FBE (Fine Brothers Entertainment), an award-winning media company and studio that creates programming for a global audience across digital and traditional platforms, announces it has entered into television development and co-production deals with partners including Nick Cannon's NCredible Entertainment, Kinetic Content, and Sonar Entertainment.
A new episode of Gaby Dunn's podcast BAD WITH MONEY has been released! The episode is titled 'Think Before You Open Your Mouth (aka the Food System)' and takes a look at the farming industry in the U.S., exploring urban farming, the need for access to better food in low income area, how food is a social justice issue and how land ownership translates over decades of wealth. bad
Rebel Theatrical Management, LLC (Harvey Butler, producer), in association with The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, have announced, today, the cast and the creative team for the New York premiere of the new play Little Rock, written and directed by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj. Performances are set to begin Wednesday, May 30, 2018 for a limited run through September 8, 2018 at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street). Opening Night is set for Today, June 14, 2018 at 7:00PM.
VIVA Entertainment Group, Inc. (OTC: OTTV) ('VIVA' or 'the Company'), a distributor of Over-The-Top (OTT) IPTV content to consumers in a bundled subscription format, today announced that it has secured the rights to broadcast the 2018 Soccer World cup games from Russia live and direct on Vivalive TV. In terms of viewership, participation and popularity, soccer is the number one ranked sport in the world.
Get ready for a brand new season of comfy pants and floor snacks! Creator Natasha Allegri, Frederator Studios (a WOW! Unlimited Media company), and VRV, a fan-focused aggregation platform from Ellation featuring premium SVOD channels, announced today that a new “Bee and PuppyCat” story, “Bee and PuppyCat: Lazy in Space,” is in production and set to launch in 2019. The series will live exclusively on VRV within the Cartoon Hangover Select channel. Tokyo-based OLM, Inc., known for such big hits as the “Pokémon” animated franchise, with support from its subsidiary in L.A. Sprite Animation, will be co-producing with Frederator Studios (“Castlevania,” “Adventure Time,” “The Fairly OddParents”). “Bee and PuppyCat” creator, Natasha Allegri, will serve as showrunner.
On July 20, 2018, Eagle Vision will release J Balvin's "Bruuttal" on DVD and digital. A Colombian reggaeton superstar and crossover hitmaker, Balvin is a leader of Latin music's renewed international popularity with a fresh take on the sound. J Balvin is a game changer, breaking down international musical borders to make an indelible mark on the pop landscape with smash hits like '6AM', 'Ay Vamos', 'Ginza', 'Safari' and many more.
Steppenwolf Theatre Company began producing ensemble-driven plays in a church basement in the suburbs of Chicago in 1976. Today the company is a leader in the American Theater proudly based in Chicago with more than 50 groundbreaking actors, directors and playwrights who call Steppenwolf their artistic home. While deeply rooted in the Chicago community, the impact of Steppenwolf's work is felt nationwide.
One of the unsung heroes of SpongeBob SquarePants' success on Broadway is the show's foley artist Mike Dobson. Providing whimsical sound effects to the zany action in Bikini Bottom, Dobson helps transport the audience at the Palace Theatre to the incredible world created by Tina Landau and her team.
On BroadwayRadio's third annual Tony Omnibus episode, we look to fill in some of the gaps that have popped up in the theatre community's coverage of the award season. So often our focus during this five-week buildup to Sunday night's ceremony is on the performers and the writers who are front and center during this process. However, today, we are talking to two Tony nominees whose impact on their shows is no less important, despite the fact that they aren't the people getting the glossy stories in the New York and theatre media. We also talk to a journalist who brings important context to the New York theatre community.
Two-Day Immersive Event for Kids and Families to be held Today, June 9, and Sunday, June 10 at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago, Ill.
Hailing from Philadelphia, and from the Bay Area, and Massachusetts, and New Jersey, and also kind of New York and LA, Julian McCullough delivers a hilarious and surprisingly personal hour of coming-of-age comedy in Julian McCullough: Maybe I'm a Man, premiering Today, June 8 at Midnight ET/PT on Comedy Central.
