Guy Fieri hosts some of the biggest stars from Food Network and Cooking Channel in Guy’s Grocery Games All-Stars, premiering Sunday, August 23 at 8p on Food Network. Each of the five episodes features four culinary all-stars competing in challenges as they navigate their way through the aisles of a grocery store.
Netflix will premiere Staten Island Summer, the new film from Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels, on July 30. The comedy includes plenty of SNL vets, including Cecily Strong, Bobby Moynihan, Fred Armisen, Will Forte and Kate McKinnon. Limited theatrical run begins this Friday.
YouTube enlisted video marketing company Pixability to evaluate the top 100 brands on the platform. The findings: branded video views of companies pulled from Inerbrand’s 2014 list increased 85 percent from just a year ago, to 40.1 billion views in June 2015 compared to 21.7 billion in June 2014. The brands also saw a spike […]
ESPN is shoring up its coverage for the upcoming 2015 Special Olympics World Games, which gets underway this week. Programming will include a live broadcast of the three-hour Opening Ceremony, which will be hosted by Robin Roberts, Lindsay Czarniak and Kevin Negandhi. Throughout the event, coverage will span ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPN Deportes as well […]
FIFA formalized plans for President Blatter’s departure, announcing that the upcoming extraordinary Congress will take place in Zurich on Feb. 26 2016 when a new FIFA boss will be elected. In addition, reform topics proposed include enhanced centralized integrity checks for Executive Committee members, the introduction of term limits, higher standards of governance at all […]
Never gets old: History was number one in BrandIndex, Buzz and Quality among all 50 cable networks measured for 2Q15 in total respondents, according to YouGov’s BrandIndex. It’s the net’s 15th consecutive quarter win for Buzz, and eleventh as the Highest Quality network. History also ranks 19th out of over 1,400 brands in overall brand […]
Hulu subscribers may soon have an ad-free option, but it will cost them. Currently, users pay $7.99 for the streaming service’s premium version, which includes commercials. According to the Wall Street journal, an ad-free tier could launch this fall for $12-$14/month. Hulu has about nine million paid subscribers, versus ad-free Netflix’s 65 million worldwide.
DEFY Media landed a digital-first deal with Emmy-winning game show creator and producer Andrew Golder (Win Ben Stein’s Money), to develop a slate of game shows for the network. The pact includes at least four game show concepts over the coming year for DEFY’s millennial audience; DEFY will also work with Golder via Generate’s television […]
The emergence of Rentrak Sports, which launched officially last week, will look to create a new player in the industry, leveraging the company’s array of TV measurement data, consumer data, and branded entertainment metrics to serve rising sports sponsorship trends that saw $20 billion spent in the US alone in 2014. With numbers at a […]