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Sinatra Doc, Helmed by Gibney, Targeted for HBO
23 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
HBO plans to air a Frank Sinatra documentary directed by helmer Alex Gibney and produced by Alcon Entertainment’s new TV division.
The untitled doc, a four-hour miniseries, intends to be a personal examination of Sinatra’s life and music and will feature previously unseen footage, including industry and home movies as well as private and professional performances.
Frank Marshall, Nancy Sinatra and Charles Pignone will exec produce with Alcon Television prexy Sharon Hall and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Producing with Alcon are Frank Sinatra Enterprises (a joint venture between the Sinatra Family and Warner Music Group), the Kennedy-Marshall Co. and Jigsaw Prods.
“Alex’s vision for this unique documentary is an exciting one,” Hall said, “taking viewers into the singular and extraordinary world created by one of the greatest entertainers the world has ever known.”
Alcon Television was formed last year to retain domestic and international rights »
- Jon Weisman
Pass the doughnuts: Which TV show has the worst cops?
28 minutes ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Small towns are so much more interesting on television. Their quirks are quirkier, their drama is more dramatic and their faults somehow make them more endearing. But there’s another feature we’ve spotted in the hit small town dramas we’re currently obsessed with: The cops in these series aren’t all that skilled at, well, being cops.
Case in point: Bates Motel. Sure, the cops of White Pine Bay, Ore. are corrupt, but they also don’t even seem to know how to work a crime scene. The first thing that the Sheriff did upon arriving at a »
- Samantha Highfill
First Look: Spongebob Squarepants Hot Wheels Toys
38 minutes ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
I usually don't cover character merchandise, but these struck my fancy. It doesn't hurt that I'm in the midst of putting together a forthcoming book about Spongebob Squarepants. Nickelodeon has launched a brand-new SpongeBob SquarePants Hot Wheels collection featuring six die-cast vehicles inspired by characters from Bikini Bottom. Each vehicle features either SpongeBob, Patrick, Mr. Krabs, Plankton or Squidward graphics, specially designed in their likeness. “We are so happy to have SpongeBob SquarePants join the Hot Wheels family,” said Manuel Torres, Senior Vice President, Global Toys and Consumer Electronics, Nickelodeon Consumer Products. “We continue to push the boundaries of imagination with SpongeBob, and these new cars bring the show’s characters to life in such a unique way; they are sure to provide hours of action-packed adventure for fans everywhere.” Retailing for $3.49 each, the toys are apparently available now with the...
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- Jerry Beck
When worlds collide: J.J. Abrams visits the set of 'Downton Abbey'
39 minutes ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
(Let’s hope he didn’t drive there.)
While gallivanting around Europe to promote Star Trek Into Darkness, J.J. Abrams apparently stopped by one of Britain’s most famous fictional estates: Downton Abbey, home of enough ominous musical cues and mysteries to be, well, a J.J. Abrams creation. Here’s the man himself, mixing something in the kitchen under the watchful eye of Mrs. Hughes (a.k.a. actress Phyllis Logan):
#WhereisJJ Visiting the set #DowntonAbrams http://t.co/YLWr3EOokP— Bad Robot (@bad_robot) May 01, 2013
Don’t you love when the celebrities you like turn out to love »
- Hillary Busis
'The Voice' and sob stories: Struggling with reality competitions and grief
39 minutes ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Last night, R&B singer Vedo took the stage during The Voice’s knockout rounds. He sang Bryan Adams “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” and impressed Usher enough to advance to next week’s live rounds. He also talked a lot about his mother, who recently died — something Usher acknowledged in his comments after the performance; and something that’s been mentioned on the show every single time Vedo appears. I wrote about how this makes me feel in last night’s recap: a combination of annoyed, deeply moved, and deeply apathetic. But many commenters disagreed. I still feel that way, »
- Adam Carlson
'The Vampire Diaries' Season 4 Finale Photos: It's Graduation Day in Mystic Falls!
