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Horizon Media Plans to Test Comscore to Measure Local TV Audiences
June 23, 2022 | Per Variety: Independent media-buying operation Horizon Media plans to test a local-TV audience measurement technology...
Jun 23, 2022
It’s been 30 years since ‘The Real World’ introduced reality TV. How things have changed.
June 20, 2022 | Per LA Times: Thirty years ago, MTV’s “The Real World” opened with its cast members introducing the world to a...
Jun 23, 2022
YouTube Shorts Watched By Over 1.5 Bil Logged-In Users/Mo.; Company Cites Rise Of Multiform Creator
June 15, 2022 | Per Deadline: "YouTube said today that more than 1.5 billion logged-in users are watching YouTube Shorts every month as...
Jun 20, 2022
TV Ad Market Softens As NBCU Sees Flat Volume in Upfront
June 14, 2022 | Per Variety: "TV’s upfront market is starting to close, and ad dollars seem harder to collect. NBCUniversal expects the...
Jun 20, 2022
Why Danish director Susanne Bier took on America’s most prominent women
June 8, 2022 | Per LA Times: When award-winning filmmaker Susanne Bier was offered the job of directing Showtime’s limited series “The...
Jun 10, 2022
How creating a playlist kickstarted the writing of ‘The Girl From Plainville’
June 8, 2022 | Per LA Times: Liz Hannah starts every script by making a playlist. For the writer behind “The Girl from Plainville,” music...
Jun 10, 2022
‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ Author Jenny Han on Becoming a Showrunner for the First Time
June 9, 2022 | Per Variety: ‘It Was a Baptism by Fire’ With the June 17 debut of “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” Jenny Han’s career has...
Jun 10, 2022
WGA East Membership Votes Overwhelmingly to Ratify Constitution Change
June 9, 2022 | Per Variety: The membership of WGA East has ratified a change to the union’s constitution, cementing a compromise between...
Jun 10, 2022
IATSE Script Supervisors & Production Coordinators Local 161 Fighting For “Pay Equity”
May 12, 2022 | Per Deadline: IATSE Local 161, which represents East Coast script supervisors, production coordinators and accountants,...
May 14, 2022
How the Emmys Dumped ‘Primetime’ to Focus on Genre, As We Move Closer to a Post-Linear Era
May 12, 2022 | Per Variety: And just like that, the Television Academy took the “primetime” out of the Primetime Emmys. In December, I...
May 14, 2022
Directors Guild TV study shows diversity gains during pandemic, but not for Latino, Asian filmmakers
May 5, 2022 | Per The LA Times: A new study by the Directors Guild of America showed gains in diversity behind the camera on TV shows...
May 6, 2022
Daytime Emmy Nominations: ‘Beyond Salem’ Scores First Nom For Drama Series – Full List
May 5, 2022 | Per Deadline: The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is out with its list of nominations for the 49th annual...
May 5, 2022
Pilot Season 2022: Presentations/Writers Rooms Gain Ground, Comedy Retreats, Stretches Past Upfronts
April 22, 2022 | Per Deadline: Like every other facet of life, the broadcast pilot season has not been the same it was before the...
May 5, 2022
Television Is in a Showrunning Crisis
May 5, 2022 | Per VICE: Last year, Sierra Teller Ornelas, showrunner of Rutherford Falls, told me, “Structurally, we'll have to figure...
May 5, 2022
Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a music supervisor
April 12, 2022 | Per The LA Times: No one says a word in the opening sequence of “The Sopranos,” but you’d never think to watch it with...
Apr 22, 2022
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