HBO original series “The Gilded Age” has dropped a trailer for its eight-episode second season, premiering Oct. 29 on HBO and streaming on Max. Julian Fellowes (“Downton Abbey”) serves as creator, writer and executive producer.
Set in the titular time period around the 1880s, this historical drama chronicles the divisions in wealthy society. It chiefly follows Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon), an aspiring socialite whose husband, George Russell (Morgan Spector) is a railroad tycoon. Bertha enters the New York high society scene, only to find that the other ladies look down on her “new money” status. She makes an enemy of “old money” Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski), who believes that Bertha doesn’t belong in their world.
Season 2 sees the conflict between Bertha and the “old system” ramp up after Bertha’s bid for a box at the Academy of Music is rejected and she decides to fights back.
“You seem...
Set in the titular time period around the 1880s, this historical drama chronicles the divisions in wealthy society. It chiefly follows Bertha Russell (Carrie Coon), an aspiring socialite whose husband, George Russell (Morgan Spector) is a railroad tycoon. Bertha enters the New York high society scene, only to find that the other ladies look down on her “new money” status. She makes an enemy of “old money” Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski), who believes that Bertha doesn’t belong in their world.
Season 2 sees the conflict between Bertha and the “old system” ramp up after Bertha’s bid for a box at the Academy of Music is rejected and she decides to fights back.
“You seem...
- 10/11/2023
- by Caroline Brew, Valerie Wu and Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
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In the ongoing battle for streaming supremacy, a surprising contender has emerged in the form of Fast channels — free ad-supported streaming television, a hybrid of the new and the old.
According to Pluto TV’s global SVP and head of consumer marketing Valerie Kaplan, Fast isn’t the future, it’s the present tense.
“I think Fast is now,” Kaplan told TheWrap’s co-executive editor Adam Chitwood during a panel titled Fast Forward Thinking: Innovations and Strategies in Ad-Supported Streaming Wednesday at TheGrill, the publication’s annual business conference.
She continued, “It’s projected to reach $6 billion in revenue in 2023, with double that in coming years.”
On the panel, Kaplan was joined by Patrick Courtney, Fuse Media’s head of digital and business development; Beth Anderson, BBC Studios SVP...
In the ongoing battle for streaming supremacy, a surprising contender has emerged in the form of Fast channels — free ad-supported streaming television, a hybrid of the new and the old.
According to Pluto TV’s global SVP and head of consumer marketing Valerie Kaplan, Fast isn’t the future, it’s the present tense.
“I think Fast is now,” Kaplan told TheWrap’s co-executive editor Adam Chitwood during a panel titled Fast Forward Thinking: Innovations and Strategies in Ad-Supported Streaming Wednesday at TheGrill, the publication’s annual business conference.
She continued, “It’s projected to reach $6 billion in revenue in 2023, with double that in coming years.”
On the panel, Kaplan was joined by Patrick Courtney, Fuse Media’s head of digital and business development; Beth Anderson, BBC Studios SVP...
- 10/5/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
NATPE, under new management after encountering turbulence during the pandemic, has appointed a new advisory board and is firming up plans for the return of its signature U.S. conference next January in Miami.
The conference organizer was rescued out of bankruptcy at the start of 2023 by Brunico, the Canadian company behind events like the Realscreen Summit and Banff World Media Festival. The flagship NATPE conference, rooted in Miami over the past decade-plus, had managed to weather massive industry disruptions over nearly six decades but couldn’t survive Covid. The 11th-hour decision to cancel the 2022 edition due to the Omicron wave left NATPE on the hook for hefty fees to hotel operators and vendors, prompting management to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last October.
The retooled January conference, now called NATPE Global, is returning to Miami but not to the event’s longtime South Beach base at the Fontainebleau. Instead,...
The conference organizer was rescued out of bankruptcy at the start of 2023 by Brunico, the Canadian company behind events like the Realscreen Summit and Banff World Media Festival. The flagship NATPE conference, rooted in Miami over the past decade-plus, had managed to weather massive industry disruptions over nearly six decades but couldn’t survive Covid. The 11th-hour decision to cancel the 2022 edition due to the Omicron wave left NATPE on the hook for hefty fees to hotel operators and vendors, prompting management to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last October.
The retooled January conference, now called NATPE Global, is returning to Miami but not to the event’s longtime South Beach base at the Fontainebleau. Instead,...
