Nominees for the 2015 Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday morning. Among the TV nods: for best drama series, it’s Showtime’s The Affair, HBO’s Game of Thrones, CBS’s The Good Wife and Netflix’s House of Cards. Competing for best comedy series are HBO’s Girls and Silicon Valley, CW’s Jane the Virgin, Netflix’s Orange Is the […]
Limited series Betty White’s Smartest Animals in America premieres on White’s 93rd birthday, Saturday, January 17, at 8p, on Great American Country. Said animal lover White, who communes with the likes of dolphins, elephants and badgers in the special, “Any excuse to be around animal, I’ll take it!”
Netflix and Amazon landed seven Golden Globe nominations. Netflix originals House of Cards and Orange is the New Black each reeled in three noms, and the Ricky Gervais comedy Derek nabbed one. Amazon’s Transparent received a nod for best comedy/musical series and actor Jeffrey Tambor was also nominated for best actor in a comedy/musical series […]
Twitter users are more likely to watch TV and influence what others will watch next, according to new Ipsos Media CT research. The white paper, The Twitter Effect: Understanding Twitter’s Role in TV Behaviors, looked at the role of TV influencers on social media, and specifically Twitter. The study polled adults between the ages of […]
Nationwide has booked a return trip to the Super Bowl. The company announced that it will sponsor the broadcast of the game for the first time since 2007. Nationwide, the official insurance sponsor of the NFL, will be sharing more information about its Super Bowl advertising on Facebook and Twitter leading up to the game […]
The SEC on CBS notched its sixth straight year as the highest-rated college football TV package, according to the network, averaging a national household rating/share of 4.0/9. Coverage included five of the Top 10 most-watched college football telecasts of the 2014 regular-season, led by Alabama’s win over Missouri in the SEC Championship on Dec. 6, […]
David Letterman’s last day as host of CBS’s Late Show has been set for Wednesday, May 20. “It’s going to be tough to say goodbye, but I know we will all cherish the shows leading up to Dave’s final broadcast,” said CBS CEO Les Moonves. Letterman, who has hosted the Late Show for 22 years, […]
Television nominees for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards include the casts of Boardwalk Empire, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Homeland and House of Cards in the drama series category, and Big Bang Theory, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Modern Family, Orange Is the New Black and Veep in comedy. HBO topped the list with 14 nominations, […]
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference yesterday that he would like to expand original programming to as many as 20 new series, or a new season of programming released every two weeks. He also mentioned that Netflix is unlikely to release ratings, because it “has been […]
Instagram hit a major milestone yesterday, and topped 300 million active users; an increase from the 200 million reported in March. In comparison, Twitter accounted for 281 million active users as of the third quarter. Instagram founder Kevin Systrom told the Wall Street Journal that his company’s biggest rivals, surprisingly, are not apps like Yik […]