Charter Communications, the No. 2 cable TV provider in the U.S., has unveiled a significant revamp of its Spectrum pay-tv subscription offerings.
The new scheme, which will roll out this fall, overhauls the long-problematic situation for regional sports networks, like the company’s own Spectrum SportsNet and SportsNet LA, which air Lakers basketball and Dodgers baseball, respectively. As the cost of sports rights has risen, pay-tv subscriber rates have fallen, damaging the traditional model of tacking on the price of RSNs to subscribers’ bills. Blackouts and outages have been the result as carriage disputes have broken out, with SportsNet LA going dark for more than six years on DirecTV until a resolution in 2020.
In the new structure, Spectrum TV Select will relaunch...
The new scheme, which will roll out this fall, overhauls the long-problematic situation for regional sports networks, like the company’s own Spectrum SportsNet and SportsNet LA, which air Lakers basketball and Dodgers baseball, respectively. As the cost of sports rights has risen, pay-tv subscriber rates have fallen, damaging the traditional model of tacking on the price of RSNs to subscribers’ bills. Blackouts and outages have been the result as carriage disputes have broken out, with SportsNet LA going dark for more than six years on DirecTV until a resolution in 2020.
In the new structure, Spectrum TV Select will relaunch...
- 7/10/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Another hilarious school year has begun in the Abbott Elementary Season 2 trailer.
The hit ABC comedy’s return episode (airing Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 9/8c) finds Janine and the rest of the teachers “back at Willard R. Abbott Public School for development week, a time to prepare for the upcoming year before the students’ first day of school,” per the official description. “Post-breakup, Janine is determined to start the year off right and leave her problems at home. With this new outlook, she takes on organizing the faculty mixer and announces a special celebrity surprise she planned for the kids’ first day.
The hit ABC comedy’s return episode (airing Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 9/8c) finds Janine and the rest of the teachers “back at Willard R. Abbott Public School for development week, a time to prepare for the upcoming year before the students’ first day of school,” per the official description. “Post-breakup, Janine is determined to start the year off right and leave her problems at home. With this new outlook, she takes on organizing the faculty mixer and announces a special celebrity surprise she planned for the kids’ first day.
- 9/12/2022
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Spectrum Originals has released the official trailer for the crime dramedy series “Panhandle.” The release date of the series’ first two episodes on Spectrum is Sept. 26.
The eight-episode series follows armchair detective Bell Prescott (Luke Kirby) and traffic cop Cammie Lorde (Tiana Okoye) as they investigate a murder in their small Florida town.
Along with Kirby and Okoye, the series stars Forrest Goodluck, Lorenza Izzo, Wallace Smith, Glenn Morshower and Lesley Ann Warren. Recurring guest stars include Melanie Minichino, Landon Chase DuBois, Mo Gallini, David De Vries, Deja Dee, Paulina Gálvez, Scott Takeda and Grant Freely.
“Panhandle” is created and written by executive producers Nick Stoller and Carla Kettner, with Conor Welch also executive producing. Colin Bucksey will direct and executive produce the pilot episode. Sony Pictures Television Studios produces.
Watch the full trailer below.
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The eight-episode series follows armchair detective Bell Prescott (Luke Kirby) and traffic cop Cammie Lorde (Tiana Okoye) as they investigate a murder in their small Florida town.
Along with Kirby and Okoye, the series stars Forrest Goodluck, Lorenza Izzo, Wallace Smith, Glenn Morshower and Lesley Ann Warren. Recurring guest stars include Melanie Minichino, Landon Chase DuBois, Mo Gallini, David De Vries, Deja Dee, Paulina Gálvez, Scott Takeda and Grant Freely.
“Panhandle” is created and written by executive producers Nick Stoller and Carla Kettner, with Conor Welch also executive producing. Colin Bucksey will direct and executive produce the pilot episode. Sony Pictures Television Studios produces.
Watch the full trailer below.
Also in today’s TV news:
Executive News
Bob Higgins is set to run Trustbridge Global Media...
- 9/10/2022
- by Michaela Zee
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Spectrum Originals will not be proceeding with a second season of its drama series Long Slow Exhale, set in the world of women’s college basketball. The decision comes a month and a half after the show, starring Rose Rollins and Josh Lucas, ended its Season 1 run on the service.
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Paramount TV Studios, which produces Long Slow Exhale, is working with series creator Pam Veasey to explore options for keeping the series going, I hear. Currently, after a nine-month exclusive run on Spectrum, Long Slow Exhale is set for a second window on Paramount TV Studios corporate sibling BET. It is unclear whether the Paramount cable network would be interested in continuing with the series; its brass may want to wait and see how Season 1 performs on BET but a Season 2 decision will likely have to be made prior to that by the studio.
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Paramount TV Studios, which produces Long Slow Exhale, is working with series creator Pam Veasey to explore options for keeping the series going, I hear. Currently, after a nine-month exclusive run on Spectrum, Long Slow Exhale is set for a second window on Paramount TV Studios corporate sibling BET. It is unclear whether the Paramount cable network would be interested in continuing with the series; its brass may want to wait and see how Season 1 performs on BET but a Season 2 decision will likely have to be made prior to that by the studio.
