Exclusive: With the kids podcast market booming, Starglow Media and Atomic Entertainment are launching a new scripted show.
The two companies are launching Mysteries About True Histories.
The weekly scripted audio series follows Max and Molly, two best friends who work together to solve riddles and math equations during their time-traveling adventures. In each episode, the show will transport listeners through moments in history like Pythagoras’ Ancient Greece, the era of the Aztecs, Sir Isaac Newton’s England, and more.
Intended for kids aged six and above, it will explore themes including the stories behind math, critical thinking, code breaking and pattern solving.
It comes from creators Adam “Tex” Davis and Jerry Kolber, co-founders of Atomic Entertainment, the company behind Nat Geo’s Brain Games.
It is the latest partnership between the two companies are Who Smarted?
There’s already plans for film and TV adaptations and publishing offshoots.
Starglow...
The two companies are launching Mysteries About True Histories.
The weekly scripted audio series follows Max and Molly, two best friends who work together to solve riddles and math equations during their time-traveling adventures. In each episode, the show will transport listeners through moments in history like Pythagoras’ Ancient Greece, the era of the Aztecs, Sir Isaac Newton’s England, and more.
Intended for kids aged six and above, it will explore themes including the stories behind math, critical thinking, code breaking and pattern solving.
It comes from creators Adam “Tex” Davis and Jerry Kolber, co-founders of Atomic Entertainment, the company behind Nat Geo’s Brain Games.
It is the latest partnership between the two companies are Who Smarted?
There’s already plans for film and TV adaptations and publishing offshoots.
Starglow...
- 4/18/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Atomic Entertainment, the Emmy-nominated team behind acclaimed projects such as Nat Geo’s hit series Brain Games, Netflix’s live-action science series Brainchild, and the hit family podcast Who Smarted?, is thrilled to announce the launch of their latest venture into podcasting with the release of Slaycation. This gripping and darkly comedic true crime podcast takes listeners on a twisted journey through the chilling world of murders and mysterious deaths that take place on vacation.
Hosted by a true crime enthusiast, her comedy writer husband, and a seasoned TV producer, Slaycation offers a refreshing twist on the true crime genre by blending comedy, twisty turny storytelling, a husband & wife dynamic and respect for the victims and survivors involved, while focusing exclusively on cases of murder and suspicious deaths that happened while the victims were on vacation! Listeners can expect to be both captivated and entertained as they delve into the...
Hosted by a true crime enthusiast, her comedy writer husband, and a seasoned TV producer, Slaycation offers a refreshing twist on the true crime genre by blending comedy, twisty turny storytelling, a husband & wife dynamic and respect for the victims and survivors involved, while focusing exclusively on cases of murder and suspicious deaths that happened while the victims were on vacation! Listeners can expect to be both captivated and entertained as they delve into the...
- 1/10/2024
- Podnews.net
Audacy today announced that global kids content superstars "Vlad & Niki'' are moving into audio content with their new preschooler-focused podcast series Vlad & Niki Podcast Adventures, produced by Atomic Entertainment, distributed by Audacy, and presented by Flintstones™ Vitamins, the #1 Pediatrician recommended children's vitamin brand.
The new series will launch on August 29, 2023, on the Audacy app and everywhere podcasts are available. Listen and follow the show here.
The new podcast is inspired by the "Vlad & Niki'' live-action preschool series on YouTube that showcases the everyday antics of young brothers Vlad, Niki, and Christian Vashtekov. With more than 96 million subscribers on their English-language channel and 330 million subscribers worldwide, "Vlad & Niki'' is localized on 21 channels and translated into 18 languages with 180 billion views across all channels. The "Vlad & Niki'' series also streams on Max's Cartoonito channel.
In support of the “Vlad and Niki Podcast Adventures” launch, a holistic advertising campaign, in partnership with Flintstones™ Vitamins,...
The new series will launch on August 29, 2023, on the Audacy app and everywhere podcasts are available. Listen and follow the show here.
The new podcast is inspired by the "Vlad & Niki'' live-action preschool series on YouTube that showcases the everyday antics of young brothers Vlad, Niki, and Christian Vashtekov. With more than 96 million subscribers on their English-language channel and 330 million subscribers worldwide, "Vlad & Niki'' is localized on 21 channels and translated into 18 languages with 180 billion views across all channels. The "Vlad & Niki'' series also streams on Max's Cartoonito channel.
