By Lynn Leahey The potential of the burgeoning Asian television market is huge – Asia accounts for 60 percent of the world’s population, and estimates have the number of pay-TV subscribers reaching upwards of 700 million by 2020. As Turner International Asia Pacific’s Vice President and head of Turner Entertainment and Factual Brands, it falls […]
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Getting to the bottom of all this talk about late night
By Linda Ong, CEO and Founder, TruthCo. If you’re like me, you should plan on getting less sleep this fall. Not since the Jay Leno-David Letterman wars in the early 1990s has the late night talk genre been such a spectator sport. New entrants like Stephen Colbert (The Late Show, CBS), Trevor […]
Impractically Live: truTV takes its wild ‘Jokers’ out on a high wire for 100th special
By Randee Dawn On Sept. 3, truTV’s most successful series is going out on a limb. Or rather, a wire: In honor of its 100th episode, Impractical Jokers will air a live episode in which each of its four daredevils will attempt a high-wire walk five stories above New York City. Sure, it’s no Nik […]
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From television to ‘TV’: One teen’s inside view of millennial media consumption
By Cece Jane Seventeen-year-old California-based Cece Jane regularly reports on sports and entertainment for the Los Angeles Times. This is her first look at the way teens consume TV for Cynsiders. On an average Tuesday night, after finishing my homework and going to track practice, I always make sure to relax as I […]
Rita Mullin puts the sizzle in Science
By Lynn Leahey In the little over a year since Rita Mullin took over as General Manager, Science has been setting viewership records with a formula that mixes fun (electric roller skates, blowing things apart) with the likes of physics. “I’m a firm believer that entertaining and smart aren’t mutually exclusive,” Mullin tells Cynsiders. “We […]
We can’t understand what’s happening to television until we understand the generation that’s changing it.
By Jim McKairnes In 2010, after 21 years in L.A.’s network-TV trenches, I spent a five-year Pay It Forward hitch in academia, teaching about the television business. The five years were up in June. The entirety of the experience was rewarding, energizing, enlightening. But also eye-opening. Maybe troubling. Because no matter what those of us […]
Michael Carbonaro makes magic for truTV
By Robbie Caploe Michael Carbonaro is about to embark on the second season of his truTV show, The Carbonaro Effect. The hidden camera series spotlights the comedic magician assuming different disguises and playing tricks to convince people they are witnessing the impossible – but never at their expense. We caught up with Carbonaro […]
Classic kids TV producers Sid and Marty Krofft go to the dogs with ‘Mutt and Stuff’
By Randee Dawn It was impossible to be a child in the 1970s and 1980s and not be aware of the live-action children’s programming brought to TV sets by the brother team of Sid and Marty Krofft. Puppeteers at heart, the Kroffts were the men behind TV gems like Land of the Lost, HR Pufnstuf, […]
Neal Baer: ‘Under the Dome’ will never be a ‘slavish adaptation’ – here’s why
By Randee Dawn Neal Baer has worn many hats during his careers – first as a physician, then the long-running showrunner for ER, and Law & Order: SVU. These days he’s the force behind CBS’s Under the Dome, an adaptation of a Stephen King novel whose story has diverged significantly from its source material. For […]
Exclusive book excerpt: To be a top disruptor, start with a zombie idea
By Jay Samit CEO, SeaChange The following is an excerpt from Jay Samit’s just-published book, Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation. After finally honing all of their observations down to one big idea, most people are afraid to act on it. One of the […]
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