We'll never know exactly why anyone wins Emmys, but the process weighed heavily in HBO's dominance at this year's ceremony.
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Tags: 2015, Analysis, awards, Emmy Awards, Emmys, Game of Thrones, HBO, Jon Hamm, television, TV, Veep, Viola Davis, Voting, Winners
Posted in Award Winning, Columns | Comments Off on A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards
The final part of a week-long forum for media scholars to share their thoughts about Lifetime's UnREAL explores the series in relation to cable branding and racial politics.
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Tags: 2 out of 3 renewal model, awards shows, blindcasting, cable branding, Devious Maids, girls, HBO, Lena Dunham, Lifetime, Mr. Robot, production culture, race, reality television, Spike, The Joe Schmo Show, UnREAL, USA
Posted in Perspectives, TV | Comments Off on AnTENNA, UnREAL: Channel Branding and Racial Politics
What does HBO's deal with Sesame Workshop mean for Cookie, HBO, PBS, and their audiences?
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Tags: HBO, kids television, PBS, Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop
Posted in Current Events, TV | 1 Comment »
Leora Hadas tracks creative frictions as Israeli TV dramatists see their work exported, adapted and as The Affair’s Hagai Levi puts it, taking a permanent detour from work that “started out as art.”
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Tags: adaptation, authorship, Dig, Fauda, formats, Hagai Levi, HBO, Homeland, In Treatment, Israel, Keshet Broadcasting, Rising Star, Showrunner, Showtime, television, The Affair, transnational, transnational media
Posted in Columns, From Nottingham and Beyond | Comments Off on Making an Exit, Coming Home: Israeli Television Creators in a Global-Aiming Industry
Supporting vigilante documentary as an acceptable approach to seeking "justice" is a potentially dangerous trend.
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Tags: andrew jarecki, documentary, HBO, television, the jinx, vigilante
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Cynthia Meyers reports on the 2014 Time Warner Thought Leadership Faculty Seminar
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Tags: Game of Thrones, HBO, The CW, Time Warner, Time Warner Thought Leadership Faculty Seminar
Posted in Perspectives | Comments Off on Content the King Is Dead! Long Live Content the King!
How HBO's deal with Amazon Prime reflects its history of embracing new forms of distribution in the interest of connecting with and monetizing audiences unable or unwilling to subscribe to the channel.
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Tags: Amazon Prime, DVD, HBO, Home Video, Sex and the City, streaming, syndication
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What I am interested here is the audience of forensic textual foragers that, like the true detectives themselves, followed the scattered bread crumbs that led towards, not the yellow brick road, but the yellow king and the city of Carcosa.
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Tags: HBO, interactive television, intertextuality, Lost, True Detective
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Comcast, FCC, FilmOn X, HBO, isoHunt, Mattel, Netflix, piracy, popcorn, SiriusXM, Sony Music, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27
Although prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh claims the new HBO hit, Behind the Candelabra will be his last, the director has been busy at work setting the stage for his second act as a TV/stage director-painter-novelist-t-shirt entrepreneur and headphone designer-hyphenate.
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Tags: auteur, behind the candelabra, film, HBO, Steven Soderbergh
Posted in Current Events, Film, Industry, Perspectives, TV | 2 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Amazon, Cinedigm, Dolby Atmos, Dreamworks, Fullscreen, Goodreads, HBO, Hulu, Kickstarter, News Corp., Playboy
Posted in Current Events, What Are You Missing? | 6 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Comcast, copyright, digital media, Disney, FTC, FX, FXX, GDC, HBO, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, News Corp., streaming, Supreme Court, television, TV, upfronts, Variety, video games
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30
Entourage may have already given HBO’s parent company Time Warner all that it’s capable of giving.
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Tags: Entourage, HBO, Hollywood
Posted in Film, TV | Comments Off on An Entourage Movie? Why?
Netflix's willingness to give the audience control over serial viewing challenges assumptions that the best way to control program costs is to eke out episodes over time, measuring demand, and then raising and lowering prices in response.
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Tags: advertising, business models, HBO, House of Cards, Netflix, new media, streaming, TV
Posted in Industry, Perspectives, TV | 8 Comments »
Treme does not simply revisit a post-Katrina sequence of events. It tracks the mediated versions of them, underlining, commenting and critiquing previous formulations, re-inventing the story and becoming part it.
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Tags: HBO, historical TV, Hurrican Katrina, Treme
Posted in Columns, Mediating the Past | Comments Off on Mediating the Past: Treme and the Stories of the Storm