- 8/17/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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As consumers battle rising subscription costs for online video-on-demand services, free, ad-supported streaming platforms, or so-called Fast channels, are embracing their own time in the sun, the Banff World Media Festival heard on Monday.
“We live in a very big saturated marketplace and there is a lot of demand inside the on-demand environment for audiences,” Beth Anderson, general manager of Fast Channels at BBC Studios Americas, told a morning panel on ad-supported platforms. Anderson said no need for logging in or payment models made Fast channels an appealing alternative to audiences looking for new content online, especially if they’re cord-cutters or cord nevers.
Fast channels see themselves as lean-back TV services, offered for free, in contrast to subscription platforms like Netflix and Prime Video that are known for edgy scripted and unscripted TV fare. “We now have four Fast channels live in the U.
As consumers battle rising subscription costs for online video-on-demand services, free, ad-supported streaming platforms, or so-called Fast channels, are embracing their own time in the sun, the Banff World Media Festival heard on Monday.
“We live in a very big saturated marketplace and there is a lot of demand inside the on-demand environment for audiences,” Beth Anderson, general manager of Fast Channels at BBC Studios Americas, told a morning panel on ad-supported platforms. Anderson said no need for logging in or payment models made Fast channels an appealing alternative to audiences looking for new content online, especially if they’re cord-cutters or cord nevers.
Fast channels see themselves as lean-back TV services, offered for free, in contrast to subscription platforms like Netflix and Prime Video that are known for edgy scripted and unscripted TV fare. “We now have four Fast channels live in the U.
- 6/13/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hobnobbing with the likes of Reese Witherspoon, Kate McKinnon and Yara Shahidi isn’t typically the gloss applied to the cerebral audiobook set, but Audible is putting the humble audio story through its own movie-makeover montage, inking high-profile development deals with entertainment names like “The Walking Dead” comics creator Skybound Entertainment, Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video Enterprises.
“We’re definitely interested in working with more Hollywood talent, knowing that there’s a lot of amazing creative talent there,” says Rachel Ghiazza, Audible’s new senior vice president of content acquisition and development. “We’re really eager to see what they can do in the format. It’s definitely an area we’re investing more in.”
Under the auspices of behemoth parent Amazon, Audible has become the nation’s dominant retailer of audiobooks. Now, amid an ongoing podcast and long-form audio renaissance, it is assertively looking to...
“We’re definitely interested in working with more Hollywood talent, knowing that there’s a lot of amazing creative talent there,” says Rachel Ghiazza, Audible’s new senior vice president of content acquisition and development. “We’re really eager to see what they can do in the format. It’s definitely an area we’re investing more in.”
Under the auspices of behemoth parent Amazon, Audible has become the nation’s dominant retailer of audiobooks. Now, amid an ongoing podcast and long-form audio renaissance, it is assertively looking to...
- 8/21/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
Audible has named Rachel Ghiazza to its newly created role of senior vice president of content acquisition and development, where she will build and develop partnerships with creators and publishers. There, she will lead the audiobook and audio storytelling company’s content acquisition, content deal operation and talent relations team.
“Rachel’s impressive background and vast experience in content strategy, development, acquisition and data analysis will be an enormous asset to expanding our original content slate and building out collaborations with established and emerging artists,” said Beth Anderson, Audible’s executive vice president and publisher in prepared remarks. “As Audible looks to provide more opportunities for talent to creatively express themselves and connect with a wide audience, Rachel will help broaden and deepen our catalog of entertaining and informative audio.”
Ghiazza will report to Anderson. She joins the company at a time when it is expanding its investment in original content development,...
“Rachel’s impressive background and vast experience in content strategy, development, acquisition and data analysis will be an enormous asset to expanding our original content slate and building out collaborations with established and emerging artists,” said Beth Anderson, Audible’s executive vice president and publisher in prepared remarks. “As Audible looks to provide more opportunities for talent to creatively express themselves and connect with a wide audience, Rachel will help broaden and deepen our catalog of entertaining and informative audio.”
Ghiazza will report to Anderson. She joins the company at a time when it is expanding its investment in original content development,...
- 8/9/2019
- by Elaine Low
- Variety Film + TV
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Stranger Things 3.”]
