ESPN is upping the ante for its 20th season of Major League Soccer as the company further unveiled its coverage plans for the new season. This year will see a new consistent MLS Soccer Sunday match window that runs at 5p with 28 of ESPN’s 34 regular-season matches running in this timeframe, mainly on ESPN2. […]
Fresh off his Oscar win for Best Actor, Eddie Redmayne’s next journey takes him to the Island of Sodor. Redmayne will voice an engine in HIT Entertainment’s upcoming direct to DVD Thomas & Friends movie Sodor’s Legend of the Lost Treasure, an adventure that takes the engines to a new part of the island. Redmayne […]
Nick will launch the first toy line for its STEM-based preschool series Blaze and the Monster Machines in May with an exclusive bow at Toys R Us, before wide release this fall.
Lady Gaga, the talk of the Oscars for her Sound of Music medley, is joining season five of FX anthology series American Horror Story. It’s the singer’s first major role as an actress; no other cast members have been confirmed for the AHS chapter, called Hotel.
ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat dipped one tenth versus last week, to 1.8/6 among A18-49 at 8p Tuesday, against a premiere night for NBC powerhouse The Voice (3.9/12), according to Nielsen. At 10p following the singing competition, the series finale of Parks and Recreation scored 1.6/5, up 45 percent versus last week; its 4.2 million […]
The competition for kids content continues to heat up between Netflix and Amazon: yesterday, Netflix ordered five new children’s series, including a remake of DHX Media’ Inspector Gadget set to debut next month. Alongside IG, the streaming service will reboot Danger Mouse, push out two other ‘toons Bottersnikes & Gumbles, Super 4 and premiere live-action […]
5 MINUTES WITH… This week, PBS Digital Studios gathered their hosts and producers from around the country in one place: YouTube Space New York. The six-month old studio is nothing less than what you would think Google would come up with, from the state-of-the-art camera equipment and green screens to its massive […]
Major League Soccer formalized reports (see yesterday’s issue) about the league’s newest foray across the Atlantic, announcing a partnership with British sports broadcaster Sky Sports. In addition to the two regular season games shown on a weekly basis, the four-year deal will also showcase the AT&T MLS All-Star Game, every MLS Cup Playoff game, and […]
FOX Sports named its lead soccer studio host for the company’s upcoming coverage of the 2015 Women’s World Cup, tapping Rob Stone for the role. Stone will anchor studio shows, including pregame, halftime and postgame coverage, and other FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 related programming throughout the month-long tournament. “Covering a massive global tournament in […]
AwesomenessTV provided the rainbow in DreamWorks Animation’s otherwise cloudy Q4 financials. DWA purchased the Brian Robbins-helmed MCN in 2013 in a deal valued up to $117 million, and Awesomeness now is the driver of DWA’s new media division, which earned $24.9 million in gross revenue during Q4, up from $4 million during the same period […]