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Amazon Video Direct Takes Film Festival Stars Program To Tribeca Film Festival
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Amazon has a deal for Tribeca Film Festival official sections. If they give the e-retailer exclusive subscription VOD rights on its Amazon Video Direct platform, then it will pay them as much as $100,000 in addition to royalties. (Full terms here.) This is part of Avd’s Film Festival Stars program, designed to help independent filmmakers. For shorts, Amazon will offer a bonus of $10,000 apiece for the five titles with the best customer engagement metrics between October 1… »
Jeffrey Lord Doubles Down On Claim Donald Trump Is “Martin Luther King Jr. Of Healthcare” On ‘AC360’
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CNN brought Donald Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord back this evening to address his remarkable statement from this morning calling President Donald Trump “the Martin Luther King of healthcare.” “Jeff, I want to give you a chance to explain yourself, what you meant by your earlier comments,” Anderson Cooper began soberly. “Sure,” Lord began from his Pennsylvania study, as his ever-present Ronald Reagan photo smiled and waved over his right shoulder. “I wasn’t comparing… »
TNT Not Proceeding With ‘Let The Right One In’ Pilot, Vampire Drama Shopped
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TNT has opted not to proceed with its pilot order to Let the Right One In, a drama based on the best-selling novel by Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist. The project, written by Criminal Minds and Teen Wolf creator Jeff Davis, was picked up to pilot in August but it didn’t go into production. I hear Tomorrow Studios, which developed the project and was to produce the pilot with Turner’s Studio T, is currently shopping it to other networks in its current iteration or as… »
Sony Pictures Television Networks Ups Pamela Parker To Evp Business Affairs
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Sony Pictures Television Networks has promoted Pamela Parker to Evp Business Affairs and Acquisitions. Parker has managed legal and business affairs for Spt Networks, bringing top programming such as The Amazing Race, Pop Idol, Top Model, Top Chef, Shark Tank; franchises including CSI, The Voice and The Blacklist; and global originals such as Hannibal, Crossing Lines and, most recently, Absentia. “The increasing complexity of our deals around the world demands both a… »
‘Divorce’: Steven Pasquale Joins HBO Comedy Series
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Steven Pasquale has signed on for a recurring role opposite Sarah Jessica Parker in HBO’s dark comedy series Divorce, created and executive produced by Sharon Horgan. Parker stars as Frances, a middle-aged woman who impulsively brings up the idea of divorce with her husband (Thomas Haden Church) but then can't decide whether to go through with it — until her husband discovers the affair she's been having and calls the marriage off. Pasquale plays Andrew, a friend of… »
Media Howls When Jeffrey Lord Crowns Donald Trump The Martin Luther King Of Health Care
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Jeffrey Lord, CNN’s Donald Trump surrogate-cum-Pecks Bad Boy, struck again this morning, calling the former The Apprentice star-turned-potus “the Martin Luther King of health care.” As always, Lord’s incendiary remarks got quite a rise from other talking heads on scene. Lord trended on Twitter. Mission accomplished. For today’s performance, Lord appeared on the cable news network’s New Day to discuss reports that Trump was threatening to cut Affordable Care Act subsidies… »
Sinclair Teams On Sports Service With Silver Chalice And 120 Sports
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Ready for a new sports network, distributed via broadcast TV and digital streams? That’s what Sinclair Broadcast Group has in mind after forging an equity alliance with digital sports media company Silver Chalice and sports commentary provider 120 Sports. When it launches later this year, Sinclair’s American Sports Network will be “rebranded and improved,” the companies say. Programming will include live collegiate games from Asn and Silver Chalice’s Campus Insiders, as… »
‘Guerrilla’ Review: Frieda Pinto Shines In Shrewd But Slow John Ridley Miniseries
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A television team-up between John Ridley and Idris Elba is a good idea that works on more than just paper in the April 16-debuting and 1970s London-set Guerrilla, but the real stars of this smart though sometimes slow effort are Frieda Pinto and Rory Kinnear. As a bohemian turned gun wielding urban revolutionary and the Scotland Yard cop on the Black Power desk who is hunting down Pinto's Jas Mitra and her allies, the Slumdog Millionaire star and James Bond franchise alum… »
Queen Latifah, Betsy Brandt, Jill Scott & Marin Ireland To Star In Lifetime’s Flint Water Crisis Movie
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Queen Latifah (Star), Betsy Brandt (Life In Pieces, Breaking Bad), Jill Scott and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete) are set to headline Flint, Lifetime's original movie about the water-contamination crisis in Flint, Mi, from Sony Pictures TV. Queen Latifah also will serve as an executive producer on the project alongside Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Katie Couric, reuniting with Zadan & Meron, Lifetime and Sony TV after collaborating on Steel Magnolias, the third most-watched… »
VH1 Renews ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’, Picks Up Ricky Martin Reality Series – Upfront
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VH1, coming off seven consecutive quarters of ratings growth, has unveiled its 2017-18 slate heading into upront meetings with advertisers. It includes a Season 10 renewal of recent transplant RuPaul’s Drag Race for premiere in March 2018, five new series, including a project starring Ricky Martin and ‘90’s House, co-hosted by Lance Bass, and eleven returning series. The network also announced a June 5 premiere date for new satirical scripted series Daytime Divas,… »