In support of the “Vlad and Niki Podcast Adventures” launch, a holistic advertising campaign, in partnership with Flintstones™ Vitamins,...
- 8/30/2023
- Podnews.net
Industry-leading podcast platform for top content creators and hit shows, Glassbox Media, has announced its most recent acquisition of the educational podcast called Who Smarted?. The podcast is co-created by Emmy Nominated producers Adam “Tex” Davis and Jerry Kolber, who also hosts the show as ‘The Trusty Narrator’. Davis, the show’s head writer is best known for screenwriting the cult classic film ‘Just Friends’ starring Ryan Reynolds, while Kolber was a producer on the original Queer Eye For the Straight Guy. Together, Kolber and Davis launched the Emmy Nominated show Brain Games for National Geographic and Netflix’s hit kids science show, Brainchild. Using their experience making quality edutainment, they’ve helped Who Smarted? climb the charts to become one of the top ranked, most downloaded and highest rated Kids & Family and Education for Kids’ shows in the world!
Airing three times a week, the podcast is the funniest audio-only and comedy-driven kids’ show,...
Airing three times a week, the podcast is the funniest audio-only and comedy-driven kids’ show,...
- 4/10/2023
- Podnews.net
US podcast platform, Glassbox Media has acquired the educational podcast Who Smarted?. The podcast is co-created by Emmy Nominated producers Adam “Tex” Davis and Jerry Kolber, who also hosts the show as ‘The Trusty Narrator’. Davis, the show’s head writer is best known for screenwriting the cult classic film ‘Just Friends’ starring Ryan Reynolds, while Kolber was a producer on the original Queer Eye For the Straight Guy.
- 4/7/2023
- by PodcastingToday
- Podcastingtoday
Pharrell Williams may best be known as a Grammy-winning musician, but the 45-year-old is singing a different tune these days as the executive producer of “Brainchild,” a new Netflix series that teaches kids about science, technology, and current events.
Co-created by Atomic Entertainment, the show is a spinoff of the New York-based production company’s “Brain Games,” which ran for seven seasons on National Geographic Channel and earned its team a Primetime Emmy nod for informational series or special in 2013.
For Williams, who shared his enthusiasm for the show in a post on Instagram last fall, “Brainchild” is a way to both educate and entertain young viewers, to spark an enthusiasm for learning. The show uses interactive games, experiments, and skits to push the core concepts and principles of Steam to its viewers at home. “I got involved with ‘Brainchild’ because there is a desperate need to raise awareness about...
Co-created by Atomic Entertainment, the show is a spinoff of the New York-based production company’s “Brain Games,” which ran for seven seasons on National Geographic Channel and earned its team a Primetime Emmy nod for informational series or special in 2013.
For Williams, who shared his enthusiasm for the show in a post on Instagram last fall, “Brainchild” is a way to both educate and entertain young viewers, to spark an enthusiasm for learning. The show uses interactive games, experiments, and skits to push the core concepts and principles of Steam to its viewers at home. “I got involved with ‘Brainchild’ because there is a desperate need to raise awareness about...
- 3/20/2019
- by Tim Chan
- Variety Film + TV
14 Minutes From Earth (2016) Film Review from the 15th Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie directed by Jerry Kolber, Adam “Tex” Davis, Trey Nelson, and Erich Sturm. The line between documentary and narrative filmmaking is a blurry one. A great documentary should tell a story just as well as a narrative film; in its way, it has “characters” and a “plot” the same way works […]...
- 4/27/2016
- by Michael Smith
- Film-Book
Dr Richard Leakey, Chair of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Turkana Basin Institute Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The 2016 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by Perri Peltz and introduced by Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff (with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal), holds an impressive list of activists: Brent Stapelkamp, 14 Minutes from Earth's Alan Eustace (featured in the film by Jerry Kolber, Adam "Tex" Davis, Trey Nelson and Erich Sturm);The Birth Of A Nation director Nate Parker who was also an actor in Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden and Amy Berg's Every Secret Thing; The Suskind family in Roger Ross Williams' Life, Animated; Louie Psihoyos,director of Racing Extinction and The Cove; Jennifer Jacquet and Dr. Richard Leakey. From Foo Fighters Learn To Fly to a remembrance of Prince and David Bowie, and past honorees that include Twyla Tharp, David Lynch, Rick Rubin, Kanye West and Keith Richards - creativity,...