One of the defining moments of “Stranger Things 3” arrives in the finale (“The Battle of Starcourt”) when Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) is forced to sing the theme song to “The NeverEnding Story” with his long distance girlfriend Suzie (Gabriella Pizzolo). Dustin goes along with the request in order to get Suzie to give him a numerical code that will help in the battle against the Mind Flayer. Dustin and Suzie sing the song over a walkie talkie that nearly all of the major characters are listening in on. The moment is a surprise comical break to all the insane monster-smashing action in the final episode of the season, but it’s one that almost never happened.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer reveal they went through different versions of the scene using various musical choices. “At one point they were going to sing...
One of the defining moments of “Stranger Things 3” arrives in the finale (“The Battle of Starcourt”) when Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) is forced to sing the theme song to “The NeverEnding Story” with his long distance girlfriend Suzie (Gabriella Pizzolo). Dustin goes along with the request in order to get Suzie to give him a numerical code that will help in the battle against the Mind Flayer. Dustin and Suzie sing the song over a walkie talkie that nearly all of the major characters are listening in on. The moment is a surprise comical break to all the insane monster-smashing action in the final episode of the season, but it’s one that almost never happened.
In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, “Stranger Things” creators Matt and Ross Duffer reveal they went through different versions of the scene using various musical choices. “At one point they were going to sing...
- 7/9/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Forthcoming Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is set to get an audiobook attachement via Amazon’s Audible and Pottermore.
The Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Makers, Mysteries and Magic audiobook is narrated by Tony Award-winning actor Dan Fogler, who plays Jacob Kowalski in the film, which is released in theaters in November.
Written by documentary maker Hana Walker-Brown and journalist Mark Salisbury, and produced by Pottermore Publishing with Audible Originals and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, the audiobook features interviews with the likes of Eddie Redmayne, who plays Newt Scamander, Jude Law, who plays Albus Dumbledore, Zoë Kravitz, who plays Leta Lestrange, Ezra Miller (Credence) and new cast member Claudia Kim (the Maledictus)
It also looks into how the team built a magical version of 1927 Paris on a studio backlot in outer London and hidden details and artistic references in the iconic wizarding world wardrobe designs.
The Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – Makers, Mysteries and Magic audiobook is narrated by Tony Award-winning actor Dan Fogler, who plays Jacob Kowalski in the film, which is released in theaters in November.
Written by documentary maker Hana Walker-Brown and journalist Mark Salisbury, and produced by Pottermore Publishing with Audible Originals and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, the audiobook features interviews with the likes of Eddie Redmayne, who plays Newt Scamander, Jude Law, who plays Albus Dumbledore, Zoë Kravitz, who plays Leta Lestrange, Ezra Miller (Credence) and new cast member Claudia Kim (the Maledictus)
It also looks into how the team built a magical version of 1927 Paris on a studio backlot in outer London and hidden details and artistic references in the iconic wizarding world wardrobe designs.
- 9/13/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Audible Inc., the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment, today announced that the Hogwarts library book Quidditch Through the Ages, written by Jk Rowling as Kennilworthy Whisp and narrated by acclaimed actor Andrew Lincoln, is available for the first time as a digital audiobook.
Featuring immersive sound design and exclusive Quidditch match commentary from Ginny Potter and Rita Skeeter, this brand new recording is available for exclusive preorder at Audible and will be released by Pottermore on March 15th, 2018. Visit www.audible.com/quidditch to order the audiobook in advance.
A definitive guide, Quidditch Through the Ages charts the game’s history from its early origins in the medieval mists on Queerditch Marsh, to the modern-day sport loved by so many wizard and Muggle families around the world. With comprehensive coverage of famous Quidditch teams, the most common fouls, the development of racing brooms and much more,...
Featuring immersive sound design and exclusive Quidditch match commentary from Ginny Potter and Rita Skeeter, this brand new recording is available for exclusive preorder at Audible and will be released by Pottermore on March 15th, 2018. Visit www.audible.com/quidditch to order the audiobook in advance.
A definitive guide, Quidditch Through the Ages charts the game’s history from its early origins in the medieval mists on Queerditch Marsh, to the modern-day sport loved by so many wizard and Muggle families around the world. With comprehensive coverage of famous Quidditch teams, the most common fouls, the development of racing brooms and much more,...
- 2/2/2018
- Look to the Stars
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