FOX Sports booked its fall plans, unveiling studio personalities and game broadcast teams for the upcoming college football season. This year, FOX broadcasts a one-hour prime-time pregame show on Saturdays leading into the biggest game of the week. Rob Stone hosts beside analysts Joel Klatt and the incoming Dave Wannstedt. Gus Johnson once again teams […]
Things are looking UP in the Chinese animation market. Just ask Trevor Lai, whose Shanghai-based UP Studios is on the fast track to producing original family animation. Lai plans to bring to the U.S. and hey, while he’s at it, the world. Lai describes UP as “a combination of Silicon Valley and Pixar,” developing movies, […]
Hoho Rights appointed Active Merchandising to represent its preschool property Cloudbabies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The appointment follows the announcement that ARD and ZDF’s children’s channel KiKA has acquired 52 episodes of the CG animated series, to be broadcast in the region later in 2014.
Also back on FX: Louie. The Louis C.K. observational comedy will have a seven-episode season five, slated for a spring 2015 premiere. The series scored five Emmy nods, including best comedy. “Louie’s fourth season was once again groundbreaking. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking – always thought provoking,” said Landgraf.
FXX is making the most of its landmark The Simpsons deal. Starting Tuesday, September 2nd, the animated comedy will air in fringe, primetime and late-night dayparts on weekdays and weekends, with themed mini-marathons from 4p-8p leading into Sunday’s 8p broadcast on Fox. FXX is also launching “Simpsons World,” featuring branded content through SimpsonsWorld.com and handheld/connected […]
Netflix kicked off the week of tech company’s earning reports by revealing that the service surpassed 50.02 million subscribers (from 48.35 subs in Q1). The U.S. alone accounted for 36.24 million customers, with international subs topping 12.8 million (an increase of 78 percent from the year prior). As analysts predicted, the company hit $1.34 billion […]
Yahoo struck a deal with The Weinstein Company to premiere the new drama One Chance on Yahoo Screen for free a week before the theatrical release. The movie is from The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel, and follows an amateur opera singer rising to fame after being chosen by Simon Cowell for Britain’s Got […]
CBS Sports and the Professional Bull Riders entered a long-term agreement to keep CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network as the exclusive television home of the PBR on broadcast and cable. The partnership between the two companies began in 2012. The deal will see CBS Sports Network continue to provide exclusive coverage of the PBR’s […]
The NFL revealed that Browns rookie Johnny Manziel now ranks in the top spot of NFL player jerseys sold on NFLShop.com. The quarterback is ahead of No. 2 Russell Wilson, with Colin Kaepernick, Peyton Manning and Richard Sherman rounding out the top five sellers. The Seahawks dominated the charts with 12th Fan, Marshawn Lynch and […]
FX’s The Strain premiere and encore runs drew 8 million total viewers and 4.2 million A18-49 in Live+3 viewing. The first airing, on July 13, delivered 4.73 million total viewers and 2.43 million A18-49. “For a show to come out of the gate like this in the most crowded environment in TV history is just […]
© 2026 Access Intelligence, LLC – All Rights Reserved.
