Gold Derby’s 2017 Emmy Season Kickoff Party
Emmy campaigning season kicked into high gear as more than 150 performers, executives, publicists and industry insiders crammed into the second floor bar area of new Beverly Hills restaurant Nerano for some awards season schmoozing. The bash was thrown by Gold Derby, the folks who make it their business to predict who will win the awards. Among those making the scene, potential contenders Chrissy Metz, Matt Walsh, Mary Elizabeth...
Comedy and Comebacks as Networks Woo Advertisers with New TV Shows
Despite the intense focus on new ways of doing business in the digital era, the broadcast networks clearly have a case of Everything Old Is New Again. From reboots of “Roseanne” to “Dynasty,” “Will & Grace” to “S.W.A.T.,” and of course, “American Idol,” that was the key takeaway from the week of television upfronts held at venues across New York City. Historically, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, Univision and the CW showcase...
Netflix Goes All Out for Emmy Campaigning For Top Shows in Month-Long Event Series
And now for the latest in innovative Primetime Emmy Award campaigning, from the folks who have a $6 billion warchest for original programming. The streamer has taken over 24,000 square feet of office space across from the Motion Picture Academy in Beverly Hills for a month-long series of events it is calling FYSee, a play on FYC– For Your (Emmy) Consideration. The confab kicked off May 8 with a screening of the first...
NatGeo’s ‘Genius’ Brings Albert Einstein’s Story to Life in 10-Part Series
NatGeo Channel makes history Tuesday, April 25 with its first scripted series, Genius, starring Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein, the most brilliant scientist of the 20th century. The ten-part series, from Fox 21 Television Studios and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Television, chronicles Einstein’s rise from his humble beginnings as an imaginative, rebellious thinker, through his struggles to be recognized by the...
For Your Consideration: Amazon Studios Ups the FYC Ante
‘Tis the season for Emmy FYC (For Your Consideration) events, which have blown up in the past few years. On many nights, overwhelmed Los Angeles-area Television Academy members must choose between competing events, whose main purpose is campaigning for their votes. Just a few years ago, Amazon Studios wouldn’t have been part of any awards discussion in the 213, 323 and 310 area codes. It’s only been since 2013 that the big streamer on...