HBO has greenlit American Lion, a six-hour miniseries starring Oscar winner Sean Penn as President Andrew Jackson. The project is based on the biography “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” by John Meacham, with additional source material coming from Robert V. Remini’s biography of Jackson. The project marks Penn’s first major TV role.
Fashion Police has a new co-host. Margaret Cho is joining the E! series when it returns in 2016. Cho has previously appeared as a celebrity guest on the fashion-focused talker. Her addition follows the talent shuffle – namely, Kathy Griffin and Kelly Osbourne‘s exits – that occurred after Joan Rivers‘ death in 2014. The new […]
In order to increase video quality and decrease bandwidth usage, Netflix will be re-encoding all its files to reflect the technical needs of its individual pieces of content. For instance, Gladiator will probably be blessed with a higher bitrate than The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. But since the latter actually doesn’t need as much data to […]
Here’s a nice little perk of having Facebook bona fides: the social network is now letting all users with Verified Pages make use of live-streaming video. It’s the next step in Facebook’s rollout of its live-streaming video service, which it eventually aims to make available to all its users. The feature was already accessible […]
And in a Cynopsis Sports exclusive, Fox Sports has cooked up a surprise for viewers. Michael Strahan of Fox NFL Sunday taped an interview with Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul on Thursday. During the interview, JPP discussed the 4th of July fireworks accident that caused the amputation of his right index finger and damaged his […]
Get ready for the first new Bud Light look in eight years. The beer brand unveiled plans for a makeover that will include a reimagined Bud Light logo as well as new primary and secondary packaging. Look for the return of the vintage “AB” crest, which has been MIA since 2001. The new packaging debuts […]
It takes time to count to a billion. FIFA reported yesterday that more than 1 billion people watched the 2014 World Cup final, stating that a total of 1.013 billion saw at least one minute of Germany’s victory over Argentina, according to a new AP report citing research from FIFA and Kantar Media. FIFA reported […]
Adrian Wojnarowski is getting his own Vertical. The NBA reporter is working with Yahoo Sports to launch a new basketball site dubbed The Vertical in early 2016, “bringing together an elite group of NBA journalists, insiders and experts to create the internet’s hub of basketball information and storytelling.” Names taking part on the site include […]
And to think, Matt Damon’s character in The Martian could have avoided all that unpleasantness if he’d just strapped on a headset. At the South by Southwest festival next March, Fusion will debut The Mars 2030 Experience, a new VR experience simulating NASA’s proposed mission to Mars. Fusion built the experience with help from the […]
Given the miniscule Democratic primary field, it only stands to reason that viewers should them on a small screen. The January 17 presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (and also one other guy) will live-stream on NBC News’s YouTube channel. (It will air linearly on NBC.) While other networks have live-streamed this seasons […]
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