Negromancer News Bits and Bites from October 26th to 31st, 2025 - UPDATE #6

by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

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NEWS:

TELEVISION - From Variety:  Gayle King has been the face of CBS News‘ morning show, "CBS Mornings," for more than a decade.  Now, she is expected to depart as an anchor of that program next year, according to four people with knowledge of the situation. With the news division of CBS under a major overhaul by the new Skydance regime and with her current contract ending in May 2026, King could still return in a new role..

TELEVISION - From Deadline:  Paramount is losing its most prolific TV creator as Taylor Sheridan has signed a long term deal with NBCUniversal.  Sheridan is the mastermind behind such series as "Yellowstone," "Landman," and "Lioness."  Sheridan's producing partner, David Glasser, is also moving to NBCUniversal.  The deal begins in early 2026.

TELEVISION - From Deadline:  ABC is putting work into finding the next big TV music competition series and it has turned to Simon Cowell, a maestro of the genre to test a new format.  ABC and Cowell are working on a series called "Who's In The Band." Cowell will sit on a panel of judges that includes Joe Jones, Mel B of the "Spice Girls," songwriter Savan Kotecha, and Rei Ami, who provided the singing voice for the character, "Zoey" in Netflix's animated film, "KPop Demon Hunters."

BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficePro: The winner of the 10/24 to 10/26/2025 weekend box office is Sony Pictures/Crunchyroll's "Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc" with an estimated total of 17.25 million dollars.

MOVIES - From Deadline:  Oscar-nominated actor, Austin Butler, is in talks to play "Sonny Crockett" in Universal Pictures' new film based on the former NBC crime drama, "Miami Vice" (1984-90).

OBITS:

From THR:  American actress and daytime soap opera writer, Margaret DePriest, has died at the age of 94, Monday, September 29, 2025.  As a woman, DePriest was a pioneering head writer or co-head writer of such soap operas as "The Doctors" (NBC, 1976), "General Hospital" (ABC, 1980-81), "Days of Our Lives" (NBC, 1982-84), "Another World" (NBC, 1986-89, 1996-97) and "All My Children" (ABC, 1989), to name a few.  In 1969, DePriest co-created with Lou Scofield the former CBS soap, "Where the Heart Is" (1969-73).  She was nominated five times for the "Daytime Emmy Award" in the category of "Best Writing."  She was also a soap opera actress and appeared in former CBS soap opera, "The Edge of Night" (for which she was also the co-head writer) and in "The Doctors."

From Deadline:   English actress, Prunella Scales, has died at the age of 93, Monday, October 27, 2025.  Scales was best known for her portrayal of "Sybil Fawlty," the bossy wife of rude and put-upon hotel owner, "Basil Fawlty" (John Cleese), in the beloved for BBC sitcom, "Fawlty Towers" (1975-79). She received a British Academy Television Award nomination for "Best Actress" for the role of "Queen Elizabeth II" in the 1991 TV movie, "A Question of Attribution." Scales was also a presenter on the British documentary TV series, "Great Canal Journeys" (Channel 4), from 2014 to 2019.