What a weekend for FOX Sports. Game 4 of the World Series saw the Dodgers win to tie the series hand FOX with the top metered market rating for a Game 4 since 2009. The matchup delivered a 10.6/20 in metered markets to top last year’s equivalent contest. That score is also up 14% over […]
Showtime is developing a television series adaptation of The Kingkiller Chronicle, exec-produced by Pulitzer Prize, Tony, Grammy and Emmy winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), with producer John Rogers (Leverage, The Player) serving as showrunner. Miranda will also compose music for the series, which is based on Patrick Rothfuss’ best-selling contemporary fantasy trilogy. Produced by Lionsgate, the […]
Snuggle up and get ready for season 2 of Polar Bear Town, debuting on Smithsonian Channel on Wednesday, November 22 at 8p. Three-part series returns to the isolated town of Churchill, Manitoba, where each fall 10,000 tourists arrive to converge with nature in what’s known as the “Polar Bear Capital of the World.”
Twitter, like Facebook and Google, is still grappling with revelations that Russian-bought ads, designed to influence the 2016 election, ran on its platform last year. Now the company is taking an extraordinary step: Effective immediately, Russia Today (Russia’s state-funded broadcaster) and Sputnik (a government-controlled news agency) will be banned from advertising on Twitter. “We did […]
Amazon, too, beat Wall Street’s expectations in Q3, posting sales of $43.7 billion. Wall Street had projected $41.6 billion in sales. Total sales saw a 34% increase over last year’s third quarter. (Some of that had to do with the $1.3 billion that Amazon took in from the recently-acquired Whole Foods Market.) All told, net […]
FloSports hooked another whale to its roster, locking in a deal with Big Ten Network for a four-year agreement which includes the distribution rights to more than 1,000 non-televised Big Ten Conference events. The events were previously exclusive to BTN Plus and range from basketball to ice hockey, will now be available through FloSports’ sport-specific […]
Bellator is debuting a new mobile app “tailored to be fan-focused and content-driven.” For the first time, Bellator fans will be able to watch live main card fights within the app, through television provider authentication in addition to preliminary cards which will be available worldwide and will stream live. The next-gen app also features the […]
CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor landed the anchor spot on CBS Evening News. Glor, who’s been with the network for over 10 years, was a lead anchor on the net’s streaming news service, CBSN, during its launch period. Interim anchor Anthony Mason will continue as CBS News senior national correspondent and co-host of CBS This […]
Patreon wants to be more than just an individual crowd-funding site. The service, which artists and creators use to generate funding directly from fans, is adding support for new plugins: Creators will now be able to perform basic Patreon transactions outside of the company’s main website. For instance, patrons will now able to sign up […]
Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty) will recur as the love interest for John Larroquettte’s character in new CBS comedy Me, Myself & I….Vincent D’Onofrio Is returning to Netflix’s Marvel’s Daredevil for season 3, slated for release in 2018. D’onofrio will reprise the role of Wilson Fisk….Hannah Ware (Betrayal) landed a role on Hulu’s The First, arriving […]
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