Two big announcements in the boxing world yesterday. FOX Sports formally unveiled its new multi-year deal to showcase Premier Boxing Champions. Through the deal, PBC will now serve as the exclusive boxing program for FOX Sports 1. Programming will be anchored by Toe-to-Toe Tuesdays, a new series that debuts on Sept. 8 at 9p on […]
JOB OF THE WEEK ACCT EXEC-CROSS PLATFORM A+E NETWORKS CHI Sell multi-platform ad solutions across all media for A+E brands. Develop & execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue goals including ad sales partnerships. Full Info/Apply here. CYNOPSISCLASSIFIEDADVANTAGE 07.28.15 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 28, 2015, and this is your weekly issue of Cynopsis: […]
JOB OF THE WEEK ACCT EXEC-CROSS PLATFORM A+E NETWORKS CHI Sell multi-platform ad solutions across all media for A+E brands. Develop & execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue goals including ad sales partnerships. Full Info/Apply here. CYNOPSISCLASSIFIEDADVANTAGE 07.28.15 Good morning. It’s Tuesday, July 28, 2015, and this is your weekly issue of Cynopsis: […]
In a press conference yesterday, Amy Schumer made good on her promise to speak up in support of tighter gun control following the fatal shooting last month of two women at a screening of her film Trainwreck at a Louisiana theater. She joined Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) when he unveiled a plan that would make […]
Rock legend Jimi Hendrix takes center stage in the new Showtime doc Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church, premiering Friday, September 4, at 9p, across Showtime platforms. The special chronicles Hendrix’s largest U.S. performance at the Atlanta Pop Music Festival in July 1970 with never-before-seen concert footage, plus footage of the festival’s promoter, Paul McCartney, Steve Winwood […]
Amazon’s Transparent will return for season two on Dec. 4. Creator Jill Soloway announced at TCA yesterday that the Emmy-nominated series has added a trans woman to its writing team. “Any show about trans people should have trans people at the center of it,” said Soloway.
Vice Media launched its first women’s interest site, Broadly, yesterday. Content on the company’s 11th channel features original reporting on culture, fashion, sex and politics, in video series, docs, profiles and daily features. Sample programming: Style and Error, Ovary Action and a marijuana column. Said publisher Shanon Kelley, “We’re telling original stories you can’t find […]
As the NFL season gets ready to kick off, ESPN serves up the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony for the 21st consecutive year on Saturday at 7p. Trey Wingo anchors coverage on rhe network, and will be joined by Tom Jackson, Chris Mortensen and Sal Paolantonio. Of course, this year’s class includes two […]
NASCAR is keeping its marriage with Las Vegas intact, announcing that the annual NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards – and all of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion’s Week – will return to Las Vegas in 2015 as part of a renewed partnership with the city. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards will headline NASCAR Sprint […]
Fuse has its sights set on culturally diverse influencers with a September 30 relaunch. On the way: a new logo and programming that’s “edgy and relevant.” That includes the made-over net’s first original series, Transcendent, a docu-series about trans women performers at a cabaret, bowing Wednesday, September 30 at 11:30p; Fluffy Breaks Even, an unscripted […]