The television adaptation of Michael Wolff's best-selling book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House has landed a high-profile director. Jay Roach, who won an Emmy for HBO's dramatization of the 2008 presidential election Game Change, has signed on to direct the planned TV series. A network has yet to be attached to the drama. Endeavor Content — the financing and sales arm formed in October between sister companies William Morris Endeavor and IMG — purchased film and television rights to Wolff's controversial chart-topping book in January in a deal said to be in the seven-figure range. Wolff will executive produce the series with veteran Channel 4 and BBC executive Michael Jackson, who is now CEO of indie producer Two Cities Television, and John Lyons (Boogie Nights, The Young Pope). Roach also will be credited as an exec producer. Roach and are developing the project outside of their first-look deal with HBO. For Roach, the move to direct Fire and Fury … [Read more...] about Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ TV Series Finds Its Director (Exclusive)
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NBC Sports Network Official Launch Replaces Versus on Monday
The NBC Sports Network debuted Monday, officially replacing Versus (once named the OLN channel) in a rebranding reboot. The channel will broadcast sports and sports-related content 24/7, with an emphasis on National Hockey League and Major League Soccer. NBC touted the rechristened channel's hockey coverage during its Sunday Night Football broadcast of the Giants/Cowboys game on New Year's Day. PHOTOS: 10 Broadcast and Cable TV Show Most Watched by Men NBC Sports Network, or NBCSN for short, kicked off Monday afternoon with post-game analysis of the 2012 NHL Winter Classic followed by the documentary Cold War on Ice: Summit Series '72, about the grudge matches between Canadian and Russian hockey teams 40 years ago. Earlier this year, the NHL signed a new 10-year exclusive rights deal with parent company Comcast/NBCUniversal that puts 100 NHL games annually on NBC and NBC Sports Network. VIDEO: 11 Terrifying and Triumphant Televised Sports Moments of 2011 Programming for the channel's … [Read more...] about NBC Sports Network Official Launch Replaces Versus on Monday
Sarah Palin On Hillary Clinton, Advice for ‘The View’ and Her Latest TV Show (Exclusive)
Sportsman Channel has picked up a second season of Amazing America with Sarah Palin, the network will announce Monday. Palin's program, which has her introducing viewers to the great outdoors as well as the country's unsung heroes, has brought significant attention to the niche cable channel propelling Sportsman to triple-digit year-over-year growth in households and key male demographics. And network executives are counting on Palin to be their linchpin in an ongoing effort to launch more original programming. “Sportsman Channel has experienced tremendous growth this year and Sarah Palin’s involvement has proved to be a tremendous boon for our network and programming initiatives," noted Marc Fein, executive vp of programming and production. PHOTOS Actors Who've Played Politicians Those new programs have included America Unplugged, about people living off the grid, and Saving Private K-9, which is hosted by Full Metal Jacket's R. Lee Ermey and spotlights military … [Read more...] about Sarah Palin On Hillary Clinton, Advice for ‘The View’ and Her Latest TV Show (Exclusive)
‘I’m Poppy’ and ‘The Passage’: TV Review | Sundance 2018
[This year, for the first time, Sundance has dedicated a special section to the episodic format, recognizing the variety of independent episodic short-form programming for online as well as traditional television. The Indie Episodic slate includes Steve James' docu-series America To Me and six "programs," featuring multiple shows.]The four entries in the Indie Episodic 5 program are possibly unified by a self-conscious artiness, but it's much more likely that they were put together because they didn't fit with anything else in the program and perhaps to distract from at least three of them feeling like they belong more with a Shorts program than Indie Episodic. So maybe susaneLand, I'm Poppy, The Passage and Cherries are together to prove that in 2018, "episodic" doesn't really need to imply a serial episodic structure?The show it's easiest to imagine wanting to watch more of was the show we actually watched the least of, Susane Lee and Andrew Olsen's susaneLand, which screened three … [Read more...] about ‘I’m Poppy’ and ‘The Passage’: TV Review | Sundance 2018
Paramount TV Head on ‘The Alienist,’ George Clooney’s ‘Catch-22′ and the Future of ’13 Reasons Why’
In 2013, Paramount CEO Brad Grey tapped Amy Powell, then head of the studio's microbudget film unit Insurge Pictures, for a mission close to his roots as a TV producer: relaunch Paramount Television to mine the studio's library. Since then, Powell's mandate has grown, and her new boss, Jim Gianopulos, is perhaps even more eager to develop a thriving TV business. "The minute he walked in, he said, 'You don't know me yet, but I'm eager to work with you and I'm rooting for you,' " she says.Powell, 41, who oversees 75 people in her division, took home her first Emmy in 2016 for Fox's Grease Live!, and last year, 13 Reasons Why became, sources say, Netflix's most streamed new show. It will return for a second season. And Jan. 22, TNT will debut The Alienist, based on the Caleb Carr novel, starring Dakota Fanning and created by True Detective Emmy winner Cary Fukunaga. Powell also is working with George Clooney on his first TV project in two decades with a take on Joseph Heller's Catch-22.A … [Read more...] about Paramount TV Head on ‘The Alienist,’ George Clooney’s ‘Catch-22′ and the Future of ’13 Reasons Why’