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Disney Readies Debut of Its New Latina Princess, ‘Elena of Avalor’
3 hours ago | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Walt Disney is gearing up for a lavish coronation for a princess that few people have seen or heard.
When Elena of Avalor surfaces on Disney Channel at 7 p.m. on Friday, July 22, in a one-hour special of the same name, viewers will have to decide if they want to follow her adventures. The animated teenage character, they will learn, has saved her kingdom from an evil sorceress, but must learn to rule as crown princess until she is old enough to be queen.
Disney is pulling out all the promotional stops to make sure its fans will want to follow her journey. Princess Elena characters will traipse through Walt Disney World Resort this summer and Disneyland Resort in the fall. Disney Publishing has produced print and e-book titles based on the character and her story. And licensees including Habro, Jakks Pacific, Franco Manufacturing and Children’s Apparel Network have readied dolls, »
- Brian Steinberg
‘You Me Her’ Renewed for Seasons 2 and 3 by At&T
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Polyromantic comedy “You Me Her” has been renewed for Season 2 and Season 3 on At&T and DirecTV’s Audience network, it was announced Thursday.
Each new season will consist of 10 episodes. The series stars Greg Poehler, Rachel Blanchard and Priscilla Faia.
In the series, what begins as an impulsive “date” between suburban husband Jack (Poehler) and neophyte escort Izzy (Faia) spins into a whirlwind 3-way affair including Jack’s wife Emma (Blanchard), who’s been keeping secrets of her own. Their arrangement soon breaks free of its financial bonds to evolve into a meaningful romance with real consequences, posing the question to viewers: What if your best, truest life looked nothing like you imagined? Would you be brave enough to live it?
Entertainment One will continue to finance, produce and distribute “You Me Her” worldwide, with John Morayniss, CEO, Gerard Bocaccio, Svp Us Scripted Development and Debra Curtis, Svp Current Programming, »
- Laura Prudom
Amazon’s ‘Just Add Magic’ Renewed For Season 2
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Amazon has renewed its original live-action kids series Just Add Magic for Season 2. The streaming service said the series, aimed at children 6-11, set a record as the most successful Amazon Original Kids premiere weekend in terms of U.S. Prime Video streams and hours. Based on Cindy Callaghan's book, Just Add Magic stars Olivia Sanabia, Abby Donnelly, Aubrey Miller, and Judah Bellamy and follows Kelly (Sanabia) and her two best friends as they stumble upon a mysterious… »
‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 Finale Will Be Longest Episode Ever
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(Spoiler alert: Mild spoilers ahead if you’re not up to date on this season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”) HBO has confirmed the names of the final two episodes of the sixth season of “Game of Thrones.” The season finale, which will air June 26, will be titled, “The Winds of Winter,” the same name as the upcoming sixth book in George R.R. Martin‘s “A Song of Ice and Fire” saga. The episode will run 69 minutes, making it the longest episode in the history of the series. Also Read: 'Game of Thrones': Sansa's Letter Has Been »
- Jeremy Fuster
Obama Endorses Hillary Clinton After Meeting With Bernie Sanders
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“For more than a year now, across thousands of miles and all 50 states, tens of millions of Americans have made their voices heard. Today I want to add mine,” President Obama said this morning in a video, endorsing Dem nominee Hillary Clinton. The video went out not long after his one-hour-ish meeting with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sanders statement vowing to continue campaigning in Washington D.C. which is having its primary on Tuesday. "I don't think there's ever… »
Emmy Awards: In Praise of Supporting Actors Who Stand Out From the Crowd
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Showtime recently announced its remake of “Twin Peaks” will include a cast of 217 actors. I pity whoever has to assemble that call sheet.
It’s hard enough these days for shows to stand out from the pack. Best of luck to the actors. The larger the cast, the harder it is for an actor to get any attention. And this year’s supporting actor and actress races are shaping up to be even more competitive than many of the lead races.
With A-list talent flocking to TV, the rise of the star-studded ensemble has certainly benefited TV fans, who get to see an incredible caliber of talent in choice roles. But what’s even more satisfying — and surprising — are the breakout performances from those names you might never have heard of before.
Take FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.” It’s one of the best-reviewed »
- Debra Birnbaum
TV Movie and Limited Series Actor Nominees Could Line Up With Oscars
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When it came to the lead acting races in last year’s limited series or movie category, the women mounted an impressive lineup. Three Academy Award winners (Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, and Emma Thompson) and three Oscar nominees (Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah, and Felicity Huffman) competed for the top prize, which went to McDormand for “Olive Kitteridge.”
This year, it looks to be the men’s turn, with a surprising number of Oscar nominees and winners eligible in the category, along with some big-name star power flexing its muscles. Academy Award winners in the running for lead actor include Anthony Hopkins (“The Dresser”), Cuba Gooding Jr. (“The People V. O.J. Simpson”), Richard Dreyfuss (“Madoff”), and Timothy Hutton (“American Crime”).
