☀️NETFLIX Explores L.A. Studio Buy, YT & SIRIUS Set Partnership
A24 gets Curry Barker for remake / NEON makes next Cannes buy / NETFLIX sharks score, teen comedy muted
Mornin! This is Sean McNulty (connect with me on LINKEDIN here if ya like or email me at seanmcnultynyc@gmail.com), and here’s the Hollywood + Media news to know on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.
Where I’m not sure why META employees are too surprised that their employer is tracking their every computer keyboard, mouse and click movement, given this is the company actively creating a surveillance state at large with META glasses . . . but here we are.
Just be sure to get as much keyboard productivity in before the 8,000-person layoff next month! Thx, mgmt.
AND: Tribeca Fest added its TV programming in June, including the S2 premiere of FX’s Adults and DIS+’s X-Men ’97 and final season premiere of NETFLIX’s Survival of the Thickest (full info here).
THEN: MS NOW added former top CBS Mornings exec Shawna Thomas as its new Political Director.
KUDOS: To Jack Quaid and fellow Boys co-star Claudia Doumit on their Australian wedding.
OH: FILM LA is cutting the prices of location permits for smaller productions (microdramas, student films) in a 6-month pilot program.
PLUS: CNN is doing an America Laughs with Matt Friend special on Friday night at 11 p.m. in advance of Saturday’s WHCD.
ALSO: PSKY/Ellison has begun making the TV Upfront pitches to advertisers through a series of bespoke events once again, forgoing a formal big Upfront presentation next month.
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