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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?
15 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
When worlds collide: J.J. Abrams visits the set of 'Downton Abbey'
26 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
26 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
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
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’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
'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
2 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
ICM Adds Trio To Digital Strategy, Global Branded Entertainment Teams
3 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Last year ICM Partners restructured and created a new Digital Strategy Division to forge new business and investments in the digital and tech sectors. Today the agency announced the hiring of Sarah Early and Matthew Murray, who will both join the digital team led by Keyvan Peymani. They’ll focus on digital marketing, social media, and interactive entertainment based out of the La office. Madison Wojciechowski has also come aboard ICM’s Global Branded Entertainment Department working under Carol Goll. »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Zach Galifianakis's 'Saturday Night Live' promos: Things are gonna get weird -- Video
3 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Good news for admirers of Zach Galifianakis’s non-Hangover work: The comedian’s offbeat sensibility is alive and well, if these promos are any indication.
The “Between Two Ferns” host — and returning SNL emcee– spends this two and a half-minute clip showing off his teen heartthrob-inspired nail art, spoonerizing the names of famous musicians, and otherwise engaging in delightful but pretty strange “goof-abouts” — all as Jason Sudeikis tries in vain to understand what’s going on. So yeah, pretty much par for the course. Drink it in, Galifanatics:
I can’t wait to see what he’ll do with his “skitches. »
- Hillary Busis
Netflix reacts to May 1 purge of online content
3 hours ago | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Netflix was quick to respond today to the exodus of streamed content resulting from expired licensing deals with MGM, Warner Bros., and Universal that cost the online service access to several James Bond movies, Adaptation, Cruel Intentions, and Reality Bites, among hundreds of others. Yesterday, Netflix sought to calm subscribers mourning the loss of Adam Sandler’s Big Daddy, explaining that “this ebb and flow happens all the time” and promising users 500 new titles today, including Mission: Impossible 2. Today, they were quick to trumpet some of the new offerings.
Tons of new titles arrive on Netflix today, incl. Pulp Fiction, »
- Jeff Labrecque
Hemlock Grove: The Monster Within. Is Everyone a Bad Guy?
3 hours ago | TVovermind.com | See recent TVovermind.com news »
Outsider. Monster. Are they the same thing? In Hemlock Grove, it sure looks like it. No one is who they seem to be. The mothers are twisted, the doctors are twisted, and now the cops – our go-to good guys – are messed up. Dr. Clementine Chasseur (Kandyse McClure) carries a badge for the Fish [...]
Hemlock Grove: The Monster Within. Is Everyone a Bad Guy? »
- Patra Reiser
CNN’s ‘Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown’ Gets Second Season
4 hours ago | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
After just three shows in its first run, CNN announced today that Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown will be back for a second season to bow September 15. Visits to Spain, New Mexico, Israel, Copenhagen, Sicily, Detroit, Tokyo and India are scheduled. “In addition to its runaway ratings success, it is also quite the conversation starter, as anyone who follows social media can attest. We are so happy to announce Season 2, and I can assure you that audiences will love what is coming up on the show,” CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker said in a statement. Bourdain was brought on board at the cable news network last spring before the former NBC executive took over, but Zucker has been a big booster of Parts Unknown. On April 19, he even made a point of noting the debut of the show in a note to staffers on their work during the week of the »
- DOMINIC PATTEN
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