Amy Adams and her manager Stacy O’Neil’s new production company, Bond Group Entertainment, inked a first look deal with HBO. Their first project, Poisonwood Bible, which is based on the Barbara Kingsolver novel, is being developed as a limited series. Kingsolver and Anya Epstein (The Affair, In Treatment) will serve as co-writers on the project. […]
IN CONVERSATION WITH… Carolina Lightcap, GM of Discovery Kids Media Discovery International launched Discovery Kids Media to develop, commission, co-produce and distribute kids animated and live-action content. Carolina Lightcap, EVP and chief content officer for DLA/USH, will add to her responsibilities the leadership of DKM as GM, and Danielle Davies joins as VP, kids content […]
Live-action preschool series Oda Upside Down is the first kids production from Danish production house SAM Productions. Charismatic Oda is a good fairy and a magic inventor who helps children reconquer their right to fantasy and imagination when confronted by their strict kindergarten teacher. Series is created by Ida Mule Scott and Iben Albinus Sabroe, […]
Turner Sports and CBS Sports will celebrate nine years as partners for this year’s 2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship tournament, serving up live coverage of all 67 games once again across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – with all games streamed on NCAA March Madness Live. This year […]
The Drone Racing League has a new home, announcing a new streaming partnership with Twitter and broadcast agreement with NBC Sports to carry the 2019 DRL Allianz World Championship Season. Competition debuts on Aug. 11 at 2p on NBC and Twitter. For the first time ever, DRL will feature pro drone racing content concurrently on […]
Daytimer Jerry O, hosted by Jerry O’Connell (Carter), will have a three-week summer run on select FOX-owned stations beginning August 12. The entertainment talk/comedy show from Debmar-Mercury and Funny Or Die will feature specially produced Funny or Die comedy segments. “I love daytime. I love watching it and have fallen in love with guest-hosting it,” […]
Showtime ordered eight-part limited series Good Lord Bird, from Blumhouse Television, based on the novel by James McBride. Ethan Hawke will star as 19th-century abolitionist John Brown and is co-writing and executive producing with Mark Richard (The Ice at the Bottom of the World). Anthony Hemingway (Underground) will direct and executive produce.
FOX Sports opened the doors to its new college football pregame show, blending new talent with current staples for a lineup that includes host Rob Stone and analysts Urban Meyer, Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart and Brady Quinn.The one-hour show will run each Saturday during the college football season on the FOX broadcast network beginning Week […]
Ahead of this year’s run for the2019 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, NCAA March Madness Live – the live streaming suite of products managed by Turner Sports in partnership with CBS and the NCAA – announced plans to carry more offerings than ever before, running across 17 platforms this year, including Android TV and […]
Speaking at SXSW, Jeff Zucker, CNN president who recently was elevated to WarnerMedia News & Sports chairman, said the Department of Justice’s ploy to overturn the AT&T-Time Warner merger “came from the president… There was absolutely no basis to be doing what they were doing and clearly there was a political agenda at work.” Zucker […]