Google’s cheeseburger emoji last month might have been a recipe for disaster – what with the cheese slice on bottom of the burger, not the top – but the situation was rectified with the release of Android 8.1 Developer Beta 2. Social media erupted over the flawed patty last month, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai […]
Cyber Monday sales on phones hit a single-day record of $1.59 billion, up 39% from last year, according to Adobe Analytics. Overall, sales on Monday reached a record $6.59 billion, up 16.8%. While Cyber Monday shopping during the day used to mean scouring for deals on your work computer, that behavior “is almost completely reversed,” […]
Primetime will see the end of tape delay during NBCUniversal’s coverage of the XXIII Olympic Winter Games from PyeongChang as the company announced that – with more than 2,400 hours of coverage slated for the event – all primetime coverage will run live across all time zones for the first time ever. Programming begins in […]
ESPN reports that the NBA on ESPN is averaging 1,920,000 viewers through 19 games to start the 2017-18 season, marking a 24% rise increase over the same period in 2016 (1,557,000 viewers). Last week’s Warriors/Thunder matchup on Nov. 22 averaged 3,282,000 viewers to rank as the most-viewed regular-season game on the network since Christmas 2016 […]
CBS won’t be picking up additional episodes of Wisdom of the Crowd. The crime drama, averaging a 1.0 rating among A18-49 and 7.4 million total viewers, is the lowest-rated freshman drama on the network, and is set to wrap production on its 13-episode order in mid-December. The remaining 4 episodes are slated to continue in […]
Lennie James is exiting AMC’s The Walking Dead after Season 8 to join prequel Fear The Walking Dead… John Stamos landed a recurring role opposite Penn Badgley and Elizabeth Lail in Lifetime’s straight-to-series psychological thriller You… Wyatt Nash (Dear White People) will recur on Season 2 of Netflix wrestling comedy GLOW… Jocelyn Towne and Hayden […]
The colorful characters from the Emmy Award-winning Ask the StoryBots are returning to Netflix on Dec. 1 with an all-new holiday special. Based on the hit digital children’s educational brand from JibJab Bros. Studios, A StoryBots Christmas stars Judy Greer as the voice of Beep and includes a special appearance by the legendary Ed Asner […]
Under a new content distribution deal with German SVOD Pantaflix, Disney Germany will make the studio’s films available to streaming customers in Germany and Austria. The arrangement covers Disney films from Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars, including availability of Star Wars: The Last Jedi on the video-on-demand platform at the same time as the DVD […]
Formula One is giving its branding an overhaul, unveiling a new logo for the first time in 23 years, created by Wieden+Kennedy London. The move, according to the agency, marks the first step of a complete brand redesign for the organization. “Creatively, the challenge was to reposition Formula 1 as a forward-facing entertainment brand, which […]
ESPN and Twitch are teaming up to host a 24-hour live streaming marathon today on the platform called “Don’t Ever Give Up Day” where various esports and gaming personalities, ESPN talent and high-profile Twitch influencers today to share how cancer has affected them, starting at noon PT from downtown Los Angeles. November 28 also marks […]