What's news: CBS releases a traditional fall TV schedule amid pandemic uncertainty, Spotify scores a podcasting coup with Joe Rogan move, will the "Baseball Rule" apply to reopening movie theaters and theme parks? Tom Hanks film skips theaters for Apple, shakeups at ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The CW's Batwoman, DGA and PGA rework award eligibility requirements to account for closed theaters. Plus: Jamie Lee Curtis inks a deal with Blumhouse, reviews of The Lovebirds and HBO Max's Love Life. --Alex Weprin

 CBS Hopes For The Best With Fall Schedule

►CBS plots a business as usual Fall schedule — for now. While fellow broadcast networks Fox and The CW have found creative ways to "corona-proof" their fall schedules, CBS opted for a more optimistic view as it holds out hope that production on new and returning dramas and comedies can resume this summer and make their fall debut.

--CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl did, however, admit in an interview with THR's Lesley Goldberg that it's "highly unlikely" that 90 percent of the network's schedule will launch during the traditional Premiere Week in late September. The hope, he said, is for production to return to work sometime in the summer — be it June or as late as August — with scripted launches potentially being staggered on a show by show basis that will be determined by when it's safe to resume production. Here's the schedule, and the interview with Kahl.

Other TV pickups and renewals...

+Fox is firming up its 2021 slate. The network, which is holding back live-action scripted fare that wasn't previously produced for 2021, has renewed comedy Last Man Standing and drama The Resident for additional seasons. The deal with Disney-owned 20th Century Fox Television will see the Tim Allen multicamera comedy return for its ninth season, while the studio's medical drama The Resident will be back for its fourth cycle. More.

+They did cancel Outmatched: As expected, Fox has opted to cancel the rookie comedy starring Maggie Lawson and Jason Biggs. The series was the independent broadcast network's lone live-action comedy that it picked up this time a year ago. More.

+NBC News and Blumhouse Television are teaming up on a scripted series project based on a true-crime story Dateline has covered numerous times in recent years. The indie studio and recently launched NBC News Studios will develop a limited series based on the case of Pam Hupp, who is serving a life sentence for a 2016 murder in Missouri and is a suspect in an unsolved 2011 case. More.

+Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Motherland renewed at Freeform. Disney's younger-skewing cable network will also bring back Grown-ish and Good Trouble in 2021, when rookie Cruel Summer will join the schedule. More.

+Greenleaf spinoff in the works at OWN. The cable network and producer Lionsgate TV are developing a spinoff of the megachurch drama. The news comes as OWN has set a June 23 premiere date for Greenleaf's fifth and final season. More.

►Spotify just made arguably its biggest podcast move yet. The service has scored a major coup, inking a multiyear licensing deal to bring The Joe Rogan Experience exclusively to its audio streaming platform. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, means that Spotify will eventually become the exclusive home for the popular podcast, which regularly ranks as one of the top podcasts on Apple's charts. The comedy talk series will remain free and accessible to all Spotify users. It will debut on Spotify on September 1, 2020, and be available on other platforms until it becomes exclusive to the streamer later this year. The story.

--Context: Spotify has made podcast a top priority for the company, spending north of $500 million on acquisitions that include Gimlet Media, the monetization platform Anchor, and Bill Simmons' The Ringer. The Joe Rogan move suggests that the company will spend what it thinks it needs to in order to become the dominant podcasting platform.

►Will the "baseball rule" apply to reopening movie theaters and theme parks? As Walt Disney World's Disney Springs shopping complex begins to reopen today, Eriq Gardner takes a look at what more than a century worth of lawsuits over foul balls can teach us about placing legal responsibility for COVID-19 injuries.

Quote: "I'm 62 and I grew up in New Jersey, and everyone knew you could get beaned by a baseball," says David B. Stern, a partner at Jeffer Mangels. "We went to Yankees games and were told to bring our mitts and watch the ball. Now, you've got phones, and people aren't paying attention. Owners know that. Maybe you need to take care of these fans. Is it coddling? Yes. But circumstances have changed." The story.

 In Movie News...

 Tom Hanks WWII drama Greyhound moves from Sony to AppleTV+. Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, which delayed the release of the movie indefinitely, Sony had pushed the release of the movie from May 8, 2020 to June 12, 2020. In the wake of the pandemic, with theaters shuttered, the studio has off-loaded several theatrical titles to streaming including Sundance movie Charm City Kings and Seth Rogen comedy American Pickle. The story.