42 minutes ago | buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news »
On Graduation Day, Mystic Falls is overrun with ghosts intent on settling old scores and fulfilling their supernatural destinies. Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) life is in danger after a ghostly encounter, while Matt (Zach Roerig) and Rebekah (Claire Holt) join forces to battle a ghost determined to find the cure. As everyone gathers for the graduation ceremony and the ghosts converge, help comes from an unlikely hero. Caroline (Candice Accola) receives a touching and unexpected graduation present, and Bonnie?s (Kat Graham) plan leads to the closing of the veil. Elena (Nina Dobrev) makes a decision about the Salvatore brothers and faces an epic confrontation with Katherine (Nina Dobrev). Finally, Stefan (Paul Wesley) discovers a horrifying clue to the mystery surrounding Silas. - From the CW. »
- editor@buddytv.com
Video - Nashville 1.18 - "Take These Chains from My Heart" - Sneek Peaks
1 hour ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
More dissension in the ranks on tonight's Nashville, and it looks like someone is going to be looking for a new bandleader. "Take These Chains from My Heart" - Liam invites Rayna to run away with him to finish her album, and Deacon is surprised by his own reaction, as well as Stacy's accusations; Jolene [...]
Video - Nashville 1.18 - "Take These Chains from My Heart" - Sneek Peaks »
- Jon Lachonis
Video - Grey's Anatomy 9.22 - "Do You Believe in Magic" Sneak Peeks
1 hour ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Bailey continues to isolate herself from the rest of the staff in this week's Grey's Anatomy titled "Do You Believe in Magic". The cases include a magicians assistant who is nearly sawed in half by a chainsaw. Meanwhile, although she has been cleared for surgery Bailey is not working; could it be that Bailey is [...]
Video - Grey's Anatomy 9.22 - "Do You Believe in Magic" Sneak Peeks »
- Jon Lachonis
CBS Q1 Earnings Beat Estimates With Help From Super Bowl
1 hour ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
The company says this is the first quarter since 2006, when it split from Viacom, that it generated more than $4B in revenues. CBS ended up with net earnings of $443M, +22% vs the first three months of 2011, on revenues of $4.04B, +6.4%. The top line is just a hair more than the $4.02B that analysts expected. Diluted earnings at 69 cents beat forecasts for 68 cents. But if you take away the billboard business in Europe and Asia — which CBS plans to sell, and deems “discontinued” — then earnings hit 73 cents. Ad sales across the company’s properties were up 8.2% to $2.46B. At the Entertainment unit, the largest operation which includes the broadcast network, revenues hit $2.54B (+9.5%) with operating income of $440M (+18.9%). CBS says that the Super Bowl broadcast helped, as did a 62% increase in retransmission consent fees. The cable channels, including Showtime, saw revenues of $478M (+5.8%) with operating income of $227M (+11.3%) due in part to higher affiliate fees. »
- DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
John Oliver Will Bravely Test How 'The Daily Show' Works Without Jon Stewart Starting on June 10
1 hour ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Yes, once upon a time -- in the '90s -- "The Daily Show" was hosted by Craig Kilborn, but for the past decade plus, the incisive, hilarious fake news show has been defined by and identified with Jon Stewart. So you have to give John Oliver credit -- the show's Senior British Correspondent will be attempting to fill some very big shoes this summer when he takes over as guest host while Stewart is off shooting his directorial debut "Rosewater," from a script he adapted from "Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival," the 2011 memoir by Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. Read More: Jon Stewart Will Be Taking the Summer Off From 'The Daily Show' to Make His Directorial Debut Oliver's eight-week stint as guest host will begin on Monday, June 10, with Stewart set to return September 3 (the show will »
- Alison Willmore
The Top 10 Singers You Can?t Vote for on ?The Voice? Season 4
1 hour ago | buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news »
The Blind Auditions, Battle Rounds and Knockout Rounds are over on The Voice season 4 are over, and now voting is turned over to America to decide the winner. While 16 lucky singers have made it this far, there have been plenty of incredibly talented people who have been cut along the way. Here are my Top 10 singers who were all truly outstanding but who have been cruelly and unfairly eliminated before the viewers even got the chance to vote for them. »
- editor@buddytv.com
HBO Renews Julia Louis-Dreyfus Political Comedy 'Veep' For a Third Season
2 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
Selina Meyer's presidential campaign may not have worked out, but she's been given another term in her television stint as VP. HBO just announced that "Veep" has been renewed for a 10-episode third season, scheduled for a to-be-determined date in 2014. Created by Armando Iannucci ("In the Loop"), the comedy series stars Emmy-winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Meyer, the Vice President of the United States. The show kicked off its current 10-episode second season last month to strong reviews. It will continue to run through June. In addition to Louis-Dreyfus, the ensemble cast of the show also includes Tony Hale, Anna Chlumsky, Matt Walsh, Timothy C. Simons, Sufe Bradshaw and Kevin Dunn as Ben. The news follows a third season renewal of "Girls" back in January, which first premiered alongside "Veep" in 2012. "Girls" is getting 12 episodes for round 3, while "Veep" is staying static at 10.
