HBO snapped up Saturday Night Live alum Bill Hader for a development deal, to create and star in a comedy, reports Deadline. Hader wrote for SNL, as well as South Park.
HBO signs SNL alum Bill Hader to development deal
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Facebook takes on Shazam with new feature detecting TV and music audio
Yesterday, Facebook became a major competitor for music discovery app, Shazam. Facebook’s app can now recognize music and TV shows playing near a user, and will automatically provide what tune may be in the background when a user creates a post. “We want to help people tell better stories,” Facebook’s Product Manager Arteh Selekman told […]
Netflix expands to France, Germany
Netflix will soon be available in France, Germany, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg. The streaming service did not say when in 2014 it will launch, but the new additions put it in a total of 50 markets. The streaming service announced foreign revenue in 2013 of $712 million, and $2.8 billion in the U.S.
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CBS Sports places Tracy Wolfson under the Thursday Night lights
CBS Sports elevated Tracy Wolfson to The NFL on CBS’s new lead game reporter. Wolfson has served as CBS Sports’ lead college football reporter for the Network’s coverage of the Southeastern Conference for the past 10 years, but will now become part of the Thursday Night Football crew, joining the lead announce team of Jim […]
WNBA shows its Pride
The Women’s National Basketball Association has launched WNBA Pride presented by COVERGIRL, a new national platform designed to celebrate inclusion and equality and combat anti-LGBT bias. The campaign will see the league establish an “integrated marketing, media, grassroots and social responsibility program for the LGBT community” that includes a special site where league and team […]
Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz-Balart headed for double duty at MSNBC
Stepping in for MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing, who’s decamping for NBC News, will be Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart, anchoring at 10a live from Miami. Diaz-Balart will continue his anchor and hosting duties on Telemundo; both nets fall under the NBCUniversal umbrella.
Scripps’ Travel Channel and ulive first NYTVF partner to guarantee creator a digital series
Scripps Networks Interactive’s Travel Channel and digital network ulive will guarantee a New York Television Festival independent artist a digital series with a $30,000 budget. Other previously-announced 2014 development partners like A+E, Fremantlemedia North America and SundanceTV, will award $25,000 to a participant in the NYTVF 2014 class of Official Artists, but only for a […]
The Latest: Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences premieres web series ‘Academy Originals’
Although the 2015 Oscars are still nine months away, the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences premiered a new filmmaking web series, Academy Originals. Screenwriter Tina Gordon Chism talks about her job in the Creative Spark ep, and in Not Much to See, a documentary examines how the blind enjoy movies. A new episode, which […]
Coke premieres fan-made spot tonight
Coke’s first ad made up solely of consumer submissions is slated to debut during the season finale of Fox’s American Idol tonight. Teens had been asked to send video showing what it feels like to take a sip of Coke; results are here.
NFL goes sweet on Minnesota, Skittles
It’s a return to a cold weather city for the NFL, which voted yesterday to bring Super Bowl LII to Minnesota, which hasn’t hosted since 1992, where it will be played in the new Vikings’ stadium. Owners also opted to not expand the playoffs this season, as the proposal was tabled and won’t be considered […]
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