Pharrell Williams, Maroon 5, Mariah Carey & More Set for TODAY's Summer Concert SeriesApril 29, 2014 This summer, NBC's TODAY will once again put the rock in Rockefeller Plaza, bringing together the hottest hit-makers for its 19th annual summer concert series. There's no better way to officially kick off the summer season than with one of the best-selling female artists of all time, global superstar Mariah Carey. The five-time Grammy award winner will heat up the plaza Friday, May 16. The "Toyota Concert Series on TODAY" will air live Friday mornings throughout the summer.
VIDEO: Comedy Webseries THE RESIDUALS, Episode 8 - 'The News'April 29, 2014'The Residuals,' a comedic webseries set in the WORLD of television commercials, released its seventh episode at www.theresiduals.tv. In Episode 8, Pete gets the news that he's booked Clyde's and attends a fitting with the execs and costume designer. Ellen gets word that she didn't book Bua, and self-destructs onstage. Watch the show below!
USA Welcomes Fans to Vote for Favorite Character-Drive SUITS EpisodeApril 28, 2014On the heels of an extremely successful “PSYCH All-Night,” USA is hosting an inaugural fan-driven SUITS interactive marathon event dubbed “Suits After Hours” on Friday, June 6 from 12AM-6AM. The marathon celebrates the network's most socially charged series and its die-hard fans. Starting on April 24 through May 4, fans can determine the night's six winning episodes by voting at SUITS.USANetwork.com (http://www.usanetwork.com/suits). During the event, sponsored by Lexus, each hour-long block will be dedicated to a beloved SUITS character starting with the Harvey (Gabriel Macht) hour at 12AM followed by Donna (Sarah Rafferty), Mike (SAG Award nominee Patrick J. Adams), Jessica (Gina Torres), Rachel (Meghan Markle) and Louis (Rick Hoffman). Throughout the night, viewers will be treated to exclusive on-air content as SUITS stars personally share their favorite memories from the fan-selected episodes as well as insight into their characters. The overnight activation is in anticipation of the fourth season of SUITS, which premieres on Wednesday, June 11 at 9/8c.
SundanceTV Renews THE RED ROAD for Second SeasonApril 28, 2014SundanceTV announced today the renewal of the network's second wholly owned original scripted series 'The Red Road.' The tense drama revolves around two clashing communities - a small town and the neighboring mountains, home to a Native America tribe - and two dynamic men on a collision course - played by Jason Momoa and Martin Henderson. It will return for another six episodes in 2015.
ION Television to Begin Airing BLUE BLOODS, ROOKIE BLUE this FallApril 28, 2014ION Media Networks' flagship network, ION Television, continued its steady ratings climb in 2014, ranking among the top 10 cable networks in Adults 25-54 in primetime. The network also announced today that 49% of ION Television viewers watch 10+ hours per month, nearly twice the cable network average, while 83% of its audience watches more than one episode per sitting,* putting the network within the top 5 in Live Viewing (#3), Holding Power (#2) and Viewer Loyalty (#5).
Discovery Channel's ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE to Debut 5/6April 28, 2014Deep in the Alaskan wilderness lives a newly discovered family who was born and raised wild. These are the ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE, premiering on Discovery on Tuesday, May 6th at 10:00pm EST/PST. Billy Brown, his wife Ami and their seven grown children - 5 boys and 2 girls - are so far removed from civilization that they often go six to nine months of the year without seeing an outsider. They've developed their own accent and dialect, refer to themselves as a 'wolf pack' and at night, all nine sleep together in a one-room cabin. Simply put, they are unlike any other family in America.
2014 Tribeca Film Festival Draws Over 120,000 Movie-GoersApril 28, 2014The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), co-founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, and presented by AT&T, today announced that during the Festival's 13th edition more than 400,000 people attended screenings, panels, talks and free community events – including the Tribeca Drive-In series, Family Festival Street Fair, Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day, as well as the first-ever Tribeca Innovation Week which featured the Storyscapes installation at the Bombay Sapphire House of Imagination, the Future of Film series, Games for Change, the Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, Tribeca Hacks <Mobile>, and TFI Interactive.
Animal Planet's OFF THE HOOK with Eric Young to Premiere 5/30April 28, 2014IMPACT Wrestling superstar, self-avowed adrenaline junkie, and recently crowned TNA World Heavyweight Champion, 'Showtime' Eric Young has spent the last two summers crisscrossing the country in search of the oddest and craziest fishing techniques for his Animal Planet series, OFF THE HOOK: EXTREME CATCHES. From fishing in the frigid Bering Sea with a hardened crew of commercial fishermen to free diving 50 feet beneath the surface in the tropical waters of Hawaii to catch an octopus, Young has embraced some of the most insane fishing practices and trained with the masterminds who pioneered them. Now, Young's never-ending thirst for adventure continues on land in the new 10-part series NO LIMITS, where he tries his hand at some of the most extreme physical activities throughout and beyond the continental U.S., dreamt up by some of the most passionate outdoorsmen on the planet. From the intrepid to the insane to the just plain dumb and the all-out dangerous, Eric tests his limitations like never before!
Joel Johnstone Joins ABC's THE ASTRONAUT WIVES CLUBApril 25, 2014Based on the book by Lily Koppel, this 10 episode limited series tells the story of the women who were key players behind some of the biggest events in American history. As America's astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, Life Magazine documented the astronauts' families, capturing the behind-the-scenes lives of their young wives. Overnight, these women were transformed from military spouses into American royalty. As their celebrity rose and tragedy began to touch their lives, they rallied together.
Ray Fisher Joins Cast of Zack Snyder's Batman-Superman Film as CyborgApril 24, 2014According to Variety, Ray Fisher (FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN) has boarded Zack Snyder's untitled Superman/Batman film as Cyborg. Fisher joins the previously announced Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, and Jesse Eisenberg. MAN OF STEEL's Diane Lane and Amy Adams will also return.
Discovery Channel to Air EVEREST AVALANCHE TRAGEDY on 5/4April 24, 2014Discovery Channel announced today that it will broadcast a 90-minute documentary, titled EVEREST AVALANCHE TRAGEDY, on Sunday, May 4, at 9 PM ET/PT that will air around the world in 224 countries. It will include unprecedented access and eyewitness accounts from the rescue and recovery efforts that took place after the avalanche struck the Khumbu Icefall, the area just above Mt. Everest base camp, during the morning of Friday, April 18, killing 13 and leaving three missing. Members of an NBC News team were at base camp as they prepared to produce Discovery's live special, EVEREST JUMP LIVE scheduled to air Sunday, May 11, when the avalanche hit. The special would have featured climber Joby Ogwyn's attempt to make the first wing suit flight off the summit of the world's tallest mountain.