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UPDATED 4.32 p.m. GMT (8.32 a.m. PT): Donald Trump's legal team is threatening to sue the BBC for $1B, a filing has revealed. The BBC has been given until this Friday at 5 p.m. ET (2 p.m. PT) to respond to the threat, according to the legal filing obtained by Deadline. The filing demands…

After wrapping Season 13 of the Canadian mockumentary in August, Mike Smith is stepping back from Trailer Park Boys amid a sexual assault lawsuit against him. The group behind the Netflix comedy noted that they take “such matters seriously” and that Smith has “stepped away” from his role as…

CBS and Sony Pictures Television have settled their differences when it comes to Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. The two companies, who have spent the last year in a battle over the syndicated distribution rights to the two daytime game shows, have reached an agreement. In February, Sony inf…

Blake Lively says Justin Baldoni’s alleged It Ends With Us misconduct and subsequent preemptive smear campaign cost her some serious cash, and now the Gossip Girl star wants it back — triple time. Newly unsealed disclosure documents reveal that Lively’s bottom line in her ongoing sexual…

Just over a year after Mark Zuckerberg joined other tech lords at Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the Meta CEO is going to find himself testifying in an L.A. courtroom on the dangers and potentially fatal harm that Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Snap are accused of inflicting on young…

For a second time in less than six months, Blake Lively’s legal action against a self-declared social media “hired gun” allegedly engaged by Justin Baldoni’s team to assist in an online smear campaign against the It Ends With Us star has been tossed over geography. Specifically, as he did in July…

Republicans wasted no time taking Gavin Newsom to court on after Tuesday night’s big Proposition 50 win for the ambitious California governor. Still, even after Donald Trump late Tuesday threatened California’s successful redistricting measure with legal action, Newsom today declared he’d just…

The Motion Picture Association has warned Instagram parent Meta to cease and desist the recently introduced Teen Accounts that are "guided by PG-13," which the organization says exploits its ratings brand.  "The MPA's ratings program is a rigorous, human-driven process where every film is…

Sean Combs may not get out of prison until 2028, but the ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ performer has been cut a couple of breaks lately that could make his sentence softer, and perhaps even shorter. Mere days after Diddy was moved to a low security facility in New Jersey, a federal appeals judge today…

Netflix has retained financial advisory firm Moelis & Co to explore a potential bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. The streaming service has enlisted the investment bank to evaluate a potential offer for Warners’ streaming and studio business, following its work advising Skydance Media on its Paramo…

Like everyone in town, Ken Ziffren knows someone new is going to own Warner Bros Discovery soon, but he won't say who – sort of. "Can’t help but mention the pending acquisition of WBD by a company called Paramount, Paramount Skydance or PSKY," the circumspect grand dean of Tinseltown lawyers…

A carriage battle may see all the Disney-owned channels disappear from YouTube TV on Thursday, but today the Bob Iger-run company and the Google-owned platform have reached a detente over an executive they both wanted working for them. “A Notice of Settlement of Entire Case has been filed in…