Monday, July 31, 2017

Live music performances on television shows this week include: - Youngstown Vindicator


Live music performances on television shows this week include:
Youngstown Vindicator
“Manhunt: UNABOMBER” (9 P.M., DISCOVERY CHANNEL): “Manhunt: Unabomber” is an eight-episode psychological thriller that recalls the FBI's hunt for reclusive serial bomber Ted Kaczynski (Paul Bettany). Sam Worthington plays Jim “Fitz” Fitzgerald, the ...

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Television Critics Association (Sunday): PBS CEO warns that federal cuts will sink some stations - The Register-Guard


The Register-Guard

Television Critics Association (Sunday): PBS CEO warns that federal cuts will sink some stations
The Register-Guard
President and CEO Paula Kerger speaks at the PBS's Executive Session at the 2017 Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. Kerger is sounding the alarm about public broadcasting's future if federal funding is axed. She said Sunday ...

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PBS Chief Paula Kerger: 'Outcome Is Uncertain' for Federal Public-Television Funding - Variety


Variety

PBS Chief Paula Kerger: 'Outcome Is Uncertain' for Federal Public-Television Funding
Variety
PBS chief Paula Kerger is sounding an alarm over the undecided future of federal funding for public broadcasting. “This is a dynamic situation and the outcome is uncertain,” Kerger said Sunday at the Television Critics Association press tour. Kerger's ...

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BRIEF-Sony says Sony Pictures Television Networks to acquire 95 pct stake in Funimation Productions - Reuters


BRIEF-Sony says Sony Pictures Television Networks to acquire 95 pct stake in Funimation Productions
Reuters
Says Sony Pictures Television Networks has reached an agreement to acquire 95 percent stake in Funimation Productions, Ltd. for about $143 million (or about 15.7 billion yen). Source text in Japanese:goo.gl/x7JrH7. Further company coverage: (Beijing ...



'One Piece' Television Show In Development From Tomorrow Studios - Heroic Hollywood (blog)


Heroic Hollywood (blog)

'One Piece' Television Show In Development From Tomorrow Studios
Heroic Hollywood (blog)
Avast, One Piece fans! A live-action television adaptation of the long-running manga/anime from Eiichiro Oda has been announced to be in development, ...

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Sony Pictures Television to Acquire Funimation Productions Ltd. - Los Angeles Business Journal


Los Angeles Business Journal

Sony Pictures Television to Acquire Funimation Productions Ltd.
Los Angeles Business Journal
Sony Pictures Television has reached an agreement to acquire 95 percent of Texas-based anime distributor Funimation Productions Ltd. for $143 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Sony said in a statement Monday the ...

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Exporting Israel to the world through television - The Jerusalem Post


The Jerusalem Post

Exporting Israel to the world through television
The Jerusalem Post
Israel is at the very center of the new golden age of television and will soon become even more important to the international television industry, according Adam Berkowitz, the co-head of television at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), who was a guest at ...



MTV's TRL Is Returning to Television This Fall - W Magazine


W Magazine

MTV's TRL Is Returning to Television This Fall
W Magazine
2017 is the year of the revival, and MTV's TRL is that latest staple of the early aughts to rise from the dead. According to The New York Times, a revamped version of TRL (a.k.a Total Request Live) will return in October to its signature Times Square ...
MTV Mines the Past for Its Future: 'Total Request Live'New York Times

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The 2017-18 NHL Television Schedule Is A Perfectly Logical Embarrassment - Canes Country


Canes Country

The 2017-18 NHL Television Schedule Is A Perfectly Logical Embarrassment
Canes Country
NBC Sports released their television schedule for the 2017-18 NHL season on Monday morning, and if you're like most people you probably skipped over the platitudes at the beginning (“the most diverse broadcast schedule in history!”) and just did a ctrl ...

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Growing Up Television: My Nineteen Fifties Childhood - Patheos (blog)


Patheos (blog)

Growing Up Television: My Nineteen Fifties Childhood
Patheos (blog)
I was born in 1948. I am the first wave of the television generation. People just a little older grew up with radio. By which I mean two or three years. And, depending on where they lived, a few years younger than me. But for me, it was that, in those ...



