Jesse Eisenberg is adapting his short stories Bream Gives Me Hiccups as a half-hour comedy for Amazon. Ravi Nandan (Playing House) and John Hodges will executive produce the series, which follows a 9-year-old restaurant critic who always brings his alcoholic mother and his friend Matthew along.
NBCUniversal will once again go big for its turn hosting the Super Bowl this year, announcing the company’s “most comprehensive Super Bowl promotional effort ever.” The push will span the likes of NBC, NBCSN, CNBC, MSNBC, USA, E!, Bravo, Syfy, The Weather Channel and Telemundo for its “Big Event Strategy,” along with NBC Sports Radio, […]
NASCAR’s famed merchandising is getting an overhaul, with the organization, along with NASCAR Team Properties teaming with Fanatics in a 10-year agreement for the sport’s at-track merchandise business. As part of the agreement, Fanatics acquired certain exclusive rights from NASCAR and NTP that will make the company the primary retailer of NASCAR, team and driver […]
Shooting fish in a barrel? Comedy Central is set to tape a roast of pop star/underwear model Justin Bieber. Where to start: peeing in a restaurant mop bucket? Egging his neighbor’s house? Abandoning a pet monkey in Germany? “Justin has been asking us for a few years to roast him, and we just kept telling […]
NBC’s State of Affairs got a ratings bump Monday, rising 24 percent in viewers (4.5 million) and 57 percent among A18-49 (1.1). Fox’s Gotham (2.2) and Sleepy Hollow (1.3) matched series lows.
Netflix hit 57.4 million global subscribers, adding 13 million and generating $1.3 billion in revenue, the streaming service announced in its Q4 earnings report yesterday. However, U.S. subscriber rate is down from a year ago, dipping to 1.9 million this year from 2.3 million added in Q4 2013.
YouTube will reincarnate its Originals Channels by the end of year, Head of YT Originals Alex Carloss announced at NATPE yesterday. The programming on the channel will be tied into its Google Preferred ad program, with YT selecting native top talent to foster premium content. However, Carloss said the content will not take on the […]
NBCUniversal is gearing up for Super Stream Sunday on Feb. 1, offering viewers 11 straight hours of NBC content on Super Bowl Sunday with programming that includes the game, halftime show, pre- and post-game shows as well as the midseason debut of The Blacklist. Streaming begins at noon with pre-game coverage. Consumers accessing NBC Sports […]
Turner Sports and DC Entertainment unveiled the release of The Justice League Goes Inside the NBA All Star 2015, a special edition comic book teaming TNT’s Inside the NBA studio team host Ernie Johnson and analysts Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Shaquille O’Neal with The Justice League from DC Comics. The 16-page, limited edition comic […]
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