Recently cancelled Community may live another season, thanks to Hulu. Vulture reports that the streaming service is having discussions with Sony Pictures Television to produce another 13-eps. Community was Hulu’s top show in January and one of the top ten series on the site based on page visits, according to SimilarWeb.
Univision Deportes Network is hitting the ground running for the World Cup, detailing plans to transform the channel into a 24/7 platform dedicated to the event. Programming will include simulcasts of 56 matches with contests on Univision and UDN featuring the likes of Enrique “El Perro” Bermudez, Felix “El Gato” Fernandez, and Jesus “El Profe” […]
FOX Sports laid out its plans for the 2014 college football season, with more than 100 games on deck across its family of networks. Conferences in the spotlight will include Big 12, Pac-12 and Conference USA games as well as the Pac-12 and Big Ten conference championships. The action begins on Thursday, Aug. 28 with […]
E! late nighter Chelsea Lately will last air Tuesday, August 21 at 11p, in a live, hour-long event, following a month of special eps and surprise guests. “I myself am more surprised than anyone that I was able to hold down a job for seven years, and it was a fantastic seven years,” said Handler. […]
ABC World News won the May sweep in A25-54 (2.014 million), its first sweeps victory in over 6 years and first win during a May sweep in 7 years. And Diane Sawyer made history – it was the first evening news program hosted by solely a woman to win a sweep month in the news […]
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me) and Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen are producing a short film series about the U.S. economy. The show will include 20 three to five-minute videos to be distributed this fall online and across VOD and mobile platforms. Twilight’s Catherine Hardwicke, The Hunger Game’s Gary Ross, A Beautiful Mind’s Akiva […]
Netflix has found the star for its upcoming Daredevil series. Former Boardwalk Empire actor Charlie Cox will play the Marvel superhero at the center of the 13-episode drama directed by Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Steven S. Deknight. It will be released in 2015.
California Chrome’s race to a potential Triple Crown will result in NBC Sports doubling its programming for the Belmont Stakes on June 7 to 16 hours. The slate begins on Wednesday, June 4 at 6:30p with the documentary California Chrome: The Unlikely Champion, narrated by Bob Costas on NBCSN. Coverage continues with Belmont Classics on […]
TNT revs up for its portion of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series with six weeks of action beginning Sunday, June 8, at Pocono Raceway at 1p. The network will once again follow a driver and their team during the network’s portion of the season as they travel and prepare for the upcoming race. Featured […]
Fusion is taking soccer seriously. To capitalize on World Cup mania, the net is turning weekly program The Soccer Gods into a daily primetime show, The Soccer Gods: Brazil 2014, preempting regular 10p programming during the June 12-July 13 global sports event. A mobile-responsive microsite will create and curate content that includes reactions from inside […]