It took a good television series to put a human face on a scandal whose complexity bored the British political class for two decades and failed to capture the public’s imagination. And what’s so strange about that? The popular classical historian and Mary Beard posted on the X social media platform, “the real power of…

Rhino High Fidelity (Rhino Hi-Fi) ushers in the new year by introducing the latest additions to the acclaimed series of limited-edition, high-end vinyl reissues. Rhino Hi-Fi will release six albums in the coming months, starting on January 12 with Ornette Coleman’s Change of the Century and Television’s Marquee Moon. They’ll be followed by The Cars’…

Year 2023 will be remembered in Hollywood for various phenomena — the strikes, Barbenheimer — but for Latinos, 2023 was the year that saw a relatively significant number of movies and TV releases from and about their community, in a variety of genres. With actors and writers spending about half of last year unable to…

Erik Gruenwedel January 9, 2024 Following the close of the acquisition of eOne, Lionsgate Jan. 9 announced it is launching Lionsgate Alternative Television, a division that combines its majority owned unscripted television producer Pilgrim Media Group, with eOne’s U.S. and U.K. non-scripted groups,Blackfin, Renegade and Daisybeck Studios. The division will be headed by Emmy and…

Lionsgate is launching a new alternative television division. The news comes on the heels of the independent studio closing its $375 million acquisition of eOne in late December. Lionsgate Alternative Television will combine Pilgrim Media Group (which is majority owned by Lionsgate) with eOne’s U.S. and U.K. non-scripted group, as well as Blackfin, Renegade and…

Lionsgate is launching a new Alternative Television division that will combine eOne with unscripted television leader Pilgrim Media Group, and U.S. and U.K. non-scripted groups Blackfin, Renegade and Daisybeck Studios. The segment will be led by Pilgrim Media Group’s Craig Piligian, who will serve as managing director, with Pilgrim Media Group president and COO Gretchen…

Lionsgate is bringing eOne’s unscripted assets together with its own non-fiction division after closing its $375M deal for the company. It is launching Lionsgate Alternative Television, which will incorporate its own Pilgrim Media Group, with eOne’s U.S. and U.K. non-scripted groups, Blackfin, Renegade and Daisybeck Studios. It has also hired former History Channel boss Dirk…

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast Tuesday, and the president issued a decree declaring that the South American country had entered an “internal armed conflict.” The men armed with pistols and what looked like sticks of…

ADVERTISEMENT Jack Shillaker has been tapped as Mitre Studios’ creative director of television. Shillaker is set to take up his role this month. The BAFTA-winning executive producer will lead the creation of a slate of new formats and act as executive producer across Mitre Studios’ broadcast output. The move reflects the ambition of Mitre’s founders,…