Time Inc.’s Sports Illustrated Group is launching The Fashionable 50, celebrating the most stylish people in sports via a star-studded event and a cross-platform editorial franchise. The event takes place on April 12th in NYC following SI’s unveiling of the inaugural Fashionable 50 list set to run across all SI platforms beginning April 11th. The […]
Mark Burnett is getting in business with Steve Harvey. The mega-producer and game show/talk show/Little Big Shots star Harvey are teaming for a series for ABC featuring rival entrepreneurs pitching ideas to a live studio audience. “My dream has been to work with Steve, and this is the perfect project for us to do together,” […]
Taye Diggs (Murder in the First) will host Fox game show You’re Back in the Room (wt), based on a UK format that has contestants hypnotized. “It’s the most unique blend of comedy and competition I’ve seen in years,” said Diggs.
Under a new licensing agreement between Disney and Comcast, Comcast customers are now able to purchase an array of Disney films. Titles from the Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and other Disney-owned libraries are included in the deal. (Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available.) Titles will be available directly through the TV, as well […]
T-Mobile has also added Amazon Prime Music, Nickelodeon, Epix, ESPN Radio, Spike, Dailymotion, and a handful of other services to its Binge On program. (Technically the audio component of the program is called Music Freedom.) Users can consume content from all Binge On/Music Freedom partners without eating into their data plans.
Twitter nabbed rights to the NFL’s live digital stream of Thursday Night Football to global audiences. The stream will be offered for free during the 2016 season in what the league is calling a “Tri-Cast” distribution model of broadcast (NBC/CBS), cable (NFL Network), and digital (Twitter). According to Re/Code, the deal is worth under $10 […]
Monday night’s nail-biting NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship saw the Villanova win give the trio of TBS, TNT and truTV a 13.2 coverage rating, according to Nielsen, drawing 17.8 million viewers. That marks a 37% dip in viewership from last season’s Duke/Wisconsin showdown on CBS, which drew the largest audience in 18 years. Still, the classic […]
Mattel has formed a centralized content division that will leverage the company’s brands to drive programming across multiple platforms including television, digital and theatrical. Mattel Creations will be headed by Mattel’s chief content officer Catherine Balsam-Schwaber, who joined the company last September. Mattel also promoted longtime creative exec Christopher Keenan to SVP, content development & […]
DreamWorks Animation is continuing to spin its theatrical hits into digital series. The newest, set to debut on Netflix, is Home: Adventures With Top & Oh, which picks up where the 2015 animated film Home left off. Voice cast includes Rachel Crow as Tip and Mark Whitten as Oh, along with Ana Ortiz (Devious Maids, […]
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