Deadline reports Fox is developing director-producer Julie Anne Robinson's half-hour TV show comedy, Positively Speaking. She currently executive produces Shondaland series, The Catch, for ABC.Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds are writing Positively Speaking. The duo, who will executive produced with Robinson, originally met at Emerson College. According to the report, Reynolds auditioned for Mann’s troupe. They later reunited in L.A. as part of sketch comedy group.Read More…...
- 11/29/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Fox has put in development Positively Speaking, a half-hour hybrid comedy from producer-director Julie Anne Robinson (The Catch) and her Canny Lads Productions. Written by Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds, Positively Speaking centers on an up-and-coming motivational speaker who tries to become the next king of self-help. Mann and Reynolds executive produce with Robinson. Kelly Pancho, who helped put the project together, will oversee for Canny Lads. ABC Studios, where…...
- 11/18/2016
- Deadline TV
What happens when you give two 20-something male comedians the opportunity to go anywhere they.ve ever wanted to go on vacation and film it? A new gutbuster Travel Channel show, .Mancations!. In the Travel Channel.s first unscripted comedy duo travel show; .Mancations. will follow comedians, Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds as they travel the country in search of the perfect testosterone getaway, giving men ideas for those perfect vacation spots and giving women a glimpse inside guy-only retreats that aren't in Key West, Palm Springs, Fire Island or P-Town. Adding a comedic twist, the duo puts themselves in awkward and interesting situations as they experience Navy Seal Training in Virginia, Ninja Camp, Space Camp in Alabama,...
- 5/6/2011
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
Elsewhere on /Film, you can read about how virtual unknown Todd Strauss-Schulson has been hired to direct the third installment of the Harold & Kumar series, A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas. The television and commercial film director caught the attention of Hollywood with his short film titled Mano-a-Mano, which premiered at the 2008 South By Southwest Film Festival, has appeared in over 45 film festivals and even won the Best Short Film Jury Award at the Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The Nsfw short tells the story of "two guys competing for the same job, a position as a gay phone sex operator." The short stars Laura Silverman (yes, Sarah's sister), Gareth Reynolds, and Evan Mann. Fans of Kevin Smith's earlier films will probably really like this movie, as it is very much written in that same tone. I also included some of Schulson's other shorts, including: Die Hardly Working, which ...
- 4/2/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
More coverage: Bud.tv retools programming
NEW YORK -- Anheuser-Busch's recent flip-flop on the future of its flailing Internet network Bud.TV underscores the challenges advertisers are facing as an increasing number flock to the Internet to create original entertainment content but struggle to find an audience.
Like Bud.TV, more brands are realizing the power of the Internet to reach their target demographics and the many advantages it can hold over branded entertainment projects in film and television.
"As far a creating content for the Web, the Internet has allowed brands to have access to distribution like no other time in history," said Babs Rangaiah, director of media and entertainment for Unilever USA, probably the most aggressive advertiser other than A-B in creating original Web content. "The Internet has leveled both the creating content and the distribution playing field."
Despite traffic on Bud.TV falling from 250,000 visitors in February to 150,000 in March and even farther in April and May -- not to mention it has an estimated $20 million investment at stake -- A-B apparently realizes the Internet is too important a marketing tool to ditch Bud.TV.
A-B CEO August Busch told investors last month that Bud.TV would "fade" during the second half of the year, but the executive in charge of the fledgling network quickly countered that, saying Bud.TV is here to stay, though there will be modifications.
"Anheuser-Busch needs to be in the digital space," said Tony Ponturo, vp global media and sports marketing at the company. "We think it's important to be a part of the media that's being developed on the Internet, not just to buy the media. We need to understand the digital space, and we think we're learning it at warped speed."
Numerous other advertisers have come to the same realization as A-B, albeit at a much lower cost and often with more impressive results, especially when taking their Web expenditures into account.
Just this year, Sprint and Unilever's Suave partnered with MindShare Entertainment to create the Web series "In the Motherhood" starring Leah Remini; American Eagle teamed with Milo Ventimiglia ("Heroes") to direct "It's a Mall World", a Web series set to air this summer; Mini Cooper created a series at HammerandCoop.com that was produced by Moxy Films and helmed by Todd Phillips ("Old School"); Unilever's Caress Body Wash created two fairy tale-like webisodes starring "Grey's Anatomy"'s Kate Walsh; and Stouffer's cooked up content at DuringDinner.com.
Last week, Unilever launched an animated Web series for its I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! and Wish-Bone spray brands called "Sprays in the City". The series, starring "Extra"'s Mark McGrath, "Project Runway"'s Tim Gunn and Fabio, builds upon two "Spraychel" animated Web series for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! that Unilever ran in the past two summers.
Earlier brand initiatives on the Web include Georgia-Pacific's 2006 series Brawny Academy in which husbands were sent to training camp with the Brawny Man to learn how to be better husbands. Unilever's Dove Calming Night body wash, in collaboration with MindShare, produced webisodes last year directed by Penny Marshall that transported actress Felicity Huffman into the homes of classic TV moms Carol Brady, Lily Munster and June Cleaver. In 2005, Unilever's Axe deodorant teamed with branded entertainment firm Conductor to create a video blog of comedians Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds as they tried out seduction moves on women.
