Category: media

“The three-minute video provides a realistic animation of Tudor London, and particularly a section called Pudding Lane where the [Great Fire] started.”

Portland’s NPR station launched its first episode of “State of Wonder” on Nov. 2. Host April Baer: “We’re shooting for an elasticity that frees us to talk about local, national, and international stuff, as it pertains to what’s created and consumed here.”

“The company is betting it can improve on the traditional TV development process by collecting viewer feedback in unprecedented ways and using it to make less risky bets on which shows to produce.”

“Weeks after picking up its first statuette for original series ‘House of Cards,’ Netflix is set to join the awards hunt on the film front with its first documentary acquisition in several years.”

“Early analysis of a survey carried out by the Federation of Entertainment Unions, which includes Equity, BECTU, the Musicians’ Union and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, has found that 56% of respondents have been “bullied, harassed or discriminated against” while in employment.”

“Bill Moyers told public television stations on Tuesday that his interview program Moyers & Company would end with the Jan. 3 show, keeping to the two-year timetable he and the program’s funders committed to when he came out of a 20-month retirement in January 2012.”

Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist “founded Epic Rap Battles of History, the zany yet knowing channel on YouTube, which just began its third season. Its videos stage fantastical smackdowns in musical rhyme, usually between historical icons and pop figures: Justin Bieber vs. Beethoven, Abe Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris, Mario Bros. vs. Wright Bros.”

Metegol was made in Buenos Aires for $22 million, a fortune there but a pittance in Hollywood. Yet “the quality of the animation is indistinguishable, to the average movie-goer, from major U.S. studio films.” And the movie is poised to become a breakout hit.

“Popular films still under-represent minority characters and directors, and reflect certain biases in their portrayals.”

Using the figures in my 2005 piece and the best Nielsen numbers I can confirm for 2013, the rate of decline for “ABC World News” the last eight years has been 16 percent, while “NBC Nightly News” has lost 17 percent of its audience. “CBS Evening News,” meanwhile, is down 22 percent. That’s an average of 18 percent for the three commercial nightly news shows.