The 2016 Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, hosted by Perri Peltz and introduced by Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff (with Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal), holds an impressive list of activists: Brent Stapelkamp, 14 Minutes from Earth's Alan Eustace (featured in the film by Jerry Kolber, Adam "Tex" Davis, Trey Nelson and Erich Sturm);The Birth Of A Nation director Nate Parker who was also an actor in Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden and Amy Berg's Every Secret Thing; The Suskind family in Roger Ross Williams' Life, Animated; Louie Psihoyos,director of Racing Extinction and The Cove; Jennifer Jacquet and Dr. Richard Leakey. From Foo Fighters Learn To Fly to a remembrance of Prince and David Bowie, and past honorees that include Twyla Tharp, David Lynch, Rick Rubin, Kanye West and Keith Richards - creativity,...
- 4/24/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Below, watch a sneak peek of The Internet Ruined My Life TV series premiere. The unscripted docu-series debuts on Syfy tonight, at 10:00pm Et/Pt.In the first episode, Syfy says, "Chicagoan Suey Park escapes to New York only to realize that her #CancelCobert troubles have followed her there."
The Internet Ruined My Life is executive produced by Left/Right Productions' Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman and Atomic Entertainment Group's Jerry Kolber and Adam Davis.
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The Internet Ruined My Life is executive produced by Left/Right Productions' Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman and Atomic Entertainment Group's Jerry Kolber and Adam Davis.
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- 3/9/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Syfy’s new unscripted six-episode series, The Internet Ruined My Life premieres Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at 10:00pm Et/Pt. The series features first-person accounts from real people who have been adversely affected by social media explosions.
The first season features the stories of Suey Park, Leigh Van Bryan, Brianna Wu, Mark, Cameron Jankowski, Allyson Pereira, Ashley Vanpevenage, Nicole Crowther, Sierra McCurdy, Annmarie Chiarini, Jennifer Box, and Christopher Hermelin. Executive producers for Left/Right Productions are Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman. Executive producers for Atomic Entertainment Group are Jerry Kolber and Adam Davis.
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The first season features the stories of Suey Park, Leigh Van Bryan, Brianna Wu, Mark, Cameron Jankowski, Allyson Pereira, Ashley Vanpevenage, Nicole Crowther, Sierra McCurdy, Annmarie Chiarini, Jennifer Box, and Christopher Hermelin. Executive producers for Left/Right Productions are Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman. Executive producers for Atomic Entertainment Group are Jerry Kolber and Adam Davis.
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- 3/8/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Top brass at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival presented by At&T have announced selections in the Us Narrative, International Narrative and Documentary Competition strands.
The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.
Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.
The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.
The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.
One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...
The films comprise 55 out of 110 features that will play during the 15th edition of the New York festival from April 13-24. The festival will present features films in the Spotlight, Midnight, and Special Sections on March 8.
Also included in Wednesday’s announcement are the out-of-competition Viewpoints titles.
The world premiere of Bill Ross and Turner Ross’ Contemporary Color will open the World Documentary competition on April 14, while the world premiere of Kicks by Justin Tipping will open the Us Narrative competition.
The world premiere of Madly directed by Gael García Bernal, Mia Wasikowska, Sebastian Silva, Anurag Kashyap, Sion Sono, and Natasha Khan will open the International Narrative Competition. Viewpoints will open with the world premiere of Nerdland directed by Chris Prynoski.
One third of the festival’s feature films are directed by women...
- 3/2/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jerry Kolber is at the helm of the National Geographic Channel.s prime-time science series, "Brain Games." The greatly anticipated first season premiered April 22nd featuring internet sensation Jason Silva as host along with the world's foremost deception specialist, Apollo Robbins. From Ngc: Boiling down complicated neuroscience into interactive and fun games and experiments, the Brain Games team provides the audience with the tools needed to take an entertaining journey through the inner-workings of their own mind, giving them the chance to get a little bit smarter while still having fun. "Making Brain Games in cooperation with channel President Howard Owens, channel Vice-President Allan Butler, and the talented and generous team at National Geographic has been...
- 4/29/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
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