ONE World Sports will get a ride with the Ivy League this college football season, announcing a partnership to showcase 10 games during the 2016-17 season. Coverage begins on Sept. 17 with Colgate/Yale. The conference also announced additional telecasts across NBCSN, CNBC, American Sports Network and FOX College Sports. The 21-game package across the five […]
Actor Thomas Gibson, suspended last week following an alleged on-set altercation two weeks earlier on Criminal Minds, was let go on Friday. “Creative details for how the character’s exit will be addressed in the show will be announced at a later date,” said a statement from ABC Studios and CBS Television Studios. Gibson, who has […]
Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly have been promoted to co-head writers for season 42 of NBC’s Saturday Night Live, reports TheWrap. The duo have been responsible for sketches including “Bern Your Enthusiasm,” starring Larry David as Bernie Sanders, and “(Do It On My) Twin Bed.”
AT&T has consolidated its digital, media, and creative accounts – and the consolidated account, worth about $3 billion, has gone to Omnicom. Omnicom will now take on most of AT&T’s creative, digital, data, and analytics in the U.S., as well as Mexico. Omnicom’s BBDO will head up creative (including brand work for both DirecTV and […]
A federal judge has overturned the murder conviction of Brendan Dassey, one of the two main subjects of Netflix docu-series Making a Murderer. The decision can still be appealed. If prosecutors don’t attempt to retry him, Dassey will be released from prison in 90 days. A second season of the Netflix series – set to […]
NBC Olympics saw Saturday’s primetime coverage of the Rio Games notch a Total Audience Delivery of 26.8 million viewers for a markup of 14% over the Total Audience Delivery on the opening Saturday of the Games, and drew a 15.0 household rating. After 9 days, the NBC-only average primetime viewership his hitting 27.9 million viewers […]
A long run of programming surrounding Manny Pacquiao bouts with HBO appears to be broken, with the boxer’s longtime promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank telling the Los Angeles Daily News that the company will not be attached to his Nov.5 fight against Vargas. “We’re going to be distributing (Pacquiao/Vargas) in other ways, but it […]
Will Late Show’s Stephen Colbert host a live election special on Showtime? Net president and CEO David Nevins hopes so. Calling his news a “half-announcement” since a deal hasn’t been finalized, Nevins said, “Stephen wants to do it, I want to do it, the studio wants to do it…mIt’ll be Colbert unfettered, he’s promised to […]
FYI greenlit Downtown Shabby from 3 Ball Entertainment. Series focuses on older homes that look perfect on the outside, but are practically unlivable on the inside. Production has begun on eight one-hour episodes to bow fall 2016.
Arianna Huffington is reinventing herself for the umpteenth time. Huffington announced that she’s stepping away from the Huffington Post to run Thrive Global, a new start-up focused on health and well-being. Huffington co-founded her namesake publication in 2005. She’s announcing her departure only two months after she extended her contract with HuffPo owner AOl. The […]
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