CBS All Access canceled Strange Angel after two seasons. Series based on the biography Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons starred Jack Reynor.
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Following a broader review of its operations, EBay has agreed to sell its ticket reselling unit StubHub
EBay has reached a deal to sell its StubHub ticketing business to Geneva, Switzerland-headquartered Viagogo for $4.05 billion. EBay bought StubHub, which represented about 14% of its parent’s $2.6 billion in revenues during the third quarter, in 2007 for $310 million. The deal creates a ticket reselling giant in the sports and entertainment space spanning […]
FOX tallied the biggest NFL audience of the season with its Nov. 24 coverage of the battle between the defending Super Bowl champions and America’s Team
FOX, as expected given the strong metered markets results, scored its top NFL and college football telecasts of the year last weekend. New England/Dallas averaged 29.5 million viewers on Nov. 24,.ranking it as the top NFL game of the season to date. The day before, Ohio State/Penn State drew over 9.4 million viewers, the network’s […]
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Anne With an E to end with season three
Anne With an E won’t see a fourth season. Netflix and Canadian broadcaster CBC have decided not to move forward with the drama from Northwood Entertainment. Series creator and EP Moira Walley-Beckett confirmed the cancellation on Instagram. The show’s third and final season premieres Friday, January 3 on Netflix.
LL Cool J tapped to host Kennedy Center Honors
LL Cool J has been tapped to host the 42nd Annual Kennedy Center Honors, airing Sunday, December 15 on CBS. “He’s the absolute renaissance man: musical artist, producer, actor, author, fashion icon, Grammy winner and a 2017 Kennedy Center honoree,” said Jack Sussman, EVP, Specials, Music and Live Events, CBS Entertainment.
FOX ad sales team has sold out all 77 commercial within Super Bowl LIV, 10 weeks before the NFL culminates its centennial season
With reports in mid-month indicating that it had sold about 80% of the in-game inventory in Super Bowl LIV, FOX Sports ad sales team, led by executive vice president Seth Winter, has finished the job. The company has sold all of the ads within the Feb. 2 title game from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, […]
Bryant Gumbel speaks with New York City marathoner Huwe Burton on the latest edition of HBO’s Real Sports
On the latest edition of HBO’s Real Sports, Bryant Gumbel reports about Huwe Burton, a Bronx native who was wrongfully incarcerated for 30 years. Burton, who was exonerated this past January, fulfilled his dream of completing the New York City Marathon earlier this month. Other stories on the show’s 272nd edition, which premieres Nov 26 […]
Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough exit AGT after one season
America’s Got Talent judges Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough are leaving the show after one season, reports Variety. Union and Hough had replaced judges Melanie Brown and Heidi Klum for season 14.
Robocall relief on the way
T-Mobile and Comcast have teamed with telecommunications company Inteliquent to announce a technical breakthrough that should help with the growing robocall problem: the first call routed across three networks using the STIR/SHAKEN cryptographic security framework. Caller Verified is now available to all T-Mobile customers on 17 (and counting) smartphone models. “Scammers and spoofers are a […]
The NBA is weighing significant schedule changes
The NBA is mulling major schedule revisions to both its regular and post-seasons. According to an ESPN report citing league sources, the NBA is looking to shave off a minimum four games from its current regular-season total of 82 contests, which would be partially replaced by a post-Thanksgiving, in-season tournament involving all 30 teams. A […]
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