Viola Davis and Julius Tennon will executive produce EIF Presents: XQ Super School Live, a special one-hour telecast inviting the public to rethink the future of American high schools. The event will combine musical, comedy and documentary segments and air live from Los Angeles on ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC on Friday, September 8 at […]
Season 6 will be the last for WE tv’s Mary Mary, following gospel group sisters Erica and Tina Campbell. The docu-series, which was the number one cable program in its time slot among African-American women 25-54 last season, returns Thursday, September 28 for its last hurrah.
truTV gave the green light to a second season of summer comedy I’m Sorry, starring Andrea Savage, to premiere in 2018. The series has grown its audience by 32% since premiere week, delivering an average 454,000 total viewers and 306,000 among A18-49 in Live+3.
An upcoming installment of HBO’s Game of Thrones was leaked, but hackers aren’t to blame. Season 7’s episode 6 was mistakenly posted (!) on HBO Nordic and HBO Espana platforms, and the brief period it was available was enough time for it to spread on piracy sites. “The error appears to have originated with a […]
Senator Al Franken, who canceled a June appearance on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher after Maher used a racial slur, is giving Maher (who has expressed his regret at the offensive blurt) another chance. Franken will appear on tomorrow’s show, at 10p.
The Walking Dead exec producers Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert, and Charles Eglee, yesterday started their filing breach of contract suit in NY against AMC, claiming they were denied their fair share of profits. At the same time the trio released a peace-keeping statement. “While we disagree with AMC on the merits of our […]
Pocket.watch, the burgeoning kids content company that counts Les Moonves, Robert Downey Jr., film and music producer Jon Landau, Third Wave Digital and United Talent Agency among its backers, is growing its executive ranks and partnerships. Stone Newman, formerly of Genius Brands International, is in as chief revenue officer. Newman will focus on developing Pocket.Watch […]
El Chapo is back for season 2 on Univision Sunday, September 17. But this time around, the series focused on the drug kingpin will air with English subtitles. “Based on intense interest in this story, we are taking an unprecedented step to expand the reach of our breakout series El Chapo by making it accessible […]
Ready to have the time of your life? Freeform is celebrating the 30th (!) anniversary of Dirty Dancing with an all-day marathon on Monday, August 21, starting at 7a. The film is also available on the Freeform app and Freeform.com throughout August.
Groundbreaking producer Shonda Rimes and her production company, Shondaland, are leaving ABC Studios for a multi-year deal at Netflix. “Shonda Rhimes is one of the greatest storytellers in the history of television,” said Ted Sarandos, chief content officer, Netflix. “Her work is gripping, inventive, pulse-pounding, heart-stopping, taboo-breaking television at its best. I’ve gotten the chance […]