CBS Corp. Forms Partnership With Imagine Television - Television Week


CBS Corp. Forms Partnership With Imagine Television
Television Week
In a deal announced today by CBS Corp. Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves and Imagine Entertainment Chairman Brian Grazer, the companies revealed that Imagine Television Studios and CBS Corp. have entered into a four-year pact to co-finance and ...



'One Piece' Television Show In Development From Tomorrow Studios - Heroic Hollywood (blog)


Heroic Hollywood (blog)

'One Piece' Television Show In Development From Tomorrow Studios
Heroic Hollywood (blog)
A live-action television adaptation of the long-running manga/anime from Eiichiro Oda has been announced to be in development, incidentally in time for the twentieth anniversary of the franchise. Deadline is reporting that Tomorrow Studios and Shueisha ...

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Iyanla Vanzant says 'Fix My Life' isn't reality television - Rolling Out


Rolling Out

Iyanla Vanzant says 'Fix My Life' isn't reality television
Rolling Out
Iyanla Vanzant was the keynote speaker at the 2017 National Book conference in Atlanta, July 27-30. While receiving the Walter Mosley Author of Distinction Award during a dinner at the Intercontinental Buckhead, Vanzant delivered a moving keynote ...



Man Arrested After Allegedly Attempting To Steal Television, Air Conditioner - Oil City


Man Arrested After Allegedly Attempting To Steal Television, Air Conditioner
Oil City
Casper Police have arrested a Cheyenne man, after witnesses say he attempted to steal a television and an air conditioning unit from a Casper motel. According to arrest paperwork, 22-year-old Devan Stanford was arrested on July 29th, after the alleged ...



CBS, Imagine Television Form Partnership - Broadcasting & Cable


CBS, Imagine Television Form Partnership
Broadcasting & Cable
CBS Corp. and Imagine Television Studios have entered into a co-financing and first-look agreement deal for scripted and unscripted television programming, and digital as well. The deal is for four years and covers the CBS Corp. properties CBS, CBS All ...



CBS Corporation and Imagine Television Enter Into Strategic Partnership - Broadway World


CBS Corporation and Imagine Television Enter Into Strategic Partnership
Broadway World
CBS Corporation Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves and Imagine Entertainment Chairman Brian Grazer announced today that Imagine Television Studios and CBS Corporation have entered into a four-year co-financing and first look agreement for scripted ...



MTV's TRL Is Returning to Television This Fall - W Magazine


W Magazine

MTV's TRL Is Returning to Television This Fall
W Magazine
2017 is the year of the revival, and MTV's TRL is that latest staple of the early aughts to rise from the dead. According to The New York Times, a revamped version of TRL (a.k.a Total Request Live) will return in October to its signature Times Square ...

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Blumhouse Television to Revive Reality Series 'Scare Tactics' (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety


Variety

Blumhouse Television to Revive Reality Series 'Scare Tactics' (EXCLUSIVE)
Variety
“The opportunity to reinvent 'Scare Tactics' with Jason Blum and the Blumhouse Television team is the result of a lot of hard work by some very talented people. It's a dream come true for me,” Hallock said. “Scare Tactics pranks have always been ...



Fitzgerald's 'Last Tycoon' born again for television - Reuters


Reuters

Fitzgerald's 'Last Tycoon' born again for television
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - F. Scott Fitzgerald never finished his last novel "The Last Tycoon" but that made filming the book for a new television series even more interesting for actors Kelsey Grammer and Lily Collins. Fitzgerald died in 1940 at the age ...

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Iyanla Vanzant says 'Fix My Life' isn't reality television - Rolling Out


Rolling Out

Iyanla Vanzant says 'Fix My Life' isn't reality television
Rolling Out
Iyanla Vanzant was the keynote speaker at the 2017 National Book conference in Atlanta, July 27-30. While receiving the Walter Mosley Author of Distinction Award during a dinner at the Intercontinental Buckhead, Vanzant delivered a moving keynote ...



