Lucas Manfredi is a TV Business reporter at TheWrap, writing about the programming, executives and trends in the television and streaming industries. Prior to joining the TheWrap in November 2022, he spent four years at Fox Business as a production assistant and a reporter on its digital team. He has a Bachelor of Science in Television-Radio production from Ithaca College and can be reached at lucas.manfredi@thewrap.com.
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Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham to Star in Apple TV+ Drama Based on Lars Kepler Crime Novels
Rowan Joffe and John Hlavin will serve as showrunners and EP Tim Van Patten will direct the first two episodes
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Starz Posts Widened $136 Million Operating Loss, 6% Revenue Decline in First Report After Lionsgate Split
The results for its fourth quarter of 2025 included a $177 million restructuring charge, primarily from reassessing its content portfolio
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Meryl Streep to Return for ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 5
The actress will reprise her role as Loretta Durkin, who tied the knot with Martin Short’s Oliver Putnam at the end of Season 4
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Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video Claim 92% of Streaming Sports Programming
The three streamers, along with Apple TV+ and Paramount+, saw TV, movie and sports programming grow 5% in the second quarter of 2025, with the latter category up 7.8%, per Nielsen’s Gracenote
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Telemundo Launches ‘Caso Cerrado’ FAST Channel
The 24/7 offering will air over 800 hours of the courtroom drama series hosted by Dra. Ana María Polo
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‘The Daily Show Presents’ Scores Best Share Ever With Jordan Klepper’s MAGA ‘Fingers the Pulse’ Special | Exclusive
“MAGA: The Next Generation” is the highest-rated special for the Comedy Central late night show in four years
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CAA Taps Brent Weinstein to Oversee Digital Media, Podcast and Games Businesses
The executive will also lead the talent business ventures and speakers divisions and be involved in the agency’s M&A and investment activities
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‘The Last of Us’ Co-Creators Never Entertained an Alternative to Jesse’s Finale Fate: ‘Always Sealed’
Neil Druckmann says it will have a “drastic” impact on Ellie and Dina’s relationship moving forward
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Reed Hastings Joins Anthropic Board of Directors
In addition to serving as Netflix’s board chairman, the executive has been a member of the boards of Facebook and Microsoft
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5 Big Trends From Earnings Season: Linear and Box Office Decline, Fox News’ Trump Bump and AI Surges
The latest round of media and tech earnings saw Hollywood take a hit
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‘The Last of Us’: Craig Mazin and Ariela Barer Break Down Mel’s Devastating Twist and Why It Changed From the Game
Barer also weighs in on the character’s potential return in Season 3 after that Abby time jump
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AMC Networks Promotes Olivia Dupuis to EVP of Publicity
She will lead consumer publicity and talent relations for the company’s five cable networks, six streaming services and two film distributors
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CBS, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Reach New Tentative Agreement
The union said the pact is “one of the most significant wage packages in the nearly 90-year history of the relationship”
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The Latest on How Streamers Stack Up in Profits and Losses, Subscribers and Revenue
As Netflix ditches quarterly subscriber and user revenue counts, the latest quarter’s results show the race continues to tighten amongst the legacy media players
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YouTube Climbs to Record 12.4% Share of TV Viewing in April
Disney held onto the second place spot with a share of 10.7%, boosted by sports and the month’s most-watched streaming title, “Grey’s Anatomy”
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