After all this time, Sting is set to anchor the halftime show at the NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 14 in Toronto. The former frontman of The Police will perform a compilation of his biggest hits during the halftime event. Before the game, Cirque du Soleil will tip off the evening with a performance illustrating […]
Facebook saw about as many users as net income dollars in Q4 – and in both cases, the numbers are fairly intimidating. The social media giant announced that it had 1.59 billion monthly active users in the 4th quarter of 2015, up 14% year-over-year. The company also garnered $1.56 billion in net income in Q4, […]
Viceland, the Vice culture and lifestyle cable channel launching February 29, offered a peek at upcoming programming (Gaycation, Weediquette, Balls Deep, among others). “It feels like most channels are just a collection of shows,” said Spike Jonze, the new net’s creative director. “We wanted Viceland to be different, to feel like everything on there has […]
Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) will play Michael Jackson (yes, the King of Pop) in road trip movie Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon, for UK’s Sky Arts. Film chronicles a supposed journey taken after the 9/11 attacks that had Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando renting a car together to escape NYC. Stockard Channing plays Taylor […]
Netflix became available earlier this month through parts of Asia. Folks in Indonesia only had a short time to enjoy the service, though. PT Telkom Indonesia, the country’s largest telco, has blocked access to Netflix on its Internet platforms because it says Netflix has violent and pornographic content. The company is looking to work with […]
David Bowie may have died, but a new web series soon to be in production has found a creative way to pay its respects. According to Backstage, Light Street Studios is looking for actors to appear in the series that centers around “David Jones, a recent college graduate, (who) is hired at a hot […]
A year after launching American Sports Network, Sinclair Broadcast Group is going deeper into the biz, nabbing Tennis Channel for $350 million. With its new acquisition boasting rights to 90% of all the televised tennis in the US, the company has already locked in agreements with MVPDs that will boost carriage of Tennis Channel from […]
With Super Bowl 50 set for the Bay Area, Visa is leveraging its home-court advantage with a slate of activations throughout the week designed to play up its offerings as a technology company with long ties to the NFL. “Visa has been a long-time partner of the NFL, having the Super Bowl in our backyard […]
Lionsgate TV signed reality producers David Shumsky and Mark Harris to create original programming through the duo’s Ohana Pictures imprint. Under the new deal, Lionsgate gets exclusive rights to unscripted TV projects plus first call on any scripted series in development. The first series under the deal is competition series Kicking & Screaming, slated to […]
All ears: The 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards will take place April 30 at the Microsoft Theater in LA and air as a two-hour telecast on Disney Channel on Sunday, May 1 at 7p in 159 countries, an increase of more than 250 percent from last year’s 44 countries. National sponsors for the RDMA telecast […]
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