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TV Academy President Maury McIntyre Talks Emmy Noms, Legacy Award, How Multiple Late-Night Shows Might Win & A Pending TV Rights Deal
The nominations for the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards are out and Television Academy president and CEO Maury McIntyre is excited ahead of the show in September. It was a big day for shows such as Hacks, The Pitt, Widow’s Bay, Pluribus and Beef, and McIntyre was pleased with the variety of nominations. In an interview with…
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Oregon A.G. Seeks Delay of Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger, Suggests DOJ Approval Was ‘Corrupt’
Oregon’s attorney general has asked a court to delay the closing of the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger by 60 days while it continues investigating whether the deal breaches antitrust law. The move matters because it could hold up one of the largest media consolidations in recent memory, even after federal regulators cleared it, and because the…
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Anonymous Content’s Darren Walker on Company’s 10 Emmy Nominations and Nominee Sally Field’s ‘Motherly’ Dating Advice
Anonymous Content, the production and talent management company, secured 10 Emmy nominations, prompting jubilant celebrations at its Los Angeles office. The haul matters as a marker of recovery for a firm that has struggled since the death of founder Steve Golin in 2019, and it comes just five months into the tenure of new president…
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HBO’s Casey Bloys Gets Nostalgic Thinking About All Those Emmy Nominations
Since Casey Bloys took over HBO programming in February 2016, he and his team have been responsible for 1,208 Emmy nominations and 276 wins. This morning, the company landed another 122 nominations, thanks to record hauls for Hacks and huge performances for The Pitt, which landed 24 and 25 noms, respectively. HBO Max scored three…
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Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game
Football’s three defining stars of the past two decades — Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Mohamed Salah — are preparing for life after the game, and their off-pitch strategies are increasingly diverging. As the 2026 World Cup marks Ronaldo’s final tournament and another career milestone for Messi and Salah, Messi and Ronaldo have moved heavily…
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Casey Bloys on HBO’s Huge Emmy Noms Haul, ‘The Pitt’ Dominance, Whether He Has ‘Heated Rivalry’ Regrets and His Own Future Post-Merger
HBO’s content chief Casey Bloys spoke to Variety after the platform led the 2026 Emmy nominations with an industry-topping 122 nods, driven by strong showings for the drama “The Pitt” and the comedy “Hacks”. The haul marks a high point in Bloys’s decade running HBO, but it arrives amid uncertainty, as the pending acquisition of…
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With EU backing, QuantumDiamonds aims to speed up chip manufacturing
QuantumDiamonds, a German startup spun out of the Technical University of Munich, has secured €76 million in non-dilutive funding from Germany’s federal economy ministry and the state of Bavaria, approved by the European Commission under the European Chips Act. The money will fund a new Munich facility to produce semiconductor testing equipment, part of a…
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Mark Zuckerberg And Meta Deride “Headline-Seeking” Damages Sought By State AGs In Social Media Safety Suit: “Untethered From Reality”
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg have hit back at a group of US state attorneys general who are seeking up to $1.4 trillion in damages in a federal lawsuit alleging the company misled consumers over its data practices. In a court filing this week, Meta’s lawyers dismissed the figure as “untethered from reality” and without precedent,…
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Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues
The union representing workers at Bethesda, the studio behind Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, has alleged that the company’s human resources department ordered staff to take down a display honouring colleagues who had been laid off. The claim matters because it points to tensions between the unionised workforce and management over how recent job losses…
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Autonomous drone delivery startup Manna plots major U.S. expansion
Manna Aero, the Ireland-based autonomous drone delivery startup, has announced a significant push into the United States, marking a shift from its previously modest American presence. Backed by $50 million in venture capital raised in April, the company will build a US operations and manufacturing centre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that is expected to employ around…