After a successful collaboration on the critically acclaimed INTO THE WEST, TNT is teaming once again with DreamWorks Television and exec producer Steven Spielberg for an epic, six-hour adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub's mystical adventure, THE TALISMAN. The limited series about a boy on quest through parallel worlds is slated to premiere on TNT in summer 2008
News Corp. has appointed 18-year Fox veteran Peter Levinsohn, 40, president of Fox Interactive Media (FIM), following the resignation of the unit's current president, Ross Levinsohn, effective Nov. 27, 2006.
Barcelona International Television Festival is a three-day screening for children and young people from around the world divided into documentaries, animation, TV programs and series. For more information, check out www.oeti.org.
Toronto-based Radical Sheep Pros. will development for Treehouse a new children's property, STELLA AND SAM, based upon the STELLA and SAM book series by acclaimed writer/illustrator Marie-Louise Gay.
20th Century Fox Television Licensing & Merchandising presents What The Deuce Are You Staring At!?! A Collection of Interpretive Work Inspired by FAMILY GUY, the first Pop Surrealist exhibition of new works inspired by a television series. Featuring the new pieces of twenty-one emerging artists, the exhibit remains on public view through January 21, 2007, when it will embark on a world tour of animation galleries around the globe.
SPIDER-MAN fans will get a long-awaited sneak peek at Columbia Pictures' highly anticipated SPIDER-MAN 3 when a new, full-length, two-and-a-half minute trailer debuts in a special unprecedented "road block" across Viacom Inc. 's brands and on the CBS Television Network on Nov. 9, at approximately 10:00 pm. SPIDER-MAN 3, starring Tobey Maguire and directed by Sam Raimi, kicks off next summer's moviegoing season on May 4, 2007.
The 27th American Film Market (AFM) opened Nov. 1, 2006, in Santa Monica, California, with a record number of exhibitors, buyers, screenings and market premieres at the world's largest motion picture trade event. The AFM has taken additional office space outside of the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel at Le Merigot in order to satisfy the overwhelming exhibitor response.
The FOX late night sketch/comedy television show, MAD TV, which airs on Saturdays at 11:00 pm ET/PT & 10:00 pm CT, is adding weekly animation sketches from writer Toby Morton and clay animator Corky Quakenbush.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced today (Nov. 2, 2006) the winners of its Science, Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for Broadcast Television, as well as nominations for its Science, Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards for Broadband and Personal Television categories.
RHI Ent. and the SCI FI Channel announced today (Oct. 24, 2006) a production deal for an action-packed slate of 10 television movies to be delivered in 2007.
The agreement includes basic cable-TV rights for RHI Ent.s new horror-thriller projects, including GRIZZLY RAGE, MANEATER, EYE OF THE BEAST, BLOOD MONKEY and IN THE SPIDERS WEB.
With 21st Annual Gemini Awards broadcast set for Nov. 4, 2006, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television has already announced the winners in the Gemini Industry Awards at the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex in Toronto. As part of three consecutive nights of industry awards, the ceremony will be broadcast on Rogers Television Nov. 17, 2006.
International Interactive Emmy Awards 2007Cannes, FranceApril 18, 2007Deadline: Dec. 11, 2006
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will be presenting International Interactive Emmy Awards and a Pioneer Prize, in partnership with Reed MIDEM, for the second year in a row. The International Interactive Emmy Awards at MIPTV 2007 will take place in Cannes, France.
The three International Interactive Emmy Award categories are:
Sony Pictures Television Intl (SPTI) and Minimax, one of the leading childrens TV channels in Central Europe, announced SPTIs acquisition of A+, a dedicated channel for anime programming that airs on Minimax in Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The channel will be part of SPTIs international networks group, which includes more than 45 channels around the world.
Titan Books will publish THE 4400: THE OFFICIAL COMPANIO, SEASONS 1 AND 2, the first of a series of behind-the-scenes books about USA Network's sci-fi series THE 4400.
The first companion is set to coincide with the premiere of the fourth season on USA and the release of the season-three DVD set in summer 2007.
The tome will include behind-the-scenes interviews, factual nuggets, quotes, trivia, extensive episode guides, exclusive photos and a 16-page full-color supplement. It will sell for $14.95.
G4, which is now available in 59 million cable and satellite homes nationwide, has exclusively licensed the first run of SPACEBALLS THE ANIMATED SERIES for the U.S. market to premiere in fall 2007.Mel Brooks who created the comedy classic SPACEBALLS, is teaming, via his Brooksfilms Ltd., with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) Berliner Film Companie GmbH and the G4 television network, on the animated series.
9 Story Ent. is starting up production on its new action/comedy, FUTZ!, for TELETOON, in December 2006. The series will be produced for television, web and mobile.
The New York Television Festival is the first creative festival for the medium, pioneering the movement of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) is restructuring its worldwide television distribution operation, hiring senior management and bringing a number of new high profile programs to buyers around the globe. Seasoned distribution exec Jim Packer assumes the new title of president and remains in charge of television distribution worldwide, including U.S. barter sales and syndication, as well as all emerging forms of television programming distribution on a worldwide basis.
The Warner Bros. Television Group is establishing a new digital production venture, dubbed Studio 2.0, which will work with creative talent and advertisers to create original live-action and animated short-form programming for broadband and wireless devices. WBTVG has tapped multi-award-winning producer and senior advertising exec Rich Rosenthal to head Studio 2.0.
Veteran television distribution exec Ken Werner, who was in charge of network distribution for The WB for the past nine years and was an important member of the Warner Bros. team that formed The CW, has been named president, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD). He will take the reins of one of the leading distributors of first-run and off-network programming in the domestic television marketplace.
Werner assumes the role previously held for 17 years by Dick Robertson, who has been named senior advisor to the Warner Bros. Television Group.
The Film & Television Producers Guild of India is hosting a two-day Summit on Entertainment, Media and Marketing. Attendees will hear from experts about the latest in film and television marketing, digital and mobile entertainment, home entertainment, music, retail, print, radio, outdoor, gaming and more. The event will run from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on both days, taking place at the Taj Lands End. For more information, visit www.filmtvguild.in/em2.
Fox Interactive Media (FIM) and 20th Century Fox announced a multi-year agreement to provide feature films and television shows on a download-to-own basis across the FIM network. Fox Interactive Media's network will have access to Fox Ent. Group's catalogue of content including hit feature films such as X-MEN THE LAST STAND and THE OMEN as well as episodes of television series like 24 and PRISON BREAK. IGN Ent.
Gameloft, a leading developer and publisher of games for mobile phones, has signed an exclusive multi-year agreement with Touchstone Television to develop, publish and distribute mobile games based on the award-winning series LOST and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, which air on ABC-TV in the U.S. The games are scheduled for release in early 2007.
Legendary television performer, satirist, radio, advertising innovator Stan Freberg will receive the prestigious 2006 Los Angeles Area Governors Award, which take place on Saturday, Aug. 12 at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre at 5:00 pm. The live-to-tape show will air as a one-hour special on KTLA on Aug. 26, from 9:00-10:00 pm in Los Angeles. The Governors Award honors a lifetime of broadcasting achievement.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced the recipients of the 2006 Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards and Interactive Television Emmy Awards. Recipients will receive their awards during the Primetime Creative Arts ceremony Aug. 19, 2006, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
The Interactive Television Emmy winners are as follows:Area 1: Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced or Interactive Programming: TelevisionTiVo Service, TiVo, Inc. 2005-2006Jim Barton