+Marlon Wayans, Neal H. Moritz teaming for romantic buddy action-comedy Ride or Die. Wayans and Rick Alvarez wrote the script, which Moritz picked up via the discretionary fund of his banner, Original Film. Wayans and Alvarez will produce via their Ugly Baby banner, along with Moritz and Original’s Toby Ascher. More.

+Jamie Lee Curtis inks first look deal with Blumhouse. The first project under the deal, which is for both film and television, will be the Curtis directed eco-horror movie Mother Nature, which is centered around climate change. Curtis wrote the film with Russell Goldman, who has also been appointed as head of development for film and television at Comet Pictures. The story.

+Halle Berry to star in Roland Emmerich's sci-fi movie Moonfall. Berry joins Josh Gad, who was first to sign up, in the thriller that Emmerich, who made destroying Earthly landmarks his signature with movies such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, co-wrote and is directing. More.

+The Great creator Tony McNamara re-teaming with Yorgos Lanthimos for gothic western Hawkline Monster. The two previously worked together to make Oscar-winning The Favourite. Now they are are tackling an adaptation for New Regency. More.

+Michael Madsen's SXSW winner The Garden Left Behind lands global deal. Hewes Pictures picked up the film, which revolves around a young Mexican trans woman. More.

+Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley to tackle Malamander for Sony Pictures. The adaptation of the Thomas Taylor book will mark Cooley's live-action directorial debut. More.

+Hulu lands Leonardo DiCaprio produced doc And We Go Green. The film, which documents the rise of Formula E electric car racing, will premiere on the service on June 4. More.

 Following in the footsteps of the Oscars, the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Producers Guild of America announced on Tuesday that it is "temporarily adjusting its rules for eligibility" for its top honor, the Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures.

--"To accommodate films that may be forced to have initial nontheatrical public exhibition or distribution," the guild will still qualify films that were "initially made available on a commercial streaming or VOD service" in 2020. The story.

+The DGA is on board, too: The DGA has joined the Producers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild in declaring that films that were not able to receive a planned theatrical release in 2020 because of the coronavirus crisis will still be able to compete for top guild honors — specifically, its theatrical feature film, first-time feature film and documentary categories. More.

 Shakeups at 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' And 'Batwoman'

►Jimmy Kimmel Live! shake-up. The show's longtime executive producer Jill Leiderman is stepping down, with veteran producer Sharon Hoffman set to succeed her. Though a shake-up has been in the works for the better part of a year, change doesn't come easily to Kimmel or his ABC show. Unlike The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which has gone through a series of showrunners in recent years, Kimmel's nightly entry has been run by Leiderman for the past 14 years. Her successor brings to the show a background more firmly rooted in news, which was said to be desirable as late night — and Kimmel, in particular — becomes increasingly political. The story.

--Former news producers are in high demand in late night. Chris Licht, the executive producer of CBS' Late Show with Stephen Colbert, is also a CBS News veteran, while Fallon counted former NBC News producer Jim Bell as EP. Bell left the show last year.

►Batwoman shocker: Ruby Rose exits CW drama ahead of season 2. Producer Warner Bros. TV says the role will be recast. The announcement Tuesday — two days after the show's season finale — leaves the series without a lead actress for the time being. Batwoman was renewed for a second season in January, along with 12 other scripted series on The CW, and was set to anchor the network's Sunday night starting in early 2021. The story.

►Over 80 percent of reality TV pros are uninsured, receive no overtime, new survey finds. Data collected from members of the advocacy group the Nonfiction Professionals "Union" also suggests wages have stagnated in some roles over the last 20 years, Katie Kilkenny reports. The story.

►NASCAR partners with IMG ARENA for virtual sports betting game. Developer Leap Gaming will create the product, which will add to IMG ARENA's growing portfolio including football, speedway racing, tennis, cycling, horse racing and greyhound racing. Each virtual offering is designed to recreate the action of the popular sport with 3D motion technology. The new game will replicate iconic NASCAR tracks like Daytona and Talladega. The story.

►How I'm Living Now: LL Cool J, actor and rapper. At home in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters, where he jokes he's "surrounded by a lot of angry women who want to get their hair and nails done," LL Cool J is making the most of quarantine. With NCIS: Los Angeles shut down, he's spending the time hosting a weekly Instagram Live conversation series, "The Cool Down," and programming his SiriusXM channel, Rock the Bells. The actor and rapper spoke to THR about his new music, his Zoom workouts and his shelter-in-place philosophy: "The apple tree ain't blooming, go find an orange tree." The interview.

