Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is getting the miniseries treatment by HBO. The project is based on the yet-to-be-released third Game Change novel by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, co-authors of the series that influenced HBO’s 2012 film Game Change.
PBS pulled the plug on Mercy Street, after two seasons. The Civil War-era series, PBS’s first original American drama in over a decade, was scrapped over funding issues and production timelines.
Last year, NBCUniversal and Vox Media formed Concert, a premium ad network designed to let marketers reach around 200 million online consumers. Now the network has a new advertiser: Conde Nast. The publishing company’s properties include GQ, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker. “Our goal always is to deliver for our marketing partners scalable, […]
Snap Inc.’s shares have taken a hit in the days since its explosive IPO, with stock analysts almost universally insisting that the company is overvalued. One of the reasons for that: There’s nothing to stop other companies from copying Snapchat’s core features. Case in point: Facebook just added a Snapchat Stories clone directly to its […]
Comosa AG is getting into the ring with the launch of the World Boxing Super Series, a bracket-style elimination tournament designed to showcase the world`s best boxers with $50 million in prize money, along with the Muhammad Ali Trophy. The tournament will kick off in September 2017 and take place on an annual basis with […]
Las Vegas continues to build up its sports presence, as the Las Vegas Motor Speedway announced that it will now host two NASCAR weekends in 2018 and beyond. The speedway made the announcement at a joint news conference with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority at Cashman Center to make Las Vegas Motor Speedway […]
They’re in the money: Showtime picked up Billions for a third run. The hedge fund drama, airing season 2 Sundays at 10p, just had its best telecast of the season, up 13% from its premiere. “Billions continues to be a show on the rise, growing not only in audience, but in critical buzz and cultural […]
Marking the 20th anniversary today of the death of hip hop legend Notorious B.I.G., Fuse is running a #WeMissYouBiggie music block starting at 9a. Fuse will pay homage to Biggie’s iconic crown by adding it to the net’s logo for the day.
Forbes.com has launched a mobile site inspired by Snapchat, mimicking the look and feel of Snapchat Stories. Designed like an app, the mobile format, called Cards, lets readers swipe through stories, which display a large image and headline, as well as video, infographics or quizzes. When readers want to look at the full story, they […]
Snapchat just launched a second season of its in-house political news show, Good Luck America, an attempt to help millennials make sense of what’s happening in politics (good luck with that). Former CNN correspondent Peter Hamby hosts.