For Trump White House, cable television becomes the venue for intramural sniping - Los Angeles Times


Los Angeles Times

For Trump White House, cable television becomes the venue for intramural sniping
Los Angeles Times
As the star of a reality TV show, he fomented internal competition and firings among apprentices; their cable television appearances, meanwhile, recall the "confessionals" familiar to reality show fans, in which characters confide directly to the ...
Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve BannonThe New Yorker
Scaramucci still stands to profit from SkyBridge from the White HousePolitico

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Sunday, July 30, 2017

The Handmaid's Tale review – no television event has hit such a nerve - The Guardian


The Guardian

The Handmaid's Tale review – no television event has hit such a nerve
The Guardian
Dong, dong, dong. Three bells, that is a death knell in The Handmaid's Tale (Channel 4). There is to be an execution today, or a “salvaging”, as they call it in Gilead. The handmaids gather in the snow, and kneel when instructed to by Aunt Lydia (so ...

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Addressable Television: We Know It Works, But Is It Getting Easier? - AdExchanger


AdExchanger

Addressable Television: We Know It Works, But Is It Getting Easier?
AdExchanger
There are two pressing questions that continue to raise debate in addressable television circles across the industry. When will national inventory enter the supply chain? And is the process of executing an addressable initiative getting easier ...



Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television - The Seattle Times


Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television
The Seattle Times
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Richard Linklater, who has directed films including “Boyhood” and “Dazed and Confused,” says he has ideas for the small screen. Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Sunday about being the subject of an ...

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Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television - San Francisco Chronicle


Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television
San Francisco Chronicle
Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Sunday about being the subject of an upcoming PBS "American Masters" documentary, Linklater said he has many films in the works but also some "really long-form" ideas that would work best in television.

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International Academy of Web Television Awards Accepting Submissions Through Aug. 15 - Eurweb.com


International Academy of Web Television Awards Accepting Submissions Through Aug. 15
Eurweb.com
*Hollywood, California – The International Academy of Web Television will host its 5th IAWTV Awards at a gala celebration honoring the best in streaming series starting at 7 p.m. on October 4, 2017, in the Ahmanson Ballroom at the Skirball Cultural ...



Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television - ABC News


Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television
ABC News
Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Sunday about being the subject of an upcoming PBS "American Masters" documentary, Linklater said he has many films in the works but also some "really long-form" ideas that would work best in television.

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Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television - Minneapolis Star Tribune


Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Sunday about being the subject of an upcoming PBS "American Masters" documentary, Linklater said he has many films in the works but also some "really long-form" ideas that would work best in television.

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For Trump White House, cable television becomes the venue for intramural sniping - Los Angeles Times


Los Angeles Times

For Trump White House, cable television becomes the venue for intramural sniping
Los Angeles Times
As the star of a reality TV show, he fomented internal competition and firings among apprentices; their cable television appearances, meanwhile, recall the "confessionals" familiar to reality show fans, in which characters confide directly to the ...
Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve BannonThe New Yorker
Scaramucci still stands to profit from SkyBridge from the White HousePolitico

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Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television - San Francisco Chronicle


Filmmaker Richard Linklater has some ideas for television
San Francisco Chronicle
Speaking to the Television Critics Association on Sunday about being the subject of an upcoming PBS "American Masters" documentary, Linklater said he has many films in the works but also some "really long-form" ideas that would work best in television.

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Television: CBS teases streaming fans with 'Star Trek: Discovery' - The Delaware County Daily Times


Television: CBS teases streaming fans with 'Star Trek: Discovery'
The Delaware County Daily Times
John Larroquette takes his third twirl through series television as the 65-year-old version of character also seen at ages 40 (Bobby Moynihan) and 14 (Dan Kopelman), in CBS's “Me. Myself, and I.” Anne Heche stars with Mike Vogel in NBC's program about ...

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Review: 'Siesta Key' Returns to Reality Television's Awkward Youth - New York Times


New York Times

Review: 'Siesta Key' Returns to Reality Television's Awkward Youth
New York Times
Teenagers who predated the constant self-broadcasting of the social-media era rapidly became television stars, doing their best to play the roles of teenagers who did not know they were being filmed. The genre had gone sentient. It would never look back.

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