- 6/7/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Neon, the Best Picture Oscar-winning studio behind Parasite, has acquired U.S. rights to the psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct starring Academy Award winners Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway.
Set in the early ‘60s, it follows best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond, and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Mothers’ Instinct is based on the novel Derrière la Haine by Barbara Abel. Writer Sarah Conradt (50 States of Fright) adapted the English-language script.
The Neon-distributed feature is a remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium movie Duelles from director Olivier Masset-Depasse. The filmmaker also will direct this English-language production, which begins shooting on...
Set in the early ‘60s, it follows best friends and neighbors Alice (Chastain) and Celine (Hathaway), who live an idyllic traditional lifestyle with manicured lawns, successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life’s perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond, and a psychological battle of wills begins as the maternal instinct reveals its darker side.
Mothers’ Instinct is based on the novel Derrière la Haine by Barbara Abel. Writer Sarah Conradt (50 States of Fright) adapted the English-language script.
The Neon-distributed feature is a remake of the 2018 critically acclaimed Belgium movie Duelles from director Olivier Masset-Depasse. The filmmaker also will direct this English-language production, which begins shooting on...
- 5/11/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Comcast and Charter Communications, the two biggest cable operators in the U.S., are joining forces in the streaming wars.
The two companies announced a 50-50 joint venture to develop and launch a “next-generation streaming platform” on a variety of branded 4K streaming devices and smart TVs to reach customers in major markets across the country. The yet-unnamed Jv will aim to compete with other streaming platforms like Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV, Google Chromecast and Apple TV 4K.
Comcast will license Flex, its aggregated streaming platform and hardware, to the Jv, as well as contribute the retail business for its recently launched XClass TVs and Xumo, the free, ad-supported streaming service it acquired in 2020. Charter will make an initial contribution of 900 million into Jv, funded over multiple years.
The joint venture’s products will feature “hundreds” of free content choices through Xumo, which currently delivers more than 200 individual streaming channels.
The two companies announced a 50-50 joint venture to develop and launch a “next-generation streaming platform” on a variety of branded 4K streaming devices and smart TVs to reach customers in major markets across the country. The yet-unnamed Jv will aim to compete with other streaming platforms like Roku, Amazon’s Fire TV, Google Chromecast and Apple TV 4K.
Comcast will license Flex, its aggregated streaming platform and hardware, to the Jv, as well as contribute the retail business for its recently launched XClass TVs and Xumo, the free, ad-supported streaming service it acquired in 2020. Charter will make an initial contribution of 900 million into Jv, funded over multiple years.
The joint venture’s products will feature “hundreds” of free content choices through Xumo, which currently delivers more than 200 individual streaming channels.
- 4/27/2022
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
Some cool news for genre fans coming out of the Cannes Film Festival today. THR reports that X-Men: Apocalypse actor Lucas Till has signed on to play the lead in a new sci-fi flick called Spectrum, which will be helmed by Into the Storm writer John Swetnam.
The actor will step into the role of Connor, the son of a renowned scientist who finds himself mixed him in his father’s work, which involved proving the existence of ghosts.
For more, check out the official plot summary below.
Connor is the son of a renowned scientist whose final experiment went terribly wrong. Along with a group of colleagues, he discover he the secret high-tech laboratory where his father’s experiments — which proved the existence of ghosts — took place. They then find themselves battling a vengeful force like no other.
Till will also produce Spectrum along with with Swetnam via his...
The actor will step into the role of Connor, the son of a renowned scientist who finds himself mixed him in his father’s work, which involved proving the existence of ghosts.
For more, check out the official plot summary below.
Connor is the son of a renowned scientist whose final experiment went terribly wrong. Along with a group of colleagues, he discover he the secret high-tech laboratory where his father’s experiments — which proved the existence of ghosts — took place. They then find themselves battling a vengeful force like no other.
Till will also produce Spectrum along with with Swetnam via his...
- 5/13/2016
- by Mark Cassidy
- We Got This Covered
"X-Men: First Class" star Lucas Till has joined the sci-fi thriller "Spectrum" which will be directed by "Into the Storm" writer John Swetnam.
Till will play Connor, the son of a renowned scientist whose final experiment went terribly wrong. Now, he and a group of colleagues discover the secret high-tech laboratory where his father's experiments - that proved the existence of ghosts - took place.
They then find themselves battling a vengeful force like no other. Lex Edness wrote the script with shooting slated to begin in September. Till, Swetnam and Sean Cushing will produce.
Source: Heat Vision...
Till will play Connor, the son of a renowned scientist whose final experiment went terribly wrong. Now, he and a group of colleagues discover the secret high-tech laboratory where his father's experiments - that proved the existence of ghosts - took place.
They then find themselves battling a vengeful force like no other. Lex Edness wrote the script with shooting slated to begin in September. Till, Swetnam and Sean Cushing will produce.
Source: Heat Vision...
- 5/12/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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