As Discovery Communications goes into this year's upfront, the company is touting the strength of its intellectual property (IP), and is backing that up by reviving some of its biggest brands like Trading Spaces, Cash Cab and Mythbusters, all of which will be returning in the next year. Discovery Communications has pivoted "from a company...
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TV & Video Daily
March 28, 2017
Insider updates on all things video
Will also be rebooting Cash Cab and Mythbusters
By Jason Lynch
As Discovery Communications goes into this year's upfront, the company is touting the strength of its intellectual property (IP), and is backing that up by reviving some of its biggest brands like Trading Spaces, Cash Cab and Mythbusters, all of which will be returning in the next year. Discovery Communications has pivoted "from a company...
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It's growing after nearly a century of commercials thanks to digital
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Yahoo and BuzzFeed previously announced departures
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Content creator is a venture with Sony Music Entertainment
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Can the show energize 2 different industries?
By Jason Lynch
Over the decades, TV shows have inspired plenty of toys, but nothing quite like this before. Mattel and ABC have teamed up to launch a new, Shark Tank-like reality competition series, The Toy Box, in which toy inventors vie for approval from a group of toy experts, followed by a precocious panel of kid judges....
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The ninth season of Drag Race premieres tonight on VH1
By Sami Main
RuPaul is, in a word, busy. Between tonight's return of Drag Race, the release of his 11th studio album, an upcoming autobiography and the third annual DragCon in a few weeks, there's plenty on his proverbial plate. An Emmy win and ratings success for Drag Race and its All Stars series prompted Viacom to move...
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2018 should see 4 cycles of American Crime Story, American Horror Story and Feud
By Jason Lynch
As Ryan Murphy's latest anthology series for FX, Feud: Bette and Joan, hits the halfway mark on Sunday, the network is determining its future scheduling plans for all of its anthology series from the prolific producer. The network is now airing three separate anthology series--which each focus on a new subject each season--from Murphy: American...
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Inventory is available across on-demand and live programming
By Marty Swant
Sling TV is getting into programmatic advertising, partnering with Adobe's newly unveiled Advertising Cloud to let brands bid in real time on livestreaming and video on demand. The offering, which is expected to be announced later today at the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, will let marketers bid on Sling's inventory via a private marketplace....
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Post-inauguration, Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee are on fire
By Jason Lynch
Two months into his presidency, Donald Trump's pledge to "make America great again" isn't turning out quite as he had anticipated, but he's certainly already made late-night comedy shows lucrative again. Since Trump's inauguration in January, the late-night talk shows that skewer him the most mercilessly are seeing big ratings gains--including The Late Show with...
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75 years of the most memorable messages in advertising
By Robert Klara
In February of 1942, the heads of America's big ad agencies found themselves summoned to Washington, D.C. for a closed-door meeting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. With the attack on Pearl Harbor barely two months past, the United States was mobilizing for war. The men in pinstripe suits--among them James Webb Young of J. Walter...
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