They will face considerable competition from Oscar nominees like Benedict Cumberbatch, who has already won an Emmy for his role in “Sherlock,” and Ian McKellen, who goes head-to-head with Hopkins in “The Dresser. »
- Jenelle Riley
TV Ratings: NBA Finals Game 3 Dominates Wednesday
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Game 3 of the NBA Finals led ABC to another victory on Wednesday night, with the match-up between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors notching an average rating of 5.2 in the adults 18-49 demographic and 13.7 million viewers before adjustments. In metered markets, the game generated an 11.8 overnight rating, making it the third-highest rated Game 3 ever on ABC.
For the night, ABC scored an average 4.2 rating in the demo and 11.5 million viewers overall, more than doubling its nearest competitor, NBC, which earned a 1.3 demo score and 5.2 million viewers. Fox came third for the night with a 0.9 rating, although its 3.3 million viewership number was beaten by CBS’ 3.8 million. The Eye came fourth in the demo with a 0.6 with a night of reruns, while CW brought up the rear with a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating and 0.8 million viewers overall, also running a night of repeats.
Going head to head with the game, NBC’s »
- Laura Prudom
‘Veep’ Returns To Emmy Polls With A New Showrunner But Same Edge – Awardsline
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How many shows lose their showrunner after they finally strike Emmy gold in one of the top categories? That's what happened with Veep, which took home the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy last year (to add to a plethora of Emmys including four Best Actress trophies for Julia Louis-Dreyfus), offering a sweet swansong to creator Armando Iannucci. But Iannucci's departure was on good terms—he simply wanted to be closer to his family in the UK—and the HBO show turned to Seinfeld… »
‘Real O’Neals’ Star Noah Galvin Calls Colton Haynes’ Coming Out ‘F—ing P—- Bulls—’
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“The Real O’Neals” star Noah Galvin slammed “Arrow” actor Colton Haynes’ method of coming out in a controversial and canid interview with Vulture.
Galvin, who plays a gay teen on the ABC comedy, didn’t hold back, calling Haynes’ announcement that he’s gay in a recent EW interview “f—ing p—- bulls—.”
“That’s not coming out,” Galvin said when Vulture noted that “he didn’t actually say he was gay.” “That’s f—ing p—- bulls—. That’s like, ‘Enough people assume that I sleep with men, so I’m just going to slightly confirm the fact that I’ve sucked a dick or two.’ That’s not doing anything for the little gays, but giving them more masturbation material.”
ABC didn’t respond to a request for comment.
The actor also said everyone in the “glass closet” — the closeted gay community in Hollywood — should »
- Maane Khatchatourian
David Letterman Tells NBC He “Couldn’t Care Less” About Late-Night TV
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In what NBC News is billing as David Letterman’s first in-depth TV interview since leaving his CBS show, David Letterman said he does not know why CBS did not give his Late Show to a woman. “That would have been fine,” he told former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw for Sunday’s Dateline NBC. On the other hand, nobody asked him, Letterman said. When asked “Did they ask you about who should replace you?” Letterman laughed, “Oh, no. No, they didn’t ask me about anything… »
Oscar Isaac, Paul Haggis Bonded Over Building Story of an Everyman ‘Hero’
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Paul Haggis said yes to directing “Show Me a Hero” before he’d even read the script. Oscar Isaac took a little more convincing.
The director and star of the HBO miniseries wound up bonding during a trying four-month shoot in Yonkers, N.Y., that was unlike anything either had tackled before.
The subject matter of “Hero,” written and produced by “The Wire’s” David Simon and William Zorzi, was highly unusual in its ordinariness. The six-hour mini tells the story of a racially charged fight over the construction of a public housing project in the city of about 200,000 that lies about 15 miles north of Manhattan. It was adapted from Lisa Belkin’s 1999 book of the same name.
Isaac plays the central figure, Nick Wasicsko, the 28-year-old wunderkind mayor who bravely faces a test of will, law and principle as the debate over where to build the federally mandated housing »
- Cynthia Littleton
Fox Bids To Push Super Bowl Ad Prices Past $5 Million (Exclusive)
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Fox wants to kick the cost of Super Bowl advertising over a new line.
Fox Sports is seeking more than $5 million for a 30-second commercial in its 2017 broadcast of Super Bowl Li, according to people familiar with the situation, a level that would raise the price tag for ad inventory in what is usually the nation’s most-watched annual TV event into the stratosphere. Other networks may have secured $5 million for a few commercials in the gridiron classic, but if Fox has its way, each ad in the game will fetch the princely sum – and possibly more.
