BET Networks and Tyler Perry Studios are teaming for BET’s upcoming subscription video-on-demand service. BET+ will be available this fall, featuring more than 1,000 hours of content including exclusive new original programming and series, movies, and specials from BET Networks, Tyler Perry, and other leading African American content creators. “African Americans are the leading consumers […]
Summer camp will be the theme of the Big Brother house for season 21. The CBS summer reality series returns with a two-night premiere tomorrow, June 25 and Wednesday, June 26.
Discovery Channel travels to the plains of Tanzania in Serengeti, a six-part series offering access to one of the most pristine and unspoiled corners of the Africa. Series created and produced by Simon Fuller (So You Think You Can Dance) and directed and produced by wildlife filmmaker John Downer (Penguin: Spy in The Huddle) and […]
From Peru, Laos and Morocco to Hawaii, Alaska and New Zealand, Gordon Ramsay is trotting the globe in search of culinary inspiration in National Geographic’s new series Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted, premiering Sunday, July 21, at 10p. The multi-Michelin-star chef and Ironman athlete will meet with indigenous people around the world to learn about the cultures, […]
Tyler Perry set his first series—White House drama The Oval—at BET as part of his multiyear content deal with network parent Viacom. Starring Ed Quinn, Kron Moore, Paige Hurd and Daniel Croix Henderson, series is slated to begin principal photography this summer at Tyler Perry Studios, home to its writer, director and exec producer. The […]
Quibi has booked $100 million in ad sales ahead of its 2020 launch, with Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch, Walmart, Progressive and Google onboard. Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman were at Cannes Lions to share news about their upcoming short-form digital service, and revealed that an hour of Quibi content will be divided into chapters […]
Lifetime announced a Title sponsorship of many of its Book to Screen summer programming initiatives with Audible, producer and provider of audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, to feature Audible Escape, a package including access to thousands of best-selling love and romance stories. Sponsorship runs June 29 through August 2019 and covers three Jane Green novels, […]
Netflix announced via Twitter that its Jennifer Aniston/ Adam Sandler movie, Murder Mystery, was watched by 30.87 million accounts Friday-Sunday, making it the biggest opening weekend for a Netflix film. The count includes 13.37 million accounts in the U.S./Canada and 17.5 million abroad.
TruTV ordered a 13-episode, sophomore season of Tacoma FD, the scripted firehouse comedy series from co-creators Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme of the Super Troopers movie franchise. The show launched as the top new cable comedy among young adults when it debuted earlier this year, and finished among cable’s top 5 scripted comedies. Pre-production begins […]
Amazon-owned IMDb has rebranded its streaming service, launched in January, from Freedive to IMDb TV. The free, ad-supported service will add what the company describes as thousands of new titles, tripling the number of shows and movies now available thanks to deals with studios including Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Entertainment and MGM.