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- Peter Knegt
HBO’s ‘Veep’ Renewed For Third Season
2 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
HBO has renewed comedy series Veep for a 10-episode third season, which will air next year. The pickup comes on the heels of the Washington DC-set comedy hitting a season high in total viewers this past Sunday, drawing 1.3 million viewers, up from 1.1 million on April 21 and 1.2 million for the season debut April 14. Created by Armando Iannucci, Veep stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Vice President Selina Meyer, a role which earned her an Emmy last year. The ensemble cast includes Tony Hale as Gary, the Vice President’s right-hand man; Anna Chlumsky as Amy, her chief of staff; Reid Scott as Dan, an ambitious political aide; Matt Walsh as Mike, the VP’s weathered spokesperson; Timothy C. Simons as Jonah, an enterprising but annoying White House liaison; Sufe Bradshaw as Sue, Meyers’ executive assistant; and Kevin Dunn as Ben, the president’s chief of staff. Dunn, who started off as a recurring »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
HBO Announces a Summer Doc Lineup That Includes Films on Pussy Riot, Marilyn Monroe and Fracking
2 hours ago | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
HBO Documentary Films announced its summer lineup today, ten weeks of nonfiction film that include 2013 Sundance selections "The Crash Reel," "Gideon's Army" and "Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer" and work from directors Nina Davenport, Josh Fox, Liz Garbus and others. The films air on HBO on Monday nights, kicking off on June 10th with Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin's feature about Russia's best known feminist art collective. Here's the full lineup, with descriptions courtesy of HBO. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer (June 10), an official selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Punk Spirit, tells the story of Nadia, Masha and Katia of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot. In Feb. 2012, they performed a 40-second “punk prayer” inside Russia’s main cathedral, which led to their arrest on charges of religious hatred, followed by a trial that reverberated around »
- Alison Willmore
'Divergent': The movie's most highly anticipated scenes -- and a few we're worried about
2 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Veronica Roth’s Divergent is not a book that comes off as unfilmable. From its opening pages to its dramatic, action-packed conclusion, this dystopian tale seems like it was always designed to be turned into a movie — which may be why Summit Entertainment bought the book’s film rights months before the novel was even published.Given this, it’s not tough to pick out five scenes from Divergent that I can’t wait to see rendered on the big screen. (Caution: Book spoilers follow, of course.) Specifically:Tris’s big jump into Dauntless The story’s first real action setpiece — minus the aptitude test, »
- Hillary Busis
Nick Rigg & Leftfield Entertainment Form Joint Venture
2 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Unscripted TV producer and executive Nick Rigg and Leftfield Entertainment, the production company behind History’s Pawn Stars franchise and Bravo’s The Real Housewives Of New Jersey have formed a new joint venture: Loud TV. The entertainment and production company, based in New York, will create a broad range of unscripted television and digital content, including branded entertainment. It has hired Julian Locke as Evp and Lauren Deen as Svp, lifestyle development. Both executives worked previously with Rigg at Leopard Films USA (House Hunters International), where Rigg was president from 2005 through early 2013, growing the company from a single pilot to producing more than 200 hours of programming a year. “As a producer and executive for 15 years, it’s been my goal to create a new company that will produce original content across a range of genres, and to assemble a team of nimble, dedicated and highly talented people with the »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
PopWatch Playlist: First-time TV tunes that struck a chord -- Listen
2 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Last night’s flashback-tastic New Girl episode, “Virgins,” was a treasure trove of music to set the mood — some songs more successfully than others — as the loftmates looked back on their first sexual encounters. Anchoring the eclectic mix (which ranged from Sublime to Boyz II Men and even figured in Lisa Loeb), Ellie Goulding’s “Anything Could Happen” kicked in during a fan-fulfilling scene between Nick (Jake Johnson) and Jess (Zooey Deschanel).