►Edgar Wright and longtime collaborators start production company with 3 Netflix projects. Wright has partnered with Nira Park, Joe Cornish and Rachael Prior on Complete Fiction, the formal consolidation of a 20-plus-year relationship between the four industry veterans. The first Netflix series is Lockwood & Co., a supernatural action-adventure detective series based on the best-selling novels by Jonathan Stroud. The company has also optioned a sci-fi horror trilogy, The Murders of Molly Southbourne, and an epic historical fantasy series inspired by Islamic folklore, The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy) from author S.A. Chakraborty. The story.

+Harry Potter producer David Barron adapting thriller Treachery of Spies for TV. Barron's BeaglePug banner has teamed with Enriched Media on the project, which will mark both companies' first foray into long-form TV. More.



^Film review: Netflix's The Lovebirds. Beandrea July writes that the film "is a high-concept absurdist comedy that sits comfortably alongside 2010's Date Night (starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell) or the more recent Game Night (starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams), another nocturnal whodunit. And with a tightly structured script and Nanjiani and Rae’s raucous yet down-to-earth performances, The Lovebirds makes for a delightful and unexpected ride. The review.

+TV review: HBO Max's Love Life. Daniel Fienberg writes that the series "boasts an interesting and potentially innovative anthology structure, but introduces that format with the most conventional and least interesting incarnation imaginable. It's a toothless, dull proof-of-concept that any network or service could have produced, made more worrisome if it's also meant to be a toothless, dull proof-of-concept for HBO Max." The review.

 Netflix and Ava DuVernay are asking a Florida federal judge to toss a lawsuit from a New York prosecutor who isn't happy with how she's portrayed in When They See Us, an award-winning limited series about the wrongful conviction of the Central Park Five. More.

+Also: President Donald Trump's Department of Justice lawyers are asking a New York federal judge to allow an immediate appeal of her decision that a suit accusing him of repeatedly violating the First Amendment can move forward — and they want to pause the proceedings in her courtroom while that appeal plays out. More.

►Wall Street weighs in on Disney's executive shakeup. With The Walt Disney Co. naming Rebecca Campbell to succeed newly named TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer as chair of its direct-to-consumer and international business unit, Wall Street analysts on Tuesday chimed in on what his departure and her rise to the key role mean for the Hollywood powerhouse. More.

Revolving door/casting roundup: Nick Jonas and Laurence Fishburne have signed on to star in The Blacksmith... Indie college football podcast The Solid Verbal is adding to its offense, which boasts over 10 million downloads over its decade-plus run, has signed with WME... Trevor Rose and Justin Rosenblatt have been promoted at ViacomCBS as the reorganization of the executive ranks at Chris McCarthy's Entertainment and Youth Group continues... Andrew Stanton is in talks to direct Chairman Spaceman for Searchlight Pictures and Genre Films.

TV ratings: The final performance episode of The Voice's spring cycle drew the NBC show's biggest same-day audience in four weeks. Songland also rose, and ABC's The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart closed out its season with viewer gains as well. The numbers.

In other news...

--A technical glitch in CBS’ Washington control room on Tuesday wiped out the broadcast of CBS Evening News on the East Coast and in the Midwest.

--My Salinger Year, a literary drama starring Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver that opened the 70th Berlin Film Festival, has been picked up by IFC Films for the U.S. market.

--AT&T is issuing €3 billion ($3.27 billion) in new debt, boosting its liquidity as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the company's businesses.

--Japan has reopened its movie theaters, with classic films like Ben-Hur, The Wizard of Oz and Blade Runner.

--Netflix is launching a new advertising campaign that shines a light on the industry’s hardest-hit workers.

--The Shanghai International Film Festival, China's oldest and most prestigious cinema event, is the latest major cultural occasion to fall victim to the coronavirus pandemic.

--IATSE has endorsed Joe Biden for President of the United States.

--Women In Film LA, ReFrame and IMDbPro are partnering on a new COVID-19-era competition called the Curbside Shorts Two-Minute Film Challenge for women and nonbinary filmmakers from North America.

What else we're reading...

--"How HBO took on the streaming wars" [FT]

--"YouTube goes after more TV advertisers with new program" [Reuters]

--Matt Lauer wrote a column for Mediaite in which he rebuts Ronan Farrow's book Catch and Kill. [Mediaite]

--Here's Farrow's response to Lauer's column [Ronan Farrow]

--How the Plandemic movie and its falsehoods spread widely online [NY Times]

Today's birthdays: Louis Theroux, 50, Cher, 74, Busta Rhymes, 48, Mindy Cohn, 54, Jack Gleeson, 28.