Posts Tagged ‘ HBO ’

A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards

September 20, 2015
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A New Brand of Tea Leaves?: The 2015 Emmy Awards

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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AnTENNA, UnREAL: Channel Branding and Racial Politics

August 21, 2015
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AnTENNA, <i>UnREAL</i>: Channel Branding and Racial Politics

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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Sesame Street’s New Landlord

August 15, 2015
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Sesame Street’s New Landlord

What does HBO's deal with Sesame Workshop mean for Cookie, HBO, PBS, and their audiences?
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Making an Exit, Coming Home: Israeli Television Creators in a Global-Aiming Industry

June 18, 2015
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Making an Exit, Coming Home: Israeli Television Creators in a Global-Aiming Industry

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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The Jinx as Vigilante Documentary

April 16, 2015
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<i>The Jinx</i> as Vigilante Documentary

Supporting vigilante documentary as an acceptable approach to seeking "justice" is a potentially dangerous trend.
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Content the King Is Dead! Long Live Content the King!

October 12, 2014
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Content the King Is Dead! Long Live Content the King!

Cynthia Meyers reports on the 2014 Time Warner Thought Leadership Faculty Seminar
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Pre-Prime: HBO’s Off-Channel Revenue Legacy

April 23, 2014
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Pre-Prime: HBO’s Off-Channel Revenue Legacy

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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True Detective’s True Detectives

March 20, 2014
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True Detective’s True Detectives

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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What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27

October 27, 2013
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What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Steven Soderbergh’s Spectacular Un-Retirement

May 30, 2013
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Steven Soderbergh’s Spectacular Un-Retirement

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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What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30

March 31, 2013
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What Are You Missing? March 17-March 30

Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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An Entourage Movie? Why?

February 19, 2013
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An Entourage Movie? Why?

Entourage may have already given HBO’s parent company Time Warner all that it’s capable of giving.
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House of Cards Has No Advertising

February 14, 2013
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<i>House of Cards</i> Has No Advertising

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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Mediating the Past: Treme and the Stories of the Storm

November 14, 2012
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Mediating the Past: Treme and the Stories of the Storm

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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