Pepsi is bringing together filmmakers and singers in honor of the World Cup. The company is releasing a visual album that features the likes of Spike Lee, Timbaland, Idris Elba and Kelly Rowland for the album Beats of the Beautiful Game, set to be released June 10 with a slate of 11 songs and short […]
AwesomenessTV today will launch its first mobile app for iOS. The DreamWorks-owned, teen-centric MCN is also releasing a second season of the musical drama Side Effects. Fans will be able to binge view the entire second season via the app, beginning today. Alternatively, new episodes will be released weekly on Thursdays beginning with the first […]
Cartoon Network will launch the fifth incarnation of its Move It Movement Tour May 23-25 at the Atlanta Jazz Festival. The annual summertime traveling event targets kids 6-14 and their parents and is presented in partnership with the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition and in support of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! […]
Comedy Central will have big shoes to fill when The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert jumps ship for CBS’s Late Show next year, and they’ve tapped Larry Wilmore to try them on for size. The Daily Show’s “Senior Black Correspondent” will launch Jon Stewart-created The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore at 11:30p, starting in January. “I’m […]
NBC unveiled its schedule for the 2014-2015 season, and it includes slipping Katherine Heigl CIA drama State Affairs into The Blacklist’s Monday at 10p slot starting November 17. Blacklist returns with new eps Thursday, February 5 at 9p, after a big Super Bowl push on February 1. The Biggest Loser moves to Thursdays at 8p, […]
Apple plans to make rapper Dr. Dre “the first billionaire in hip hop” (according to him) when it purchases his electronics and music empire, Beats, in its largest acquisition yet for $3.2 billion. USA Today reports the company was originally started with music producer Jimmy Lovine in 2008, and was ironically meant to be a […]
Netflix will present four new documentary series: Battered Bastards of Baseball on July 11, Mission Blue on Aug. 15, E-Team and Print the Legend. Netflix began distributing docs last year, starting with Academy award nominee The Square. As expected, the streaming service also raised prices, now charging members $8.99 a month (instead of $7.99). However, […]
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association will continue its long-standing partnership with NBC, announcing that the International Ski Federation’s 2015 Alpine World Ski Championships in Vail/Beaver Creek will be carried by NBC Sports Group and Universal Sports Network. The new deal will see NBC, NBCSN and Universal Sports combine for a most-ever 25+ hours of […]
Plenty of drama at the NFL Draft helped propel both ESPN and NFL Network to new records. ESPN’s presentation of the 2014 NFL Draft, spanning May 8-10, ranked as the network’s highest-rated NFL Draft telecast since 1993, according to Nielsen fast nationals. With over 15 hours of coverage on ESPN and ESPN2, the event drew […]
Law & Order: SVU will turn sweet 16 on NBC. The procedural hadn’t gotten an early renewal as NBC worked out terms with producer Dick Wolf’s Wolf Films.