Lucasfilm will unveil the new trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi on ESPN’s Monday Night Football tonight during halftime of the league’s game between the Vikings/Bears, which starts at 8:15p. Disney – which also happens to own ESPN – will then open sales for tickets for the movie, which hits US theaters on Dec. […]
Do we have Ivana Trump to thank for the commander-in-chief’s tweeting habit? The president’s first wife tells CBS Sunday Morning that she’s all for POTUS’s favorite mode of communication. “I said, ‘I think you should tweet. It’s a new way, a new technology. And if you want to get your words across rightly, without telling […]
DIY is diving into Pool Kings with an order for 30 new episodes. The series wrapped its first season in September having given the net a 62% boost during its Monday timeslot. New shows are slated to arrive in May 2018.
Netflix just raised its prices for U.S. customers. New subscribers will now have to pay $10.99 for the service’s standard two-stream HD tier, a $1 increase over the previous fee. Likewise, existing subs will be moved to the new $10.99 rate over the coming months. In addition, Netflix is increasing the cost of its four-stream […]
YouTube reportedly rushed out a significant change to the way its search algorithm selects videos. (The Wall Street Journal was the first to report to news; a source who spoke with Business Insider also confirmed it.) The update rolled out Wednesday night. The change is reportedly geared toward differentiating authoritative news clips from conspiracy theory […]
The Pac-12 Conference locked in an extended and expanded partnership with Alibaba Group Holding Limited in a deal that includes for the first time distribution of Pac-12 Networks content across linear and digital channels by Alibaba through 2024 along with an extension of their sponsorship of the annual Pac-12 China Basketball Game through 2020. Starting […]
NBC Sports Group is going deeper with rugby, huddling with Six Nations Rugby on an exclusive multi-year US media rights agreement for the Six Nations Championship, the world’s oldest and most prestigious rugby championship. The deal kicks in with the 2018 Six Nations Championship, which will see NBC Sports present live coverage of all Six […]
New project Find The Good is in development at NBC. The family drama, written by writer/producer Geoffrey Nauffts (Nashville), is based on the 2014 memoir by best-selling author Heather Lende. Project hails from Wonderthink, the production company recently launched by Tony Goldwyn (Scandal), writer/director Richard LaGravanese and veteran TV exec Cheryl Bloch. FremantleMedia North America […]
David Letterman, Billy Joel, Tracy Morgan, Amy Schumer and Howard Stern are among guests booked for Jimmy Kimmel Live’s Brooklyn Week, beginning Monday, October 16. Paul Shaffer, former Late Show with David Letterman band leader, will sit in with the house band, Cleto & the Cletones.
The EU is stepping up its tax battles with tech giants – and with its own member states. The European Commission ordered Luxembourg to recoup 250 million euros ($294 million) in taxes from Amazon. The Commission argued that Luxembourg had given Amazon a selective advantage by capping the amount of corporate taxes that the company […]