It got us thinking of some of our favorite first-time anthems from shows of yore. Below, our ultimate Spotify playlist of coupling tracks!
Liner notes…
The song: Ellie Goulding, »
- Lanford Beard
John Oliver To Begin Summer Run As ‘Daily Show’ Guest Host On June 10
2 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
John Oliver begins his stint as guest host of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart on Monday, June 10 at 11 Pm. Deadline broke the news in March that Stewart would be taking a 12-week hiatus to direct his first feature film Rosewater and Oliver would be filling in for eight weeks of original episodes during Stewart’s absence. Stewart will return on Tuesday, September 3. Scheduled guests during Oliver’s first week include Seth Rogen, Armando Iannucci, Mavis Staples and Fareed Zakaria. Oliver performs stand-up around the Us and his one-hour special Terrifying Times debuted in April 2008. His stand-up series, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show premiered on Comedy Central in January 2010 with the fourth season slated to air in late summer. Along with Andy Zaltzman, Oliver also writes and stars in a weekly podcast, The Bugle: Audio Newspaper For A Visual World. The Daily Show is exec produced by Jon Stewart and Rory Albanese, »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
President Obama Formally Nominates Tom Wheeler To Be FCC Chairman
3 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
There was laughter at the White House moments ago when the President, who was also smiling, said he anticipates “a speedy confirmation process.” That may be too much to expect following his nomination of Core Capital Partners’ Tom Wheeler, 67, to be the nation’s chief communications regulator. But the FCC won’t be leaderless once Chairman Julius Genachowski steps down: President Obama designated Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to be Acting Chairwoman until Wheeler’s aboard. Wheeler’s mandate is to make sure that the U.S. is “at the cutting edge” of technological change, promoting “American ingenuity and American innovation,” the President said. Genachowski says that he can “attest to Tom’s commitment to harness the power of communications technology to improve people’s lives, to drive our global competitiveness, and to advance the public interest.” Related: MPAA Chief Chris Dodd Lauds Wheeler Nomination Others also are weighing in on the »
- DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor
Scott Free Inks First-Look Deal With AMC, Sets Up Futuristic Drama Project
3 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Exclusive: Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Prods has signed a two-year, first-look deal with AMC to develop and produce scripted cable projects for the network. The pact, Scott Free’s first such first-look agreement with a cable network, stems from the production company’s collaboration with AMC on The Terror, a drama series project based on the 2007 best-selling novel by Dan Simmons, which was taken in for development by AMC in February. The Terror is joined by two other Scott Free drama projects developed under the first-look deal. One is an untitled futuristic, dystopian, sci-fi saga from executive producer and writer Jason Cahill (Fringe) and producer and Emmy-winning prosthetic makeup artist and The Walking Dead co-executive producer Greg Nicotero, who also has a deal at AMC. The other, Raiders, from executive producer and writer Evan Wright (Generation Kill), was among the finalists at this year’s AMC pilot script showcase held this month. »
- NELLIE ANDREEVA
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