Los Angeles — If Netflix's "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development" on Thursday become the first online contenders to nab top Emmy nominations, it will be a breakthrough moment for shows making a splash without the aid of a TV set.
If not, it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens.
The video universe that once meant simply broadcast television, then added cable and satellite, has splintered again to encompass websites including YouTube and streaming services including Netflix and Amazon.
The expansion was recognized in 2008 by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a rules change that added the Internet as an eligible Emmy platform. As with broadcast networks and other video distributors, programs must reach more than half of the U.S. audience to make the cut.
When the Emmy nods are announced early Thursday, a fair number of pundits say clever political drama "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development,...
If not, it's just a matter of time before the inevitable happens.
The video universe that once meant simply broadcast television, then added cable and satellite, has splintered again to encompass websites including YouTube and streaming services including Netflix and Amazon.
The expansion was recognized in 2008 by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a rules change that added the Internet as an eligible Emmy platform. As with broadcast networks and other video distributors, programs must reach more than half of the U.S. audience to make the cut.
When the Emmy nods are announced early Thursday, a fair number of pundits say clever political drama "House of Cards" and "Arrested Development,...
- 7/17/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Warning: The following story discusses a major plot point from tonight’s Game of Thrones…
It’s a big deal. If you haven’t watched the episode yet, you should do that and come back. This story will still be here, I promise. Sure, the spoiler was in the novel and has been on the Internet forever, but if you’re only watching the TV show, you probably won’t see this coming, and we don’t want to ruin it for you.
It might be unprecedented in the history of television: Killing off the main character in TV series...
It’s a big deal. If you haven’t watched the episode yet, you should do that and come back. This story will still be here, I promise. Sure, the spoiler was in the novel and has been on the Internet forever, but if you’re only watching the TV show, you probably won’t see this coming, and we don’t want to ruin it for you.
It might be unprecedented in the history of television: Killing off the main character in TV series...
- 6/13/2011
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Los Angeles — With just two episodes of "Two and a Half Men" in the can and Charlie Sheen in rehab, what's next for TV's top-rated comedy?
There has been no comment from CBS, series producer Warner Bros. Television or Sheen whether the 45-year-old actor will be back to film the remaining eight episodes.
The Monday night show's finished episodes will air Feb. 7 and Feb. 14. To cover after that, CBS has ordered two extra episodes of "Rules of Engagement" and may increase its order for another sitcom as well as rely on "Two and Half Men" repeats.
No other comedy has the drawing power of "Men," which even in reruns averages bigger audiences (10.6 million, according to the Nielsen Co.) than first-run episodes of other network comedies, except for ABC's "Modern Family" (14.6 million).
Original episodes of "Two and a Half Men" top 15 million viewers and the show has increased its audience by 2 percent over last season,...
There has been no comment from CBS, series producer Warner Bros. Television or Sheen whether the 45-year-old actor will be back to film the remaining eight episodes.
The Monday night show's finished episodes will air Feb. 7 and Feb. 14. To cover after that, CBS has ordered two extra episodes of "Rules of Engagement" and may increase its order for another sitcom as well as rely on "Two and Half Men" repeats.
No other comedy has the drawing power of "Men," which even in reruns averages bigger audiences (10.6 million, according to the Nielsen Co.) than first-run episodes of other network comedies, except for ABC's "Modern Family" (14.6 million).
Original episodes of "Two and a Half Men" top 15 million viewers and the show has increased its audience by 2 percent over last season,...
- 2/2/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Event: NY SAG Foundation Conversation with One Life To Live
The New York SAG Foundation has invited all union members (SAG, AFTRA, Equity) to a Conversations Event with the Executive Producer and Cast Members of One Life To Live. The panel will include: Frank Valentini, Gina Tognoni, Florencia Lozano, Sean Ringgold, Kristen Alderson, David Gregory, Hillary B. Smith, Kassie DePaiva. The panel will discuss the 42-year-old soap and will be moderated by Abby West from Entertainment Weekly.
Museums, including Maria Bell's MoCA, roll out the red carpet for Hollywood
Maria Bell, producer and head writer of The Young And The Restless and co-chair of the MoCA board, believes that making the contemporary art museum "less elitist and intimidating" helps. She helped bring the populist-minded Jeffrey Deitch on as director of Moca, and is the driving force behind the museum's increasingly star-studded galas — including last year's Lady Gaga showcase, where Brad...
