NBC Taps ‘Today’ For TV’s Streaming Wars With ‘All Day’ Video Feed (EXCLUSIVE)

It seems like we can stop the candlelight vigils for Christopher Nolan‘s “Tenet.” The endless speculation of when and if the movie was going to be released in theaters this year seemingly got shut down with Warner Bros. announcing a September 2 U.S.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCNN has over the years run all kinds of content: hard-news hours, documentaries, even a quiz show. Now it’s going to try animation.The AT&T-owned cable-news outlet will on Tuesday launch a new promotional campaign for some of its biggest pieces of coverage of the 2020 election.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorABC News executive Barbara Fedida will not return to the Disney-owned unit following an investigation into allegations of insensitive behavior and her treatment of employees, according to a person familiar with the matter,Staffers were notified of the matter Monday in a memo from Peter Rice, chairman of Walt Disney Television. “The investigation substantiated that Ms.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCBS News has a link to TV broadcasting that hearkens to the days of Walter Cronkite and Douglas Edwards. But a new special set to debut Sunday evening was made available for streaming earlier this week.The hour-long effort, “Pandemia: Latinos in Crisis,” focuses on the Latinx community and the pressures placed upon it and other communities of color by the coronavirus pandemic.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRobert Irvine will add some new ingredients to Food Network as part of a new two-year deal with the Discovery-owned cable outlet.Irvine will lead new episodes of his series “Restaurant: Impossible” and develop mid- and short-form video segments for both linear and digital venues, including Food Network’s Kitchen app.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorSports radio talk shows, long a staple of AM/FM dials, are coming to Twitch — in the form of live, interactive video broadcasts.In the first deal of its kind, Amazon-owned Twitch will distribute video simulcasts of top sports talk programs from radio broadcaster and audio streamer Entercom Communications.Under the agreement, Twitch initially will livestream Entercom’s Radio.com Sports stations from six markets across the U.S.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorNBC for seven years offered advertisers a novel proposition: Pay us money to put your products in our show and let the  series’ writers make fun of them.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorJimmy Fallon moved to take NBC’s “Tonight Show” from “at home” to “at large” by bringing the venerable program back to NBC’s New York studios after weeks of broadcasting the show from his house.“Normalcy, any type of normalcy feels great,” Fallon told viewers during Monday’s “Tonight” broadcast, dressed in casual clothes, with cameramen wearing facial masks and members of the show’s in-house Roots band scattered around the studio for proper social distancing.

Lucasfilm's Kathleen Kennedy told ET upon the release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. «I think is certainly an indication of some of the ideas that are percolating.

has come to an end, but the Bad Batch's journey is just beginning., a new animated series set in a galaxy far, far away, is coming to Disney+ in 2021, the streamer announced. The series, hailing from executive producer Dave Filoni, follows a squad of elite clones first introduced in a four-episode arc of .Also known as Clone Force 99, the clones who make up the Bad Batch have been genetically enhanced and each possess a singular unique skill.

Sofia Richie is all smiles while hanging out with some friends over the weekend in Los Angeles.

reports Deadline.The Empire Strikes Back, which is considered to be the best Star Wars film, is the fifth film in the Star Wars Saga and second in the original trilogy; it stars Mark Hamil, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Billy Dee Williams.The film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2010.The reissuing of the film, as well as several other classical or audience favorite, is a measure that many movie theaters are using to generate income as

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorCan extra soccer games kick ViacomCBS more directly into TV’s streaming wars?ViacomCBS picked up an extra run of UEFA Champions League games in a deal that will put the European soccer organization’s tournaments on broadcast, cable, and, perhaps most important, streaming at a time when the media conglomerate is trying to spur new interest in its “All Access” subscription-video hub.The games will bring “an audience that maybe in the past hasn’t been that heavily

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIt was a tame Tuesday filled with mostly repeats and the Season 16 premiere of ABC’s What Would You Do?, which led among fresh episodes on the Big 4 with a 0.4 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and drew 2.89 million viewers.Univision and NBC meanwhile tied for first overall in the demo with matching 0.5s, with the Spanish-language network offering Te Doy La Vida (0.4, 1.65M), Amor Eterno (0.5, 1.82M) and Como Tú No Hay Do (0.5, 1.53M).

There are plenty of intriguing “what if” casting stories in Hollywood, where now-known actors auditioned for roles that they didn’t get, before the movie ended up being incredibly successful. There’s Jake Gyllenhaal auditioning for “Lord of the Rings,” Gwyneth Paltrow in “Jurassic Park” or Kurt Russell‘s auditioning to play Han Solo.

Captain Marvel star Brie Larson has revealed that she once auditioned for a role in a Star Wars movie.The actor was speaking as she launched her new YouTube channel this week, discussing old auditions.During the 20-minute video, Larson revealed that she has tried out for a number of era-defining movies.Discussing her auditions that proved unsuccessful, she said: “I auditioned for Star Wars too,” though not revealing which film she tried out for.

Disney has scrapped its plans to release a 4K version of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in UK cinemas.The company had planned to screen the ultra HD version of the 1980 film as cinemas in the country reopened following the coronavirus-induced lockdown.It would have been the first time the 4K version of the movie had been shown in cinemas, but will no longer be shown after talks between Disney and potential exhibitors broke down, according to Variety.