| | | | Disney Touts 2 New Streaming Services, Including ESPN Plus and One With a Live-Action Star Wars Series Company wants to be a 'viable player' in the direct-to-consumer space By A.J. Katz On Walt Disney Co.'s fourth-quarter and full-year earnings call with investors today, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger spoke at length about the company's desire to be a "viable player" in the direct-to-consumer space. Disney is launching two streaming services: the much-talked-about ESPN-branded service officially called ESPN Plus, which will launch in the spring, and... Read more » | | | | | | | | | | Before He Created The Shield and S.W.A.T., Shawn Ryan Wrote Ads for a Vermont Radio Station Showrunner once thought he’d go into advertising, not television By Jason Lynch The Shield was one of the most groundbreaking series of the past two decades, putting FX on the map while proving that envelope-pushing dramas about antiheroes could thrive on cable outside of HBO. However, creator Shawn Ryan says the show, along with his many others, may have never existed without the skills he learned during... Read more » | | | |
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