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Networks Pour Cash Into Summer Programming

Convergent TV

The broadcast season is over. Permanently. That’s not to say that a bunch of new series won’t be back in the fall, but you no longer have to watch reruns [...]


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How Portlandia’s Social Effort Pounced on Lame Super Bowl Game

Performance Marketing

Super Bowl XLVIII, a bona fide bore, improbably ended up being the most-viewed TV program in American history.

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How IFC Got Alex Prager to Shoot Portlandia Ads in the Style of Her Fine-Art Photos

Creativity

IFC just released the key art for Season 4 of Portlandia, and the photos are fantastic. Not only did the network get the great young photographer Alex Prager on board—she [...]

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5 New Cable Series We Can’t Wait For

Convergent TV

It’s that time of year again: time to admit that newbie broadcast shows like Welcome to the Family and We Are Men really, really didn’t work, that Lucky 7 was [...]

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Strange Ads Promote an Author Who Isn’t Real and a Book That Doesn’t Exist

Creativity

IFC's upcoming The Spoils of Bablyon, a comedy miniseries that spoofs serious miniseries, is based on a book that seems to be sold out in Hudson News stores around the [...]

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AMCX Says Its Own VOD Strategy Is ‘Heretical,’ but That’s Cool

Convergent TV

AMC Networks delivered lower-than-expected earnings on Thursday, announcing that it wouldn't be discussing the Chellomedia purchase in much detail on the call (the company agreed to buy the international TV [...]