Chris McCarthy On VH1’s Programming Strategy In Viacom Realignment, Future Of ‘The Breaks’ & ‘Dating Naked’
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VH1 today unveiled its 2017-18 lineup of new and returning series, the first since Viacom CEO Bob Bakish unveiled a new strategy, identifying six cable networks, including MTV, as flagship brands getting a lot of resources and movie tie-ins, with the rest, including VH1, named reinforcing brands. VH1 has been a success story, logging seven consecutive quarters of ratings growth. In an interview with Deadline, Chris McCarthy, who oversaw VH1’s turnaround and now serves as… »
‘Survivor’ Snags Biggest Crowd, ‘Empire’ Dominates Demo On Repeat-Laden Wednesday
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Fox’s Empire (6.595M viewers, 2.3 demo rating) won Wednesday night in the demo, inching up 0.1 in the demo from the previous week’s series low, airing at 9 Pm against repeats of ABC comedies as well as NBC’s two-hour Law & Order: Svu (4.150M, 0.8). Empire self started off of Fox’s 8 Pm’s Shots Fired, which clocked a new low 0.9 demo rating and 3.603M viewers. CBS' 8 Pm Survivor (8.214M, 1.7) was the night’s most watched broadcast program, and also took the timeslot in its… »
‘Still Star-Crossed’, ‘Battle Of the Network Stars’ & ‘Gong Show’ Reboots Get ABC Summer Premiere Dates
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ABC has set its summer schedule, with premiere dates for its new thriller drama series Somewhere Between, Shondaland’s Still Star-Crossed, and documentary The Story Of Diana, as well as two more reboots of classic game shows, The Gong Show, produced by Will Arnett, and Battle of the Network Stars. As previously announced, new comedy series Downward Dog kicks it off with a series premiere preview on Wednesday, May 17 at 9:31 Pm, before moving to its regular Tuesday slot at… »
NBC Affiliates Agree To Join NBCU Streaming Deals
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Streaming services and TV Everywhere providers should soon find it easier to offer NBC programming across the country: NBC affiliates have agreed to join deals NBCUniversal makes — freeing distributors from having to approach each station owner separately in order to offer the network in their communities. They didn’t disclose financial terms. But NBC and its affiliates have been working for months on a deal. The terms put NBC and the stations that carry it “at the… »
Peter Bart: It’s Boom Time For Doc Makers As Funding Expands And The Real & Surreal Collide
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Filmmakers, always alert about “following the money,” are taking notice of this phenomenon: Raising money for theatrical films (especially drama) is getting tougher, while funding for documentaries is expanding exponentially. And there's growing heat in TV and film for the relatively new domain of “scripted reality.” Docs used to be the province of HBO, but now it's Showtime heralding a new doc about Julian Assange, Amazon prepping a piece about the Iran-Contra affair… »
Sean Spicer Denies Donald Trump Flip-Flops, Confirms Massive Afghanistan Bomb Drop
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Sean Spicer opened his first White House Press Briefing appearance since Tuesday's, when he claimed Hitler had not used gas on his citizens, announcing the U.S. had, for the first time, dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever used in battle. Spicer said the blast targeted a system of tunnels and caves in Afghanistan used by Isis fighters “to move around freely, making it easier to target U.S military advisers and Afghan forces in the area." Spicer declined to say… »
T-Mobile, Dish Network, And Comcast Won Spectrum In FCC Auction
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T-Mobile, Dish Network, Comcast, and Us Cellular are among the biggest winners of spectrum from the government auction of airwaves currently being used by broadcasters, the FCC said today in a report that officially wraps up the sale process. “There are three big surprises here,” says MoffettNathanson Research’s Craig Moffett. “Comcast bought less than expected, Dish Network bought more, and Verizon bought nothing at all.” T-Mobile spent $8.0 billion followed by Dish… »
National Geographic Acquires Tribeca Fest Coal Doc ‘From The Ashes’
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National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired director Michael Bonfiglio’s From the Ashes, a doc about the coal industry, mining communities and their future under the Trump Administration. The film is set for an April 26 world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. "From the Ashes is an important documentary that underscores one of the most dominant and controversial industries in the history of the United States," said Courteney Monroe, CEO, National Geographic… »
WGA Video Urges Yes Vote On Strike Authorization
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As bargaining for a new contract continues under a media blackout this week, WGA leaders have released a three-minute video urging their members to give them the authority to call a strike if negotiations fail to produce a fair contract by May 1. Balloting for the strike authorization begins next week. "It's very important for the members to support this strike-authorization vote," WGA West board member Matthew Weiner says in the clip. "The negotiating committee has… »
Oprah & Ava DuVernay’s ‘Queen Sugar’ Gets Season 2 June Premiere Date
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In a case of second verse a bit like the first, Queen Sugar will be debuting its second season on June 20 and June 21 in a two-night premiere on Own. Like it did for Season 1, the Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay executive produced sibling drama will not only have that two-night launch but an all-female directing team handling things behind the camera – probably including DuVernay herself. It’s an approach that has proven a winning strategy so far for the series based… »
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