Yesterday, AOL premiered two new series: AOL Rise and That’s Racist. Hosted by Mari White (ESPN), AOL Rise is a news entertainment show consisting of two-minute segments at 6a, 7a, 8a and 9a every weekday on rise.aol.com. “AOL Rise was born from the results of a recent AOL Morning Rituals Research study…[which found] 85% of […]
Amazon ordered the new pilot Casanova, executive produced by Stu Zicherman (The Americans) and Ben Silverman (Marco Polo). The pilot for the potential series will focus on a lesser-known part of the legendary lover’s life: his two-decade exile from Italy, prison break, and return to Paris. Amazon recently released 13 new pilots as part of […]
CBS Sports laid out plans for golf coverage in 2015, announcing the “most extensive schedule in network television history.” The company is on deck to carry 21 golf tournaments this year, with more than 155 hours of coverage, including the Masters, PGA Championship, 19 PGA TOUR events as well as 10 golf specials and programming […]
Coach K helped propel FOX College Hoops to its best ever metered overnight numbers on Sunday. Duke’s win over St. John’s (which saw Krzyzewski reach 1,000 victories), scored the company’s best-ever metered market rating for a college basketball game and ranked as the highest-rated College Basketball game of the weekend, according to Nielsen. On the […]
NBC picked up two trophies at Saturday’s 2015 Producers Guild of America Awards in LA: The Voice (NBC) for competition television, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC) for live entertainment and talk. Rounding out the other TV categories were Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) for comedy, Cosmos: A Space Odyssey (Fox/NatGeo) for […]
A partially-shot HBO documentary from Martin Scorsese about Bill Clinton has stalled, according to the New York Times, because the former POTUS wants more control over the project than the Oscar-winning director is willing to cede. Said HBO, “It’s not happening soon but that doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen.” Likely complicating matters is […]
Multi-channel network Fullscreen formed a new film division to bring digital talent to the movies. The MCN announced its Fullscreen Films slate at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, which includes: Lazer Team from Rooster Teeth studios, #O2LForever’s documentary about vloggers, called Our 2nd Life, and The Outfield, featuring social media stars Nash Grier and […]
Univision OTT network Flama launched web series Saving Lives on Hulu, with new eps premiering every week. In addition, Flama originals Taking on America, Drop the Mic with Becky G, Chachis Dance to Uforia and The Bodega will also hit Hulu. “Flama’s innovative content brings a large audience of youthful viewers to expand Hulu’s efforts […]
NBC Sports’ go big or go home mentality for major events hits full speed this week as the company prepares to host Super Bowl XLIX from Phoenix on Sunday. Armed with the company’s “most comprehensive Super Bowl promotional effort ever” with Super Bowl-related content set to run on the likes of NBC, NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC, […]
The NHL and the National Hockey League Players’ Association inked a North American partnership with camera maker GoPro to use the company’s equipment and expertise to “deliver hockey fans never-before-seen perspectives of the game and the talents of the top players in high-definition video content during national and regional game broadcasts and across the digital […]