“Make My Monday” Premieres on Snapchat
Influential social media figure Shaun McBride (Shonduras) is taking his new series Make My Monday to Snapchat. The series will premiere today on his Snapchat channel, @Shonduras. Shonduras will ask (…)
Canal 22 Debuts the Final Season of “Isabel”
Historical drama Isabel begins its third and final season on Alterna’TV’s arts and entertainment channel Canal 22 Internacional Sunday, April 3 (8 p.m. PT/11 p.m. ET). Isabel stars Michelle Jenner (…)
BTVP Promotes Brazilian Participation at MIPTV
Brazilian TV Producers (BTVP), the exporting division of the Brazilian Association of Independent Television Producers (ABPI-TV), is organizing the participation of Brazilian producers at MIPTV in partnership with the (…)
Reiner Moritz: Arts and Music Have Been His Beat, From Germany, U.K.
When Reiner Moritz, now world-renowned for his arts programs, was working for Leo Kirch’s Beta Film in Munich, he was a chain smoker. One day Reiner couldn’t smoke all day; (…)
April 2016
Pity program buyers for whom split personalities are a job requirement. Fortunately, this critic doesn’t have to deal with audience tastes, but can just appreciate the production value of shows. It wasn’t an easy task at first, but time served as a teacher.
Formats: Unloved By The Law, Loved By Viewers
It is, perhaps, a revealing testament to the true nature of the television business that, despite the refusal of courts on either side of the Atlantic and Pacific to recognize (…)
Sports in All Television Forms is Going Through A Change — $50 Billion Worth of Change
Sports on television is big business worldwide. It has the most complex license fee structure of all TV content. Sports TV licensing is going through a structural change because of (…)
European Fiction Is Becoming An American Drama
The international television business was founded on the sale of U.S. dramas — initially feature films, but primetime TV drama quickly followed. So, it is no surprise that, from the (…)
Up the Ladder: XII Tribes
Canadian media company XII Tribes Entertainment has appointed Georges Leclere as president, International Affairs. Leclere, a writer, creator and executive producer, previously served on the company’s advisory board. From 1997-2006, (…)
