ESPN and ABC detailed production plans for the annual NBA Christmas tradition, offering around 13 consecutive hours of coverage during the holiday. The action tips off at noon with Bucks/Knicks on ESPN. ESPN’s NBA Christmas Day, production features 12-20 cameras covering each game, mic’d players throughout the day and a Nutty Professor themed musical opening […]
Esports staple Alexander Garfield, founder of Evil Geniuses and Alliance, unveiled his newest initiative, announcing the league of Popdog, a technology and services company developing products designed to help optimize esports and gaming live streaming for brands, publishers, talent, teams, tournaments, and other stakeholders. Garfield will serve as Founder and CEO of the company, with […]
The Twitch Holiday Spectacular hit streamland recently as a special edition of Twitch Weekly that featured guests from the community and highlighted key moments and milestones from 2018. The company reported that the number of partner and affiliate streamers who can generate revenue on Twitch grew more than 86% from 2017 to 2018, with more […]
Netflix renewed Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, ordering 16 additional episodes that will air in two parts. The streamer originally ordered 20 episodes of the series, which imagines the origin of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story and was split into two 10-episode segments. The new season will begin production in 2019. Meanwhile, […]
Actor, producer, author and activist George Takei (Star Trek) is joining the second season of Ridley Scott-produced anthology series The Terror on AMC as a consultant and series regular. The new 10-episode season will air in 2019.
NBC Sports is opening the books to “NBC Sports History”, a multimedia digital timeline featuring “the most iconic and influential sports moments in the network’s nearly century-long history.” The interactive timeline showcases marquee moments, legendary voices, and record audiences in the company’s lore, ranging from the NFL’s “Greatest Game Ever Played” in 1958 to Michael […]
ABC and ESPN are going bigger for season 23 of the WNBA, with top off slated for May 24 and offering expanded coverage from ESPN’s networks with nationally televised games including ABC and ESPN in addition to an extensive schedule on ESPN2. Live coverage by ESPN’s networks begins on ABC on May 25 as the […]
Former ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey is officially heading to Netflix as Vice President of Original Content. Dungey will report to Cindy Holland, Vice President of Original Content, and is expected to begin in February. Together, Dungey and Holland will team to set strategy for the streamer’s original series and oversee a key portion of […]
CBS All Access greenlit a sophomore season of Tell Me a Story, the psychological drama from Kevin Williamson and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Written by Williamson, the series is based on the Spanish format and reimagines the world’s most beloved fairy tales as dark twisted psychological thrillers.
Major League Soccer is the Audi MLS Cup playoffs an overhaul, announcing Monday that next season will expand the postseason and now offer a fixed-bracket, single-elimination format with the higher seed hosting every match. 2019 will see 14 of the league’s 24 teams qualify for the postseason, with one team per conference now getting a […]