In partnership with production partner Yahoo Music, Pepsi has been airing its Pepsi Smash series of original music videos, which first aired as a TV show on the WB Network, since June 2005. Pepsi Smash has aired nearly 150 webisodes of original music video content a year on Yahoo Music including exclusive performances by Gwen Stefani and Mariah Carey.
NEW YORK -- Anheuser-Busch's recent flip-flop on the future of its flailing Internet network Bud.TV underscores the challenges advertisers are facing as an increasing number flock to the Internet to create original entertainment content but struggle to find an audience.
Like Bud.TV, more brands are realizing the power of the Internet to reach their target demographics and the many advantages it can hold over branded entertainment projects in film and television.
"As far a creating content for the Web, the Internet has allowed brands to have access to distribution like no other time in history," said Babs Rangaiah, director of media and entertainment for Unilever USA, probably the most aggressive advertiser other than A-B in creating original Web content. "The Internet has leveled both the creating content and the distribution playing field."
Despite traffic on Bud.TV falling from 250,000 visitors in February to 150,000 in March and even farther in April and May -- not to mention it has an estimated $20 million investment at stake -- A-B apparently realizes the Internet is too important a marketing tool to ditch Bud.TV.
A-B CEO August Busch told investors last month that Bud.TV would "fade" during the second half of the year, but the executive in charge of the fledgling network quickly countered that, saying Bud.TV is here to stay, though there will be modifications.
"Anheuser-Busch needs to be in the digital space," said Tony Ponturo, vp global media and sports marketing at the company. "We think it's important to be a part of the media that's being developed on the Internet, not just to buy the media. We need to understand the digital space, and we think we're learning it at warped speed."
Numerous other advertisers have come to the same realization as A-B, albeit at a much lower cost and often with more impressive results, especially when taking their Web expenditures into account.
Just this year, Sprint and Unilever's Suave partnered with MindShare Entertainment to create the Web series "In the Motherhood" starring Leah Remini; American Eagle teamed with Milo Ventimiglia ("Heroes") to direct "It's a Mall World", a Web series set to air this summer; Mini Cooper created a series at HammerandCoop.com that was produced by Moxy Films and helmed by Todd Phillips ("Old School"); Unilever's Caress Body Wash created two fairy tale-like webisodes starring "Grey's Anatomy"'s Kate Walsh; and Stouffer's cooked up content at DuringDinner.com.
Last week, Unilever launched an animated Web series for its I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! and Wish-Bone spray brands called "Sprays in the City". The series, starring "Extra"'s Mark McGrath, "Project Runway"'s Tim Gunn and Fabio, builds upon two "Spraychel" animated Web series for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! that Unilever ran in the past two summers.
Earlier brand initiatives on the Web include Georgia-Pacific's 2006 series Brawny Academy in which husbands were sent to training camp with the Brawny Man to learn how to be better husbands. Unilever's Dove Calming Night body wash, in collaboration with MindShare, produced webisodes last year directed by Penny Marshall that transported actress Felicity Huffman into the homes of classic TV moms Carol Brady, Lily Munster and June Cleaver. In 2005, Unilever's Axe deodorant teamed with branded entertainment firm Conductor to create a video blog of comedians Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds as they tried out seduction moves on women.
In partnership with production partner Yahoo Music, Pepsi has been airing its Pepsi Smash series of original music videos, which first aired as a TV show on the WB Network, since June 2005. Pepsi Smash has aired nearly 150 webisodes of original music video content a year on Yahoo Music including exclusive performances by Gwen Stefani and Mariah Carey.
- 6/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
More coverage: Bud.tv retools programming
NEW YORK -- Anheuser-Busch's recent flip-flop on the future of its flailing Internet network Bud.TV underscores the challenges advertisers are facing as an increasing number flock to the Internet to create original entertainment content but struggle to find an audience.
Like Bud.TV, more brands are realizing the power of the Internet to reach their target demographics and the many advantages it can hold over branded entertainment projects in film and television.
"As far a creating content for the Web, the Internet has allowed brands to have access to distribution like no other time in history," said Babs Rangaiah, director of media and entertainment for Unilever USA, probably the most aggressive advertiser other than A-B in creating original Web content. "The Internet has leveled both the creating content and the distribution playing field."
Despite traffic on Bud.TV falling from 250,000 visitors in February to 150,000 in March and even farther in April and May -- not to mention it has an estimated $20 million investment at stake -- A-B apparently realizes the Internet is too important a marketing tool to ditch Bud.TV.
A-B CEO August Busch told investors last month that Bud.TV would "fade" during the second half of the year, but the executive in charge of the fledgling network quickly countered that, saying Bud.TV is here to stay, though there will be modifications.
"Anheuser-Busch needs to be in the digital space," said Tony Ponturo, vp global media and sports marketing at the company. "We think it's important to be a part of the media that's being developed on the Internet, not just to buy the media. We need to understand the digital space, and we think we're learning it at warped speed."
