Updated with TCM statement. Warner Bros Discovery’s TCM is officially discontinuing its Underground sub-brand, two months after laying off programmer Millie De Chirico.
TCM’s official Twitter handle confirmed the news on Wednesday, which riled up cinephiles on the social platform. The final titles carrying the Underground label will air on Friday. “Classic cult favorites and hard-to-find films will always be in our DNA, and we will continue to find ways to showcase them,” the company said in a statement.
No further staff reductions will result from the official end of the banner, a rep confirmed to Deadline. Wbd, which reports its quarterly earnings Thursday afternoon, has been on a quest to deliver $3.5 billion in cost savings following the April 2022 merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery.
Previously:
“Well, it’s been a great 18 1/2 years, but my job was cut in a company restructure recently which means tomorrow is my last day at TCM,...
TCM’s official Twitter handle confirmed the news on Wednesday, which riled up cinephiles on the social platform. The final titles carrying the Underground label will air on Friday. “Classic cult favorites and hard-to-find films will always be in our DNA, and we will continue to find ways to showcase them,” the company said in a statement.
No further staff reductions will result from the official end of the banner, a rep confirmed to Deadline. Wbd, which reports its quarterly earnings Thursday afternoon, has been on a quest to deliver $3.5 billion in cost savings following the April 2022 merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery.
Previously:
“Well, it’s been a great 18 1/2 years, but my job was cut in a company restructure recently which means tomorrow is my last day at TCM,...
- 2/23/2023
- by Tom Tapp and Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Suzanne Malveaux, who has been an anchor and correspondent for CNN for the past 20 years, is leaving the network.
In a note to staffers on Friday, she said that she had “made the heartfelt decision to put myself and my family first and to pursue my long-desired professional passions: using storytelling to promote wellness, resiliency and social justice.”
Malveaux is the latest veteran to depart the network. Barbara Starr, longtime Pentagon correspondent, exited last month. Others, including Martin Savidge, were part of the round of layoffs in early December, affecting hundreds of staffers. Although Malveaux’s name was rumored then as one of the on-air figures who was exiting, a source said that her departure was unrelated to the layoffs.
She wrote in her memo that she approached CNN in the fall of 2022 “about focusing on my family and possibly pursuing some new opportunities,” and that the network “supported me.
In a note to staffers on Friday, she said that she had “made the heartfelt decision to put myself and my family first and to pursue my long-desired professional passions: using storytelling to promote wellness, resiliency and social justice.”
Malveaux is the latest veteran to depart the network. Barbara Starr, longtime Pentagon correspondent, exited last month. Others, including Martin Savidge, were part of the round of layoffs in early December, affecting hundreds of staffers. Although Malveaux’s name was rumored then as one of the on-air figures who was exiting, a source said that her departure was unrelated to the layoffs.
She wrote in her memo that she approached CNN in the fall of 2022 “about focusing on my family and possibly pursuing some new opportunities,” and that the network “supported me.
- 1/6/2023
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The hundreds of layoffs at CNN this week were, as CNN boss Chris Licht predicted, a “gut punch,” but the question for staffers — and viewers — is what will happen next.
For viewers, the changes may be apparent in a number of ways, particularly at Hln, where the Robin Meade-anchored Morning Express is ending and Meade, whose first day on air at Hln was Sept. 11, 2001, is departing along with staffers. Instead, CNN will replace the morning show with a simulcast of CNN This Morning, the relaunched version of New Day. Hln, which was formerly the newscast-dominated Headline News, had shifted for the rest of the day to largely a format of true-crime shows, something that resembles Warner Bros Discovery sibling network ID. So it wasn’t a complete surprise that ID would take on responsibilities for the true-crime block.
Licht has indicated that, as the network undergoes cuts, he wants...
For viewers, the changes may be apparent in a number of ways, particularly at Hln, where the Robin Meade-anchored Morning Express is ending and Meade, whose first day on air at Hln was Sept. 11, 2001, is departing along with staffers. Instead, CNN will replace the morning show with a simulcast of CNN This Morning, the relaunched version of New Day. Hln, which was formerly the newscast-dominated Headline News, had shifted for the rest of the day to largely a format of true-crime shows, something that resembles Warner Bros Discovery sibling network ID. So it wasn’t a complete surprise that ID would take on responsibilities for the true-crime block.
Licht has indicated that, as the network undergoes cuts, he wants...
- 12/2/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
CNN Worldwide Chairman and CEO Chris Licht outlined the network’s changes as the network went through a significant round of job cuts.
“At the highest level, the goal is to direct our resources to best serve and grow audiences for our core news programming and products,” Licht wrote in a memo to staffers on Thursday.
“To achieve these goals, we will be reducing open job positions, reimagining our workflows and aligning our staffing, investments and focus around three key strategic priorities: programming, newsgathering and digital. All decisions are designed to strengthen the core of our business.”
