Bravo gave the green light for a sophomore season of its first scripted series, Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce, from Universal Cable Productions. The January 27 telecast earned a series high1.5 million total viewers, 983,000 A25-54 and 872,000 A18-49 in Live+3.
Kevin Reilly’s making changes at the top. The new president of TBS and TNT and chief creative officer of Turner Entertainment is splitting the networks’ original programming team into two units: Sarah Aubrey has been tapped to serve as EVP of original programming for TNT, while Brett Weitz was promoted to EVP of original programming […]
Good boy! Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl was the top cable telecast across the day on Super Bowl Sunday (excluding sports) in key demos, including P2+ (2.8 million), HH (1.6 million) P25-54 (1 million) and W25-54 (659,000). The net ranked second in all of television among P25-54, after NBC, during its 3-5p premiere.
Facing outrage in the Twitterverse, Nationwide defended its decision to run an ad during the Super Bowl that depicted a little boy who died in a household accident. “The sole purpose of this message was to start a conversation, not sell insurance,” said the company. “While some did not care for the ad, we hope […]
The IMAX theater presentation of HBO’s Game of Thrones earned $1.5 million, averaging about $7300 per theater, with sales briskest in big cities. “This was a successful response for this first experiment,” said Greg Foster, chairman and president of Imax Entertainment. “We will continue to experiment and comb over the data.”
HBO is setting sail with six-hour miniseries Lewis and Clark, based on the book Undaunted Courage by Stephen A. Ambrose. Exec producers include Tom Hanks, Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Tim Kelly and Adam Leipzig. Casey Affleck (Good Will Hunting) and Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts (Rust and Bone) star as the explorers in the […]
Idina Menzel (Wicked) will star in comedy Happy Time, a project from Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Production and Warner Bros. Television, reports Deadline.
Sasha Spielberg and Emily Goldwyn (Steven Spielberg and John Goldwyn’s daughters) are starring in the first Snapchat original series called Literally Can’t Even. Written by the duo, the show revolves around comedic versions of Spielberg and Goldwyn and their fictional life in Los Angeles. As part of the new Discover feature on the app, Snapchat […]
Skip a newsletter last week? “In Case You Missed It” rounds up the top stories in each of our three daily editions, so you can be up on the latest news, Cynopsis-style, in the worlds of linear, digital, sports and kids television. Enjoy! FLAGSHIP More than 175 WGA comedy/variety scribes signed a petition pushing ITV to enter a collective […]
Discovery event Shark Week moves from August to July 5-12 for 2015, and the net is saving some all-new programming for a special shark weekend later in the summer, too. Content includes an expedition to Cuba, sequels to favorites like Air Jaws and new technology to capture shark images. Why the move to July? “This […]
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