DreamWorks Animation Television has its first marketing chief. Brenda Freeman joins the studio as head of television marketing, after most recently serving as chief marketing officer at Turner Animation and Cartoon Network. She’ll spearhead global marketing efforts for DreamWorks’ TV business, which includes more than 1,100 episodes of original programming based primarily on the DWA […]
Production is underway on Shutterbugs, an animated preschool series from Canada’s Big Jump Productions, Amberwood Entertainment and Tricon Kids & Family. The series, which offers young viewers an opportunity to understand their world through comedy, exploration and reasoning skills, is being developed in association with TVO, Ontario’s public educational media organization.
In the wake of her marriage’s implosion thanks to a cheating scandal, tabloid darling Tori Spelling (Beverly Hills, 90210) will star in Lifetime’s Tru Tori. Airing just three weeks after cameras begin filming, the docu-series chronicles Tori and fresh-out-of-rehab husband Dean McDermott’s shaky next steps in (close to) real time. The Studio Lambert and All3Media […]
This should make fans happy: Grammy-winner Pharrell Williams (“Blurred Lines”) will coach the seventh installment of NBC singing competition The Voice. Cee Lo Green announced in February he wouldn’t be returning. Season six finale is Tuesday, May 20.
AOL is launching its first-ever long-form original series. Connected, a popular documentary-style international series is being adapted for American audiences, focusing on five New Yorkers who film their lives for six months. Family, sexual orientation, wealth and income, gender, and marital status are all themes in the show, which will be available for free and […]
The Los Angeles Dodgers played their first game on American soil this season Sunday night but a slew of the team’s fans weren’t able to watch their beloved ballplayers lose, thanks to a standoff between DirecTV and the Dodgers. The Hollywood Reporter says that Time Warner Cable is asking major cable and satellite distributors […]
NCAA March Madness Live, managed by Turner Sports, continues to thrive with more than 64 million live video streams spanning all platforms through the second week of the 2014 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. That is up 40% over the same period a year ago and has already bested last year’s grand total of […]
The new WWE Network unveiled its programming lineup for WrestleMania Week, programming events that include the 2014 WWE Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, an expanded two-hour WrestleMania pre-show as well as WrestleMania30. The Hall of Fame coverage is slated for Saturday at 9p, with a red carpet arrival show set for 8p. Other programming will […]
A fresh batch of family-friendly content is headed to the pipeline from a new studio writer/producer Dan Angel (R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, Goosebumps) and TV industry vet Tom Mazza just formed with Larrikin Entertainment. EveryWhere Studios will develop cross-platform programming geared to gathering mom, dad and kids around the TV and the tablet. Angel […]
France Televisions sweetened its programming roster by picking up CAKE‘s animated preschool series Space Racers. Its France 5 will begin airing the show June 1. Other new international deals for the show include Tiji in Russia, which will premiere the series on April 12, the “Day of Cosmonautics,” marking the anniversary of the first manned […]