A couple of hundred positions were impacted by job cuts on Wednesday and Thursday, including paid contributors and salaried employees. Among those departing are political analyst Chris Cillizza and anchor, correspondent Martin Savidge and Hln’s Robin Meade.
Some of the biggest changes will happen at Hln, its former Headline News channel. CNN...
“At the highest level, the goal is to direct our resources to best serve and grow audiences for our core news programming and products,” Licht wrote in a memo to staffers on Thursday.
“To achieve these goals, we will be reducing open job positions, reimagining our workflows and aligning our staffing, investments and focus around three key strategic priorities: programming, newsgathering and digital. All decisions are designed to strengthen the core of our business.”
A couple of hundred positions were impacted by job cuts on Wednesday and Thursday, including paid contributors and salaried employees. Among those departing are political analyst Chris Cillizza and anchor, correspondent Martin Savidge and Hln’s Robin Meade.
Some of the biggest changes will happen at Hln, its former Headline News channel. CNN...
- 12/1/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated: Some of the major cutbacks at CNN are occurring at Hln, which will cease live programming, while its true crime line up will be merged with Investigation Discovery to produce its true-crime slate.
A simulcast of CNN This Morning will take the place of Hln Morning Express with Robin Meade, according to a source with knowledge of the plans. Meade is leaving the network along with staffers who were part of the layoffs, and Weekend Express also will be dropped from the schedule. The true crime programming will move to Warner Bros. Discovery and Kathleen Finch, chairman and chief content officer of the U.S. networks group.
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A simulcast of CNN This Morning will take the place of Hln Morning Express with Robin Meade, according to a source with knowledge of the plans. Meade is leaving the network along with staffers who were part of the layoffs, and Weekend Express also will be dropped from the schedule. The true crime programming will move to Warner Bros. Discovery and Kathleen Finch, chairman and chief content officer of the U.S. networks group.
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- 12/1/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
CNN will no longer produce live programming on its Hln network in the latest round of intense budget slashing and layoffs. With that decision comes the end of Morning Express with Robin Meade, and the anchor will be leaving the network after two decades on air. A simulcast of CNN This Morning will take the Morning Express time slot, according to Variety. Hln’s true-crime programming will remain but will now be produced in partnership with Investigation Discovery. In addition to Meade’s departure, a handful of correspondents and journalists were also laid off from the network in the Thursday, December 1 cuts. CNN correspondents Alison Kosik, Martin Savidge, Alex Field, Mary Ann Fox, and Chris Cillizza are reportedly among those let go. Additionally, up-and-coming daytime anchor Ana Cabrera will reportedly leave CNN for NBC News, per a separate Variety report, and will likely end up at MSNBC. Cabrera has anchored CNN Newsroom’s 1 p.
- 12/1/2022
- TV Insider
CNN’s cost-cutting efforts are expected to have significant effects on the cable network Hln, according to four people familiar with the matter, with potential ramifications for one of the nation’s longest-running morning programs.
Hln, the cable network once known as CNN Headline News, is home to a bevy of true-crime series, endless showings of “Forensic Files,” and “Morning Express with Robin Meade,” with a host who has been at the network since 2001. Now, all of that is under the microscope. In addition, a number of popular correspondents and journalists were terminated from the Warner Bros. Discovery backed outlet Thursday.
CNN will no longer produce live programs for Hln, according to one of these people, and will simulcast “CNN This Morning” in place of “Morning Express,” the A.M. news program that takes up most of Hln’s daytime schedule. Hln’s true-crime programming will be placed under the...
Hln, the cable network once known as CNN Headline News, is home to a bevy of true-crime series, endless showings of “Forensic Files,” and “Morning Express with Robin Meade,” with a host who has been at the network since 2001. Now, all of that is under the microscope. In addition, a number of popular correspondents and journalists were terminated from the Warner Bros. Discovery backed outlet Thursday.
CNN will no longer produce live programs for Hln, according to one of these people, and will simulcast “CNN This Morning” in place of “Morning Express,” the A.M. news program that takes up most of Hln’s daytime schedule. Hln’s true-crime programming will be placed under the...
- 12/1/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Rep. Steve King is back in the news and, somewhat surprisingly, it’s not for his overt racism. Not directly, anyway. This time, the Iowa Republican is drawing headlines for comparing himself to Jesus, telling an audience that the criticism he faced earlier this year for said racism reminded him of the persecution Christ had to endure before he was crucified by the Romans. This all happened while King was reflecting on the meaning of Easter, apparently.
“For all that I’ve been through — and it seems even strange for...
“For all that I’ve been through — and it seems even strange for...
- 4/24/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Bad news, everybody: Jon Stewart isn’t actually launching a Kickstarter campaign to buy CNN, despite what last night’s Daily Show might have you thinking.
