Meanwhile, ESPN its programming in line for the NBA Finals, which will see the Cleveland/Golden State begin Thursday at 9p ON abc. Mike Breen, Jeff Van Gundy, Mark Jackson and Doris Burke – who enter their eighth NBA Finals together – will once again call the series. On ESPN Radio, the broadcast team will include […]
Bye bye for now. NBC is postponing its planned December premier of a Bye Bye Birdie musical starring Jennifer Lopez to 2018, due to Lopez’s schedule. The network recently announced it will air a live production of Jesus Christ Superstar on Easter Sunday 2018.
Veep and Silicon Valley will be back on HBO in 2018 for their seventh and fifth seasons, respectively. The net renewed both series ahead of their current season finales on June 25.
Facebook is certainly taking its original content efforts seriously. Reuters reports that the social giant is ready to pay much as $250,000 per episode for longer-form video originals, which the company would own outright. Facebook also reportedly plans to spend somewhere between $10,000 and $35,000 per episode for short-form content, which it might license on […]
Microsoft is ready to compete in earnest with Amazon’s Twitch. The company has relaunched Beam, the video-game live-streaming platform it bought last August, under the name Mixer. Along with the new name come some new features, including the ability to combine as many as four streams into one experience, as well as a mobile streaming […]
FOX Sports is preparing for its first-ever presentation of the FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017 with a programming lineup that will include televising all 16 Confederations Cup matches live from Russia from June 17-July 2 across its family of networks. FS1 carries 12 matches with two each appearing on the FOX broadcast network and FS2. […]
Seth Greenberg will be calling ESPN home for the foreseeable future, as the college basketball analyst inked a multiyear extension with the company to continue his main roles of weeknight studio analysis as well as on College GameDay Covered State Farm. He will appear on various ESPN platforms, including regular appearances on SportsCenter and ESPN […]
ABC is airing Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night for the tenth consecutive year in conjunction with the NBA Finals. Special episodes will air in primetime at 8p every night of the finals, and following the game on the West Coast, beginning with game one on Thursday, June 1. The lineup of guests includes Billy Crystal, […]
TruTV’s Impractical Jokers is heading to syndication, having been cleared in 85% of U.S. markets. The launch is scheduled for September 2017. Currently in its sixth season and already greenlit for a seventh, it’s the net’s longest running series and top rated original comedy in all key demos.
Netflix doesn’t release a lot of viewership data, but when it does it can be pretty intriguing. According to a new analysis from the streaming giant, which took a look at customer viewing behavior in 22 countries over a period of six months, viewers’ content preferences vary depending on what time of day it is. […]
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