IFC promises “more baseball, more booze and even more guest stars” for season 2 of Brockmire. Currently in production for a spring 2018 return, next time around the show will welcome guests Becky Ann Baker (Girls), Carrie Preston (True Blood), Dreama Walker (Doubt) and Utkarsh Ambudkar (The Mindy Project).
House of Cards is tumbling down. Netflix will pull the plug on the series after its upcoming 6th season, which is slated to debut in 2018. The season started shooting about two weeks ago. The revelation comes in the wake of recent allegations, made by Star Trek Discovery actor Anthony Rapp, that series star Kevin […]
Sprint and T-Mobile may not be merging after all. The Japanese publication Nikkei reported that Softbank, Sprint’s owner, is withdrawing from merger talks with T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom. The Wall Street Journal later reported the same thing – though CNBC contradicted both publications in a later story, reporting that talks remain ongoing. But CNBC also […]
A 10-inning World Series thriller on Sunday night saw the Astros win deliver more than 19.6 million viewers on average across FOX (18,940,000), FOX Deportes (496,000) and FOX Sports GO (172,000). According to fast national figures released by Nielsen, Game 5 ranks as the second-best World Series Game 5 since 2003, down from last year’s […]
NBCU spoke with reporters to discuss the company’s upcoming one-two punch of Super Bowl LII and the Winter Olympics. Execs stated that the company projects to reel in over $1.2 billion in ad revenue from both programs. Company EVP Dan Lovinger stated that ad sales are “brisk” for both with Super Bowl spots now running […]
But what does he really think? Speaking at the Produced By NY conference on Saturday, Anthony Bourdain talked about an unnamed Hollywood mogul’s offer for Bourdain’s series, Parts Unknown, that ended up at CNN. Doing the deal “would have eaten us alive,” said Bourdain. “It would have destroyed everything – everything that makes us good, […]
AMC’s Preacher was renewed for a third season, to air in 2018. Season 2 averaged .4 among A18-49 and 1.2 million viewers in Live+SD, with hefty lifts of 133% and 99%, respectively, in Live+7.
Facebook announced that its new ad transparency features will go live in November. When viewing a Facebook Page, users will be able to click a “view ads” tab, which will bring up all of the ads that the Page is currently running. Facebook first announced the new transparency features early this month. Among other things, […]
BuzzFeed is changing up the way it covers Hollywood. The company has parted ways with three top members of its editorial staff: Entertainment Editor Jamie Etkin, who’d been with BuzzFeed News for four years; Deputy Entertainment Editor Katie Hasty; and Senior Entertainment Editor Jarrett Wieselman. In a memo to staff explaining the changes, Head of […]
Capping a run the included the introduction of the NHL’s Golden Knights and the NFL’s Raiders to Las Vegas, the city also landed its first-ever professional soccer team in August, which will play in the United Soccer League. The squad will be the third USL expansion franchise to join the league for the 2018 season, […]