Laurence Fishburne teamed with Kermit the Frog during Disney Television Animation’s panel at the D23 Expo to announce Disney Channel’s new animated series Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. Show following the adventures of 13-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette and her ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur, is executive-produced by Fishburne and Helen Sugland’s Cinema Gypsy Productions, Marvel […]
HBO’s Ballers will end with season five. The sports comedy, which kicked off its final run on Sunday, “was an opportunity to not only embrace culture, not only embrace ambition, not only embrace success – which we do in the show – but also embrace the failures, which is a key and critical thing in […]
With football season underway, fans of both pro and collegiate teams once again undertake their annual rite of passage by migrating toward their favorite platforms, which are in turn sprucing up their capabilities, offerings and integrations to welcome the flocks. One platform in particular is bracing for a big year, as Yahoo Sports looks to […]
The XFL unveiled the names, marks and logos for the new league’s eight inaugural teams, along with short films produced to share the origin story of each team name. Teams will now officially be: DC Defenders; Dallas Renegades; Houston Roughnecks; Los Angeles Wildcats; New York Guardians; St. Louis Battlehawks; Seattle Dragons; and Tampa Bay Vipers. […]
ESPN opened college football’s 150th anniversary season hot, as week zero saw the network deliver its highest-rated college football game in nearly three years for the Miami/Florida matchup at the Camping World Kickoff. The game drew a 4.1 overnight to rank as the best college football game on ESPN since November of 2016. Bookending the […]
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is joining Fox News as a contributor. The former White House Press Secretary will provide political commentary and analysis across Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox News Digital, Fox Nation and Fox News Media’s radio/podcast division. The new gig begins September 6.
Born This Way is coming to an end after its fifth and final season. The Emmy-winning A&E docuseries, which aired its fourth season in May 2018, will wrap with a six-part short-form digital series debuting later this year and a one-hour linear series holiday special finale airing in December on A&E.
NBC Sports Group and World Rugby sealed a four-year partnership to exclusively present the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series across NBC Sports platforms in the U.S. through 2023. The annual series will receive more than 300 hours of programming annually across NBCSN, Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, OlympicChannel.com and […]
Swish Analytics agreed to a multi-year partnership with Major League Baseball in a deal that designates the San Francisco-based technology company as an Authorized MLB Data Distributor to U.S. sports betting operators. The partnership enables Swish Analytics to serve as a supplier of the official MLB real-time betting data feed in the U.S. for regulated […]
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer is among those getting set to tango on season 28 of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars. Also onboard are supermodel Christie Brinkley, James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek), The Supremes’ Mary Wilson and NBA champ/Kardashian ex Lamar Odom, to name a few. Premiere date: Monday, September 16 at […]