Numerous other advertisers have come to the same realization as A-B, albeit at a much lower cost and often with more impressive results, especially when taking their Web expenditures into account.
Just this year, Sprint and Unilever's Suave partnered with MindShare Entertainment to create the Web series "In the Motherhood" starring Leah Remini; American Eagle teamed with Milo Ventimiglia ("Heroes") to direct "It's a Mall World", a Web series set to air this summer; Mini Cooper created a series at HammerandCoop.com that was produced by Moxy Films and helmed by Todd Phillips ("Old School"); Unilever's Caress Body Wash created two fairy tale-like webisodes starring "Grey's Anatomy"'s Kate Walsh; and Stouffer's cooked up content at DuringDinner.com.
Last week, Unilever launched an animated Web series for its I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! and Wish-Bone spray brands called "Sprays in the City". The series, starring "Extra"'s Mark McGrath, "Project Runway"'s Tim Gunn and Fabio, builds upon two "Spraychel" animated Web series for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! that Unilever ran in the past two summers.
Earlier brand initiatives on the Web include Georgia-Pacific's 2006 series Brawny Academy in which husbands were sent to training camp with the Brawny Man to learn how to be better husbands. Unilever's Dove Calming Night body wash, in collaboration with MindShare, produced webisodes last year directed by Penny Marshall that transported actress Felicity Huffman into the homes of classic TV moms Carol Brady, Lily Munster and June Cleaver. In 2005, Unilever's Axe deodorant teamed with branded entertainment firm Conductor to create a video blog of comedians Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds as they tried out seduction moves on women.
In partnership with production partner Yahoo Music, Pepsi has been airing its Pepsi Smash series of original music videos, which first aired as a TV show on the WB Network, since June 2005. Pepsi Smash has aired nearly 150 webisodes of original music video content a year on Yahoo Music including exclusive performances by Gwen Stefani and Mariah Carey.
NEW YORK -- Anheuser-Busch's recent flip-flop on the future of its flailing Internet network Bud.TV underscores the challenges advertisers are facing as an increasing number flock to the Internet to create original entertainment content but struggle to find an audience.
Like Bud.TV, more brands are realizing the power of the Internet to reach their target demographics and the many advantages it can hold over branded entertainment projects in film and television.
"As far a creating content for the Web, the Internet has allowed brands to have access to distribution like no other time in history," said Babs Rangaiah, director of media and entertainment for Unilever USA, probably the most aggressive advertiser other than A-B in creating original Web content. "The Internet has leveled both the creating content and the distribution playing field."
Despite traffic on Bud.TV falling from 250,000 visitors in February to 150,000 in March and even farther in April and May -- not to mention it has an estimated $20 million investment at stake -- A-B apparently realizes the Internet is too important a marketing tool to ditch Bud.TV.
A-B CEO August Busch told investors last month that Bud.TV would "fade" during the second half of the year, but the executive in charge of the fledgling network quickly countered that, saying Bud.TV is here to stay, though there will be modifications.
"Anheuser-Busch needs to be in the digital space," said Tony Ponturo, vp global media and sports marketing at the company. "We think it's important to be a part of the media that's being developed on the Internet, not just to buy the media. We need to understand the digital space, and we think we're learning it at warped speed."
Numerous other advertisers have come to the same realization as A-B, albeit at a much lower cost and often with more impressive results, especially when taking their Web expenditures into account.
Just this year, Sprint and Unilever's Suave partnered with MindShare Entertainment to create the Web series "In the Motherhood" starring Leah Remini; American Eagle teamed with Milo Ventimiglia ("Heroes") to direct "It's a Mall World", a Web series set to air this summer; Mini Cooper created a series at HammerandCoop.com that was produced by Moxy Films and helmed by Todd Phillips ("Old School"); Unilever's Caress Body Wash created two fairy tale-like webisodes starring "Grey's Anatomy"'s Kate Walsh; and Stouffer's cooked up content at DuringDinner.com.
Last week, Unilever launched an animated Web series for its I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! and Wish-Bone spray brands called "Sprays in the City". The series, starring "Extra"'s Mark McGrath, "Project Runway"'s Tim Gunn and Fabio, builds upon two "Spraychel" animated Web series for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! that Unilever ran in the past two summers.
Earlier brand initiatives on the Web include Georgia-Pacific's 2006 series Brawny Academy in which husbands were sent to training camp with the Brawny Man to learn how to be better husbands. Unilever's Dove Calming Night body wash, in collaboration with MindShare, produced webisodes last year directed by Penny Marshall that transported actress Felicity Huffman into the homes of classic TV moms Carol Brady, Lily Munster and June Cleaver. In 2005, Unilever's Axe deodorant teamed with branded entertainment firm Conductor to create a video blog of comedians Evan Mann and Gareth Reynolds as they tried out seduction moves on women.
In partnership with production partner Yahoo Music, Pepsi has been airing its Pepsi Smash series of original music videos, which first aired as a TV show on the WB Network, since June 2005. Pepsi Smash has aired nearly 150 webisodes of original music video content a year on Yahoo Music including exclusive performances by Gwen Stefani and Mariah Carey.
- 6/22/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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