The 2016-17 TV season ended last Wednesday, which means that most broadcast shows have wrapped until the fall, but "peak TV" is showing no signs of letting up over the next few months. The streaming services are still going full throttle--just yesterday, Netflix dropped House of Cards' fifth season--while many of TV's best shows (including...
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May 31, 2017
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From Game of Thrones to The Defenders, television isn’t letting up
By Jason Lynch
The 2016-17 TV season ended last Wednesday, which means that most broadcast shows have wrapped until the fall, but "peak TV" is showing no signs of letting up over the next few months. The streaming services are still going full throttle--just yesterday, Netflix dropped House of Cards' fifth season--while many of TV's best shows (including...
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Must-See TV won't be coming back after all
By Jason Lynch
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It's rebranding with a batch of new shows
By Sami Main
Longtime network scheduler Kelly Kahl will take his place as Entertainment president
By Jason Lynch
Pluto TV offers live programs from digital content creators
By Sami Main
Pluto TV subscribers won't find major networks like ABC, NBC, CBS or Fox, but they'll have access to more than 75 live TV channels across all different topic areas. For cord-cutters or cord-nevers who are into programming that comes straight from the internet, Pluto TV is a strong option. Viewers can watch content from networks...
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The comedian remains under contract to the network through 2019
By Jason Lynch
Jon Stewart's eagerly anticipated post-Daily Show television project--an animated series that was supposed to debut in time for last fall's presidential election--isn't going to see the light of day after all. The premium cable network announced late Tuesday that it and Stewart are scrapping the deal, according to The New York Times. "HBO and Jon...
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CEO calls comic's stunt 'deeply inappropriate'
By Tim Nudd
Condemnation of Kathy Griffin has been swift and bipartisan after images emerged from a photo shoot in which she posed with a replica of a bloody, severed head of Donald Trump. Now, Squatty Potty, which employed Griffin for an ad campaign that broke just a few weeks ago, has discontinued the campaign and cut ties...
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MullenLowe's Tim Vaccarino picks his three favorite ads ever
By Tim Nudd
Advertisers today like to jump into the fray in social media with pithy insights and gags about current events. But ESPN has been doing that for decades, on television, long before Twitter or Facebook existed. The cable sports network's "This is SportsCenter" campaign, dreamed up by Wieden + Kennedy in the mid-1990s, has set the...
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Yes, that Seal
By Tim Nudd
No seal is safe during Shark Week. Not even Seal himself. That's abundantly and amusingly clear from Discovery's new Shark Week promo, from Los Angeles creative agency AV Squad, in which Grammy-winning singer is rudely interrupted as he performs his iconic song "Kiss From a Rose" on a jetty. AV Squad used director Peter McKeon,...
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CBS falls to No. 3 for 2016-17 but is tops in total viewers for 9th straight year
By Jason Lynch
As the 2016-17 TV season heads to the finish line, NBC has declared itself the victor in the 18-49 demo race, reclaiming the crown for the third time in four years and marking the first time in five years a network finished on top in the demo without the help of either the Super Bowl...
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