AMERICAN WOMAN, a new half-hour scripted dramedy set amid the sexual revolution and rise of feminism in the 1970s will premiere on Paramount Network today, June 7 at 10:00pm ET/PT. The 12- episode series from John Wells Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television stars Alicia Silverstone (Clueless, 'Suburgatory'), Mena Suvari (American Beauty, 'Chicago Fire') and Jennifer Bartels ('Broken').
TONY FEVER 2018! Parte 5: chi vincera come 'Miglior Musical'?
iQIYI, Inc. (IQ) ('iQIYI' or the 'Company'), an innovative market-leading online entertainment service in China, this week announced the launch of 'QIYI Guo Kids Edition', a video streaming app for smart TVs designed for children up to the age of 12. Developed in collaboration with Galaxy Internet TV, the app utilizes artificial intelligence to provide tailored recommendations for its young users, while giving parents the ability to closely monitor and adjust content and time control settings. QIYI Guo also provides paid premium children's content to meet the strong demand for safe and educational kid-friendly programs.
Kate Linder has portrayed Esther Valentine on CBS' The Young and the Restless, the #1 rated soap opera, for 36 years. In 2008, Linder received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Linder was in the recent feature films Hysteria, Erased, Miss Meadows, Garry Marshall's Mother's Day and The Charnel House and in several upcoming feature films including Charlie Matthau's Book of Leah, Stereotypically You, Voice from the Stone and A Song for the Living. She has been the celebrity spokesperson for The ALS Association for over a decade since her late brother-in-law's initial diagnosis. She's a longtime board member for SAG-AFTRA and a former two-time Governor of the Television Academy.
George Street Playhouse welcomes Debra Monk (Tony Award winner for Redwood Curtain, Emmy Award winner for NYPD Blue) to the star-studded cast of a special benefit play reading of Eugene Pack's hysterical new comedy Night with Oscar on Friday, June 8, 2018, at 8 p.m.
Fillmore Elementary educators are back in session with their hilarious antics when Season three of 'Teachers' premieres Today, June 5th at 10:30pm ET/PT on TV Land, following the season five premiere of 'Younger.' After a much needed long recess, the leaders of the playground are back and ready to conquer a new school year. Last season, Variety hailed the cast, stating, 'in terms of acing the midterm, the Katydids have indeed done it,' while Bustle said 'the female-driven sitcom is hilarious, insightful, and totally cute.'
Kansas City playwrights Pete Bakely, Prisca Jebet Kendagor, Mike Rice and Joshua Efron have banded together to bring four brand new plays to the 2018 Kansas City Fringe Festival. The group of writers vary in experience and style and have come up with a slate of new theater to entertain and challenge audiences. All four plays will be presented by the KC Fringe Festival at the Unicorn Theatre's Jerome Stage at varying times July 19 to July 29.
Broadway Break Thru (BBT) today announces that Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and survivor, Sawyer Garrity, will be a participant attending the first ever 'College Break Thru' in Chicago. Scheduled to take place Monday, June 25th thru Friday, June 29th at the University Center Chicago (525 S State Street), the summer symposium gives performing arts students the opportunity to receive the tools needed to excel in their auditions and performances while also providing more than $250,000 in college scholarships.
For the month of May, MSNBC dayside (M-F 9am-5pm) posted growth in A25-54 and total viewers while FOX News and CNN both declined. MSNBC dayside was up +11%, while the competition was down double digits (vs. FOX News' -14% and CNN's -25%) compared to May 2017. In total viewers, MSNBC was up +4% (vs. FOX News' -9% and CNN's -21%). May marked the 8th straight month that MSNBC beat CNN in total viewers during M-F dayside. For all of cable, MSNBC finished as the #2 most-watched network in total viewers, up from #4 in 2017 (ahead of Nickelodeon and CNN). Among the Top 10 cable networks, MSNBC was the only network to grow in total viewers over 2017. In the key A25-54 demographic, MSNBC dayside continued to narrow the gap with CNN, with less than 10,000 viewers A25-54 separating the two cable news networks. This is the closest MSNBC dayside has been to CNN in four years (since February 2014).
