The NFL and its broadcasters revealed dates and network assignments for its 2015 slate of games, all leading into Super Bowl 50 on CBS next year. NBC Sports once again launches the season starting Sept. 10 with NFL Kickoff 2015 pitting the Pittsburgh/New England. That will be followed by the Sunday Night Football opener on […]
Sad day at FOX Sports. Just days after honoring broadcaster Steve Byrnes for his battle against cancer at the April 19 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, the longtime NASCAR television mainstay lost the fight. Byrnes had served as co-host of NASCAR Race Hub and play-by-play announcer for NASCAR races. “We lost a beloved member of the […]
How does Zendaya feel about switching up her starring role in K.C. Undercover for the night to host the Radio Disney Music Awards this Saturday? “It’s a different energy, but I’m excited about it,” she tells CynKids. “The RDMAs are a family event so there’s going to be a lot of young kids and every […]
MarVista Entertainment acquired Latin American rights to Nicktoons series Little Battlers eXperience. The company will introduce 52 half-hour episodes of the animated action series, which debuted in the U.S. in August 2014, throughout Latin America.
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The Academy of Country Music Awards delivered its largest audience since 1998, according to Nielsen preliminary Live+SD ratings for Sunday. The CBS special presentation was first in viewers (15.77 million), A25-54 (4.6/12), A18-49 (3.6/11) and A18-34 (2.6/09). It was the first time ACMs were broadcast in the 11-11:30p time period.
Fandango will kick off its fifth original digital series I Love Movies as part of the company’s largest promotional campaign. Starting May 6, the summer long program will feature celebrity pro-social events, VIP movie screenings, festival sponsorships, social media openings and TV ads. Airing across Fandango’s Movieclips YouTube channel, Hulu, Roku and Samsung’s Milk Video […]
Parenthood alum Craig T. Nelson booked a recurring role on Grace and Frankie, the Netflix comedy out May 8. Nelson will play Guy, a love interest for Grace (Jane Fonda). Nelson is also starring in NBC’s straight-to-series revival of Nelson’s 1989-1997 comedy, Coach, arriving in the 2015-16 season.
HBO acquired the Vimeo Original series High Maintenance. The series first premiered on Vimeo when creators Ben Sinclair and Katja Blichfield released the initial episodes in 2013 free of charge; last year the streaming service partnered with the duo to debut the second season exclusively for the Vimeo On Demand platform. It has since become […]
ESPN is losing a longtime pillar of the company, with Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Sean Bratches announcing that he will depart the company at the end of the year. With a career that has spanned 27-years at the company, Bratches has led the affiliate sales groups at ESPN and The Walt Disney Company, […]