The New York SAG Foundation has invited all union members (SAG, AFTRA, Equity) to a Conversations Event with the Executive Producer and Cast Members of One Life To Live. The panel will include: Frank Valentini, Gina Tognoni, Florencia Lozano, Sean Ringgold, Kristen Alderson, David Gregory, Hillary B. Smith, Kassie DePaiva. The panel will discuss the 42-year-old soap and will be moderated by Abby West from Entertainment Weekly.
Museums, including Maria Bell's MoCA, roll out the red carpet for Hollywood
Maria Bell, producer and head writer of The Young And The Restless and co-chair of the MoCA board, believes that making the contemporary art museum "less elitist and intimidating" helps. She helped bring the populist-minded Jeffrey Deitch on as director of Moca, and is the driving force behind the museum's increasingly star-studded galas — including last year's Lady Gaga showcase, where Brad...
- 10/28/2010
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
The decades-old taboo that drama series with minority leads cannot work finally might be broken.
Halfway through the castings of broadcast drama pilots this season, the top-billed actors on four pilots are non-Caucasian.
What's more, the four projects are among the highest-profile drama pilots this year.
The spy couple at the center of J.J. Abrams' "Undercovers" for NBC is played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Boris Kodjoe. "Undercovers," co-written by Abrams, marks his first pilot directing effort since "Lost" six years ago.
Forest Whitaker is the lead on CBS' "Criminal Minds" spinoff; Laz Alonso tops the Fox action-drama "Breakout Kings," directed and exec produced by Gavin Hood; and Freddy Rodriguez headlines CBS' CIA drama "Chaos," directed and executive produced by Brett Ratner.
Last year's crop of broadcast pilots included only one fronted by a minority actor, the LL Cool J starrer "NCIS: Los Angeles." The season before that, there were no pilots led by minorities.
Halfway through the castings of broadcast drama pilots this season, the top-billed actors on four pilots are non-Caucasian.
What's more, the four projects are among the highest-profile drama pilots this year.
The spy couple at the center of J.J. Abrams' "Undercovers" for NBC is played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Boris Kodjoe. "Undercovers," co-written by Abrams, marks his first pilot directing effort since "Lost" six years ago.
Forest Whitaker is the lead on CBS' "Criminal Minds" spinoff; Laz Alonso tops the Fox action-drama "Breakout Kings," directed and exec produced by Gavin Hood; and Freddy Rodriguez headlines CBS' CIA drama "Chaos," directed and executive produced by Brett Ratner.
Last year's crop of broadcast pilots included only one fronted by a minority actor, the LL Cool J starrer "NCIS: Los Angeles." The season before that, there were no pilots led by minorities.
- 2/16/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
They are the two comeback stories of this pilot season, projects developed years ago that have been resurrected and have landed orders at the broadcast networks.
The two comedies -- "Nirvana" at Fox and "Outsourced" at NBC -- have something else in common: They both are ensemble shows about Indians and Indian Americans.
A third project, a U.S. version of popular British comedy "The Kumars at No. 42," about an immigrant Indian family, also is poised for revival. Eight years after NBC took a stab at the format, the show's British producers are shopping it to U.S. networks, including FX.
Is it a coincidence or a delayed "Slumdog Millionaire" effect?
"I do think that 'Slumdog' had a lot to do with it," a TV studio executive said of India's rapid emergence on the U.S. pop culture scene. "It was boiling, hovering there, with the increasing popularity of Indian clothing,...
The two comedies -- "Nirvana" at Fox and "Outsourced" at NBC -- have something else in common: They both are ensemble shows about Indians and Indian Americans.
A third project, a U.S. version of popular British comedy "The Kumars at No. 42," about an immigrant Indian family, also is poised for revival. Eight years after NBC took a stab at the format, the show's British producers are shopping it to U.S. networks, including FX.
Is it a coincidence or a delayed "Slumdog Millionaire" effect?
"I do think that 'Slumdog' had a lot to do with it," a TV studio executive said of India's rapid emergence on the U.S. pop culture scene. "It was boiling, hovering there, with the increasing popularity of Indian clothing,...
- 1/31/2010
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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