There’s been much insider talk in the TV business about the broadcast networks’ unconventional rollout announcements for next season, and what the departure from tradition in the wake of the writers’ strike will mean for the industry. TV execs insist that nothing much will change once everyone is caught up in fall 2008.
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NYU Promises To Preserve Walls, Facade Of Theater
“The walls of the historic Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village will be preserved under a plan released by New York University on Friday… Plans had included a proposal to demolish the building.”
His Next One’s About Australian Rules Football
Novelist Joseph O’Neill loves the game of cricket, writes about it, obsesses over it. But he lives in New York, and most of his novels are aimed first at an American audience. So how would a cricket-themed novel find an audience?
A Boss Everyone Likes?
It’s been less than a year since Patricia Mitchell took over as president of St. Paul’s Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, but she’s already made a considerable impact. “She has impressed many Ordway stakeholders — from staff and board members who point to her go-getter attitude, to the hall’s resident arts organizations, who appreciate her lack of guile.”
Records Sealed In Controversial Toronto Theatre Deal
“An Ontario Superior Court judge has sealed affidavits in the bid by Aubrey Dan’s Dancap Productions to block the sale of Toronto’s Canon and Panasonic theatres to rival stage producer David Mirvish… Dancap has sued, arguing that the sale breaches prior undertakings Key Brand had made to Dan.”
High-Profile Thriller Opens Cannes; Results Mixed
“Blindness opened the Cannes Film Festival last night, receiving more respect than love for a film that avoids thriller clichés yet fails to deliver all it promises… It is a more than respectable choice to open Cannes, which is often content to begin the big show with pictures of far less substance.”
By Getting Creative, Hollywood May Have Dug A Hole
“Hollywood’s summer movies promise to be a little fresher, more original and funnier than usual. And that could be a problem for an industry that has done well lately by peddling the familiar… This year’s more inventive pictures, whether they win or lose individually, may come up short as a group.”
Making Profitable Use Of The “Geek Grapevine”
“Silicon Valley isn’t usually where aspiring authors go to kick-start a literary reputation. But for first-time novelist Leinad Zeraus, it proved the ideal launching pad: Sans publicist, promotional budget, or even publisher, Zeraus scored encomiums for his debut work, Daemon. How’d he do it? By courting bloggers and influential techies like Joi Ito, Stewart Brand, and Craig Newmark — demonstrating that if you can get the geek grapevine on your side, you don’t need Random House.”
SPAC Getting A Green Facelift
The Saratoga Performing Arts Center in upstate New York, which plays home to New York City Ballet and the Philadelphia Orchestra in summer, is getting a $2.5m makeover. SPAC “will replace its 1960s-era brown wood exterior with a wavy, tan-colored facade constructed from recycled paper, sustainable forest products and plastic resins.”
Canada To Reconsider Regulating Online Media
“Canada’s broadcast regulator plans to hold hearings into whether ‘new media,’ such as online TV, radio and mobile video, should be regulated… The regulator, which presides over Canadian content requirements and funding rules for TV and radio, decided in 1999 not to regulate new media platforms.”