The joke drive came up during a segment about Rupert Murdoch’s recent bid to purchase Time Warner. If the deal had actually happened—or if it does happen eventually—Time Warner would be forced to sell off its subsidiary CNN, since the news net’s work conflicts with that of News Corp’s own Fox News. (Though fans of both CNN and Fox would probably balk at the comparison.)
But who would buy CNN in this hypothetical situation?...
The joke drive came up during a segment about Rupert Murdoch’s recent bid to purchase Time Warner. If the deal had actually happened—or if it does happen eventually—Time Warner would be forced to sell off its subsidiary CNN, since the news net’s work conflicts with that of News Corp’s own Fox News. (Though fans of both CNN and Fox would probably balk at the comparison.)
But who would buy CNN in this hypothetical situation?...
- 7/23/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Watch Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" skewer the "Circle of News," where he lambasts the way CNN covers its own coverage of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight.
"The only place they haven't looked for the plane, as far as I can see, is up their own a**holes," says Stewart, before showing a clip of CNN doing a story about Martin Savidge doing a story about the missing plane.
Is it about Savidge helping the search and rescue efforts? Has he maybe been injured in his efforts to help find the plane? No. He's been "sitting in a flight simulator in Canada," and apparently social media has become quite taken with him.
Stewart calls it "'The Search for the Fake Twitter Feed of the Real Guy Fake-Searching for the Real Plane,' a CNN exclusive CNN report." Hee.
"The only place they haven't looked for the plane, as far as I can see, is up their own a**holes," says Stewart, before showing a clip of CNN doing a story about Martin Savidge doing a story about the missing plane.
Is it about Savidge helping the search and rescue efforts? Has he maybe been injured in his efforts to help find the plane? No. He's been "sitting in a flight simulator in Canada," and apparently social media has become quite taken with him.
Stewart calls it "'The Search for the Fake Twitter Feed of the Real Guy Fake-Searching for the Real Plane,' a CNN exclusive CNN report." Hee.
- 4/2/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
CNN chief Jeff Zucker patted himself on the back again Friday — this time in re the amount of time his network has spent covering the George Zimmerman murder trial, instead of covering the coup in Egypt at the height of that unrest. “A bunch of bunk” is how he described the nicking his network has received at the hands of industry navel-lint gazers. “I feel increasingly comfortable and confident that we got it in the right balance,” Zucker said this morning at the Iese Business School, as reported by the AP. Industry critics are unused to the likes of Zucker at CNN; he’s a master of promotion, and this marks the second time he’s publicly patted himself on the back while critics howl, since he took over at CNN six months ago. Last time was during the network’s coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, during which the...
- 7/12/2013
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
Ariel Castro's two brothers have disowned and distanced themselves from their sibling, whom they consider "a monster" who should rot in jail following his arrest last week on accusations of kidnapping and holding three young women captive in his grimy Cleveland home for up to a decade until their rescue last Monday. "I had nothing to do with this, and I don't know how my brother got away with it for so many years," Pedro Castro, 54, in a joint interview with his brother Onil Castro, 50, conducted by CNN's Martin Savidge this weekend. Initially believed to be potential suspects, Pedro...
- 5/13/2013
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Tune in alert for CNN en Español for Monday, May 13, at 6 p.m. (Et). CNN en Español will broadcast an exclusive interview on Directo USA with Pedro Castro and Onil Castro, brothers of the Cleveland kidnapping suspect, Ariel Castro. The interview was granted to CNN en Español.s Ines Ferre and CNN.s Martin Savidge. In this exclusive interview, the two brothers of Cleveland kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro say they knew nothing of the crimes their brother is accused of. .I can.t explain the pain and suffering these women went through for so many years,. Pedro Castro, 54, said to Ferre. .I am very hurt by what has happened and I want the families to know this,. Onil...
- 5/13/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
CNN's Martin Savidge got schooled while covering the arrival of the disabled Carnival cruise ship, which docked in Mobile, Ala., following five hellish days without power and running water. While interviewing one of the passengers, Rob Kenny, Savidge likened the situation's "isolation factor" to Hurricane Katrina. "They never heard anything either," said Savidge. "Your mind begins to race .... you think you're all alone. And of course, any rumor becomes solid fact." To which Kenny responded: "Let's put that in perspective. I mean, Katrina was a major devastation. We're on a freaking cruise ship, and we're just out having a good
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- 2/15/2013
- by Erin Carlson
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Researchers at University of Washington are hard at work to figure out if the entire universe is just a massive computer program, similar to the one in "The Matrix." The scientists point out that if there is any truth to this, then we would be able to communicate with other universes, if they're on the same platform. According to one of the researchers, Martin Savage, computer simulations are decades away from creating even a primitive working model of the universe. In fact, scientists are only able to accurately model 100 trillionth of a meter, with work to create a model of a full human being still out of reach. It will take many years to reach the computational power to give a real glimpse of whether we are living in a simulation. But even by looking at the tiny portion of the universe that we can currently accurately model, it may...
- 12/14/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
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