Новости за 07.04.2020

The Edinburgh TV Festival is the latest casualty of the coronavirus pandemic after organizers announced that the event will move online. The Edinburgh TV Festival was due to take place on 26-28 August, but will be “reimagined” as a digital event for the industry, with key sessions taking place online. This includes the keynote MacTaggart […]

Canada-based WildBrain Television has named Katie Wilson as VP Channels and Curation. Wilson joins from Corus Entertainment where she spent six years as Director of Programming. Based in Toronto, Wilson will be responsible for content and providing editorial direction across WildBrain’s Family Channel, Family CHRGD, Family Jr. and Télémagino and its multiplatform/VOD extensions. She will […]

Discovery has today launched the “biggest ever” rebrand of its six UK free-to-air channels: Quest, Quest Red, Really, HGTV, Food Network and DMAX. The new-look showcases Discovery’s ad-funded streamer Dplay and was created by an in-house team at the company, based on a rebrand of Dplay Nordics by Red Bee Creative. Rebecca Diver Phillips, Discovery’s […]

Organizers of the Melbourne International Film Festival confirmed today that the event will be cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The event’s 2020 edition had been scheduled to run August 6-23, meaning this is one of the earlier decisions being taken by a festival. Yesterday, Munich, the second-largest such fest in Germany, called […]

Two former senior executives at 21st Century Fox and the former co-CEO of Spanish media firm Imagina have been indicted by the U.S. Department Of Justice over their alleged role in a bribery scheme of FIFA officials in exchange for broadcast and marketing rights. The New York filing charges Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive […]

The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s COVID-19 Relief Fund has distributed $1 million in emergency assistance to members in need, foundation president Courtney B. Vance said Monday night in his second “fireside chat.” The fund has another 3,000 applications for assistance that it’s processing. “We appreciate your patience as we’re working very hard to help even more people […]

As it faces up to the huge coronavirus challenge, exhibition giant Cineworld has suspended payment of its 2019 fourth quarter dividend of 4.25c per share and upcoming 2020 quarterly dividends in a bid to “conserve cash wherever possible”. The Regal-owner also announced today that executive directors will defer payment of their salaries and bonuses. Non-executive […]

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is in action, even if the rest of us aren’t. In a clip from tonight’s episode, the CBS late-night host does some revisionist history that involves Charlton Heston, a burning bush, the coronavirus — and, of course, Tiger King. Starting off with a CNN report about how some churches […]

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle might have resigned as royals, but the couple has no trouble staying in the news. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had planned to use SussexRoyal as a branding tool for their global endeavors, but that idea was pooh-poohed by Buckingham Palace. Now they have settled on a moniker for […]

Decades ago, a soap actor famously said in a popular ad recommending a brand of cough medicine, “I’m not a doctor, but I play one on TV.” The inherent absurdity of it made the spot a punchline, but history has been repeating during President Donald Trump’s coronavirus press briefings. The leader of the free world […]

Fourteen theaters in the United States remained opened at the weekend box office according to recent reports obtained by Deadline, 13 of them were drive-ins. Those locations standing tall in the COVID-19 climate included the Van Buren Drive-in in Riverside, CA; the Mission Tiki in Monclair, CA; the Galaxy Drive-in in Ennis, TX; the Glendale […]

EXCLUSIVE: It has been a rough couple of weeks for Paradigm since chairman/CEO Sam Gores initiated “temporary layoffs” of up to 200 staffers in the wake of the Hollywood shutdown by the coronavirus pandemic, followed by a salacious lawsuit against the agency by vet agent Debbee Klein, who was among those laid off. Tonight, Gores […]