ESPN detailed its plans for this year’s NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship Presented by Capital One with 63 teams looking to knock off the heavily favored Connecticut crew. All games will be shown in their entirety across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3, WatchESPN and ESPN FULL COURT beginning with first-round action on Friday. ESPN2 serves […]
Exclusive: The Sinclair Broadcast Group is adding Steve Rotfeld Productions’ STEM-centered Xploration Station block beginning in fall 2016. The three-hour Saturday-morning block will run on 38 Sinclair stations, including all 36 of its Fox affiliates, for five years, according to terms of the new deal. Xploration Station premiered this year with two hours on the […]
Discovery Family Channel’s “Dino Madness” programming event takes viewers back to the Jurassic Era on Monday nights this month. It kicked off with new back-to-back episodes of Dinosaurs: The Untold Story on March 16 and continues on March 23 with two additional new eps.
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“American institution” Betty White will receive NATAS’ Lifetime Achievement Award at the 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. In addition to her robust primetime resume, Golden Girl White has daytime cred, too, as a game show regular – she won an Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host in 1983, for Just Men – and a role […]
FX is airing three eps of Backstrom on Saturday, March 21 starting at 11p. Freshman crime series, starring Rainn Wilson (The Office), airs on sister net Fox Thursdays at 9p.
YouTube comedians Kian Lawley and JC Caylen signed with entertainment agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Lawley and Caylen launched KianAndJc on YT in mid-January to create cinematic short films and comedic challenges, in addition to weekly content on their channels. KianAndJc now has more than 840,000 subscribers and 12 million views, with a combined fan […]
Netflix snagged global rights to 6 Years, a film that premiered at the SXSW Film Festival from director Hannah Fidell (A Teacher). Produced by the Duplass Brothers, it stars Taissa Farmiga (Higher Ground) and Ben Rosenfield (Boardwalk Empire) as a young couple in a rocky relationship. Netflix signed a four-film deal with Jay and Mark […]
adidas is bowing out of the NBA wars. The official apparel sponsor of the league released a statement to reporters saying that the brand will not renew with the NBA following the 2016-17 season. The news comes after the NBA informed the company that it would open up bidding to other brands with Nike and […]
NASCAR locked in a seven-year media broadcast extension with FOX Sports Latin America that runs through 2021. The deal will see FOX Sports Latin America continue to be the home of live races for all three of NASCAR’s national series – the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR XFINITY Series and the NASCAR Camping World Truck […]