UTA has signed Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker for representation in all areas.

Halpern and Schumacker are currently executive producers and co-showrunners of the ABC hit comedy series Abbott Elementary. Alongside series creator and star Quinta Brunson, Halpern and Schumacker have received four consecutive group Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series.

In addition to showrunning and executive producing, Halpern and Schumacker are also series creators and directors through their company, Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions, currently under an overall deal with Warner Bros. Television.

Before their work on Abbott Elementary, they co-created HBO Max’s five-season animated series Harley Quinn for WBTV and DC Entertainment, in addition to its spinoff, Kite Man: Hell Yeah!. Previously, Halpern and Schumacker showran and executive produced NBC’s Powerless for WBTV and DC Entertainment. They also co-created Fox’s Surviving Jack and CBS’s S#*! My Dad Says, which was adapted for TV based on Halpern’s New York Times bestselling book of the same name.

Additionally, they have been involved in popular series such as iZombie, Cougar Town, and How to Be a Gentleman, and they wrote the feature Birthright, based on the graphic novel by Joshua Williamson for Universal Pictures.

Up next, Halpern and Schumacker have the coming-of-age comedy series I Suck at Girls in production at Netflix with Bill Lawrence and Doozer Productions alongside Delicious Non-Sequitur Productions. The series is based on Halpern’s non-fiction book of the same title, and Halpern and Schumacker will create and showrun the series. Also in the works is tennis comedy Backhanded, set up at HBO Max, which is co-written with Ali Waller and produced through their shingle.

Halpern’s debut fiction novel, Get Lost, will be published by Hachette Book Group on July 7. Halpern and Schumacker are adapting the book for film and are attached to direct.

Halpern and Schumacker continue to be represented by Adventure Media and Goodman Genow Schenkman.

YouTube is making a more concerted effort to disclose to viewers when they are watching videos made with AI.

In a blog explaining the update Wednesday, the Google-owned video giant said “photorealistic and meaningfully AI altered or generated content” would receive more prominent labels. Long-form videos fitting that description will have labels directly below the video player, while Shorts will be given a label directly overlayed onto the video itself.

“By moving these labels on to the main stage, viewers get the context they need at a glance,” the blog post said.

The update comes two years after YouTube unveiled a new setup for creators, encouraging them to self-monitor and disclose to their audiences when they were using AI. That framework hasn’t prevented bad actors from willingly exploiting AI, as in the case of channels Deadline reported on earlier this year that were putting out fake movie trailers. YouTube shut down the channels in the wake of Deadline’s investigation.

Along with the new approach to labeling, YouTube said it is rolling out new technology designed to detect the use of AI. If a creator doesn’t voluntarily disclose the use of AI, YouTube will affix a label. With 20 million videos uploaded every day to YouTube, the task of policing that content is daunting.

“These changes are designed to balance transparency with creator control,” the blog post said. “It’s important to note that a disclosure label alone does not change how a video is recommended or whether it’s eligible to earn money. In a world where AI is changing what’s possible, our goal is simple: make it as easy as possible for creators and viewers to have the right information.”

French actor Pierre Deny, who was best known internationally for his role in Netflix hit Emily in Paris, has died at the age of 69.

“It is with deep emotion that we announce the passing of Pierre Deny this Monday (May 25) following a sudden and severe case of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis),” his daughters said in a statement released to newswire AFP.

Born in 1956, Deny started out in theatre in the 1980s before moving into TV.

He was a familiar face on French TV for his roles in more than 60 mainstream shows such as Under the Sun, Une Femme d’Honneur, Cinq Soeurs as well as long-running soaps Plus Belle La Vie and Tomorrow Is Ours, appearing in more than 300 episodes of the latter as the character Renaud Dumaze.

More recently, he broke out internationally in the role of Louis de Leon in in Emily in Paris, the CEO head of the luxury fashion conglomerate JVMA, alongside Lily Collins and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu.

ALS, which is also known as Charcot Disease or Lou Gehrig Disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative condition which has struck down several high-profile sports and entertainment figures, with other recent victims including Eric Dane and Kenneth Mitchell.