The Penthouse View from the EcoLuxe Lounge
It’s always a pleasure to participate in an Emmy gifting event, but it’s even better when the products are both luxurious and socially conscious, and when the soiree also raises money and awareness for a great cause. Those elements came into play at Debbie Durkin’s EcoLuxe Lounge celebrating the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards nominees and presenters while benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters Los Angeles. Held in the stunning...
The Big Business of Sports: Must-See Live TV Drives Dollars and Loyalty
February 2014 will be a massive month for sports on television – with Super Bowl XLVIII slated for February 2 on Fox and the XXIV Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia opening five days later with wall-to-wall coverage running through February 23rd on NBC networks. But just about any day of the week is a big one in the television sports industry, because sports is one of the few categories of programming that doesn’t lend...
Hollywood Film Awards an Early Harbinger of Oscar Season
Coming several months before even the earliest film critics awards, the 16th Annual Hollywood Film Awards billed itself as the first big event and official launch of awards season. Not only that, it spotlighted talent and films that are likely to be frontrunners as the season progresses this coming winter. In a real art imitates life moment, “Argo” director and star Ben Affleck took the stage with his castmates to pick up the...
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...
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