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☆ Hollywood goes conservative as an economic shift fuels a turn toward faith and family-based shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-06 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

After playing to the coasts, Hollywood is leaning toward faith and family-based shows and films. The Prime Video series will be the first to come out of Amazon's deal with The Wonder Project, a Christian-focused production company, for faith-based films and TV shows. After playing to the coasts with shows that embraced progressive themes, Hollywood is leaning into broadly appealing fare. That shift has included a combination of undeniably faith-based, conservative-themed, and family-aimed entertainment, agents, producers, and industry experts say. "Conservative, faith-based, family, is not a bad place to look," Thompson said.

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☆ How the ‘song of the summer’ became a cultural phenomenon
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Harmeet Kaur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

And in an age where social media and streaming platforms have fragmented the cultural landscape, does the song of the summer even exist anymore? “It’s not like people were walking around in 1925 and saying, ‘You think that’s the summer song this year? New York Magazine’s 1995 Summer Fun issue devoted an article to examining the summer song as a unifying force — per the magazine, a summer song should be 1) released in the summer, 2) uncomplicated and 3) unforgettable. MTV’s Video Music Awards introduced a song of summer category in 2013, with One Direction’s “Best Song Ever” nabbing the inaugural award. Even as the song of the summer has become increasingly debatable, the idea that a single song could encapsulate a given summer continues to have a hold over our culture.

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NEW YORK (AP) — As host of “The Daily Show” from 1999 to 2015, Jon Stewart changed comedy — and arguably journalism, too — with sharp, satirical takes on politics and current events. Catching lightning again will be difficult — particularly at a time when late-night television is greatly diminished as a cultural force and others, some from Stewart's family tree, are now competitors. It can be even tougher when, as Salon critic Melanie McFarland put it, the current Jon Stewart is forced to compete with memories of the old Jon Stewart. “Jon Stewart totally changed the face of late-night,” says Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. “There's something so 2010 about Jon Stewart now,” he says.

Persons: Jon Stewart, Stewart, He's, Melanie McFarland, ”, Doug Herzog, Trevor Noah, It's, Jon, he's, Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert —, Stewart skewered, bowtied Tucker Carlson, “, “ Jon Stewart, Robert Thompson, Chris McCarthy, ” Stewart hasn't, Trump, Colbert, Donald Trump, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Greg Gutfeld, Rachel Maddow, MSNBC —, Arsenio Hall, Lucille Ball, Roseanne Barr, Thompson, Johnny Carson's, ” Herzog, Johnny Carson, Cher, David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon's, ” Kimmel, Letterman, — Colbert, Vivvix, Salon's McFarland, “ Jon's, We're, ___ David Bauder Organizations: Comedy Central, CNN, Bleier Center for Television, Culture, Syracuse University, CBS, HBO, TBS, Fox News, MSNBC, Apple, Mets, Nielsen, Associated Press

☆ Bob Barker, longtime ‘Price Is Right’ host, dies at 99
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Ethan Sacks | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bob Barker, the longtime host of television's "The Price Is Right" who used his combination of comfort-food charm and deadpan humor to become an American television staple, has died, according to his longtime publicist. When producers hired Barker to host "The Price Is Right" in 1972, they hit the jackpot. "From the black and white era of television right up to the new century, Bob Barker had a real presence on two really big shows," Thompson said. Barker landed a job at a radio station in Florida, and it didn't take long for word of his smooth delivery to travel across the wires. In 1950, he moved to California to start his own radio program, "The Bob Barker Show," in Burbank.

Persons: Bob Barker, Barker, Robert Thompson, Thompson, you've, Robert William Barker, Matilda Organizations: CBS, Bleier Center for Television, Culture, Syracuse University, Navy, Drury College, Drury University, Burbank . Television, Miss, Miss America Locations: American, Darrington , Washington, Sioux, Mission , South Dakota, Missouri, Florida, California, Burbank

☆ Barbara Walters, pioneering TV journalist who began on ‘TODAY,’ dies at 93
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Ethan Sacks | Ethan Sacks Writes For Nbcnews.Com. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Barbara Walters, the pioneering TV broadcaster who blazed a trail for women in a male-dominated medium, died Friday. “Barbara Walters proved to be the evolutionary step between Edward R. Murrow and Oprah Winfrey.”Barbara Walters interviews Ronald Reagan in 1980 for ABC News. NBCMcGee, who died shortly after being partnered with Walters, demanded that he ask three questions to every one of Walter’s in studio interviews. So, Walters started fielding interviews outside the studio, quickly building a reputation as an incisive and probing questioner. After nearly 60 years in journalism, Walters announced she was retiring in 2014.

☆ Netflix is entering a new era with ads. Here's how marketers and brands could influence the programming you see on the streamer.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Reed Alexander | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Media experts say forays into ad-based streaming will influence content strategy at Netflix and Disney+. Netflix and Disney+ are readying services with ads to expand their appeal and revenue opportunities amid softening subscriber growth. Netflix's move to add advertising — a reversal of its longtime stance against ads — has been the subject of widespread research. Ultimately, experts predicted, it will take at least a year or two for the influence of advertisers to be felt in the streamers' content mix. Do you work for an entertainment company like Netflix or Disney+?

☆ Bringing ads to Netflix and Disney+ could shake up the mix of shows and movies at the streaming giants. Here's what it means for Hollywood.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Reed Alexander | Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Media experts say forays into ad-based streaming will influence content strategies at Netflix and Disney+. Netflix and Disney+ are readying services with ads to expand their appeal and revenue opportunities amid softening subscriber growth. Hollywood should pay close attention to what this may mean for selling shows and movies to the entertainment industry's dominant players. Ultimately, experts predicted, it will take at least a year or two for the influence of advertisers to be felt in the streamers' content mix. Do you work for an entertainment company like Netflix or Disney+?

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