicks off Oct. 31 under clouds of uncertainty, with the war in Ukraine raging toward its three-year anniversary and the year-old Israel-Hamas conflict spilling into neighboring countries and threatening to engulf the entire Middle East.

Comcast found a way to get it past its usual challenges of consumers leaving its cable offerings and getting people to visit its theme parks: the Olympics. This summer’s extravaganza from Paris helped the cable-and-entertainment conglomerate power its way past some of its business issues, with overall revenue up 6.5% to $32.07 billion compared to […]