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Next TV: Managing Your Future In The Changing Landscape Of Television

By Guest (not verified) | Saturday, November 5, 2005 at 11:00am
Begins: November 5, 2005

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will present "Next TV: Managing Your Future in the Changing Landscape of Television," a day-long forum with the media professionals who will share how to stay ahead of the curve in a dynamic environment of social, economic and technological change. The event will be held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm at the Television Academy's Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood.

Television Events

CINEME International Animation Festival

By Guest (not verified) | Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 11:00am
Begins: November 1, 2005

* All winners will be aired on national television.* No submission fees.* Works can not have been televised previously on national television.* Deadline October 1st, 2005.

www.cineme.org

Media Headline News

Michael J. Wolf New MTV Networks President/COO

Michael J. Wolf has been named president/coo of MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom Inc. In this newly created senior executive position, Wolf will lead the company's business and technology operations, including Advertising Sales, Affiliate Sales and Marketing, Business and Strategy Development, Business and Legal Affairs, Finance, Information Systems and Technology, and Production Operations. He will also help set and implement MTVs evolving multiplatform strategy to serve its audiences across all screens with the most compelling content.

Interactive Headline News

International Interactive Emmy Awards Deadline Nears

The International Interactive Emmy Awards 2006Cannes, FranceApril 5, 2006Deadline: October 31, 2005

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will be holding the International Interactive Emmy Awards at MIP-TV. The competition is open to interactive television companies located outside of the U.S. in three categories: Interactive Television Program; Interactive Channel; and Interactive Television Service.

Film Headline News

Nominations Announced For BAFTA Children’s Film & TV Awards

The 10th British Academy Childrens Film And Television Awards, hosted by the British Academy in association with Time Warner, has announced its nominations. The event will be held on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005, at the London Hilton on Park Lane. Awards presenters of this ceremony will include some of the best known faces from television, music, sports and film.

Television Headline News

Jim Moloshok New President, Media Ventures, HBO

Web veteran Jim Moloshok joins Media Ventures in the newly created position of president, responsible for exploring new opportunities for HBO, focusing on the point of intersection between innovative content and changing technology.

"Jim has a keen understanding and much valuable experience in the world of cross-media programming, said Chris Albrecht, ceo of HBO, who made the announcement. We are really excited to have him on our team."

Television Headline News

Nicolas Cage Does Some Detective Work For SCI FI Channel

Academy Award-winner Nicolas Cage is set to exec produce THE DRESDEN FILES (working title) for SCI FI Channel. The 2-hour backdoor pilot Cage's first foray into television will be produced by Lions Gate Television, in association with Cage's Saturn Films (THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE, SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE). Production is slated to begin in Toronto this fall with plans for a summer 2006 premiere.

Universal Headline News

Beth Minehart New SVP, International On-Demand Licensing For NBC Universal TV

Beth Minehart has been upped from svp, international integration and planning, to svp, international on-demand licensing for NBC Universal Television Distribution. Minehart will oversee on-demand licensing for NBC Universal's product outside of the U.S. and Canada. She will focus on driving significant revenue growth in the burgeoning on-demand arena, including pay-per-view, video-on-demand and subscription-on-demand through traditional and new platforms including cable, satellite, digital terrestrial television, Internet and mobile.

Disney Headline News

Alison Homewood to Head HIT’s TV Distribution

Alison Homewood has joined HIT Entertainment as evp, worldwide television distribution. Based in the companys London office, her focus will be on global TV licensing and co-production of existing brands such as BOB THE BUILDER, THOMAS & FRIENDS, PINGU, BARNEY and ANGELINA BALLERINA, as well as the development of further TV content.

Television Headline News

ASIFA-Hollywood Calls for Help & Annie Footage

ASIFA-Hollywood is looking for individuals interested in serving on the various nomination committees for the upcoming 2005 Annie Awards. Categories include: * Home Entertainment * Short Subject * Games * Television Commercial * Television Production * Character Animation * Character Design (Feature and Television) * Directing (Feature and Television) * Effects Animation * Music (Feature and Television) * Production Design (Feature and Television) * Storyboarding (Feature and Television)

Television Headline News

Bruce Rosenblum President of New Warner Bros. Television Group

WB vet Bruce Rosenblum has been named president of the newly formed Warner Bros.Television Group, to oversee and grow the entire Warner Bros. portfolio of television businesses, including worldwide production and distribution as well as broadcasting.

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SCI FI Imagines What If With New Alternative Reality Project

By Rick DeMott | Wednesday, September 7, 2005 at 12:00am

SCI FI Channel continues to test the boundaries of imagination with WHAT IF, a speculative future project that poses intriguing scenarios of alternate realities. The program, from NBC Universal Television Studio in association with New Line Television, asks... What if a moment in time could change the world forever?

Television Headline News

Newly Formed Marketing Agency Announces TV Clients

Newly formed motion graphics and animation company National Television has announced its current TV network clients.

G4 Television has retained National Television to brand The G-Spot and Barbed Wire Biscuit late-night blocks of programming, as well as promotion for the individual TV program ATTACK OF THE SHOW. CMT hired National Television for its Happiest Girl image campaign, and 100 GREATEST DUETS program package.

