NBC’s Making It is back for an eight-episode crafting event starting Monday, December 2. During its first season, the show – hosted and exec produced by Parks and Rec alumns Amy Pohler and Nick Offerman – averaged a 1.2 rating in A18-49 and 4.9 million viewers in Live+7 Nielsens, enough to rank it the summer’s […]
Head of the class: Disney+ renewed comedy series High School Musical: The Musical: The Series ahead of its – and the streaming service’s – debut on Tuesday, November 12 (first episode will air linearly on Friday, November 9 across ABC, Disney Channel and Freeform). Production on season two resumes in early 2020 in Salt Lake […]
Katie Couric and People partnered on #SeeHer Story, a digital video series celebrating extraordinary women. Weekly series premieres Friday, October 18 on PEOPLE.com and PeopleTV’s PEOPLE Now with launch sponsor Renew Life. Female trailbrazers set to be featured include Dame Julie Andrews, Chief Wilma Mankiller, General Ann Dunwoody and Ruby Bridges.
Late-night king Stephen Colbert is staying put at CBS well past the 2020 election. On Thursday, the network announced that it had agreed to a contract extension with Colbert that will keep him as host of The Late Show through August 2023. He was previously signed through August 2020.
NBC’s Sunnyside is going dark on linear, but it’s still alive – the remaining seven episodes of the freshman comedy will air weekly on digital platforms and NBC.com. While Sunnyside debuted to a low 0.4 among A18-49 and 1.78 million viewers, the rating for its premiere has grown 150% in digital play, and the series […]
HGTV has raised the stakes for its female-led home reno competition series Rock the Block: The grand prize winner still gets bragging rights and a street named after her, but now each weekly challenge winner will score a showcase episode of her own HGTV series immediately following the airing of Rock the Block. Series premieres […]
Felicity Huffman is behind bars, reporting to the Bureau of Prisons to serve her sentence in the college bribery scheme just more than a week before she was required to report in. “Felicity Huffman reported today for sentencing to the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, CA,” said a rep for Huffman in a statement. “Ms. […]
The podcast business just got funnier. Will Ferrell and iHeartMedia partnered to launch Big Money Players Network, a new podcast company focused on scripted and unscripted comedy shows. The network will unveil 10 podcasts during the next two years, produced by Ferrell and iHeartMedia.
Sarah Silverman landed a stand-up comedy special and a late-night series pilot order from HBO. Silverman, Judd Apatow and Amy Zvi serve as executive producers on the pilot, which Silverman says involves “weighing in on the mishagas of of the week and taking live video calls.” Silverman won an Emmy for her 2013 HB0 special, […]
Patrick Moran, who exited his post as President of ABC Studios last summer, inked an overall deal with Amazon Studios to develop TV series. “Amazon Studios, known for bold groundbreaking storytelling, is the perfect place to embark on my next chapter as I look to be more closely aligned with the creative process,” said Moran.
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