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Moving FAST in a New Direction

An obsession and oversaturation of big-budget content is unsustainable for streaming platforms and unrealistic for smaller productions to compete with, says documentary producer Paul Epstein (“Into the Wild Frontier,” “Who Killed Robert Wone”). Here, he offers a few words of advice. You say oversaturation of big-budget content is unsustainable and unrealistic. What is your experience […]

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Why Earth Day Never Gets Old

While she strongly believes the earth is in trouble, Françoise Joly, Head of News & Current Affairs for TV5MONDE, decided to take a different tack for Earth Day 2023 as executive producer of “À la Vie, À la Terre: The Republic of the Congo” (To Life, To Earth: The Republic of the Congo – English […]

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The Wild Ride of Speedvision

“Radford Reborn” premieres today, April 14, following historic British automotive company Radford Motors as it sets out to create the Radford Type 62-2, a reimagined version of the fabled Lotus Type 62. The docuseries can be found on Speedvision, a cable channel relaunched last year and headed by Bob Scanlon, who co-founded the original in […]

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04/13/23: The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s record-setting release

Thursday April 13, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s record-setting release makes this as good a time as any to talk about the intersection of entertainment and the video games industry. Film and TV adaptations of games were an often-panned, […]

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04/06/23: Creatives are starting to tap into the true power of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite

Thursday April 6, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Creatives are starting to tap into the true power of the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and the maps, gameplay and other creations have inspired industry experts to reexamine the potential of the metaverse. Epic Games released […]

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03/30/23: Misfits’ journey from esports organization to something more

Thursday March 30, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Misfits’ journey from esports organization to something more continued this week with the announcement of Pixel Playground, a Roblox game studio co-founded by two recent additions to Misfits: co-owners and Misfits creative directors Kreekcraft, the world’s […]

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And the Winner of This Year’s Upfront Is…

Will ad-supported CTV be the winner of this year’s Upfront? Tony Marlow, CMO of LG Ad Solutions, thinks so. He makes his case here. 1) For starters, CTV continues to take a larger share of the buy, especially as we see ad-supporting viewing options reaching substantial scale. Advertiser Perceptions data found that 40% of upfront […]

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03/23/23: Game Developers Conference in San Francisco

Thursday March 23, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Stinging rain, bike valet stations and long lunch lines at Chipotle have made for a feisty atmosphere at the 2023 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, which is hosting tens of thousands of attendees. […]

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03/16/23: SVB collapse affects gaming, esports orgs

Thursday March 16, 2023 Good morning! It’s Thursday and this is your early morning Esports and gaming brief. Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse impacted several major game developers, though esports organizations remained largely unscathed by the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history. The financial and venture capital news of the week – SVB folding in […]

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What Makes a Novel a Buzzy TV Series?

Three-time-Emmy nominee, and former editor-in-chief of “Seventeen Magazine” and “Soap Opera Digest” Meredith Berlin has released her debut novel, Friends With Issues. The characters – three glamorous, self-made women in their 40s, entangled with one charismatic man – seems made for a TV series (calling David E. Kelley). Not surprisingly Berlin, whose career has been […]

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