Just in time for Daytona, FOX Sports is cooking up a new promotion with Meredith Corporation and Allrecipes.com to launch a food-focused social community dedicated to NASCAR fans. The page launches this weekend timed with Sunday’s Daytona 500 and offers “new and exciting content, along with recipes, videos and entertaining tips to NASCAR fans by […]
hanning Dungey has been named President of ABC Entertainment, replacing Paul Lee. “Channing is a gifted leader and a proven magnet for top creative talent, with an impressive record of developing compelling, breakthrough programming that resonates with viewers,” said Ben Sherwood, President, Disney/ABC Television Group. “We thank Paul for his many accomplishments at ABC and […]
Unforgettable, canceled by CBS after three seasons then picked up by A&E for a fourth, has been canceled again. The crime drama premiered on cable to 1.12 million viewers and .2 among A18-49 in Live+3 ratings. For those keeping count, it’s actually the show’s third cancellation – CBS yanked the series in May 2012 after […]
NBCUniversal-owned Fandango is no longer just a place to buy movie tickets. First came the steady addition of new exclusive web series; now the company is getting more ambitious. Fandango inked an agreement to acquire the film buff-friendly site Flixster, along with Flixster’s well-known subsidiary, review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. The deal was reached with Warner […]
NextVR is quickly carving out a niche for itself as the go-to partner for live virtual reality content. Coming on the heels of smaller programming deals with the likes of CNN and Fox, as well as tens of millions of fundraising dollars, the company has now inked a five-year pact with Fox Sports. NextVR will […]
Gear up for the newest wave of virtual reality content. FOX Sports locked in a five-year deal with NextVR to broadcast live sports in virtual reality, marking the first type of agreement of this nature, which will include Sunday’s coverage of the Daytona 500 on FOX at 1p. According to the announcement, “the immersive, high-definition […]
We have liftoff for Bill Simmons’ new website, with the former ESPN face unveiling TheRinger.com to serve as his new home for written material via Twitter. CNN writes that Simmons will initially launch an email newsletter in mid-March before the site debuts in late spring or early summer. New hires will include former Grantland names […]
On the heels of Grease: Live comes another ambitious live venture from Fox – The Simpsons, on May 15. Marge, Lisa and Bart will turn the show over to family patriarch, Homer, who’ll comment on events of the day during both the East Coast and West Coast broadcasts. The final three minutes of the episode […]
Brad Falchuk has inked a new three-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television, where he has been for nearly a decade. Falchuk will continue his duties on FOX’s Scream Queens, where he serves as showrunner, as well as FX’s American Horror Story and American Crime Story, which he executive produces. In addition, Falchuk will […]
The recently-launched digital media company Ripple Entertainment has pulled off a coveted industry coup: It’s peeled some talent away from Google. Bailey Rosser will now serve as Ripple’s VP of Content Strategy and Audience Development. Rosser most recently served as Audience Development Strategist at YouTube Space LA, before which she worked as Product Solution Specialist […]
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