Kimmel Kills, Jonas Brothers Rock as TV Upfronts Compete for Ad Dollars
The dust is still settling from last week’s upfronts in New York, even as nearly all of the top network executive chairs were re-arranged due to consolidation, or misconduct. There was much discussion about the promise of data-driven accountability in a “premium content” environment, a term that now seems to be defined as anything other than digital user-generated content. Last year the big trend was reboots. But no one wants to...
NBC Universal, Fox and Telemundo Put on a Show for TV Upfronts
What a difference a year makes. Mergers, acquisitions and an ignoble fall from grace meant many of the pieces on the chessboard were rearranged during last week’s series of major network presentations for the 2019 TV upfronts, held in a variety of venues across New York City. Last May, CBS chairman Les Moonves appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall to huge applause as he battled a potential merger with Viacom. By the end of the year, he’d...
Bruce Springsteen and Martin Scorsese Talk Faith, Family, Mean Streets and E Street
E Street Band fans will rejoice in the news Bruce Springsteen broke in a candid conversation with Martin Scorsese Sunday night that kicked off Netflix’s series of Emmy FYC events on a soundstage at Hollywood’s Raleigh Studios. The two men, whom most would agree remain at the top of their respective fields of music and movies after decades in the public eye, spoke after a screening of “Springsteen on Broadway.” The special was shot...
Nat Geo’s ‘Hostile Planet’ Provides a Message of Hope for Earth Day
It’s clear by the title alone that it is not your grandparents’ nature show. National Geographic Channel’s “Hostile Planet” takes a unique point of view – one from the perspective of the animals it chronicles, from a stealthy snow leopard to a massive orca, tiny turtles and an Arctic wolf, to get viewers hooked on their plights. And when the stars of the show are not human and you can’t rely on a script, you never know what might...
Game of Thrones World Premiere in New York City
Radio City Music Hall was filled to the rafters with an exuberant audience for the premiere of Season 8 of HBO’s vaunted Game of Thrones – the highly-anticipated final season of a series destined to go down in the history books as one of the greatest television shows of all time. In addition to the actors who have thus far survived in their quest of pursuing the Iron Throne – including Emilia Clark, Kit Harington, Maisie Williams,...
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