The effort does not come without risk. In 2014, NBC made a bid to sell Super Bowl commercials at $4.5 million a pop, a 12.5% hike from what Fox had sought in the year prior, and worked until just a few days before its 2015 broadcast of Super Bowl Xlix to sell out its inventory. CBS fared »
- Brian Steinberg
ABC Tuning Up ‘For The Record Live’ For TV
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ABC and dick clark productions are teaming with the creators of For the Record to develop For the Record Live for TV. The genre-bending production turns the soundtracks of iconic director's films into immersive live-entertainment events. Creators and producers Shane Scheel and Anderson Davis have staged productions based on the work of acclaimed directors Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, John Hughes and others. "For the Record Live is a first-of-its-kind live musical… »
NBA Finals Game 3 Ratings Third Highest On Record In Early Stats
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Game 3 of the NBA Finals, in which the Cleveland Cavs whomped the Golden State Warriors 120-90, generated an 11.8 overnight rating. That’s the third highest-rated Game 3 ever on ABC, but the NBA Finals appear to be holding steady as the second highest rated ever on ABC through the three games, averaging a 12.2 overnight rating. Last night’s Game 3 peaked with a 13.4 in the first quarter of the 10 Pm hour. Game 3 is expected to win the night across the TV landscape when… »
Winners of Inaugural Atx-Black List Script Competition Announced (Exclusive)
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Atx and The Black List partnered with Bad Robot, Carlton Cuse Productions, FX, Sony and USA Network on a new writing program, designed to find TV writers for staffing consideration across participating networks, studios and production companies.
The contest, which was announced this January, drew over 1,000 applicants. 16 winning scribes have been selected.
To be considered, writers had to submit their original pilots to The Black List’s website. The strongest pieces — both half-hour and hourlong content — were shared with studios, networks and production companies that were tasked with choosing writers with whom they’d like to work.
This year marks the inaugural contest for the Austin-based television festival, which kicks off today.
“Atx Television Festival strives to support TV writers — both established and up-and-comers — not just through the festival itself, and our year-round programming, but through key partnerships such as this with The Black List, so we thought this was »
- Elizabeth Wagmeister
Base FX @ 10: A Crazy Dream Became China’s Leading VFX Studio
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Christopher Bremble remembers clearly the first piece of advice he received from someone already on the ground in Beijing when he decided to set up Base FX there 10 years ago.
Over dinner in the Chinese capital, Bremble’s guest, an industry veteran, tried to keep a straight face as he declared: “It’s still not too late to get out!”
Bremble widely ignored that advice. A decade later, the cinema industry in the world’s second-largest economy is unrecognizable, with grosses growing on average by around 48% per year. And Base FX has placed itself at the forefront of the industry’s development in China.
Base entered a deal with Industrial Light & Magic nine years ago. It is exclusive to Ilm on Hollywood studio films, and in exchange, Ilm has helped Base sharpen its skills. Base has been a major contributor to Ilm’s biggest tentpoles, including the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens, »
- Mathew Scott
ABC, Dick Clark Prods. Partner on Musical Event ‘For the Record Live’
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ABC and Dick Clark Productions are partnering with the creators of “For the Record” — an indie musical theater show that has become a cult hit in Los Angeles — to develop “For the Record Live” for television.
“For the Record” is described as a unique, genre-bending production turning the soundtracks of iconic directors’ films into immersive live entertainment events. Creators and producers Shane Scheel and Anderson Davis have staged productions based on the work of directors Quentin Tarantino, John Hughes, Baz Luhrmann, Martin Scorsese and others since the show’s conception.
“’For The Record Live’ is a first-of-its-kind live musical event made for ABC,” said Channing Dungey, President, ABC Entertainment. “The show will be a game changer for the genre and the network is proud to partner with Dick Clark Productions and For The Record for this exciting experience.”
“The first time I saw ‘For The Record,’ I knew it would »
- Laura Prudom
ABC Developing For the Record Live Musicals Based on Iconic Soundtracks
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When it comes to the growing live-musical genre, ABC is taking a decidedly cinematic approach.
The network is partnering with Dick Clark Productions to develop For the Record Live, which it describes as “a genre-bending production turning the soundtracks of iconic director’s films into thrilling immersive live entertainment events.” (You can see trailers for a pair of For the Record productions embedded below.)
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Creators Shane Scheel and Anderson Davis launched For The Record in 2010 in a small bar in East Hollywood, mounting shows centered on the work of directors including Quentin Tarantino, »
Niecy Nash & Betty Gilpin Respond To ‘Masters Of Sex’ For Season 4
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Showtime’s historical drama about the duo who pioneered research into human sexual responses has a pair of new faces for Season 4 arcs. Niecy Nash will play an Alcoholics Anonymous veteran and Betty Gilpin is joining the practice of William Masters (Michael Sheen). The next season of Masters Of Sex, which also stars Lizzy Caplan, will begin in 1968 and take viewers into the "swinging '70s," during which time the characters will take on new partners both professionally… »
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