Television Headline News

Susanne Daniels New President, Entertainment, Lifetime Entertainment Services

Former The WB programming chief Susanne Daniels joins Lifetime Entertainment Services as president, entertainment, on Sept. 12, 2005, and will be based in Los Angeles. Daniels will be responsible for all programming on Lifetime Television and Lifetime Movie Network, the two highest-rated women's networks, as well as Lifetime Real Women.

She joins and reports to Betty Cohen, president/ceo, Lifetime Entertainment Services, who previously was founder/president of Cartoon Network Worldwide, part of Time Warner along with The WB.

Interactive Headline News

TV Academy Announces 2005 Interactive Television Emmy Awards

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group announced the winners today (Aug. 19, 2005) of the 2005 Interactive Television Emmy Awards.Brian Seth Hurst and Marcelino Ford-Livene, Interactive Media Peer Group co-governors said TV Land and Cablevision were singled out for Emmys which will be presented during the non-televised Primetime Creative Arts Show on September 11 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

Winners of the 2005 Interactive Television Emmy Awards are:

Television Headline News

Animal Logic Creates Cast of Thousands for the Big Ad

Huge crowd scenes were needed for Carlton Draughts latest advertising epic, the BIG AD, a hilarious parody of pompous beer ads, with an ode to BRAVEHEART comprised of unlikely armies of choral-robed gladiators singing about the glories of beer, accompanied by the bombastic CARMINA BURANA.

Animal Logic created 3D computer-generated human extras for all the large, aerial crowd shots, clothed them in flowing robes and then brought them into Massive, the award-winning AI-driven crowd simulation software from Massive Software.

Television Headline News

Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks to Debut on Adult Swim Oct. 2

Aaron McGruders THE BOONDOCKS will premiere on Oct. 2, 2005, at 11:00 pm on Adult Swim, Cartoon Networks late-night sister network showcasing animation for adults. Regina King (MISS CONGENIALITY 2, RAY) and John Witherspoon (FRIDAY AFTER NEXT) are among the actors who have signed on to voice characters on the highly anticipated animated television comedy based on McGruders award-winning and politically charged comic strip of the same name.

Technology Headline News

Cartoon Network Downloads Technology & Engineering Emmy Nom

Cartoon Network is up for its first ever Advanced Media Technology & Engineering Emmy for its work on Codename: Kids Next Door Operation: B.E.S.T. in the 57th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards which will be presented Sept. 29, 2005, at the Bristol-Meyers Squibb Headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey.

This is the third year The National Television Academy has honored the work being done in Interactive Television, New Media and related programming and technology.

Television Headline News

SPTI Names Rozanne Englehart New VP, Programming and Research

Rozanne Englehart joins Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) as vp, programming and research. Based at SPTI's headquarters in Culver City, California, she will provide research and analysis of feature film and television programming performance worldwide in support of SPTI's three lines of business: distribution, international production and international networks. This includes designing quantitative and qualitative research and managing a team performing analysis to make strategy recommendations.

Television Events

The 45th annual Monte Carlo Television Festival

By Guest (not verified) | Sunday, June 26, 2005 at 11:00am
Begins: June 26, 2005

The 45th annual Monte Carlo Television Festival honors the talent and quality in the television industry. Other highlights of the 45th Monte Carlo Festival will be the international television program competition and awards, premiere screenings and the glamorous and elegant receptions which all contribute to the magical atmosphere of Monaco. More than 200 journalists from around the world are present to cover this unique international television festival attended by the creative forces of the industry. For more information, visit www.tvfestival.com.

Television Headline News

Siobhan Kenny New VP, Communications, Walt Disney Television, EMEA

The Disney-ABC Television Group has appointed Siobhan Kenny vp, communications, Walt Disney Television EMEA, for the European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) territories. She will be responsible for the implementation and coordination of all corporate and entertainment communication strategies across the EMEA territories, and will play a key role as a senior member of the Walt Disney Television EMEA executive team.

Nick Headline News

Nick Orders 20 New Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends Episodes

Nickelodeon has ordered 20 new episodes of MISS SPIDER'S SUNNY PATCH FRIENDS, a 3D animated co-production from Nelvana/Absolute Pictures, which airs weekdays on Nick Jr. at 10:00 am. The series is based on the beloved book series by David Kirk (published by Callaway & Kirk).

"Miss Spider's message of friendship and kindness to fellow bugs is an important one for all of us ... bug or human!" said Brown Johnson, exec creative director, Nickelodeon Preschool Television. "It's great to be working with Nelvana and David Kirk on another season of this beautiful series."

Television Headline News

SCI FI Channel Catches Firefly

FIREFLY, the critically-acclaimed space western from BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER creator Joss Whedon and Twentieth Television, is re-ignited on SCI FI. The channel will present the action adventure series 14 episodes, including three previously unaired in order, beginning July 22 at 7:00 pm. The show will lead into SCI FI's successful SCI FI Friday lineup.

Though short-lived, FIREFLY earned a devoted following which has resulted in the upcoming feature film SERENITY from Universal Pictures, slated for theatrical release on Sept. 30, 2005.

Television Events

Banff World Television Festival 2005

By Guest (not verified) | Sunday, June 12, 2005 at 11:00am
Begins: June 12, 2005

The Banff World Television Festival celebrates the art and business of television production. The event will offer a full slate of sessions on the issues that are central to those working in international co-production and genres. Conference sessions will address successful collaborations and business models for co-financing, funding and marketing television programming as well as emerging genres and burgeoning technologies such as HDTV.

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