Critics Crown New TV Darlings: Road to the Emmys Takes a Turn
The Critics’ Choice Awards were an important bellwether of this past winter’s plethora of film awards, anointing early favorites like “The Help” and “The Artist” that went on to be big winners at guild awards and at the Oscars. So it is with even greater momentum that two “smaller” television shows—“Homeland” and “Community”– go into the full thrush of Emmy awards season. Up against formidable...
Taking Risks Still Pays Off: Ask Nancy Dubuc and Other TV Executives
Every year at the end of the season, the Hollywood Radio and Television Society (HRTS) puts on a “State of the Industry ” event that caps off its newsmaker luncheon series in Los Angeles. Leading executives Nancy Dubuc, president and GM of History and Lifetime networks, Gary Newman, chairman of Twentieth Century Fox Television, Rick Rosen, head of the TV department at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, Lloyd...
MTV Movie Awards Mixes it Up With a Pirate, a Queen and a Caped Crusader
It’s a tribute to the influence of the MTV Movie Awards that so many A-listers show up for the annual kudo-fest. The 2012 edition, the cable net’s 21st, aired live Sunday night from a packed Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles, featured — in addition to a bevy of up-and-comers — people who have had collective decades in the spotlight, including Jodie Foster, Johnny Depp, Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston and Christian...
Viva la Fempire: Gracie Awards Honor the Media’s Best
The “fempire.” It’s a term we first heard Fox’s Kevin Reilly use at the network’s recent upfront presentation in New York, and it applies perfectly to the overarching theme of the 37th Annual Gracie Awards, handed out at a Beverly Hilton International Ballroom gala. The Gracies, named after legendary comedienne Gracie Allen, are presented by the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation and recognize the best work of women in...
Latino TV Networks Muy Caliente at Upfronts
Last week’s television upfronts in New York featured an overwhelmingly Latin flavor and marked a coming out for a new entry in the Spanish-language TV universe, MundoFox. Univision and Telemundo have long joined other networks, including NBC, Fox, ABC, ESPN, Turner, CBS and the CW in making presentations of new programming in order to sell upfront advertising. But this year, Discovery U.S. Hispanic, Fox Hispanic Media, V-ME and...
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