A+E Networks Launches TV’s Long Road to a New Upfront Market

Very soon we will be able to socialise outdoors in a group. On the 29 March, an element of the lockdown will be lifted and in groups of six, or two households, we will be able to meet in parks or private gardens.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A community group has objected to Perth and Kinross Council wanting to let people drive at 50mph over the entire length of the planned Cross Tay Link Road.The local authority published roads orders in the local press last month proposing to permit drivers to travel at 50mph all along the proposed road between the A94 north of Scone and the A9 north of Perth.The same set of orders also proposed stopping up

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorA series of prominent TV-series endings will give AMC Networks an opportunity to seek new beginnings with advertisers.The New York owner of the AMC, IFC and Sundance cable networks will be selling ad inventory in the final cycles of “The Walking Dead,” “Better Call Saul” and “Killing Eve,” all part of the media industry’s annual “upfront” market, when U.S.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe NFL season ended weeks ago, but some of the media’s biggest players have been scrambling to keep professional football in the spotlight.Under a series of critically important rights deals unveiled Thursday between the National Football League and some of the nation’s biggest media companies, “Thursday Night Football” will no longer be shown on broadcast TV and Walt Disney’s ABC will air the Super Bowl for the first time in more than 15 years.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Housebuilders have claimed the council’s planned use of compulsory purchase powers to acquire land under their control to build the Cross Tay Link Road would make it “extremely difficult” for them to reacquire any leftover land once the project is complete.Perth-based developer A and J Stephen is pushing back against the local authority’s plans to buy plots along the corridor picked for the new road using

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThe chief legal officer of Fox Corporation tried to throw cold water on growing speculation that he has taken on a broader role at the company, making decisions about the company on behalf of its CEO Lachlan Murdoch,.In an interview with David Lat, writer of the Substack newsletter “Original Jurisdiction,” Viet Dinh, Fox Corp.’s chief legal and policy officer, demurred at recent stories in The New York Times and Financial Times suggesting he’s taken more control

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor“Chopped,” that Food Network perennial, is getting a few new ingredients.When the Discovery-owned outlet launches two new versions of the long-running series on streaming-video hub Discovery Plus, it will do with an aim to win younger audiences to its cause. “Chopped 420” gives four chefs the chance to incorporate cannabis or cannabis-infused ingredients into their recipes while “Chopped Next Gen” focuses on younger chefs.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMadison Avenue is paying more money to podcasting. Now a group of people focused on the industry wants advertisers to pay more attention.The Media Roundtable, a group of organizations that aims to promote civility and stronger dialogue in media, is launching a chart of what it considers to be the podcasts that display the most and least bias.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorOne of the nation’s most colorful sports advertisers says it plans to launch its own sports-talk show because consumers are growing wary of the commercials that have helped it capture so much attention over the decades.Anheuser-Busch and Panay Films will launch “Not A Sports Show,” a six-episode series that features host and comedian Lil Rel Howery chatting with athletes like former Boston Celtics star Paul Pierce, snowboarder Shaun White and Los Angeles Sparks

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorDrew Brees has jumped off the playing field into a sizable job as a sports analyst for NBC.The former New Orleans Saints quarterback, who just announced his retirement yesterday, will join NBC Sports as a studio analyst for “Football Night in America” and game analyst for its coverage of Notre Dame Football.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRemember going to crowded outdoor concerts? Hoda Kotb does.One of the perks of being an anchor on NBC’s venerable “Today” morning show is getting to see Jason Mraz or Aerosmith belt one out in the middle of New York’s Rockefeller Plaza, with dozens of fans of the show surrounding the stage. That’s just one of many core elements of “Today” that have been scuttled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Katie Price has launched a new campaign to tackle abuse from online trolls and hold them accountable with the help of a Westminster MP.The 42 year old has launched an initiative called Track A Troll and started a petition to make it a requirement that people who sign up for a new social media account must provide a valid form a ID. Katie’s move comes after years of receiving abusive and racist messages from trolls targeted at her 18-year-old son Harvey.

It was Andrew Cuomo’s Emmy-winning performance: daily televised coronavirus briefings in which the New York governor projected competence and compassion, helping to calm a nervous nation.Now, the many Americans whose positive impressions of Cuomo were formed during the height of the pandemic are getting a close-up of a very different governor, one accused of underreporting COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes, sexually harassing female staffers and bullying colleagues.To New Yorkers who have watched

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorChris Cuomo held up a giant cotton swab on TV last May and poked fun at his brother, the governor of New York, during an interview. Now journalism observers wonder if CNN must clean up a lapse in journalism ethics.Cuomo anchors what has become CNN’s most-watched program, a 9 p.m.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMost of the classic films that run on TCM are introduced by a single host.

HBO, marking 20 years since the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City.Production is currently underway on NYC Epicenters 9/11→ 2021½, which is set to be released later this year on HBO and the HBO Max streaming service.A synopsis for the documentary promises an “unprecedented, sweeping portrait of New Yorkers as they rebuild and rebound, from a devastating terrorist attack through the ongoing global pandemic”.Speaking about the project in a statement, Lee said: “As a New Yawker who bleeds orange

AMC Networks chief operating officer Ed Carroll said Friday popular series Better Call Saul will likely return in the first quarter of 2022 after Covid-19 delays.